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When Greed Gives Way to Giving
Cantemir Ludmila
17/10/2012
English 100
Assignment #5

1. I think the importance of this story is to show haw good person is Mr. Thompson. Not many people can be so generous or kind a giving person likes him. Mr. Thompson it seems a very sharing person and I think he likes to help people and he had a very good feelings for those who is around him. Gesture that made Mr. Thompson is very plausible and I think it is a rare example for the rich people who do not love nothing else than their money. 2. I am totally agree whit the author about generosity. In today society we don’t have too many people like Mr. Thompson because everyone thinks about itself more than those who need a lot of help. I know some people that are very generous; one of this people is my mother. She always help poor people, gives many and food for homeless and she teach as how important is to share love and peace. 3. I don’t know too much about Buddhism religions but I think the greed and selfish desire can be a cause of human suffering, probably if people star be more sensitive for the person next to him we will have a better world. I think selfishness and greed has never been a good behavior for world and those with such qualities are enthralled by the power of money and his desire. I know it's hard to separate us from our wealth, but to change something in this world we must start from something small at least with a smile and compassion. For me it is very important to be able to change something in better for those that surround me, and I will always keep way greedy and selfish people from me. 4. I assume that by the concept of “enough” author want to relate for us about the difference of people, some of us feel like he need a million and maybe is still not enough, but some of us need gest a family a job and many for living and is feeling happy and is enough. I think Mr. Thompson want to be different from everybody else, and he fell happiness from deferent way than bay

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