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¶ … high school, a friend of mine, who considered himself a very devout Christian, asked me to attend church with him. At the time, I was feeling like an outsider, and I thought that church might give me an opportunity to belong in a group. At first, the members of the church welcomed me with open arms. I gladly participated in their religious ceremonies and proclaimed myself a member of that religion. However, the shine soon began to fade from my newfound religion. Although I had found the group tolerant and open towards me, I began to understand that they were hostile towards other people and groups. Even while teaching me Jesus' message of tolerance and love, they preached hatred and judgment towards some groups of people.
While I no longer consider myself a member of that religious group, I do believe that experience was essential to the development of my spirituality. It helped me understand that my spirituality is about a personal relationship with God, not conformity with standards or moors established by a group of people. Since that time, I have incorporated aspects of other religions into my spiritual life, when I have found them to be appropriate ways of expressing my personal relationship with God. Otherwise, I have been hesitant to align myself with any one religious group, because I have not found one group that truly understands my personal relationship with God.
Because I do view spirituality and religion as distinct entities, I do find it possible for one to be a member of a religion and objective about that religion. To me, religion is the ceremony and the professed set of beliefs. I have met very few members of any religion that follow that religion completely or blindly accept its tenets. However, I do not believe that any person can be completely objective about their own spiritual beliefs. My relationship with God is a personal one, and I could not be objective about it, just as I am not able to be objective about the other personal relationships in my life.
I had a crush of my own during high-school, but I knew that she was beyond my league. Jessica was probably the most beautiful girl in the school and she was a senior (I was a sophomore at the time). I wrote her the most beautiful poem that I could possibly think of and I hoped that this would show her that I was actually different from the other guys.
High School Students and World Wide Web This is a research proposal about the problems of high school students The use of World Wide Web by high school students to complete school assignments is now becoming a common practice. This study aims to find the problems and difficulties that students have using the World Wide Web as their primary source of information. The students who use World Wide Web as their primary
Each of us is born with the ability to feel compassion for our fellow man; even as babies we cry when we hear other children in the nursery shed tears. However, somewhere along the line, we loose this ability to feel compassion for others. Instead, we begin to gain enjoyment for the pain that others feel. We start to find pain, disaster, and hurt in others amusing. Perhaps this
As can be deduced from the examples in section one, these causative theories include the taking of drugs, as well as immature emotional responses and the influence of the media in the portrayal of images of violence that are accepted by the larger culture. Another factor is the relative accessibility of weapons. While these factors form part the main causative theories, they all tend to indicate that the root
Sometimes the line was rather vague and athletes endorsed violence as a legitimate response." (Miracle, 92) Sports promote violence because physically harming opponents is a natural part of the game, and just increasing the amount of harm enough to disable them is always a seductive option to losing. This promotion of violence would not be true if students would just play for fun -- no one would remain friends with
Indeed, one can frame motivation in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which provides that basic needs must be met before higher order needs can be attended to. In short, motivation is a higher need, and basic needs must be met (i.e. physical needs) before anything involving self-actualization can occur (Kong, 2009). Teacher Attitudes and Approaches Teachers provide the means by which students can build relationships because they are given an opportunity