-Definition: firm and not changing in your friendship with or support for a person or an organization, or in your belief in your principles.
-Reasons for the existence of the term: we needed a word to express a noble feeling that we have towards our friends and things that we love or find important.
-Ways to get it: being a good friend and treating others well, having a lot of power, having a lot in common with someone. You can actually buy it, but when acquired like that it is much more fragile and fake.
-Ways to maintain it: you can maintain it being loyal yourself and always being in contact with people who you would like to keep a strong bond.
-Ways one could use it: loyalty can be used to create groups to make it easier to achieve common goals, like in a team, or an organization.
-Ways one could lose it: loyalty is hard to get, but very easy to lose. If you don't demonstrate interest in the relationship and don't show that you are just as loyal as the other person you are possibly going to get more distance between you two.
-How it affects people: it feels great to find that someone is really loyal to you because you know that you can always trust that person, so we always seek loyalty. It's also good to be loyal to someone, feel that a person needs you, feel helpful.
-Anything else you can think of: there are cases of unconditional loyalty, specially with pets.
-How your term is connected with another: as I have mentioned it, power can bring you the loyalty from a lot of people very easily, but then again this kind of loyalty is much more fragile than the one that is mutual and between friends.
quarta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2010
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Response to "The Charmer"
How does what I know about the world shape the way we view ourselves?
The Charmer begins introducing us to two young siblings Winnifred and Zachary, and at this time our little main character knew so little about life that she could not understand how manipulative her brother was. Later on everyone starts to slowly notice who Zack really was and Winnifred feels like she has been her brother's slave without knowing it, which shows us how her knowledge changed her point of view about someone she used to worship. After a tragedy that happens in the family it becomes evident that the boy is too spoiled and selfish and he has to leave the house and follow his own way. Years after all of that our leading character has already had children of her own and one of them starts to show some resemblance to how Zack used to behave to get whatever he wanted, but now, knowing exactly how terrible can the consequences be for not imposing some limits to your kids Winnifred can take a stand and handle the sitution better than her mother did back then. Her mother could not deal with what she had lost and started getting senile earlier than it would be consider normal and kept saying "Too late, too late" in the end when our main character is about to make a mistake she changes her mind because now she knows better after all she witnessed " I looked at her, listened to her, and longed to hold her in my arms and whisper consolation. But somewhere in the back of my head, I could hear a voice shouting, 'Too late, too late!' ".
The Charmer begins introducing us to two young siblings Winnifred and Zachary, and at this time our little main character knew so little about life that she could not understand how manipulative her brother was. Later on everyone starts to slowly notice who Zack really was and Winnifred feels like she has been her brother's slave without knowing it, which shows us how her knowledge changed her point of view about someone she used to worship. After a tragedy that happens in the family it becomes evident that the boy is too spoiled and selfish and he has to leave the house and follow his own way. Years after all of that our leading character has already had children of her own and one of them starts to show some resemblance to how Zack used to behave to get whatever he wanted, but now, knowing exactly how terrible can the consequences be for not imposing some limits to your kids Winnifred can take a stand and handle the sitution better than her mother did back then. Her mother could not deal with what she had lost and started getting senile earlier than it would be consider normal and kept saying "Too late, too late" in the end when our main character is about to make a mistake she changes her mind because now she knows better after all she witnessed " I looked at her, listened to her, and longed to hold her in my arms and whisper consolation. But somewhere in the back of my head, I could hear a voice shouting, 'Too late, too late!' ".
Response to "Just Lather, That's All"
How do our personal experiences shape our views of others? Ourselves?
In this specific short story we had a lot of elements to answer this question, the barber for instance have witnessed what the man that came to his shop did to his allies, he have watched they being killed and mutilated therefore he could not have any simpathy for that man, on the other hand his job showed him that he should always be professional no matter what and never discriminate his clients. Deep down he also knew he was not a killer. The man that came to his shop also have had some important experiences and learnt to consider the rebels as being the villains in that situation, so he probably didn't think that what he was doing was wrong at all, but all his experience in chasing and killing people made him brave enough to go and face the barber that he knew from what he had heard around the town, could potentially kill him.
In this specific short story we had a lot of elements to answer this question, the barber for instance have witnessed what the man that came to his shop did to his allies, he have watched they being killed and mutilated therefore he could not have any simpathy for that man, on the other hand his job showed him that he should always be professional no matter what and never discriminate his clients. Deep down he also knew he was not a killer. The man that came to his shop also have had some important experiences and learnt to consider the rebels as being the villains in that situation, so he probably didn't think that what he was doing was wrong at all, but all his experience in chasing and killing people made him brave enough to go and face the barber that he knew from what he had heard around the town, could potentially kill him.
terça-feira, 5 de outubro de 2010
Sharlene identity + connection.
Bernice Friesen created an identity to her character Sharlene by showing us her dream of running away to Europe and being independent for a while before going to University, also by showing us her problems with her father that would never allow her to do that sort of travel. But the best way of making a strong identity for Sharlene was by her relationship and actions towards her brother, because even though as a little sister she likes to annoy him, in the very end she shows that she would support him no matter what, which is a very nice attitude that shows her values. I could really connect to her in a very interesting way because of her dream of going to a different country and living new experiences before start building an actual career because that is exactly what I am doing here in Canada and thus I could truly understand why she felt like that.
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