So many things come to mind when the word peace is mentioned. It has various meanings. For example saying to a friend or family member see you later and giving the peace sign when you walk away. After a long day of work or school all you want is peace after a nice meal you lay on the couch and watch TV. Nothing but dead silence. However, sometimes we need peace and people hope and pray for it if there are rough times going on with them. In bigger cities where there is a major case of violence and you don’t have control of it and the only thing you want from all this is peace. Peace was a very common thing in the 1970’s I believe because of the peace sign. Peace was surrounded with bright neon colors. You would see it in the movies when people would deck out wearing peace sign shirts. You see peace in quotes and sayings too like PLUR: Peace, love, unity, and respect. Having peace can help us focus and concentrate even relax on our tasks if there are a lot of distractions surrounding us. It’s something we as individuals need to get things off our mind that can sometimes become very stressful to think about. It’s both a need and a want. It can turn a negative into a positive. It opens up ideas and having peace can help us realize and learn from good and bad. We can manage the process with our daily tasks from having peace. It is that time of day we always need so we won’t overwork ourselves. It brings many positive ideas into action and makes us rethink what we can do better at whatever we are doing. It can brighten up your day, and it helps you too in any way possible when you are having a long day.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Building Peace
Building Peace
Greg Mortenson describes how people over in the Middle East want to become educated. People over there are figuring out ways to learn and develop their learning skills. One way is to build peace. Having people that are learning can help that a lot. There were not any schools over in that location so the Central Asia Institute was built. One of the mission goals was to help the women become educated by at least the 5th grade level for three reasons. One, having knowledge and understanding how to support themselves, two avoiding any hazard that will make them suffer I think, and three with the birth rate not letting the population increase. People living in these villages around the small community at first were all strangers, friends, and then become family. They didn’t have enough food for everybody so everyone had to settle for tea. These people were working all day for a whole week. I think it’s good by finding things and putting them together in order to develop learning skills. Having people that are getting educated and going to school can lower the violence rate at the same time. You can get a better job later on down the road. This describes one way to build peace. The more work you put in the more opportunities that are out there for you. This man sees that people are working and he wants to open the door for them.
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