PD 3 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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Myles Mason
11/4/2016 01:54:29 pm
I believe that people are born naturally good. However, throughout their childhood, and even adulthood, they are taught characteristics that tend to make them become fundamentally evil. People use their experiences in to help them determine the outcome of their happiness.
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Bethany
11/4/2016 02:57:29 pm
I think that people and naturally good. Society teaches us that there are bad people. So when you are stuck with either trusting people or just stealing, you want to go the route that you know people cant take advantage of you. Even if that means you have to scrafice something else to get it. People would rather risk getting something taken from them to get something rather than to be completely taken advantage of.
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Charli Sween
11/4/2016 07:43:50 pm
I totally agree with you. You never know who you can trust and what they will do to get what they need.
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Ashton Lazorick
11/4/2016 07:48:17 pm
Society and the media has a big impact on children ... and even adults! The media tries to tell us how to live our lives. I believe that the media is extremely important in the growth process of a child.
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Sierra Barrett
11/6/2016 01:16:58 pm
I understand where you're coming from with this. I agree with Charli on this about how you can't really trust people too much anymore.
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Alicyn Craig
11/4/2016 05:29:10 pm
I think as we grow and develop we learn behaviors. We learn from our parents and surroundings. These behaviors stick in our heads if it is a re-occurring event, like as a child we learn from our parents how to walk or talk. They would teach you day to day until you understand it. In the news, you see shootings or some kind of murder. It shows that people are cruel and evil if you get on a bad side of them or if they have something you don't. People get jealous easily, and they want to do anything they can to have what you have or better. Society is showing only the bad side of media and less of the good side people will think the bad side is what we are suppose to do.
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Sierra Barrett
11/6/2016 01:12:45 pm
I agree with you on this. I think that you learn things from others starting when you're very young.
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Sydney Morris
11/7/2016 06:33:07 am
I totally agree, as a baby we're prone to our environment and surroundings. So if your environment is positive your behaviors would be less evil while in a negative environment behaviors would be more evil.
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Chandler Absher
11/4/2016 06:49:32 pm
I believe people are born naturally good. We naturally do what we think is good and we all have a different definition of what's good and what's not. So when we do something it may be good in our eyes, which is good, and that action which we just did may be seen as bad in another man's eyes, which is okay too.
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Charli Sween
11/4/2016 07:42:48 pm
I totally agree! In a life or death situation we are only going to think about ourselves and we are going to take what we need, not even caring how it affects the person we stole from.
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Boni Macias
11/6/2016 06:16:51 pm
I agree with what you are saying about how good is different in everyone's eyes and also with what happened in class we did everything that we knew just to get to our main goals, which was to win the challenge.
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Mia Mazone
11/6/2016 07:36:32 pm
I agree with you in the sense that we will fight for our own survival. It is instinctive that we fight for our own and that our "animal side" often becomes present when we are put into stressful or demanding situations. I believe, however, that our first reaction or instinct is to become violent when we want or need something that someone else has and to become greedy and steal.
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Donnie Poole
11/4/2016 07:08:10 pm
I believe that all men are create with a basics of good and evil but greed. As show in the activity today in the beginning it started out claim, but started getting worse. As time progressed people starting getting greedy and wanting more, some took peacefully route other just took from others. Some started peaceful but then got betrayed and then turned hostile to others. All in all people could work on social skills and working with others.
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Ashton Lazorick
11/4/2016 07:45:55 pm
I agree! Nature and nurture really go together in this. It's a mixture and that's what people's personalities are based off of.
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Sierra Barrett
11/4/2016 07:40:58 pm
I believe that people aren't naturally good or evil. I think that as we grow to be older, we will pick up on others actions and favor one side. If people were naturally good or naturally evil then there would only be one side of it and everyone is different.
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Bethany
11/6/2016 11:26:30 am
I agree with you that as you get older you will learn from other people how you want to act. But i also think that when your born you naturally trust people but later on that idea can change depending on the people you are friends with and how they act.
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Alicyn Craig
11/6/2016 02:06:55 pm
I agree with you, as we grow we learn habits from our parents, news, book, etc. I also agree with society making you do good/bad things because thats what people are doing.
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Sydney Morris
11/7/2016 06:35:07 am
Agree, babies no nothing until they're taught or corrected by their parents. Parents who correct their kids bad behavior will end up having a well behaved kid who know ms right from wrong.
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Charli Sween
11/4/2016 07:41:11 pm
I believe that nurture influences our behavior the most. Our environment effects how we act and treat other people as well as our emotions and mental health. Our environment effects overall how we live. The activity kind of shows that when given the right environment and needs of survival, humans will help eachother out, but if we don't have everything we need, we only think of ourselves. I think animals are just trying to survive.
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Mia Mazone
11/6/2016 07:27:42 pm
I totally agree with you. I think we all have animal based instincts and we naturally fight for ourselves. Our in class example proves that we fight for our own group. We were not at all concerned about the other groups needs; we were only concerned for our own. We react differently if we are in different environments. For example, if we were in an environment where we were actually in danger we would have most likely reacted in a much more violent way to ensure our own survival.
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Ashton Lazorick
11/4/2016 07:42:30 pm
I believe that people are born naturally good and innocent. However, as people grow, their families and friends can help
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Natalie Linton
11/6/2016 05:48:50 am
Your point about inheritance is a great one! Nurture is a big part of how you act that comes from your parents, but, as you said, anger issues that run in the family is just as impactful to your personality.
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Chandler Absher
11/6/2016 05:40:11 pm
I agree with that we are born good and we become ourselves with how we were raised.
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Savanna
11/4/2016 07:49:52 pm
I believe people are born naturally good. But as they get older, they are tainted by the world around them. Their innocence(the mockingbird) is killed. Animals and humans don't have that different of a mindset. We're both selfish and selfless. We take what we need to survive, but we also show compasión.
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Alicyn Craig
11/6/2016 02:10:41 pm
I agree with people being tainted as they grow up, but I think people aren't born good or evil. They grow to have potential to be good or evil. Also, I agree with animals and humans being the same mindset.
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Natalie Linton
11/4/2016 07:49:58 pm
I believe that people are born with good intentions naturally, because when we are little, we tend to be more caring. However, the way you are raised and overall the environment you are in throughout your life really determines whether we are good or bad. Today's society can also alter the way we respond to things. Examples are if a celebrity is known as giving and kind, that will make us want to be like them. On the flip side, if the "popular kid" in school is
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Bethany
11/6/2016 11:35:05 am
I agree with you, different people can effect how you behave as you grow up. It just depends on who you decide to let influence you in a good or bad way.
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Sydney Morris
11/4/2016 07:50:21 pm
When born naturally good, you start to developed characteristics, throughout life, both good and bad. Your environment affects your behavior, such as people, places and things you are surrounded by. Society has standards of what's "cool", "popular", etc. and through public eye people compare things to those standards. Humans are different from animals because we have a more complex society, and spend our focus on different things. For example, while humans are shopping on their iPhones, animals are out looking for food.
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Natalie
11/6/2016 05:52:12 am
Yes, human lives are much different from animals'. I think that our activity in class showed how much we take for granted in life. The majority of us don't have to search for food. One the selfish or selfless level, however, the activity also backs up your point about traits that we adapt that are both good and bad.
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Leslie Colandrea
11/22/2016 07:14:18 am
I definitely agree with you on what affects us. Our surrendings play a big part on how we behave. The people we interact with, the way they act around you, the environment you live in. If you enjoy what's around you, or if you're unhappy. It has a grand impact on the way one views life.
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Samantha Fodor
11/4/2016 07:59:00 pm
I believe that we are all born naturally good. Some "bad" people may have been influence by parents who did bad things or grew up in a bad environment. We also could get a bad influence from society, society is constantly picking out the perfect and everyone is suppose to live up to that standard. Many people are mean to make it to that standard, or pick on their peers. They might see them as "bad" people.
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shelby silveous
11/4/2016 08:35:21 pm
In regards to the activity in class today, I believe that we closely relate to animals when items that are important are scares. What truly sets us and animals apart is the way we simply manipulate others into giving and borrowing. Society gives us the reason to do this as we can never fully trust another human being. We are often associated with words such as greedy and non trusting in situations where necessary resources are limited.
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Ryan Williams
11/5/2016 11:05:40 am
I do agree with you. As an example the activity we had in class was very interesting. We all were very cooperative and very cordial until there was one ripple of excitement in the process and everything went insane. The people whom were once calm and had reason had evolved into theving animals. So it shows that human nature can come into play in certain situations.
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Mia Mazone
11/4/2016 09:13:15 pm
Personally, I believe that people are naturally evil and selfish. When we are put in situations where we believe that we need something and we are facing others who also need these items and there is a limited supply we can easily become violent. In all reality we are naturally violent and selfish but we can be taught to be good and caring people. Our behavior is much more influenced by our genetics rather than our environment. The reasoning for this is because even if we are put into a different environment our natural instincts are still the same and we will always fight for ourselves in high stress situations because of this.
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Ryan Williams
11/5/2016 11:03:10 am
I really agree with you on that. It is very true that no matter what situation we are in we we'll still have are natural instincts. Though if you had to go even further into the topic I'd have to ask can we be so trained by society to where those instincts leave? In my opinion I think they won't because they are forever implanted into our thought process.
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Boni Macias
11/6/2016 06:09:34 pm
I do believe with what you said about natural instincts. I believe that our first instinct in life is survival and that everything we do throughout our lives is for survival.
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Leslie Colandrea
11/22/2016 07:24:19 am
I agree that we are naturally selfish. We do things that will ultimately benefit us because we have our best interests at heart. I disagree that it's the genetics that influence us the most. Although that may play a role in it, I believe our environment greatly impacts the way we behave. Humans are taught by what they see. If a child grows up in a cruel and abusive environment, that is all they will know, versus a child who grows in a loving and caring environment. That child will know what love is and will want to do good. Of course it could change. A child who grew up in a caring environment could eventually end up being harsh and cruel, but it still comes down to their surreroundings. They were loving as a child because of a good environment around them, but as they grew older they changed who they were because they put themselves in an environment that was crude.
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Ryan Williams
11/5/2016 11:01:07 am
Are people naturally good or naturally evil, and why?
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Chandler Absher
11/6/2016 05:32:38 pm
I agree with what you said about what you learn or believe when you're a child you stick with it for the rest of your life.
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Boni Macias
11/6/2016 06:03:38 pm
I believe we as a people are naturally want to do good but will do anything to be good. It isn't really a since if we are good or evil, but the fact that if we intend to do good sometimes we end up doing bad. The book Ishmael there are a group of leavers and a group of takers, and the leavers are the ones who were first here and the takers are the ones who are here after the leavers. The takers think they are doing good by taking land from the leavers for their own survive and in the end we as a human race are the takers. Overall we may want to good, but sometimes we may end up doing something bad.
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Leslie Colandrea
11/22/2016 07:11:04 am
We did an essay in class about people being born naturally good or evil. In my opinion, I believe that people are born naturally selfish with their best interests at heart. They do the things that benefit them. I don't believe people or born evil, but instead that they are naturally inclined to want to do the things that benefit them. In my opinion, it is nurture or society that impacts us the most. It gives us a definition of what is right and what is wrong and we feel we must follow it. We are pressured by what others do around us that we feel the need to do the same. People constantly tell you that standing out is good and that one must be unique, yet everyone does the same thing for they will blend in. In their minds, they believe that if they follow everyone else, then they will fit in and be "cool."
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