Kindness

It is the year 2021. You hear your name echo through the auditorium as you are called to the front of the stage. All eyes are on you as you walk towards the principal who is holding the piece of paper for which you have worked so hard; all of the hours of work, studying, and preparing. Accepting your diploma, you smile and think about your life ahead. You have just graduated high school- now off to college. How will you be remembered as a student? What will you have done? A legacy is how you are…

Random Act of Kindness #3 Sometime within the second week of November 2017, I did a Random Act of Kindness. It happened one morning while I was on the bus. How my bus system works is that I first get picked up at a bus stop near my house, then the bus goes to Hempfield High School to drop the students there. I wait at the side of the school for my other bus to pick me and a few other LMS students up, then the bus takes us all to school. On my first bus, there are these two kids, a brother and…

Personal Manifesto The subject of personal manifesto should never be something that is of foreign content. There are many different ways that you can be translated into a character. For instance, some contributors are your personality, your occupation, your habits, your work and motivation, and more. What a manifesto is, is what a community thinks of what you are rather than the content of your character. You are defined by society’s social queues and status quos. As a result, more than half of…

This sequence takes place just after Amélie returns the box of toys she found to their owner. Inspired by the effect this small act of kindness has, she is overcome by an “urge to help mankind”. Amélie has always had an interest in the small quirks that make life unique, so in this sequence, her act of kindness is to share them. This sequence shares the excitement and joy Amélie finds in seemingly minute details, not only with the blind man she walks with, but with the viewer, through the use of…

A person loses twenty dollars on the street, and another person picks it up for them. This may be seen as a simple act of kindness, but that twenty dollars could have been all the money that person had. In a way, the person who found the money is a hero for the person who lost the money, so their kind act becomes a heroic one. That person's kindness could be thought of as compassion because the sympathy they felt for the person who lost that dollar allowed them to pick up that dollar and return…

Nowadays, kindness without guaranteed return is rare. People live their lives with the mindset that they should only show compassion when others return it. The question, “What's in it for me?” Often comes up because people believe that they should only complete favors if they get personal gain from them. Naomi Shihab Nye disputes this mindset in her poem “Shoulders”. She explains a story about a man carrying his child on his shoulders, and how mankind should show each other the same kindness,…

“Chivalry is simply an act of kindness toward a person who is deserving (or not) of receiving that kindness” (Beauti). Chivalry has existed for decades, since knights, princesses, and castles existed. But since then, chivalry has started to fade away. Over the past several years three things have come up: parental influence has lessened, men don’t care about being kind, and feminism. These things have always been there, but lately in the 21st century, it all has become a more critical problem…

because he will be so afraid of the terrible actions people could take against him. Fear is one of the most powerful forces that can affect a person, and it is most often inflicted through evil actions. The strength of emotions caused by an act of kindness is nowhere near as strong as the fear inflicted by evil, demonstrating evil’s dominance. The true influence of evil is similarly shown by the justification behind it. After committing the terrible assault to the 17-year-old, “The gang told…

Introduction Experiments in Sustainability, Kindness, and Social Responsibility; after completing a four week survey of my personal habits which include; what I generate and manage as waste, along with my comportment in the public eye, I found this experience to be quite extensive as well as enlightening. Sustainability Experiment: I have done these types of trials before in other classes. Therefore, this time around was more of a revision than a realization. It was important for me to have a…

affected by your thoughts, emotions, and ideas. Your ideology is composed of: your core values, aspects of positive and negative thought, how you behave when you don’t have distractions, how you cope, what you 're grateful for and how you demonstrate kindness, and the things that add meaning to your life. Your core values, while developing over time, help show who you are as a person. Mine includes: freedom, integrity, and enjoyment. I dislike being tied to things indefinitely and never making…