Essay Document

This I Believe


I believe in respect. Respect for everything with no questions asked. Respect for your friends and enemies alike, respect for nature, respect for your family, and respect for yourself, which in my opinion is the most important kind of respect. Respect requires effort but the reward is awesome.
Three summers ago, I happened to be leaving a mall when I saw 4 or 5 kids torturing a turtle behind some bushes. It was a box turtle no more than 5 inches big. They were chucking it around like a ball when one of them dropped it. I walked over and the kids ran away abandoning the turtle. I inspected it more closely it to find that one of its front legs was badly twisted. I took it home and wrapped its leg, and gave it food. I took the turtle outside when the weather was nice, and it tried to walk. Day by day it walked and walked, and before a year had passed by, it was walking fine. I felt good that I had helped the turtle and knew that it was time to let it go. I reluctantly relinquished it knowing that it was the right thing to do.
Two days later, the turtle came back. I was ecstatic; I was not expecting that at all. I gave it food and watched it for a while then I went inside to help my brother fix his bicycle. When I came back, the turtle was still there. I immediately dug for the box I had kept it in so I could shelter it overnight.
Looking back now at this experience, I begin to think that respect is something that the more you give it away, the more you have and the happier you are. I learned that I should respect everything because that way, I will lead the best life that I can. I remember in karate, they once told us that respect brings order to where there would be chaos. To always show respect for property, laws, ethics, morals, nature, other people, and ourselves, is to maintain a positive outcome in this world. We learned that as we respect all that is around us we have a better understanding of everything.
I know that they teach us about respect in school, and that we should respect each other and the property, but they don’t tell us what we get out of it. They don’t go into detail about how much we get out of just a little respect. They don’t tell is that it is the best feeling to have when everyone respects you. Not just that, but it’s an even better feeling when you know you have earned it.
I have experienced many situations teaching me respect and still have a lot more to learn. Respect is something that I firmly believe in. Respect is what makes people successful and it is what gets people to high places. I will always try to respect the turtles; and by that I mean everything in my life. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Men are respectable only as they respect” and this, I believe.

wrote by: A Student

The Executive/Rationalist Song lyrics

ONE LOVE BY-BOB MARLEY
One Love! One Heart!
Let's get together and feel all right.Hear the children cryin' (One Love!);
Hear the children cryin' (One Heart!),
Sayin': give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;Sayin': let's get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love!);There is one question I'd really love to ask (One Heart!):
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner,
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?

One Love! What about the one heart? One Heart!
What about - people? Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One Love!);
So shall it be in the end (One Heart!),
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.One more thing!

Let's get together to fight this Holy Armagiddyon (One Love!),
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One Song!).
Have pity on those whose chances grows t'inner;
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

Sayin': One Love! What about the One Heart? (One Heart!)
What about the - ? Let's get together and feel all right.
I'm pleadin' to mankind! (One Love!);
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.
CALIFORNIA GIRLS BY-BEACH BOYS
Well East coast girls are hipI really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kissThey keep their boyfriends warm at night

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a french bikini on Hawaii islandDolls by a palm tree in the sand

I been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)

Poetry

  Fifteen by William Stafford

South of the bridge on Seventeenth
I found back of the willows one summer
day a motorcycle with engine running
as it lay on its side, ticking over
slowly in the high grass. I was fifteen.

I admired all that pulsing gleam, the
shiny flanks, the demure headlights
fringed where it lay; I led it gently
to the road, and stood with that
companion, ready and friendly. I was fifteen.

We could find the end of a road, meet
the sky on out Seventeenth. I thought about
hills, and patting the handle got back a
confident opinion. On the bridge we indulged
a forward feeling, a tremble. I was fifteen.

Thinking, back farther in the grass I found
the owner, just coming to, where he had flipped
over the rail. He had blood on his hand, was pale-
I helped him walk to his machine. He ran his hand
over it, called me good man, roared away.

I stood there, fifteen.

Quotations

                                                Quotes That Relate To Me

1. Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – John Watson

2. Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world. – William James

3. The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing. – Billie Jean King