Yara Ibrahim - Grade 12 English

Who was Socrates? What is the Socratic method? Socrates was a philosopher known as "the father of philosophy". He was known to teach, yet he only taught 3 students because it was in the old ages. Socrates didn't write anything down and all the information we know now are from the students he taught before. Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought. Socrates wasn't only known for philosophy but known for Greek Western Philosophy. He was also the first moral philosopher.  Socrates didn't give up philosophy even after he was given a death sentence. He was hated by everyone in his town because of his sayings. He believed that only the people who believe they don't know are the intelligent ones. " The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing" -- a quote that Socrates used to tell Plato and the 2 ...

 Rules        " The Giver" is a a book and a movie. The story is based on a community that has many rules; some relevant and some aren't. In the story The Elders are the ones responsible for changing or cancelling the rules. The rule goes through the committee and it becomes studied by The Elders who should then eventually change it. For example, in the book they say that the rule where children can't drive bikes before the age of 9, wanted to be cancelled. The rule was passed in the committee, and even though it takes so much time that the people forget about it, it does get cancelled or changed eventually. in real life, though, the government of each country is responsible for changing the rules. In many countries the citizens are the ones who have the most impact on changing the rules, yet in the fewer countries, the citizens have a very low voice on making the rules. For example, in Saudi Arabia abayas have been a very big past of the Saudi culture, yet...

    "STUDENTS ARE GROWING UP ON A DIGITAL PLAYGROUND AND NO ONE IS ON RECESS DUTY."   What does this quote mean to you? For me this quote means that every student is starting to revolve around social media. At school every student is starting to play on their phones or laptops, some of them are actually starting to download video games on their laptops to play with them. "No one is on recess duty" shows that teachers are having easier times being at recess duty, since all students stopped playing in playgrounds but instead on their phones. At the earlier times teachers hated being on recess duty because they had to control the students and help them to not get hurt. I think educators need to try and help out students and tell them the real benefits of being a live and having time to spend on playgrounds. As a student, I think I have to stop using my phone as many times as I do now and start having fun outdoors. 

                                                                         Sameness        Sameness has a meaning of lack of variety, the quality of being the same; having the same uniform. Having sameness in one's school is to have people dressing up the same son they can impress each other and act like they are all the same. An example of a haircut that really identifies sameness in haircuts is the  High Fade plus Loose Pompadour hairstyle. I think people are afraid to be different than each other and show who they really are, maybe its because they think people are going to judge them or something.  For girls, they're all starting to cut their hair short and make it wavy so they can all look the same.

              When faced with adversity people might change their morals.  She also say that a person is allowed to change their morals depending on the situation. For me, I believe that a person can leave their morals/ethics behind depending on the situation. For example,  if there is a big test that is really important and someone beside me is taking the same test and I could clearly see their answers, I might take look and cheat on a question or two. Usually, I don't always cheat, yet because of the situation that can be considered as an exception. Although, some people say that if someone changes their morals depending on the situation then they have weak ethics, I personally disagree.   

             The video talked about how life was hard for Mohed Altrad, and that he was never able to give up.  Mohed was born in a dessert in Syria. His parents died when he was at a young age. He always dreamed of going to school, yet his grandmother that was raising him refused to let that happen. All he could do was look at the classroom from far away or from a hole in the wall. One time, the teacher caught Mohed spying at the class, she felt bad so she let him in the class. He got bullied because of jealousy, which led him into setting a goal for himself,  don't let anyone push you around anymore. After that with a couple of years he bought a company, which led him into accomplishing a lot of dreams. This company is said to be one of the greatest companies. He also has kids. He doesn't have an exact date of birth, so because of that his kids celebrate his birthday every year at March nineth. The fact that Mohed didn't give up at a...

            This quote is about how you view situation and how you control you ethics in certain situations.  Ethics are  moral principles that govern a person's behaviors or the conducting of an activity. By that you can get that the meaning of ethics are a person's behaviors in certain activities, in  other words ethics are also your morals. Your ethics are the aspects that help you look at situations with different kinds of lenses depending on your usual morals. In the quote when they said "the lens you use to see the situation"the lens is your ethics. In the short stories "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Lamb of the Slaughter" the main characters had to use their ethics in certain situations that are important. In the "Lamb of the Slaughter" the main character, Mary, didn't stick to her morals/ethics and killed her husband. In "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford , thought about how he could use his ethics and morals an...