For PIEER, I read “The Bond” book, and I enjoyed reading chapter 12. I learned many different things from this book such as this statement “With all the calamities in our midst, our choices will affect our children and our children’s children and indeed the world for all time”. In addition, I learned from it, volunteers and donations are the most significant way to help the community and spread the joyful among people. The author expresses selfishness and altruism are the more contagious behavior spread rapidly in small groups. In addition, altruism creates giving a network of pay-it-forward. I believed in this statement, “For every act of kindness or generosity you do for a friend, he pays it forward to his friend and his friends’ friends…
Walker’s thread to be comprehensible and interesting, but lacking in substantive content and reference materials. However, this reply has validated Mr. Walker’s through an survey and discussion of charitable giving important as an organizational resource and the concept’s historical significance. Examining the works of other scholars in comparison with Mr. Walker’s assumptions determined that Mr. Walker’s work was found to be reasonably congruent with the research of scholarly experts. To clarify the connection between charitable donation and volunteerism, this reply examined the concepts’ connection in light of a scriptural and scholarly context, which revealed that charitable donation and volunteerism are interconnected as biblical mandates and statistically repetitive personal actions. Overall, the thread was well crafted in writing structure and Mr. Walker’s strong articulation of core conceptual ideas revealed the work’s enjoyable nature and well executed…
There seems to be an inexhaustible number of reasons that one person might go out of his way to assist another. One of the more interesting of these is to give to soothe one's conscience, or to avoid the guilt that comes with not offering help when you can. Ma Joad used this reason to feed the starving children at the first Hooverville they stayed at. She looked at those kids and tried to avoid giving them food so she could feed her family. Even Uncle Tom had a hard time eating his food with those hungry children looking on. Ma eventually soothed her conscience by giving the kids the dregs of the soup kettle, though she knew she should have given the entire helping to her family, as they had less than enough themselves.…
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is what we know as the golden rule. In today 's society, it seems to have been altered just a tad - "Do unto other 's before they do unto you." Albeit a negative connotation, it can be turned one hundred eighty degrees into a positive thought and gesture. The movie Pay It Forward does just that. This movie tells the story of a social studies teacher who gives an assignment to his junior high school class to think of an idea to change the world for the better, and then put it into action. Movie critic David Bruce remarked, "When one young student, Trevor McKinney, creates a plan for "paying forward" favors, he not only affects the life of his struggling single mother, but he sets in motion an unprecedented wave of human kindness which, unbeknownst to him, has blossomed into a profound national phenomenon." (Bruce, 2000) These actions have three requirements: It has to be something that really helps…
The cards that displayed the fact that the guest was improving the environment had little increase in the reuse of towels. Other towels however did have a response but examined the data and found many interesting findings. According to psychological influences on people, the article stated that, “There is no sense of social obligation to cooperate with someone who offers you something, provided that you perform a favor first.” So to say that you are more likely to do something in return for someone then initiate the action in a promised return i.e. the donation. According to society norms, a person is considered “moochers”, or “takers” if they do not return the favor after something has been done for them. With this in mind they added a four card statement that returned a 47 percent success rate, one that was greater than the corporation conditions. It was as…
In Singer’s third chapter of his book he goes on to show us the common objections to giving. The opinion that I felt was the strongest argument was Lucy’s from Glennview High, “ If someone wants to buy a new car, they should. If someone wants to redecorate their house, they should, and if they need a suit, get it. They work for their money and they have the right to spend it on themselves.” ³…
1. To ensure that I did my random act of kindness as assigned by the school…
As people mention the virtue, generosity, they always conceive of an image of a wealthy philanthropist who donates his money to people in need. However, in my opinion, the concept of generosity exceeds the narrow connotation of giving to others, and not only can rich people become generous; rather, generosity comprises of empathy to share others’ feelings, magnanimous tolerance towards other people, and returning to them with kindness.…
Compensation; give without expecting anything in return, give from the kindness of your heart, and recognize the fact that compensation comes in many forms which are not always tangible.…
Besides the ideals of both these adages the true concern comes in practical application. The ideal of charity is often based off the Golden…
Topic: Reciprocity is an underlying principle expressed throughout Aboriginal societies. Outline and illustrate the importance of this fundamental concept in the economic, social, spiritual and political spheres of Aboriginal life.…
How people help their neighbors through tragedies and circumstances will determine how that society will thrive. As Claude Levi Strauss said, “It is the principle of reciprocity that holds a society together”. People have been helping each other survive for hundreds of years. Humans brand an action as kind by its performance, consequences, and by the person 's intentions. Reciprocity is considered a determining factor of human behavior. Reciprocity is trading favors or making a negotiation or a contract with another person. With reciprocity, a small favor can produce a sense of obligation to a larger return favor. This feeling of obligation allows an action to be reciprocated with another action. However, there is a sense of future obligation with reciprocity. It can help develop and continue relationships with people. Reciprocity works because children are taught at a young age to be polite and return favors. We teach our youth to treat people the way we would want to be treated.…
Clark and Dwight R. Lee introduce the concepts of “magnanimous morality” and “mundane morality.” According to Clark and Lee, actions that are categorized as magnanimous morality satisfies “three characteristics: helping intentionally, doing so at a personal sacrifice, and providing the help to identifiable beneficiaries.” This type of morality fits the mold for the type of behavior that was present in what Hayek refers to as small groups. In small groups, the help that was provided to each other was “given intentionally by and to identifiable people who knew each other well.” The behavior fits the third characteristic of magnanimous morality as well. Members within small groups made personal sacrifice for the common purpose of the…
Bracewell-Milnes, Barry. "The Economics And Theology Of Giving." Economic Affairs 10.5 (1990): 29. EBSCO MegaFILE. Web. 28 Sept.…
An act of kindness can develop values for both the person receiving the aid and the person offering the support as well as community development. In this summary key points are discussed on altruism. The summary stems from an act of kindness, which was conducted by the author as a student of Capstone Course in Psychology/Psy 490. I presented money to a person who needed money for his or her next meal, without expecting anything in return. A person does not realize the degree of emotions involved in experiencing need nor true concern until he or she begins to offer support with no desire of reward.…