Agree/Disagree

Agree/Disagree

The key to all emotional healing can be found in nature.
AGREE

Nature is filled with harsh cruelties.
DISAGREE

A person’s priorities should place family before work.
AGREE

Enjoying life is more important than pursuing fame, glory, and knowledge.
AGREE

Those born with social and financial advantages have a responsibility for those who are not.
DISAGREE

Ignorance is bliss.
AGREE

The pursuit of knowledge is a volatile quest.
DISAGREE

Someone’s ego (over-inflated sense of self-worth or superiority) will cause a tragic fall.
DISAGREE

Children learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults.
AGREE - Yes, kids learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults in their everyday life. For example if an adult burps while they're eating, the kid will slowly start to do the same thing, thinking that its okay to burp out loud because his father does it. And when his mother tells him "Why did you do that?! Thats so rude, go up to your room" he'll most probably respond like "You never tell dad not to do it, so I guessed its okay to do it." and then all the blame goes to the father. Not only children do that, but teenagers also. If their father told them that they started smoking from a young age and started driving when they were 16, teenagers will think that if they do this things they won't tell them anything because they did that in the first place.

Most people are basically cruel.
AGREE

Society makes a person whatever he becomes.
DISAGREE

The “disenfranchised man,” who finds himself unable to live within society for whatever reason, is someone for whom we should feel sympathy or reverence.
AGREE

Rejection and mistreatment can manifest themselves in a person becoming rage-filled.
DISAGREE

If a person or an animal is treated with cruelty, he will respond to others in the same way.
AGREE - Some people might thing that treating animals with cruelty is a fun thing to do! But no, animals in general have feelings and by hurting those feelings they might turn into evil and harmful creatures. For example if a dog owner treats his dog badly then the dog will start treating the owner the same way. Dogs though, unleash their anger to strangers. If they see a friend of the owner they'll start to bark and try to bite the stranger.

Those people we deem “monsters” in today’s society are merely misunderstood.
AGREE

Thinking Maps

Agree/Disagree

All individuals standing trial in a court of law deserve to be defended.

-Agree because even though they did something bad they should be defended by someone. If they did something small they shouldn't go to jail. They should be defended by their lawyer. But if the individual robed a bank or killed someone then again they should be defended but his lawyer won't do anything to help him get out of jail because the things he did were major.

It's never justified to hate another person.

-Disagree because you have to have a reason to hate someone otherwise you cant hate someone for no reason. If they did something bad to you like hurt you then you should probably hate them, but if they didn't hurt you then you shouldn't hate them. For example if another country captured a piece of your country then its most reasonable to hate them. This happens by nature because the minute you were born they told you to hate them because of that and that. Then you would most probably hate them for the rest of your life's.

Agree/Disagree

Money equates happiness

Agree and disagree because money doesn't bring happiness every time. I agree because when you have money you can do whatever you want like go on an expensive trip, buy anything you want without having any fear that someday you might not have money but in the other hand I disagree because money doesn't bring happiness to you all the times. Having a lot of money its okay but you have to respect that, you don't have to go and buy whatever you find because thats not respect. You should spend your money wisely.

In romance good looks and personality will outweigh social class and background

Agree and disagree because if someone is good looking you might just love him for that. Agree because if the other person attracts you, you shouldn't think of anything else. You wouldn't care if they didn't had any money, you would just love them for their personality. Disagree because maybe one person might be ugly but had a lot of money! Of course you wouldn't want to marry an ugly person, but you would like to marry them for their money! Thats the only thing that matters.

"Work Of Art" Gist Statement

In Moscow people lived in peace. Uhov though doesn't like that. He thinks that all the immigrants should leave from his country. Sasha his friend tells him that these things are over now, people live in peace, thats why the hired a doctor to see the condition Uhov was in. The doctor said he was getting better with a bit of irony. Sasha was concerned. Uhov said to Sasha the he could handle that and that he was very gratitude that he helped him. The doctor said that he felt a little embarrassed because he didn't know what to do with Uhov, he was a special occasion. He found a candelabra that looked just like his father. From that moment he changed

J.R.R Tolkien Recording

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.