PD 1 ENGLISH 10 HONORS
In a paragraph of 5-6 sentences total, answer at least two questions. Make sure you use specific examples from your own experiences, things you have read, or the activity from class. You must respond to at least two of your classmates.
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Sarah H.
11/4/2016 12:45:37 pm
I believe people are naturally affected by how society treats them. As for how they are treated, that also affects their perception of good and evil. For example, if you come home from a war with enemy kills, your country will regard you as a hero, but to those enemies and their families, you are a murderer. By also considering what makes human actions human and not animalistic, human actions are usually done with an intention and some thought into what the intention and decision will be. Another example, you wouldn't kill a person because they're better-looking than you, right? (I sincerely hope you wouldn't!) Well, that inhibition that stops you from making a poor decision morally, (for an even poorer reason) is what makes human thoughts and actions human.
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Miranda
11/4/2016 08:24:29 pm
People are naturally good. Events or experiences turn us to become bad or to sway one way or the other. I think nature and genetics have to play into this as well because you get things from your parents that affect who you are as well. Today, the groups were fine with each other until someone needed what the other had and they didn't give it up. So, that is when we got competive and started taking things and being nasty.
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Tiffany
11/5/2016 06:52:51 pm
I agree. You wouldn't go out and kill somebody for no reason. You would have to be pushed or pressured to do something.
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Karl
11/6/2016 07:43:06 pm
I definitely agree with your example about the war hero, that depending on what perspective you look at a person or what our position is, they you may think of him differently than the person next to you.
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Sarah Brown
11/4/2016 07:10:40 pm
Nurture has a greater influence over a person's behavior than nature. Genetics (nature) can influence a lots of things in your life, such as your likeliness to contract diseases or struggle with addiction. Although nature affects some things that you cannot control in your life, nurture can affect how you view the things that happen to you, whether it be negative, positive, or somewhere in between. With the influence of your environment, you can choose how to deal with various things, choose how to act, and decide whether to become open-minded or to be close-minded. Because nurture affects your views and attitudes towards your life, it is more influential than nature in terms of behavior.
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Katie Kline
11/6/2016 11:26:12 am
I really like what you said about how we choose how to deal with certain things and how we act. That's something people often forget.
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Sarah H.
11/6/2016 03:33:17 pm
I agree, we don't always need to act on minor things the way we do (like my group and the stealing, we were acting on terms of survival, but we didn't need to because we were dealing with a hypothetical situation).
morgan mauck
11/4/2016 08:00:57 pm
I believe that humans are born neither good or bad. a person will do mostly what ever it takes to have what's better off for them. these traits are taught by society. during the activity today in class, i witnessed how people where doing what ever it took to have food shelter and heat. there were sometimes when groups stole from eachother, then there were other times when they traded. this shows how there was good and bad being used for the better for them..
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Miranda
11/6/2016 12:25:07 pm
Like our experiences shape us ? Because I think that has an affect but we have to be born one way or the other. So I disagree.
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Sarah Brown
11/6/2016 07:23:08 pm
I agree that society highly influences behavior, but I also believe that people are born either good or bad.
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Katie Kline
11/5/2016 12:45:17 pm
Our behavior is mostly influenced on nurture (environment). Children often become products of their surroundings. If a child is constantly shown love, treated properly, and is put as a top priority, there is a good chance that that child will turn out to be very well rounded, behave well, and be happy. On the other hand, if a child grows up in an environment where they are just put to the side, treated poorly, and aren't top priority to their parent/guardian, that child has a decent chance of being not well rounded, badly behaved, and either upset or sad frequently. Sometimes it isn't just how parents/guardians treat their children that effects them, society effects the children too. For example, if a child's piers are all eating a PB&J, there is a good chance that soon that child will soon ask for a PB&J. Sometimes it happens on bigger scales with other audiences.If a few big social media celebrities suddenly begin to do their hair and makeup a certain way, a vast majority of people will now start to partake in that trend. This even happens with politics; if an extremely well known celebrity starts to endorse one political candidate, there is a good chance some of that celebrities' followers will start to follow or like that candidate more than before that celebrity started to endorse them.
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morgan
11/6/2016 07:14:47 pm
i agree with this, both family and society have an impact on how we are when we are older
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Miranda
11/7/2016 03:32:54 am
This is how some people look at it and I agree to a point. Nature has something to deal with it as well I believe.
Sarah Brown
11/6/2016 07:21:08 pm
I strongly agree that your environment affects your behavior. Although you may be born good or bad, the experiences you experience and the people you encounter shape you.
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Tiffany
11/5/2016 06:48:19 pm
My computer just finished updataing from yesterday so I'm doing this now if that's okay.
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Sarah H.
11/6/2016 03:36:28 pm
I agree, we are products of our environment or situations.
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Karl
11/6/2016 07:50:15 pm
I agree with the fact that both nature and nurture effect our behaviors because you can be born "good", but just as easily as you were born one way, you could be changed to have a different outlook on life
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Logan Minett
11/6/2016 10:13:48 am
Humans have more capabilities to be good rather than evil. The bad in us comes from an outside force onto us. Say, for instance, someone may have a different opinion or preference of something that goes against you; you'd get angry at the person. You're not automatically a bad person, you are just biased or misunderstood. Our society nowadays talk about the bad/evil in our world and don't focus on the good. As a result, we view one another as cruel when people are not, only a select number of the population is.
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morgan
11/6/2016 07:18:13 pm
i agree with parts of this, the examples are true in what i believe
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Karl Scheib
11/6/2016 07:40:37 pm
When it comes to whether a person is good or evil all depends on perspective. Someone that is good in the eyes of one person could be evil in the eyes of another. Think of it like this, nobody likes bullies, they are usually thought of as evil. However, there are others that see bullies as good people, usually other bullies. Another example is Hitler. As Hitler did his devilish deeds, the entire world watched in shock, but other Germans thought he was a saint. After all this book Mein Kampf translates to My Struggle, with this, and his charismatic nature, he was able to make German's love him and believe is good.
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