hannah’s blog

Here are some question’s Mrs. H gave us, these are reflection questions on the book we’re reading, the book is called the wave.                                                                                                                                                                         1.  Have you ever been forced to join something against your will?                                                                                 Yes, I have been forced into joining something against my will, when I was around four years old my parents made me go to kindergarten, but I’m glad they did or eles I wouldn’t have met some of my best friends (still to this day). Another thing I was forced to join was ballet, and WOW I knew I would hate it but my mom wanted me to do it so badly. I always wanted to follow my brother so if he played soccer I’d play soccer and since he never did ballet I never did either. But all in all I have never been forced to do something so outrages, disrespectfull, hurtful,or dumb against my will.                                                                                                                   2. How should we behave if we see someone being taunted or bullied by a group of people?                                   Well I know how we should behave, we should stop it, we should stick up for that person. Yet I know thats what we should do but I know we don’t. I know we don’t because there may be a negative outcome for us or maybe we will get hurt. What we should do and what we actually do are two different things. Yet actions speak louder then words and my actions aren’t nesecarilly helping the person being taunted. But we should stop it if we see it happening.                                                                                                                                                       3.Should we step up and intervene?                                                                                                                                       I think HONESTLY I think we should if it’s our buissness but we shouldn’t use violence. If you intervene in a problem that you know nothing about it’s kinda like you don’t know what happened and your taking sides. I think we should stop it if we see someone being bullied but we shouldn’t step up and help the bully if you’ve only heard one side of the story, but if someones being harassed we should stick up for them and we should work together to stop bullying because in a society a person shouldn’t be scared to speak out for what they believe in or what they think is right (freedom of speech) anyway I think if we work together and accept each other there will be no reason to intervene. 

Today in language arts class Mr.R gave us a quote to look at the quote was “absolute power corrupts absolutly” then Mr.R asked us to write a response. So heres mine. I think everyone has power over somebody and I think we all know that and use it to get what we want. You mite not agree but I think each and every one of us has used our power to get us something we want. Maybe to get our parents to let us go out one night, maybe just to get your friend to give you a shirt of theirs you’ve had your eye on for a while. Honestly though I think since none of us have the total understanding of power we don;t think we can corrupt it but we can and I bet you we will. I think we abuse power to get what we want and manipulate people. I think we all are lucky actually I know we all are lucky and we all already abuse the power we do have. Leaving a piece of trash on the floor is abusing our power because we know that their are people to clean it up, so we don’t pick it up and make someone else do it. But then again there are so many people who want to do good for this world they use the little power they are given or have worked hard to earn and do something amazing with it, like help the homeless,start a foundation to help others,to advocate for those that cant(animals,people) and just to do something nice for someone else, maybe help in a soup kitchen or walk in a walkathon it depends on the person and there interpatation of power. If they think power is helping other people the more the power they get the more people they will help. But then you have the greedy people who think power is getting what they want when they want and having way more than need but keep asking and getting more. Then if you give those people more power they will just take and take and become selfish….cows. Then you have the people who think power lies in the misery of others and the more you hurt them the more power you receive and the more enjoyment they get out of seeing people hurt. So if you give a person like that all the power they will use it to hurt others for their own enjoyment and thats just sick and wrong. Power corrupts but ho it corrupts in good or bad depends on how the person with the power uses it, but no matter what power corrupts. Sometimes in bad ways other times in good ways,but power always corrupts.