Honor/Cheating

Lost with Dignity                             Won by Cheating

Malik Stewart was wrestling a boy (Mitchell McKee) who wanted to win the match to make his father who has cancer proud. Malik lost but he lost with honor. Instead of throwing a fit and being a sore loser, he went to go congratulate Mitchell and he even went to go give Mitchell’s dad a hug. Whereas, Roman Chapa cheated in the horse race. He noticed that he was losing and wanted to win so bad that he shocked his horse so that it would go faster. He cheated and got caught and now he looks bad. Lose with dignity. That’s the best kind of winning you can get.

Sophocles

“I would prefer to fail with honor than win by cheating.”

-Sophocles

He’s saying that he would rather lose knowing he tried or did his best than to win knowing he cheated and did the wrong thing. It shows how mature you are when you lose and you’re still a good sport about it. If people know you tried your best then you’re a winner in their eyes and yours. If you won by taking the easy way out and cheated then that doesn’t do you any good. Sure you get called a winner but that doesn’t really make you a winner. You just have the title winner. You know deep down you don’t deserve that title and the guilt is worse than you losing.

Memorial Day Weekend

This Memorial Day weekend I had went camping with my friends and I went hiking with family. My friends and I left Friday night to Crystal Lake. On Saturday, we went on adventures, played sports, we ate good food, we built a tent and made smores. Saturday night, me and two friends came back home. On Sunday, I ran errands with my sister. On Monday, I woke up at 5:20 and me, my brother, my sister and my sisters friend headed out to San Diego. We went to San Diego to hike up to Mount Woodson in Poway to see the Potato Chip Rock. It took us about 30-45 minutes to get up there because it was up some really steep hills. Once we got to the rock there was a line to take a picture on it so we left and headed back home.

Memorial Day

1. Memorial Day is a day on which those who died in active military service are remembered.
2. The purpose is to honor the men and women who died while serving the U.S. military.
3. Memorial day was originally celebrated on May 30th but it is not celebrated on the last Monday of May.
4. Some ways you can show honor and respect to those who have died in battle are;  you can visit a veteran’s cemetery or war memorial, take cookies to a nearby veteran’s hospital, go to a Memorial Day parade, etc.

Memorial Day used to be known as Decoration day because it was established as a day for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. The official flower of Memorial Day is the Poppy. This is the official flower because poppies grew in abundance in the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. It bewildered some as to how the flowers could grow in such a landscape.

To show respect and honor to veterans I plan to volunteer to feed them and to help make care packages to them and their families.

Dan Dierdorf

“If I’ve got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I’m going to succeed.”

-Dan Dierdorf

Dan Dierdorf

He’s saying that if he has the right ideas and the right goals and does the right thing to pursue that goal, everything else in his life will come at the right time. Everything good will fall into place and he will succeed from that. Setting a good/right goal is important. The way you pursue it is also important. You can’t take shortcuts because that’s kind of like cheating. Do all that you need to in order to achieve your goal but make sure it’s the best and right thing to do. You’ll end up succeeding in the right way. Everything along the way is going to be good and will affect your journey in a good way and eventually you’ll be successful in whatever you do.

Wellness Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: The main duties of a wellness specialist are to educate the public on how to improve their daily choices, prevent illness or access local resource.

Salary: The average salary is was $53,100 in 2012.

Education: They often have a degree of in a related discipline such as nursing, fitness or sports medicine.

Demand for this Profession: They expect the wellness field to grow by 37 percent between 2010-2020.

Reflection: I wouldn’t like to be a Wellness Specialist because there’s not much they do. I want to be running around and being active. All they do is explain and advise you what’s good for you and stuff.

An Internal Phenomenon

“The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity (self-worth), integrity, and self-esteem.”

-Dr. Laura Schlessinger

When you do a good deed, do you do it for the reward or do you do it because you know you’re doing a good thing? Some people do things and don’t expect a reward out of it. Those are the truly good people. Some people do it out of knowing they’re getting something in return. The best feeling is knowing you did something good and that is the best reward. Feeling good inside and knowing you made someone happy or just doing a good thing. Does there have to be a reward? Does getting something in return encourage people to do the right thing? It honestly shouldn’t. Why does it matter if you get a reward for doing something good? Just knowing you did something good because you wanted to is the best feeling/reward you can receive.