"Privilege is the greatest enemy of right." Marie Von-Eschenbach
Privilege: 1a) a special advantage immunity, permission, right or benefit granted to or enjoyed individual, class or caste.
1b)Such an advantage, immunity or right held as a prerogative of rank, and exercised to the exclusion or determent of others.
2)The principle of granting and maintaining a special right.
3)Law: the right to privileged communication in a confidential relationship, as between client and attorney, patient and physician, communicant and priest.
As you can see their are a few definitions of privilege. It is from Middle English; derived from old French and from Latin privilegium-a law affecting one person.
My definition of privilege is to have the right or advantage to do things that other individuals don't have the right to do.
Privilege is demonstrated by a few authors that we have studied this semester. In The Giver, a book written by Lois Lowery, the author doesn't necessarily intricate the word privilege, but it most certainly shows you various examples. The Giver is a book in which the community is all the same. Their is no pain, no love, no feelings at all. Every citizen is assigned a ob at the age of 12; Jonas the main character receives the job as the receiver. The receiver is the most honored job and you must be selected by the previous receiver. They don't refer to it as a privilege, but an honor. I believe for it to be both an honor and a privilege because he was granted that honor. He has the privilege or special advantage that the rest of the community could not obtain.
"Shakespeare's Sister" a short story in which Shakespeare writes about a women who feels as if she has no rights-the ability to do nothing. He compares a women to a man and how they had no privileges in their days. It is asking for women privileges rather than rights.
In "Shooting an Elephant" the main character is what you could call the only law enforcement they have. The main character fights both an internal and external conflict by deciding whether or not to shoot the enraged elephant. He is the only one who has the privilege to shoot the elephant. This story is a good example of the way that being privileged is not always good. Some people take advantage of having the privilege to do certain things in a bad way.
Various translations of the word privilege in other languages (n-noun, v-verb)
Danish n-privilegium
v-priviligere
French n-privilege
v-privilegier
Spanish n-prvilegio
v-privilegiar
www.wikipedia.org talks about the special right or immunity granted to the government and democracy.
www.m-w.com gives you the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition.
www.privilegeibiza.com talks about winning a VIP opening package for 2 persons all inclusive and talks about parties and clubs.
www.imdb.com talks about a movies.
www.dictionary.reference.com gives various definitions of privilege.
As you can see each websites talks or gives information on what they consider to be privileges.
"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Thomas Jefferson
"To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools."
Friday, March 30, 2007
Jessika Serrano
The following paragraphs will include definitions, examples, and elements that I see fit for the word "choice".
My personal definition of choice is doing what you feel is correct and being able to do so without anyone's consent. The actual definition of choice is to select freely and after consideration.
Another definition I found that I thought was interesting was one that said choice is a mental process involved with the process of judging multiple options and selecting the best one according to interest and consequence.
Synonyms of this word include, but are not limited to; alternative, decision, distinction, option, preference, and judgement. You can clearly see how all these words relate.
I'll also list a few translations of this word. In Italian: scelta, Portuguese: escolha, French: choix, and Spanish: opcion.
Choice is widely interpreted in the world of politics and economics. Being that we base our government on a two-party system in America, choice is a big thing.
The word choice has always been used by all to express decision or election. It has never had a different meaning. It might have become more complex and detailed as time passed, but the root meaning has always, and I believe will, remain.
I found the word choice in print on two occasions. I found it in a magazine as an advertisement. "It's Your Choice" was how the advertisement used the word. I found it in a newspaper article as a title. The title read "Canadian Choice". It was an article that compared education systems in America and Canada. In the internet you often run into the word choice. There is three different websites named Choice. One is about teen issues and help lines, the second talks about childrens education and its' importance. The third is simply an online shopping site. Caral.org is another site that deals with politics and women's rights.
This shows how the word is used in many ways to accomplish different things, while the definition remains the same.
In the book The Giver you will find a valuable lesson of choice. It's the tale of a futuristic community of individuals that all believe in equality. They all consider each other the "same". They do everything and live in a way of routine. They don't choose anything at all. Not their job, spouse, home, or even their clothes. They don't know what the freedom of choice means. Choice isn't even a word to them. By reading this story you will learn to value choice.
The following are three famous quotes based or are in someway related to choice.
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
-Wayne Dyer
"There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy."
-Unknown Source
My personal definition of choice is doing what you feel is correct and being able to do so without anyone's consent. The actual definition of choice is to select freely and after consideration.
Another definition I found that I thought was interesting was one that said choice is a mental process involved with the process of judging multiple options and selecting the best one according to interest and consequence.
Synonyms of this word include, but are not limited to; alternative, decision, distinction, option, preference, and judgement. You can clearly see how all these words relate.
I'll also list a few translations of this word. In Italian: scelta, Portuguese: escolha, French: choix, and Spanish: opcion.
Choice is widely interpreted in the world of politics and economics. Being that we base our government on a two-party system in America, choice is a big thing.
The word choice has always been used by all to express decision or election. It has never had a different meaning. It might have become more complex and detailed as time passed, but the root meaning has always, and I believe will, remain.
I found the word choice in print on two occasions. I found it in a magazine as an advertisement. "It's Your Choice" was how the advertisement used the word. I found it in a newspaper article as a title. The title read "Canadian Choice". It was an article that compared education systems in America and Canada. In the internet you often run into the word choice. There is three different websites named Choice. One is about teen issues and help lines, the second talks about childrens education and its' importance. The third is simply an online shopping site. Caral.org is another site that deals with politics and women's rights.
This shows how the word is used in many ways to accomplish different things, while the definition remains the same.
In the book The Giver you will find a valuable lesson of choice. It's the tale of a futuristic community of individuals that all believe in equality. They all consider each other the "same". They do everything and live in a way of routine. They don't choose anything at all. Not their job, spouse, home, or even their clothes. They don't know what the freedom of choice means. Choice isn't even a word to them. By reading this story you will learn to value choice.
The following are three famous quotes based or are in someway related to choice.
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
-Wayne Dyer
"There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy."
-Unknown Source
Mauricio Torres
Search a Word: Courage
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do that thing which you think you cannot do.” is an inspirational quote given by Eleanor Roosevelt.
The value I have chosen is courage. Mental or moral strength to venture is how it is defined but I understand it as when you perform an act which you are scared or uncomfortable to do. The word courage comes from the French word heart or coeur, as in when you have the heart to do something.
“Do you have the courage to follow your heart?” As I have surfed the web I have found examples where the word courage has been used, as in the previous quote. I found websites where the word was used for having courage to overcome tough disabilities (courage.org), to companies “Building courage to lift business performance” (courageinstitute.org). Maybe the single greatest quote I have found out of my list is “In my experience, the single greatest barrier to implementing a succession strategy is courage.” As posted in summitadvisory.org. And another quote that complements this past quote perfectly is one about soldiers. “Courage is a quality reserved for soldiers.” And it re-enforces the stereotype about great hero’s performing great courageous acts.
Referring back to when I stated that courage is having mental or moral strength we can tie it in with the novel “The Giver”. Jonas has to have mental strength to continue with his training and taking in all of the village’s worst and painful memories. Jonas also had to have moral strength to escape the village in order to save the life of Gabriel.
With the experience with Jonas and with the quote from Eleanor Roosevelt we all should have courage to face our greatest fears even if it’s mental or if it’s moral.
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do that thing which you think you cannot do.” is an inspirational quote given by Eleanor Roosevelt.
The value I have chosen is courage. Mental or moral strength to venture is how it is defined but I understand it as when you perform an act which you are scared or uncomfortable to do. The word courage comes from the French word heart or coeur, as in when you have the heart to do something.
“Do you have the courage to follow your heart?” As I have surfed the web I have found examples where the word courage has been used, as in the previous quote. I found websites where the word was used for having courage to overcome tough disabilities (courage.org), to companies “Building courage to lift business performance” (courageinstitute.org). Maybe the single greatest quote I have found out of my list is “In my experience, the single greatest barrier to implementing a succession strategy is courage.” As posted in summitadvisory.org. And another quote that complements this past quote perfectly is one about soldiers. “Courage is a quality reserved for soldiers.” And it re-enforces the stereotype about great hero’s performing great courageous acts.
Referring back to when I stated that courage is having mental or moral strength we can tie it in with the novel “The Giver”. Jonas has to have mental strength to continue with his training and taking in all of the village’s worst and painful memories. Jonas also had to have moral strength to escape the village in order to save the life of Gabriel.
With the experience with Jonas and with the quote from Eleanor Roosevelt we all should have courage to face our greatest fears even if it’s mental or if it’s moral.
Value(s)
by Mayra N. Sierra-Ruiz
The word value(s) is just another word for having morals. That is my opinion for what it means, however the dictionary might say it differently. The word value means a principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable. On the other hand it has so much meaning to it, than what the dictionary or I might have wrote.
In my search for discovering, what this word means. I found that it takes place in the entire stories I’ve read in my English class. In the story “Shooting an Elephant” I discovered that the man was shooting an elephant just because he had standards in his job. Although, he did not like his beliefs and the standards he had in his life, he had values still. In the next story “The Giver” we saw that a young boy named Jonas was given an assignment the receiver of memories. The Giver gave young Jonas memories about the previous pass and how life use to be. Only him and the Giver know about the pleasures and painful things we know in life. Jonas saw and learned about values something people did not know.
The word can be found and looked up in many places. I saw a great quote by a man named Jonathan Alter, “The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility”. You can see that the word was a great importance for the Greek Romans. I also saw a great Internet site that said, “People have very different morals values”. Which, is very true not everybody is the same, but it is important that people can find their values in life. Here are two ways to say values in different languages. Italian valori and Spanish valores.
In my search for discovering, what this word means. I found that it takes place in the entire stories I’ve read in my English class. In the story “Shooting an Elephant” I discovered that the man was shooting an elephant just because he had standards in his job. Although, he did not like his beliefs and the standards he had in his life, he had values still. In the next story “The Giver” we saw that a young boy named Jonas was given an assignment the receiver of memories. The Giver gave young Jonas memories about the previous pass and how life use to be. Only him and the Giver know about the pleasures and painful things we know in life. Jonas saw and learned about values something people did not know.
The word can be found and looked up in many places. I saw a great quote by a man named Jonathan Alter, “The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility”. You can see that the word was a great importance for the Greek Romans. I also saw a great Internet site that said, “People have very different morals values”. Which, is very true not everybody is the same, but it is important that people can find their values in life. Here are two ways to say values in different languages. Italian valori and Spanish valores.
Daniel Ramirez Values
My chosen word is "choice". Choice- the power or act of choosing. Selecting one thing from an other. The word choice came from Germany"Old High German". Kiosen is "choice" in German. Erabikata is Japanese for choice. Opcion is spanish for choice. Sun taek is Korean for choice.
George Orwell in "Shooting an Elephant" had a choice on killing the elephant or not. He did not want to disappiont the people so he shot it in the head like about ten plus times. It took, I think about half an hour for the elephant to die. He didn't have to shoot the elephant, he could've left it alone. Since the elephant went crazy when people were around, I guess you could say the people pressured him to kill the elephant but still had a choice not to.
"Mistakes are always forgiveable if one has the courage to admit it". Bruce Lee. To me this means that one should always admit to one there mistakes and thier wrong doings. "If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that , I'd be a superhero". VinDiesel. Five web sites that I found are www.pocketloox-choice.com- its about shopping, www.choice.com is also about shopping aswell. www.Caral.com deals with polotics and women's rights. www.teenschoice.com and www.viewerschoice.com are about people choosing what they want to see on t.v.
George Orwell in "Shooting an Elephant" had a choice on killing the elephant or not. He did not want to disappiont the people so he shot it in the head like about ten plus times. It took, I think about half an hour for the elephant to die. He didn't have to shoot the elephant, he could've left it alone. Since the elephant went crazy when people were around, I guess you could say the people pressured him to kill the elephant but still had a choice not to.
"Mistakes are always forgiveable if one has the courage to admit it". Bruce Lee. To me this means that one should always admit to one there mistakes and thier wrong doings. "If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that , I'd be a superhero". VinDiesel. Five web sites that I found are www.pocketloox-choice.com- its about shopping, www.choice.com is also about shopping aswell. www.Caral.com deals with polotics and women's rights. www.teenschoice.com and www.viewerschoice.com are about people choosing what they want to see on t.v.
Larry Smith Jr Values
Privilege. The great Suge Kinght said, "There's no difference between me and most which is that i am frresh off the block. I dont look for no spical privileges; I am a man who pay my dues."
The word Privilege means "law for or against private person more at vantage and favor." To me a privlege is like when immigrants want to come to the United States; to get away from where they at.
The word Privilege means "law for or against private person more at vantage and favor." To me a privlege is like when immigrants want to come to the United States; to get away from where they at.
Karen Monrreal
The word courage is defined as mental or moral strenght, venture, preserve, and to withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. In my own words I thinhk that hte word courage means when you are not scared to do something, to stand up for you beliefs. Courage implies to firmness of the mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty. the word is neither Greek nor Latin it's medieval, old french meaning heart and spirit. courage in Italian is coraggio, in Dutch it's moed, and in German its mut. In the book The Giver Jonas gets the courage to runaway from his community. So once again the word is defined on how Jonas felt good about himself and he was confident about what he was going to do. He went ahead and tried to find elsewhere no matter what it took. In the story Shooting an Elephant he has moral courage to go against what everyone believes he should do. In both stories they have the courage to do what not a lot of people do. Here are some quotes in which the word courage is being used: " You dont develop courage by being happy in your relationship everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and adversity." Barbara De Angelis. " Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live." Conte Vittorio, " We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." Martin Luther King Jr. "Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear not the absence of fear." Mark Twain. Some internet sites that have used the word courage are as follows: www.goodcharacter.com It takes a lot of courage to stand up for what's right when we stand alone. The word courage is being used as a symbol of how strong a person might and should be. www.fastcompany.com courage is like a muscle, the more we exercise it the stronger it gets. The word is being used as a figgure of speech, saying that if we all have alot of courage we will be really strong people. www.stevepavling.com In our day-to-day lives, the virtue of courage doesnt receive much attetion. In this website the word is being used as an example of how people thake courage for granted. www.indianchild.com Courage is not something that comes from flying to your heart in moments of need or in emergencies. This means that you need to be strong enough to have courage that it's not going to come when you need it.
Search a word: Courage
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do that thing which you think you cannot do.” is an inspirational quote given by Eleanor Roosevelt.
The value I have chosen is courage. Mental or moral strength to venture is how it is defined but I understand it as when you perform an act which you are scared or uncomfortable to do. The word courage comes from the French word heart or coeur, as in when you have the heart to do something.
“Do you have the courage to follow your heart?” As I have surfed the web I have found examples where the word courage has been used, as in the previous quote. I found websites where the word was used for having courage to overcome tough disabilities (courage.org), to companies “Building courage to lift business performance” (courageinstitute.org). Maybe the single greatest quote I have found out of my list is “In my experience, the single greatest barrier to implementing a succession strategy is courage.” As posted in summitadvisory.org. And another quote that complements this past quote perfectly is one about soldiers. “Courage is a quality reserved for soldiers.” And it re-enforces the stereotype about great hero’s performing great courageous acts.
Referring back to when I stated that courage is having mental or moral strength we can tie it in with the novel “The Giver”. Jonas has to have mental strength to continue with his training and taking in all of the village’s worst and painful memories. Jonas also had to have moral strength to escape the village in order to save the life of Gabriel.
With the experience with Jonas and with the quote from Eleanor Roosevelt we all should have courage to face our greatest fears even if it’s mental or if it’s moral.
The value I have chosen is courage. Mental or moral strength to venture is how it is defined but I understand it as when you perform an act which you are scared or uncomfortable to do. The word courage comes from the French word heart or coeur, as in when you have the heart to do something.
“Do you have the courage to follow your heart?” As I have surfed the web I have found examples where the word courage has been used, as in the previous quote. I found websites where the word was used for having courage to overcome tough disabilities (courage.org), to companies “Building courage to lift business performance” (courageinstitute.org). Maybe the single greatest quote I have found out of my list is “In my experience, the single greatest barrier to implementing a succession strategy is courage.” As posted in summitadvisory.org. And another quote that complements this past quote perfectly is one about soldiers. “Courage is a quality reserved for soldiers.” And it re-enforces the stereotype about great hero’s performing great courageous acts.
Referring back to when I stated that courage is having mental or moral strength we can tie it in with the novel “The Giver”. Jonas has to have mental strength to continue with his training and taking in all of the village’s worst and painful memories. Jonas also had to have moral strength to escape the village in order to save the life of Gabriel.
With the experience with Jonas and with the quote from Eleanor Roosevelt we all should have courage to face our greatest fears even if it’s mental or if it’s moral.
Pedro Ramirez Values
Choice is an act or instance of choosing. Having a selection. It is the right, the power, and the opportunity to choose. The word choice originally came from Old English Germany. Kiosan means choice in Germany. Then it came to Old French. Choisir means choice in Old French. Then it came to the Middle English. Chois means choice in Middle English.
Choice was demonstrated by the author in the story "Shooting the Elephant". The author had the choice to shoot the elephant. He was not forced to do it. He chose to do it to impress the people in his society.
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times", by Aeschylus. "Your talent is in your choice", by Stella Adler. "The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice", by Theodor Adorno. These are some quotes by some well known people.
Choose to be informed, choose to speak your mind, its your choice. The worlds choice for CDMS, the worlds most advanced counter measures dispenser system. It's our choice who we will serve. These are a few sentences with the word choice, used in internet sites.
"America becomes second choice". This is a sentence with the word choice that i found in a magazine. National Geographic. Vol. 157, No. 5, page 650. On the end of the third paragraph.
Choice was demonstrated by the author in the story "Shooting the Elephant". The author had the choice to shoot the elephant. He was not forced to do it. He chose to do it to impress the people in his society.
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times", by Aeschylus. "Your talent is in your choice", by Stella Adler. "The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice", by Theodor Adorno. These are some quotes by some well known people.
Choose to be informed, choose to speak your mind, its your choice. The worlds choice for CDMS, the worlds most advanced counter measures dispenser system. It's our choice who we will serve. These are a few sentences with the word choice, used in internet sites.
"America becomes second choice". This is a sentence with the word choice that i found in a magazine. National Geographic. Vol. 157, No. 5, page 650. On the end of the third paragraph.
Adalberto Ruiz Values
The Meriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary definition for duty is a moral or legal obligation. To me it means something you have to do because you have strong feelings for it. The word duty origininally came from Old French as deu then it changed to an Anglo French word as duete'. Then from that to Middle English as duete, and finally to the word we know today as duty. The word dutyin Dutch, Hungarian, and Italian is Belasting, vam', and tassa.
In the book "The Giver," its a world with no crime, war, or ways of life as we know it. Jonas is a 12-year old boy who is chosen to become the Receiver of memories. He is chosen to receive memories from the Giver,whom holds memories of the true pleasures and pain of the life you and me know. Thus Jonas has the duty of being the Receiver of memories to keep them from the community. But Jonas feels he has the duty to release the memories instead of keeping them from the community, which have been kept from them from previous receivers.
Two quotes that use the word duty."Duty cannot exist without faith" by Benjamin Disraeli.
"The strongest is never strong enough to be alwals the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty" by Jean Jacques Rousseau. The sentences that I found on internet sites that use the word dutywere, first from UK.reuters.com-"Campbell is the second celebrity sentenced to clean-up duty in New York." Second from www.politicalgateway.com-"U.S. army medic given eight-month sentence for refusing Iraq duty." Third from www.firmmagazine.com-"What is it like to have the duty of passing sentence on serious criminals?"
In the book "The Giver," its a world with no crime, war, or ways of life as we know it. Jonas is a 12-year old boy who is chosen to become the Receiver of memories. He is chosen to receive memories from the Giver,whom holds memories of the true pleasures and pain of the life you and me know. Thus Jonas has the duty of being the Receiver of memories to keep them from the community. But Jonas feels he has the duty to release the memories instead of keeping them from the community, which have been kept from them from previous receivers.
Two quotes that use the word duty."Duty cannot exist without faith" by Benjamin Disraeli.
"The strongest is never strong enough to be alwals the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty" by Jean Jacques Rousseau. The sentences that I found on internet sites that use the word dutywere, first from UK.reuters.com-"Campbell is the second celebrity sentenced to clean-up duty in New York." Second from www.politicalgateway.com-"U.S. army medic given eight-month sentence for refusing Iraq duty." Third from www.firmmagazine.com-"What is it like to have the duty of passing sentence on serious criminals?"
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Riley Rowe Values
When I think of the word courage the definition that comes to me is the way someone deals with their fear or problems. Webster Dictionary's definition has it as the mental or moral strength to venture, preserve and withstand danger fear or dificulty. Now at one time Courage didn't mean the same. It was first latin that ment more at heart, then it became a word in the Old French language and it also ment heart. From there it was then used in the Middle English and it was spelt "corage".
Theodore Roosevelt once said something about courage that i think really explains the word in many ways. He says,"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbleled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who's face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood, who strives viliantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievment and who at the worst if he or she fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his or her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." That quote really sums up everything that couragre means to me. The way he explains how to attack anything including your problems head on and not to be scared of them.
In my fifth period English class we watched a movie called the Whale Rider that really portrayed the word courage. The Movie is about a Polynesian family tradition that has been done for many many years. A boy is born from a women and is chosen to be the "Whale Rider" but in this occasion there were twins a boy and a girl. The girl was the only one who survived but the one rule is that it has to be a boy. So they have a traditional trial to pick the Whale Rider. The girl has the courage to join secretly and learn what is needed to become the Whale Rider. She defies he Grandpa and her tradition to become what she believes she can become. At the end of the movie she becomes the Whale Rider and it just shows how much courage this one little girl had to get over these obsticles. Courage is not just a word, it is a moral way or attitude twords problems and fears that everyone should have. If you don't handle your fears and your problems head on then you are going to be living in fear for the rest of your life.
The websites that i found about courage were:
Courage.org- Courage center, empowering people with disabilities.
Campcourage.com- Daily summaries of camp courage.
Courageonline.com- This site show people how to have more courage.
Couragedistributinginc.com- Courage distributing.
Fastcompany.com- In search of courage.
Theodore Roosevelt once said something about courage that i think really explains the word in many ways. He says,"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbleled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who's face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood, who strives viliantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievment and who at the worst if he or she fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his or her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." That quote really sums up everything that couragre means to me. The way he explains how to attack anything including your problems head on and not to be scared of them.
In my fifth period English class we watched a movie called the Whale Rider that really portrayed the word courage. The Movie is about a Polynesian family tradition that has been done for many many years. A boy is born from a women and is chosen to be the "Whale Rider" but in this occasion there were twins a boy and a girl. The girl was the only one who survived but the one rule is that it has to be a boy. So they have a traditional trial to pick the Whale Rider. The girl has the courage to join secretly and learn what is needed to become the Whale Rider. She defies he Grandpa and her tradition to become what she believes she can become. At the end of the movie she becomes the Whale Rider and it just shows how much courage this one little girl had to get over these obsticles. Courage is not just a word, it is a moral way or attitude twords problems and fears that everyone should have. If you don't handle your fears and your problems head on then you are going to be living in fear for the rest of your life.
The websites that i found about courage were:
Courage.org- Courage center, empowering people with disabilities.
Campcourage.com- Daily summaries of camp courage.
Courageonline.com- This site show people how to have more courage.
Couragedistributinginc.com- Courage distributing.
Fastcompany.com- In search of courage.
Kueen Momi Ke-a
Loyalty the quality or state or an instance of being loyal. I think loyalty means to stay on ones side without betraying them. A quote I found is in people magazine issued June 20, 2005 page 65. He quotes " when one reporter-who, like all the attending journalists, was required to sign a " loyalty oath" vowing not ot ask personal questions." The origin of the word comes from Latin-Legalis and then on to old and middle French-Leial and then to English meaning loyalty.
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