My Moral
My moral is: Respect other’s beliefs.
I believe that all people should respect other’s beliefs regardless of if they agree with them or not. Just because I do not agree with someone’s beliefs does not mean that I can not respect them. Obviously this moral has its limits like if somebody’s beliefs involve killing or injuring people, but within all practical bounds people should respect other’s beliefs. This applies to religious beliefs especially. A large number of religious people get very angry with people who do not share their belief system. I do not believe in God and i have had many people become angry with me when they find this out. I respect the beliefs of everybody no matter if they are backed up by logic or if they are not (like religion). I find it ridiculous and unfair that somebody who believes in a mystical being, who is not backed up by any evidence, is going to tell me that my beliefs are wrong when my beliefs are backed up by evidence. I have the politeness to respect other’s beliefs and others should have the politeness to respect mine.
This clip from The Wild One shows a perfect example of the bad boy/tough guy and his crew. The guy in the hat is the tough guy and he is trying to talk to the shy good girl who doesn’t know what to say to him. His crew are the two guys in the leather jackets that come into the restaurant at the end of the clip.
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I'm Black, So What?: Haiti →
Bound, flogged, tortured
Brought from Africa to the Caribbean’s sandy shores
You fought back
Viscously, Fearlessly, Relentlessly
Victory, freedom at last!
Slave no more – Haiti, first free black republicOnly to have your back bowed again
Poverty, dictatorship, violence, unrest
You fought…
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Picture Day
This school picture of me from my junior year shows almost nothing about me. This picture doesn’t show that I am in AP classes or that I am a varsity wrestler and football player or anything about my life that is significant in any way. The only things that this picture shows is that I am a white kid named Grant Sharkey who is supposedly happy during this picture. It doesn’t show that that was a fake smile and that I wasn’t happy at all while taking this picture. It doesn’t show anything about my personality or my life. It shows that I might be a preppy kid because I’m wearing an Abercrombie and Fitch shirt, but this isn’t true at all. Most school days I just wear comfortable athletic clothes and I don’t act or dress preppy at all. So pretty much a school picture show almost nothing about who a person is.
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Rebel Without a Cause
After watching “Rebel Without a Cause” I think that the family lives of the characters are very believable and accurate. Each kid had his/her own family problems that they had to deal with at home and these problems directly influenced their actions. Each kid needed help from their parents, but the parents were little to no help. All of the characters’ family problems made them each rebel against their families. The characters’ family lives are the only believable thing about this movie. I thought that the plot was outdated and unrealistic and I thought that the characters themselves were also outdated and inaccurate. This outdatedness of the movie is reasonable due to the fact that it was not made recently and the inaccurateness of the movie could also have something to do with when the movie was made.
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Sa ki pa touye ou, li angrese ou.
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”
We Will Rise.
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Oh Really?: Giving Up My Faith →
I guess it all began when I was around ten years old. It was a Sunday morning at the Kirk in the Hills, the Presbyterian church my family attended. While there, I started to think of how I knew that what I had been told was true. I had only been told that it was truth but had never personally…
I went through a similar experience as Ryan when I was about 8 years old. I am a person that thinks logically and in my head there was nothing logical that proved religion to be true. Ryan said that he became more charitable after he stopped believing in God. I believe that it is a common misconception that people of strong faith are more charitable and more ethical than people who do not believe in God. My Mom’s side of my family is very religious and they rarely give back to people and the quality of their morals is much lower than that of the majority of strongly religious people who ” live their lives for God”. When I returned from my mission trip to Haiti the only person on my Mom’s side of my family that was happy for me (excluding my Grandma) was my Uncle Tom and he is not religious at all. I can relate very closely with the experience that Ryan had.
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“Once I found the strength to be myself, I had no need to act myself.”
When I went to Mission Of Hope Haiti over the 2011 Spring Break on a mission trip it changed my life in many different ways. At this point you are probably thinking that this is going to be another generic story about someone going on a mission trip and finding Jesus and God and becoming best buddies with them, but that is not the story that I am about to tell. On my mission trip I did discover who God and Jesus are, but not in the sense that the large majority of people who go on mission trips do. I did have a revelation about religion, but not one that strengthened my faith in any religion or in any God. On my mission trip I realized what I believe to be the true meaning and the true power of religion.
When I was inHaitiI saw many things that sickened and depressed me. I went to many places where children were not taken care of the way that they should be and where these malnourished children could not even enjoy the simplest things in life, like having a family or going to school. The child in the above picture was one of these children. He was to poor to go to school and he had little family to speak of. This child has almost everything going against him in life and he still has faith in a better future because of his religion. There were many things inHaitithat gave me hope for a better life for children like him and all of the people ofHaiti, one of these things is the Christian faith. Before going toHaitiI was not religious whatsoever. When I was younger I went to church occasionally and my mom’s side of the family is very religious, so it isn’t like I have never been exposed to religion. I have made an informed decision about my religious beliefs.
When I was inHaitiI witnessed first hand the major impact religion can have on a community. Religion can unite a community and give its people a system of unified ethics and beliefs. It can give a child who has no parents to look up to a positive role model (Jesus in the Christian faith). It can teach children from a very young age that there is someone (God) always watching you, so if you misbehave even when there is nobody around someone still sees you misbehaving. It can give an entire nation full of impoverished and desperate people hope that the future will be better than the present. It can inspire people to donate their money and time to helping these people who are in desperate need of assistance. It can even inspire people to donate their entire life to helping the people of a nation that is diseases ridden and full of unstable political situations.
During the week that I spent inHaitiI had a revelation about religion, specifically Christianity. I realized that religion is simply a moral/ethical code that is shared by all members of the religion/community. Religion is a tool used to organize and unify the people of a community. One Christian person alone in a community will have absolutely no affect on the crime levels or the ethics of that community, but when an entire community is unified under one religion and one moral code it becomes an unstoppable force of good. The community becomes self enforced and the crime rate drops dramatically. Religion also gives the people ofHaitia better future to look forward to. The churches inHaitipreach that through faith in God the lives of Haitian people will become much better. There are many reasons whyHaitiis in the condition it is in and I don’t believe that God has control over any of them: corrupt politicians, earthquakes, lack of jobs, little to no infrastructure, exedra. While I was inHaitiI discovered that God is really just the maximum amount of faith that the people are able to put into having a better future. I also discovered that Jesus is the amount of work that the people are willing to put toward reaching this better future. People put their faith in God and Jesus as a way of searching for the path to improving their lives and the lives of the people if their community. When strong faith in the overall religion, God and any prophets of that God is adopted by an entire community it is an amazing unifying force. On my mission trip toHaitiI discovered what I believe to be the ultimate power of religion and that is the unity that it can create in a community and the faith that it can give a community for hope in a better future.
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