Rachel's Challenge

Why is it important?:

Why Rachels Challenge is important is because we want to avoid that same incident over again, it is important that we avoid bullying because someone can always end up hurt emotionally or physically. Bullying is never good and there ar ways that you can stop it in many ways such as just talking out your problems with the person your fighting with or you can ask an adult to help you out with your problems too. What Rachel's Challenge is doing is to " to inspire, equip and empower every person to create a permanent positive culture change in their school, business and community ". I admire what they want to do and that they want to start a chain reaction with everyone. In Rachels essay she says that trust is very important,"but I find that when I put my faith and trust in people when others would not dare to, they almost never betray me". It seems that she really trusted many and always gave people a chance. We could learn allot on not to bully because we may end up losing someone we cared for so much and why because someone wanted to go and try to be cool and bully others. Rachel's Challenge is doing something great and we should all support it, Rachel wrote something on her furniture,"These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will some day touch millions of people's hearts".

http://www.rachelschallenge.org/LearnMore/MeetRachel.php : Where quotes were found

Three ways you can "pay it forward":

One way that I can pay it forward is by starting a donation some how to raise money for a charity of some kind. Then I can begin to get others involved into the donation project as well, as like Rachel said," We have to start a chain reaction". To start a chain reaaction we need allot of people so the more we have the better it will be for us. I know if we put enough potentiol we can acomplish it and make a change, although it's a small change it still matter because we know we helped someone else out and put a smile on someones face.

Another way I can pay it forward is by feeding the poor, I see homeless people every day walking the streety with no food and nothing to drink. We should go around and make food for them so that they aren't starving to death, and we could make it to the news and more people will do the same was well. For me to know that I helped someone makes me feel good about myself because I gave time to make someone smile and make them feel better. The homeless aren't monsters or animals they are people and I think we should treat them right instead of just making them an outcast to society, but give them a meal every once and a while too.

My last idea on how I can pay it forward is too try to get the community to get involved in cleaning up the area around us to help us be a cleaner place instead of polutging the earth. It would be so amazing if we did there would be less trash on the streets and going into the sewers. The more we polute the worse our resources come down, the trash goes into the ocean at times and just begins to build up more and more every day because everyone just leaves tash on the ground instead of picking it up or recycleing it. Things would be allot better if we would just clean up though.

Links from information was found: http://www.heralddemocrat.com/hd/11-21-10-Rachels-Challenge-to-develop-culture-of-kindness-at-Denison-ISD

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Thanksgiving v. Christmas

Pros for Thanksgiving:
One pro for Thankgiving is that you spend time with your family and you eat allot, spending time with your family is very important because you get to bond with them. The food is also very special because you have a huge feast for your whole family and you can all eat together.
Cons:
I don't think there are allot of cons for Thanksgiving just that you gain allot of weight from all the food you eat other than that I don't think there are any others.

Pros for Christmas:
Some pros for Christmas is that you spend time with your family and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, you spend time with the ones that love you most and if you want you exchange gifts with one another.
Cons:
Cons on Christmas is that some people tend to forget the meaning of Christmas and think that it's only about getting gifts instead of being with your family. Getting presents is not the most important part of the holiday, people should give thanks that they got another year to live and that they get this chacne to be witht their loved ones.

Lesson learned in School

Lessons that I have learned at school is how to tuck in my shirt and that I should always carry a pen or pencil at all times. I've learned that Silly Bands are bad for people because they mean we can be in a gang, also that stripes and buttons on your jackets are bad. I've learned math, reading, and so many other fun subjetcs from school, it's taught me that I should bring my own lunch more often instead of eating at school.

Character

What character means to me is the type of person you are and the type of person you've shown others that you are. Character shows your personality and it shows how kind or mean you are with others, your character also reflects off of those that you live around and that shows how you've been raised. Your character is what people look into sometimes to judge you at times. The kinder you are the better your character and the meaner you then theres a better chance you don't really have such a good character.

Forgiveness

I think we should learn to forgive because we shouldn't hold in grudges on people for little reasons, I also think that it would show maturity if you learn to forget about your conflicts with people. I would show that you know how to control your emotions and that you don't let your emotions get the best of you.  Forgiveness is something we should always consider no matter what the situation is or who your in a problem with. Always think about what will be the outcomes if you continue to argue or fight with someone or don't forgive them, they might take it as a bad message to them that you just want to continue fighting and that may escalate into something thats not worth doing. Allot can be resolved if we just learn to forgive and forget what others have done to us, it's better if we just learn to move on and try to forget what they did to us. Some people say a person is weak because they forgive others but to me that shows that you are the bigger person and that you know how to resolve your problems without using violence. In any problem it's just  better to sit down and talk to one another and set things right with out making it into a huge problem and getting others involved in your situation that shouldn't have been in the first place.

Television

Toddlers on average watch 2 hours of tv every day, teens and kids watch up to 4 hours of tv and an additional 2 hours on video games or on the computer outside of school work. Scientist say that toddlers should be watching should only be watching one to two hours of tv at the most. They say kids watching to much tv can be bad for kids at that age. Some kids that watch violent things on tv, begin to build an aggresive behavior as they get older of fear that something will happen to them. To much tv can interfear with physical health and can end up leading to overweight for the children.

Benifets of Watching Television:
Benifets from watching tv is taht some programs can be educational and can acctually give you knowledge, they can inform you on news and disasters in different parts fo the world. They can give you laughter and entertain you with action. It can bring families to come together and bond with one another, and be together for the time being.