Every Day Hero

Heroic imagination is normal people doing extraordinary things. Not because they think it will better them but because they know it’s the right thing to do.

Heroic imagination                                                                

·         Normal everyday people.

·         See an everyday problem and fix it.

·         Fix their causes because it’s the right thing to do.

·         Doesn’t make a difference who they’re helping.

·         Could be helping someone with the chance of hurting themselves (physically)

·         Spur of the moment.

Traditional leadership

·         “unordinary” people.

·         Working to fix world issues or economic issues.

·         They fix their problem because it’s their job.

·         Targets a group of people to help.

·         They help people behind the safety of their desk

·         Planned out help.

Everyday heroes

Jeff May a 9^th grader tackled a shooter in his school. He was shot but because of his effort they were able to stop the shooter. When asked why he tackled the shooter he responded “To make sure so many people don’t die”.

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb 2011. <http://www.rd.com/family/everyday-hero-jeff-may/>.

Pat Reardon's name is even on the wall at the blood donor center at Children's Hospital in Aurora. That is because she donates blood platelets as often as possible.

"This is my 101st time," said Reardon.

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb 2011. <http://www.thedenverchannel.com/7everydayhero/26857169/detail.html>.

In Sacramento, California, Robert Sweeney had just about finished delivering the mail on December 11, 2008, when he heard a panicked mother's cry for help. Her baby, 19-month-old Kelly Jimenez, appeared lifeless. Sweeney took the child, placed her on the grass in front of the woman's home and performed CPR while neighbors called 911. Sweeney revived the child before paramedics arrived, CNN affiliate KCRA reported. Sweeney told KCRA that the emotion of the moment didn't hit him until he got back in his truck to go home. That's when he started crying."You don't ever think you would be in a situation like that," he said.

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb 2011. <http://articles.cnn.com/2009-12-10/living/cnnheroes.salutes_1_icy-pond-hero-label-cnn/2?_s=PM:LIVING>.

A Michigan father jumped through flames to save his two youngest sons when an electrical fire set their house ablaze December 7.Investigators told CNN affiliate WZZM in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that sparks from an electrical outlet set a living room curtain on fire. After climbing up pitch-black stairs to rescue his 4-year-old and 2-year-old boys, Jonathan Brito went back in the house and pulled out Punchy, the family's dog, who was unconscious. Brito performed CPR and revived the dog, Brito's wife, Charlene Hernandez, told the station.

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb 2011. <http://articles.cnn.com/2009-12-10/living/cnnheroes.salutes_1_icy-pond-hero-label-cnn/2?_s=PM:LIVING>.

Take a stand

I.             What are some examples of working together for a better result? What are some ways showing the fear? Some people use the word Synergy to define working together for a better result. Synergy  may be defined as two or more agents working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the agents independently. If all the countries of the world worked together and shared resources we could all get the most out of the world. Because we’re a world obsessed with greed, that could never happen. Everyone wants to get ahead instead of sharing the profits. “If they have more I have less”.

N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy>.

II.            This week in class we’re trying to change the world. Our assignment was to take small occasions when you have the opportunity to speak up, and go for it. Then, in our journal tell about how it went. This week I can’t think of a time I took a stand on anything. However, this week I was in the paper being recognized for taking a stand against hunger.

                On December 5 this past year I held a Stop Hunger Now Event as my Girl Scout gold award. I raised $2,700. And we packaged 10,800 meals. I found out this week that the meals were sent to Vietnam. Part of this assignment is to give ourselves feedback. Not trying to sound cocky but I’m proud of myself and the 95 volunteers that showed up to help. Because of us there will be people who won’t go hungry tonight.

III. Do you think there is enough food in the world to feed everyone?

N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy>.

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playing games

I.             Who are some people who believed in or against these rules?   When researching this question it seems almost every religion had their own version of the golden rule. From the scriptures of the Bahá'í Faith: Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself.

           —Bahá'u'lláh 

 Christianity The "Golden Rule" has been attributed to Jesus of Nazareth: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" (Matthew 7:12, see also Luke 6:31). Judaism The concept of the Golden Rule originates most famously in a Torah verse (Hebrew: "ואהבת לרעך כמוך"):

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your kinsfolk. Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

—Leviticus 19:18^[48], the "Great Commandment" These are a few examples.

n. pag. Web. 9 Feb 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Rule#Global_ethic>.

II.            This week in class we played games that showed peoples competitive nature. The games we played awarded points for different things. The first game, you get more points if you don’t cooperate and your partner does then if you both cooperated. But you get more point all together if you both cooperate. If you didn’t want to chance your partner double crossing you to end with more points then you, you could both end with an equal amount of the most points possible. The second game was chicken. Unlike the other game, there was a chance to lose points. This made the game even more competitive.

                The point of these games was that if everyone works together the result will end better for everyone. But on the other side, if you try to get ahead of the people you should be working with, then everyone misses out. But because everyone is afraid their partner will go against them, they ago and do it first. That way they have a chance of not being left behind. I found it was a very accurate way of showing this.

III.           What are some examples of working together for a better result? What are some ways showing the fear?

n. pag. Web. 9 Feb 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Rule#Global_ethic>.

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right or wrong?

I.             Who is known most for doing the greatest good? It’s hard to say who has done the most good for the world because it’s hard to decide what is the greater good. Many people might say Gandhi did the greater good for most people. He gave India independence after all the other countries looking down on it. Although he got imprisoned for his hero work many times he never gave up and in the end he got there. Gandhi is India’s most influential person. And so their opinion of his is good. But on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Hitler’s followers believe he was doing a good thing. We know it was a horrible thing but to them it was for their greater good.

N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Feb 2011. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_good_things_did_Gandhi_do

II.            This week in class we talked about compassion. We discussed both the religious and scientific sides of compassion. We also talked about the golden rule and other rules. The golden rule is the well known saying “treat others the way you want to be treated”. But there are some other rules we learned about too. The Silver rule is “Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.” The Brass or Brazen Rule, “Do unto others as they do unto you”. The Iron rule, “Do unto others as you like, before they do it unto you. The Tin rule, “Suck up to those above you, and abuse those below”. And the Tit-for-Tat rule, “Cooperate with others first, then do unto them as they do unto you.

                We discussed the differences between them and which was more effective. We found some holes in the rules. From the golden rule someone mentioned that not everyone wants to be treated the same way. For the silver rule, many people thought though it was close to the golden rule it was too negative. For the Brass or Brazen rule, the quote from Gandhi “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” was said.  For the Iron rule, you could be starting problems that weren’t evening going to come up but, you were afraid they would happen. The problem with the Tin Rule is that is that you never know when your work situations are going to change. You could end up working for someone you abused. The Tit-for-Tat has a problem when you double cross the person you may end up needing them again in the future and they’re not going to want to help you.

III. Who are some people who believed in or against these rules?   

N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Feb 2011. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_good_things_did_Gandhi_do
Web. 9 Feb 2011. <http://netdna.copyblogger.com/images/golden-rule.jpg>.

The Greater Good

I.                    How are the other specialty programs websites set up?

James River Leadership web site is not bad looking. http://web.me.com/sarah_mansfield/Leadership/Welcome.html  However it hasn’t been updated in a year. All the capstone projects are last years. All the pictures are last years.

Monacan High School has the center of Humanities.  http://chesterfield.k12.va.us/Schools/Monacan_HS/Human/humanities_center/index.html Their website is also not bad looking. One thing they have that our site doesn’t is this year’s calendar.  However there’s a lot on the website so it a lot of reading, almost too much reading.

Clover hill’s math and science center.

http://chesterfield.k12.va.us/Schools/Clover_Hill_HS/MS/

Their website seemed very confusing and not very attractive but one thing they had that I liked was a link to their monthly newsletter which I think we could use.

II.                  This week in class we talked about the greater good. What my group definition of the greater good was doing what’s best for the most people. As a class we talked about how do we decided what is for the greater good. Can anyone really know the right answer to that question? We also talked about some examples of doing something we considered for the greater good.

An example I consider doing the greater good is soldiers fighting in the war. They risk their lives to save the millions in America. They decide that their one life is worth giving up if it saves millions of others lives. That’s why they’re heroes.

The greatest good is a tricky subject. Many movies show how one person’s idea of the greatest good may not be the same as another’s.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY . It’s hard to decide when actions are for the greater good.

III.                    Who is known most for doing the greatest good?

 N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY>.

Web. 23 Jan 2011. <http://commongoodbank.com/images/dreamingtogether.gif>.

We could all use a little change

I. How long did it take Song to go out of business?  

	Song started April 15, 2003 and ended May 1, 2006 On January 1, 2008, Delta began repainting the last aircraft bearing the Song livery into mainline Delta Air Lines colors.
	N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Jan 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_%28airline%29>.

II. In class we talked about how to improve or make the leadership program sexier. We list things that we felt really need improvement. One opinion I’ve had of the program is that it is very unorganized. Freshman and sophomore year I found it very hard to hear about anything going on in the leadership program. Last year we started having ambassadors that would tell us the events coming up. But even that was quick and I never really understand what the events were so I wouldn’t sign up right away and by the time I found up it was too late. This year I know what’s going on but that’s because I’m on the council. I think we need a way to get the word out to the students with more explanation.

One thing we also talked about was that the website is “sexy” or up to date. I thinking making the website in style is a great idea. It could make the center a lot more appealing to people applying to the program and help organize the center a little bit more. All the upcoming events could be explained on the site. Our hours could be logged on the site instead PTO manger, which I found very confusing and it took me 2 hours to work.

Another thing we talked about was the quad. I don’t think because we’re a specialty center we should turn the quad into a rave. It’s still a school. I like the way the tables and chairs are. I do however think that the room is bland we should put a mural or some color up on the walls.

I like the way our class are set up. Communications was a great class and a help me a lot with speaking in public. 9^th grades course however I don’t remember much from. It was very textbook learning and not a lot of hands on activity learning. That I think could be changed. I really like this ethics class right now too and I don’t think the order of any of this should be changed.

One last thing that I think should be changed around is the LEAPs. They way they were originally set up are that you can only have one out of leadership LEAP. I think we should be encouraged to lead programs outside of leadership and not limited.

III. How are the other specialty programs set up?

N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Jan 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_%28airline%29>. 

Web. 17 Jan 2011. <http://herd.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451e1dc69e20120a516b74a970b-800wi>.