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?"
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