Paraphrasing,Quotation, and Summary

Paraphrasing:
Roger Sipher argues why students should not be obligated to attend school since it does not bring positive consequences nor improvement in education.

Summary:
In this essay Sipher provides the reader valuable arguments in which he states why it is not efficient to force children into school. He also tells us how students who do not like or appreciate school only disturb and molest the ones who do want to learn. He provides different points of view in which the reader can conclude that forcing students to go to class is only a waste of time, money, and other people's talents.

Quotation:
Roger Sipher not only talks about the consequences of forcing students to class, but also shows the benefits of not forcing them to class, ¨Communities could use these savings to support institutions to deal with young people not in school. If, in the long run, these institutions prove more costly, at least we would not confuse their mission with that of schools¨(Sipher).

Why are People? (The Selfish Gene pg.2-11).

According to Dawkins, being altruistic means, doing things for the well of a community or a group, not for ones own interest. “An apparently altruistic act is one that looks, superficially, as if it must tend to make the altruistic more likely (however slightly) to die, and the recipient more likely to survive”. I realized Dawkins was arguing and giving examples of this behavior so he can compare it to selfishness, which clearly is much more common between humans. I personally think that in many cases I am a very selfish person. However, I am altruistic in some other cases, for example, when I help my friends before helping myself, or when I think of others first. I also behave in an altruistic way when I take decisions that will benefit others and not myself.

Like I said before, talking about altruistic behaviors led Dawkins to talk about selfishness. According to him, being selfish is refusing to share, and acting for ones own benefit all the time. “…Selfish behavior may simply consist of refusing to share some valued resource such as food, or sexual partners”. I think being selfish is sometimes useful because not everyone has good intentions and sometimes they just want to see you get hurt. When you act in a selfish way the possibilities of getting hurt are much less than when you benefit everyone else.

Five Sources Rhetoric

1. Wikipedia-Women Rights Refrences:^ United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Introduction

2.Living The Legacy The Women's Rights Movement: http://www.legacy98.org/

3.Women's History in America: http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm

4.The Strengths of a women:http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/catalen/ACaterinaGranphics/AmazingStrengthsofwomanl.html

5.Women Rights are Human Rights:http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/isswom.htm

Right or Wrong? (The Power and The Glory p.161-183).

What does having money mean to the priest? The priest although he is a priest, is also human. Humans tend to have an ambition towards money because all of the advantages and luxuries it brings. However, a priest is not supposed to think that way. At least that is what I have learned in mass. At the beginning of the chapter the priest seems to be trapped on whether or not he needs money. It is obvious that he needs money to survive, but he is taking the money away from people who need it even more. He establishes that he will be charging one peso fifty per child that gets baptized. “ ‘On peso, father. We are very poor.’ ‘One peso fifty.’ A voice from years back said firmly into his ear: they don’t value what they don’t pay for. It was the old priest he had succeeded at Concepcion who had explained to him…” (p.167). In this quotation a poor woman is trying to convince the priest of lowering the price of the baptisms. I believe it is absurd the way he thinks about the stuff he needs, and he does not realize the people of that village needs that money even more!

Nevertheless, the priest then comes to his senses and gives all the money he receives to a schoolteacher. I think it is very important to notice that although this priest is a “whiskey priest” he is still trying to do what is best for the people and not for him. I find it really interesting that in the only village he is received with excitement and without fear, he immediately took advantage and began charging for his “services”. It is not fair that a priest thinks that way; he should be thanking everyone in the village for being so welcoming with him.

Selfish or not? (The Power and the Glory pg.140-159).

The priest, like every human has patience until one point. Throughout the story he has tried to help as much people as he can, and he has tried to give mass, and confess people. However, in this last chapter I was able to tell he was getting tired. After being caught, confused with another person, and released again, the priest seems to be, totally exhausted. It is very difficult to tell whether or not the priest is a good person, or a convenient person. In some chapters he helps people. In others he stays in people’s houses without caring if the police comes and kills them the next day.

“He thought: I have to get to shelter- a man’s first duty is to himself- even the Church taught that, in a way. The whole sky was blackening.” (p.155). This quotation shows how the priest tried to think about the woman (Indian) but he couldn’t. He had to think of himself because he was going to die if he kept getting wet. The priest like I said before sometimes thinks about himself only, but he also thinks about others. “ ‘vamos,’ the priest said, but the woman scraped the sugar with her sharp front teeth, paying no attention. He looked up at the sky and saw the evening star bottled out by black clouds. ‘Vamos.’ There was no shelter anywhere on this plateau.” (p.155). He tried so hard to convince the woman to go with him, but she would not go, in this case I support the priest’s decision in leaving her there.

It is very tough to be hiding all the time, and at the same time completing a priest’s duties. I do not always agree with the Priest’s behavior, but I do admire his way of escaping from every situation and at the same time achieving his duties as a priest. Is he a whiskey priest or not?

Priests and Activists Join Together to Condemn Priest

In this video you can see how a Priest is being condemned. People from Poland are asking the Vatican to take measures regarding father Tadeusz Rydzyk. It says, "As Polish Catholics, both lay and religious, we protest against the scornful and anti-Semitic remarks made by a representative of our Church. Such attitudes negate the Gospel of Love proclaimed by Jesus Christ. It also contradicts the teaching of our compatriot, the Pope John Paul II, who called the Jews "our elder brothers in faith", and described anti-Semitism as "a grave sin". We want to express our solidarity with all our Jewish brothers and sisters offended by the director of Radio Maryja, which advertises itself as "the Catholic voice in your home". As I was reading The Power and the Glory, I found this video to be related with the theme of the book because in both people are condemning priests. Although their reasons are totally different they both have the same goal: punish or accuse one specific priest. This is the link towards the video I am talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y_2Z51fdqw.

Loyalty (The Power and the Glory pg.60-80).

Loyalty has always been a problem between human beings. It is not something we find easily, and it is not something that is easy to keep. In The Power and the Glory we have seen how the Priest has hidden in all the villages and how people have helped him not to get caught. I do not think this has been fair. People are going to die because of this hiding priest. However, the people of the villages keep on helping him hide, and keep on covering his back. It is ridiculous that people have died because of one person who could have turned himself in and receive his “punishment”. “ ‘They are taking hostages now – from all the villages where they think you’ve been. And if people don’t tell…somebody is shot…and then they take another hostage. It happened in Concepcion.’ ” You can tell people are scared to bring them in their houses and letting him sleep there. However, they still believe in God so they do not know what to do. The Priest should have told them not to worry and he should have left. If he gets caught them he must accept his responsibility. I can tell people from those villages really believe in God and in religion because in every chapter you can tell people miss mass and confession. I think their loyalty towards their faith is what keeps them from turning in the priest. It is their loyalty towards God and towards helping people that convinces them to permit him to sleep at their houses.

It is very rare to find people with such loyalty, and I believe it is something to appreciate and be thankful of. I predict many people are going to get killed in The Power and the Glory and only until someone the Priest really cares for get killed, he is going to keep on hiding without caring how many people die because of him.