Having rights and responsibilities is a key theme of social justice and I feel its one of the most important. To feel that you have your own rights is a great gift humans were giving. To live without rights would be terrible because you wouldn’t have the right to make your own decisions, what belief you chose, and what kind a life you want to live. If you didn’t have rights you wouldn’t have any responsibilities because you wouldn’t have the right to do anything. Now living a life without rights and responsibilities wouldn’t be that great, that’s why God chose to give us this key part of social justice. God wanted everyone to be socially equal, have the same rights with responsibilities, and he wanted us to live the best life we could.

When God created us he created us in the image of him and since he had rights and responsibilities. He wanted us to have them to so we could have the same qualities. Getting the gift of having rights has helped us become the type of people we are. Having rights lets us make the decisions we want and the right to do so. With rights we have every right to chose what type of religion we want, what kind of vehicle, and what type of education we want to take. If I didn’t have any rights I probably wouldn’t of had the right to become catholic, or to buy a truck, or to chose what kind of education I want and I wouldn’t of been able to take the responsibilities for these actions. When you have rights you get responsibilities. When I bought my truck I had my own right to buy it and with it came the responsibilities to look after it, and pay for the insurance and gas. If we wouldn’t of received rights I wouldn’t be the person I am today, a Catholic, owner of a truck, and taking the education I want.

Without responsibilities you don’t get rights and without rights you don’t get responsibilities. God must of been thinking that without these two key elements who would be responsible for looking after each other, taking care of the planet, and who would get the rights to do these. Being responsible for the things you do is something people should owe up to and show that their willing to take risks with responsibilities. Having responsibilities can be good or bad because someone could be responsible for discriminating a faith or someone could be responsible for the founding of a religion. If someone is responsible for discriminating a faith they should be able to owe up to it and apologize because what they chose to do would be against the beliefs of God.

Overall I feel that Rights and Responsibilities is an important theme of social justice because it justifies what type of people we are and what our beliefs are. We all have equal rights in a society and we get to chose what type or religion we believe in, what type or vehicle we want and most importantly the right to take the responsibilities of our actions. Without rights we wouldn’t have the amount of responsibilities we have today and the way we lived our lives would be entirely different.

What the Pharisees had thought was clean and unclean was very strict. They wanted to change society by making judaism strong again. They categorized certain things as clean or unclean, such as food and the way they were prepared. If people didn’t follow what the Pharisees wanted them to they were considered to be unclean. How can you justify if someone is clean or unclean, if they don’t want to follow certain rules. What the Pharisees seen as unclean was morally wrong because they were discriminating the people. Jesus didn’t agree with this idea and I’d have to agree with him. Nobody should be treated differentially then others. Jesus was willing to talk to anyone , even those that were considered unworthy. This shows how much Jesus loves and cares for us.

This might have caused conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees because they both had different perspectives on how it should be handled. The Pharisees were only worried about making Judaism strong again and they were not worried about the people who didn’t want to follow their beliefs. When two groups want to make change and each group feels what they believe is better then the other groups they start arguing and fighting. Each group wants to prove that their beliefs are better for their people. Jesus and the Pharisees are wanting to make the lives of their people better and this would create the conflict. When two groups like Jesus and his followers, and the Pharisees they see different sides to things. The Pharisees think making people unworthy if they don’t follow their distinctions is better while Jesus believes everyone should be equal and have the same rights. What Jesus wants to do is way better then what the Pharisees are wanting. Jesus believes that our world will be a better place if everyone is treated equally and have the same rights as everyone else.

Conflict is always being created between two different groups. Around the world many groups are believing that their believes and rules are going to make their people much happier and some people believe that their wrong. When two groups argue about who’s better and who has the best ideas creates conflict, arguments and sometimes war. When a group goes in a tries to change how people are living they don’t want to follow their rules and change because they are used to the lifestyle they were born into. The Pharisees had no right to decide which people were unworthy and worthy and who should be respected. Now what Jesus thought was more for the people because he believed everyone should be treated equally.

“What does God think about us”. From the reading of Jeremiah it says that God knew who we were before we were born. He knew what our interests, abilities, and weaknesses were. He created everyone differently with different interests, abilities and weaknesses. My interests are vehicles, the looks they have and what type of engine they got. Anything that involves me building, inventing, or anything that is hands on is what interests me. When God created us he wanted us to be different from each other and he wanted us to have our own individual interests. Having different interests then everyone else helps define what type of personality that person has and this is why God made us have different interests. When we have different interests we have different personalities and when we have different personalities we are all different people.

I have the ability to compete in team sports and work mechanically. I few sports that I play best in are soccer, basketball, volleyball. These are probably my strongest sports that I compete in. In soccer and basketball I had the opportunity to go to provincials for both of these sports. It was a great experience and I hope I can experience those events again. If you practice and work at the sports you love  best you will become a better player. The harder you work at it the better you become.

Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. I have many strengths in my life but I also have some weaknesses.  Even though we have weaknesses God still treats us like every other human. God doesn’t just pick and chose who he likes, he loves us all. The weaknesses I have are I’m not really good at baseball or golf. Everyone has different weaknesses and I need to work on some of mine. If I can work on my weaknesses I can become a better person because I will overcome these weaknesses. 

If we screw up God isn’t going to punish us he’s going to give us advice so we become better people. God loves us for who we are and respects us. I want to grow up being successful, anything other then failure,. God sees us as a gift, what he thinks about all of us is equal, our lives is his gift to us and our gift to him is how we live our life.

As I look back at the person I have become to be and how I have achieved it there have been many mistakes. I remember some of the reasons why I changed the person I was if it was to fit in with the new school or a new group of people. I was thinking it doesn’t matter what qualities I have, what type of clothes I wore or what I had, I always thought what is going to make me a happy person. Over the past years I have greatly changed my individualism and left behind all the negatives.

Everyone has ups and downs in their life time and sometimes change from person to person. The person I am now is making me life a good life. I’m having good times with friends, family and I’m making them rememberable moments. I am always learning to become a better me, like saving for my first vehicle. Saving and buying a first vehicle is a huge step for me cause I have to take the responsibility to pay for the vehicle and all the insurance. Just recently I bought a truck and if it wasn’t for me changing my what I thought about vehicles I would have got a car. I’ve always wanted to get a nice car for a vehicle but once I changed my mind about which vehicle I wanted I became a different person. People are always changing from one person to another and are becoming someone different.

I believe that playing Soccer, Basketball and other school sports I have gained many important life skills. These skills have helped me become the person I am today. These skills consist of teamwork, listening to my coaches, and being a leader. These skills help me with my everyday life. When I have a group assignment in school it helps me make decisions that are best for the group and the decisions that will give us a good grade. I learned that if everyone wasn’t followers and followed in what they believe the world would be a entire different place.

The person I want to become is the person that has achieved their goals in life. I want to be the one who follows through with my dreams and achieve the goals I want in life. I want to finish my schooling at St. Jerome’s school, proceed to post secondary and hopefully become a civil engineer. I want to live the life that is going to make me a happy person. Even if it means I have to work really hard to achieve my goals and dreams I will do it.

I have a long list of desirable traits that I would like to have in my life. I want to be the person that isn’t afraid to stand up for what they believe in. I want to be the one who follows through with their dreams and keeps on trying until they achieve their life goals. But in reality I’m not going to wake up becoming the person of my dreams. It’s going to take lots of work and lots of dedication to become the person of my dreams.

A hero to me is someone you look up to for most of your life. A hero could be someone like a family member, a friend, celebrity or it could be someone you made up. The hero you choose is someone you want to grow up to be like when you’re older. Another definition of a hero to me is a roll model. Anyone you look up to that you follow what they believe and how they act. To me a hero is someone that you choose to believe in. I think it’s more of a personal choice on the person you look up to and nobody can choose a hero for somebody else.

Heroes in my life would have to be my dad and my older brother. I always go for to my dad for advice when I need it or when I need help. He’s always willing to help others out in a positive way and rarely refuses to. The main reason I look up to my dad is because has a helpful father, he’s always there supporting me, with sports, school, my job and he’s always happy. I will always look up to him when I’m in need of help. My dad is a hero to me because he took the time in his life to look after me and raise me to be the person I am today.

My brother is my other role model because he cares about his other brothers and sisters. Being the oldest in the family he is there setting examples for me and I learn from the examples. I learn to do the right things and avoid what’s wrong. He’s also because he has a sweet truck that I would like to have one that sweet one day. It shows that he puts time into his work and dedicates himself to do it. It takes a lot of work and planning to do that kind of work. Not only does that help me getting a sweet vehicle it shows that dedicating myself to do something, and I will get positive results.

“It must be the time for me to leave it behind, 
Cause there’s a new day out there where the sun will always shine”

Life is a long journey and everyone goes through the days they don’t want to look back on. “It must be the time for me to leave it behind” it feels like this song fits with most people. The days that I would like to leave behind are the days where I did something wrong or I was hurt mentally. Forgetting the days that hurt me most would help me move on in life. It would give me relief from looking back and remembering those hurtful days. I always said to myself  there’s always a new day out there and it helped me think that tomorrow would be a better day for me.

Music has been a huge instigator in many peoples lives. It has introduced drugs and violence to some young teens. The music media is always growing and is influencing many peoples lives more and more. Nothing can stop teenagers from listening to the music they want unless there is no access to it.”It must be the time for me to leave it behind, Cause there’s a new day out there where the sun will always shine” has helped me realize that nothing can influence me to think differently and become a person I’m not. These lyrics have helped me look into the past and to start thinking about the positive things in life and not the negatives.

I relate myself to the lyrics from the song “Please Come In” because it says that you can forget those hurtful days, and just focus on the days to come where the sun will always shine. It shows that if you follow your morals and beliefs there will be better days to come. You don’t always have to look back on the bad days because they will just make you fear that it will happen again. Just remember to leave it behind and focus on the days to come because it will help your mind focus on the happy days not the hurtful days.

Macbeth has went through many changes throughout this play. He has changed from a man that didn’t make his own decisions and didn’t follow his conscience, he always did what others had told him and now he’s become king. Every since he became the king he always wanted to kill someone because he was afraid they would take over his position. Macbeth used to be the warrior that cut people from the navs to the chops and now he’s considered to be fiend of Scotland. Macduff’s description fits well with Macbeth because he turned into the wicked king of Scotland. He’s never thinking about what’s best for him or what is best for his family its all about him and he can do whatever pleases him. After Macbeth got a feeling of killing people he just couldn’t stop. The wickedness of the witches has made Macbeth an evil king. I don’t think his conscience every caught up with him because he just wanted to continue being king and raining over the land. Macbeth would have had a chance of being a good person but ever since he murdered Duncan and became king he changed morally, into the fiend of Scotland.

The Macbeths used to be really close together when they were planning the killing of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth seemed to make the most decisions for the killing, and Macbeth did the killing. In Act 3, now that Macbeth is king he is following his own conscience and making his own decisions now. He is passing his decisions on what he wants to do not what lady macbeth wants. It seems the Macbeths are drifting farther and farther away from each other. They don’t realize it but every since Macbeth has been making his own decisions he’s leaving Lady Macbeth out of everything. She had no part of killing Banquo and felt that he shouldn’t of done it. Lady Macbeth says Macbeth is unmanned in folly meaning she thinks he’s not a man and can’t pull his own weight. They are always arguing about the decisions Macbeth has been making lately and how Lady Macbeth doesn’t feel they are always the right things to do. As a marriage counsellor I would suggest that they make decisions based on what both of them think. They should live more of a married couple then king and queen. I think if they had kids there relationship would be more together. They would have a baby to look after rather then planning to kill people they fear of taking their ranks.