Shawnese Johnson-Values Poem

"I'm Gone"
All the memories I have consist of your face
I'm slowly getting over you
My sorrow & tears are finally starting to erase
My nights aren't so lonely
My days are starting to turn out o.k.
I no longer wish to spend every second with you of every day
I'm putting away the pictures & wiping away the tears
leaving everything in the past
including all those stuffed teddy bears
I'm thru with all the games you tried to play with me
its time to upgrade cuz in case you didn't know I'm WIFEY!!
I'm done with the cheating
I'm over all yo lies
I'm so tired of the " I'm not like all those other guys"
so turn up those jams,
listen to your favorite song
every time you hear the words "I love you" think of me
cuz this time its no turning back,
I'M GONE!!

Clayton Lewis

Equality by definition is a quality or state of being equal. Basically this is every human being on the same level. No person is above the other person, everyone is treated he same, and no type of discrimination.

Equality is seen in different forms. The Giver by Lois Lowry displays equableness with everyone in society living with the same birthday with rituals as they grow. The people talk the same and think the same because of civilization rules and boundaries.

The Giver gives but one side of equality while Democracy shows another side. In this novel conditions of all people were leveled, but people were not free to pursue careers or activities of own likings. They were forced to be equal while democracy gives citizens freedom of opportunity. As to say people are not viewed as the same and opportunity is to be earned and not given. The problem with this is that opportunity is not the same for every person because of conditions. You’re much more likely to be successful if you come from a suburb than to come from a ghetto that’s real life scenario. This is clarified by Irving Kristol as he states, “Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions-it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”

The word equal comes from the Roman Language. It was used as a general principle of justice, as served to correct legal codes. It is considered a highly contested concept. This word can be used as to help non discrimination by websites such as
www.Equalityproject.org. Sites like massequality.org uses equality to promote same sex marriage. Either way you use the word, the concept never change.

People have died over equal tranquility since the world began. The problem comes in many forms big or small. Equality is the quality or state of being equal. When did people decide they are better than the next individual? Obviously ego and pride play a major role but it is that feature that will most likely destroy the earth. Many humans have never realized that we are all the same under the creator. When Judgment Day comes we will all fall. The reaper does not care about color, height, weight, skills, or features.

Jorge Isaias Hernandez

Courage comes in lots of different means, Courage means mental or moral strength to venture persevere and with stand danger, fear or difficulty. Courage also known as fortitude, is the ability to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation. Courage to me has lots of meanings, i think it means to have braveness, to stand up for yourself or for someone else, and have moral strength.It is well understood that physical and moral courage matters in the military, and there are sample illustrations of courage in religion, sometimes to the point of martyrdom. It can be divided into ''physical courage'', which means to face physical pain, hardship, and threat of death. Moral courage means to face shame, scandal, and discouragement. In the movie '' The Whale Rider'' the little girl wants to learn about the ancient times but her grandpa won't let here, so she goes against the grandpa on learning about the ancient times, so she has the courage to ride the whale. Martin Luther King Jr said '' if you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream''. There are different websites on courage like: www.courage.com, www.couragerc.net, www.couragelender.com, www.courageforyouth.com, and www.couragerenewal.org. The word courage came from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because of the way he spoke to the people and the way he felt about having a Dream.
Courage in Latin is Coraticum which means Heart.
Courage in Spanish means Coraje, Valentia, and Valor.
Courage in French is Bravoure, which means to be brave.

Danny Torres Values

Courage
Mental or moral strength to venture, persevere and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.Going out to overcome or overshadow your fears or something difficult. Courageous people, we say, are those who take things in their stride, or lay their bodies on the line, as yesterday's idiom had it. Courage is one of the four Cardinal Virtues in Roman Catholicism.

In the story of Shooting an Elephant the man had to step up to shoot the elephant. He had to make a decision on shooting it or not. The courage is more based on what the village would say about him. The part where he tried to walk up slowly to the elephant is were he showed the most courage.

In the book of The Giver, Jonas had to receive some memories of courage from the giver. But he does not get enough courage before his big journey to escape. He runs out of memories that have courage so he doesn't know what to do. But he goes on fighting for his and Gabriels life. Seeking deep inside him for that last bit of courage with in him.

Alan Cohen once said, "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to Embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.There is more security there is life, and in change there is power."

In the good words of Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose the courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. The Trumne at Conscience.

Kaneisha Jones

Courage

This well known Quote." Near this spot are deposited the remains of who possessed beauty with out vanity, strength without isolence,Courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vice." By George Noel Gordon, Lord-Byron.

Origins of courage and history use are Svenska, Polski, Portugues, and Espanol.

The descriptions of courage are defined as mental or mortal strength to venture perservere, and with stand danger, fear, or difficulty. As my own aspects of the word courage i feel having strength to presue and do things that you may have fear in. Just having courage to do things as in motivation, strength and belief thats what i feel is courage.

My word courage demonstrates the movie Whale rider; very well because their was alot of courage with the little girl Piekea had courage to do alot of things she wasn't suppose to do. Doing things only boys are suppose to learn and do,trying to change her Garndpa's mind about things that way she can particapate in activities.

Internet sites that were found for the word courage; ESPN experts Analysison sports, Courage for congress, Meet your Angels dot com courage, courage to change and also from sexual assaults a voice of courage.

Matthew Freeman

Obligation is a condition or feeling of being obligated or having to do something weather you want to or not. like if you have a freind that you have known for most of your life and a girlfreind that you have had for a few weeks or even a few months and your feind and her are fighting. You would be obligated to choose your freinds side, mainly due to the fact you have been freinds for years. that is why they have the saying's "Bro's before hoe's and sisstas before mista's."

In the story th whale rider; the little girl felt obligated to impress her grandfather. She felt this way because she was the first born and the first born should have been a boy accordeing to there customs. She also felt obligated at the end of the story to help the beached whale. When the whale was safe, she felt she should ride the whale as long as she could so her grandfather would welcome her as if she were a man.

In the story the giver; the boy felt obligated to help the comunitee. He held all the memories and feelings so that no one ealse had to. The giver in the story felt obligated to help the boy to escape but could not leave with because the giver felt obligated to also stay and help the comunitee with the lose of the reciver and the flooding of feelings and memories.

Frncois Duc De La Rochefoucauld once said "Too great haste in paying off an obligation is a kind of ingraditude". Which to me means that if you pay off a debt or favor to some one too soon, they could take it as if want to get it done so you have to deal with them again.

Some of the sites that i got my information from are: www.humanityquest.com, www.answers.com, www.sojo.net/index.crm?action=magazine.artic&issue=soj98078&article=980721, www.links.jstor.org, and www.stsavanc.org. on these sites i was able to find a few ways to say obligation. like verpflichtung which is german, devoir which happens to be french, de verplichting which is dutch, obbligo which is italian, or obligaicion which is spanish.

brian kish values

This famous quote "high on a throne of royal state, which far outshore the wealth of ormus and of Ind, or where the sorgeous east with the richest hand showers on her king's barbaric pearl and gold, satan exelted sat, by merits rais'd to that bad emeince; and from dispair thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires beyond thus high inasitate to pursue vain war with heav'n by Milton the Paradise Lost.

The word Beyond is said to be something that lies beyond, or something that lies outside the scope of oridnary experience. The boy in the giver had went beyond the things that there kind of people had never imagined for example love. Some of the things that this word can be used for are Beyond the limit, Niche Websites Go Beyond, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Beyond Discovery.

Some other languages that this word might be used in are Espanol, Russian, and greek, its good to know that because everybody in the world says the same things but just speaks it in a different language.