Standard(s)|AP Human Geography Course Description: IV. Political Organization of Space, Armed conflict, war and terrorism.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says…
Objective(s) | Students will be able to:
Step 1| DO NOW: In the Comments Section, answer the following using Score 3/4 level writing: (Make sure you are logged in to Blogger. Please copy your entry before attempting to publish just in case it doesn't post).
The Human Capacity for Evil is a major theme in A Long Way Gone. Reflect on this theme, explaining your thoughts and GIVE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES from ISIS and A Long Way Gone.
Step 3 | GOAL SETTING Set your Goals for the Socratic Seminar today.
Step 4 | SEMINAR PREP
Step 5 | SOCRATIC SEMINAR
HOMEWORK: Study A Long Way Gone Vocabulary and complete Ch 1-4 Questions.
**If you haven't scheduled your African Geography or Benchmark 1 retake, please do so, there are only a few weeks left of class before graded post!
- Use academic language to participate/connect with others through Socratic seminar around the book, “A Long Way Gone,” by Ishmael Beah. (DOK4)
- Support or refute analysis/points up for discussion (DOK 4)
- Cite evidence from the text (DOK3)
Step 1| DO NOW: In the Comments Section, answer the following using Score 3/4 level writing: (Make sure you are logged in to Blogger. Please copy your entry before attempting to publish just in case it doesn't post).
The Human Capacity for Evil is a major theme in A Long Way Gone. Reflect on this theme, explaining your thoughts and GIVE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES from ISIS and A Long Way Gone.
- What does it mean for a person to be truly evil? Do you believe that pure evil exists, or does everyone have a little good in them?
- Is evil it internal or external?
- Is there pure evil/levels of evil exist in A Long Way Gone? EXPLAIN and GIVE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES.
- Are insurgencies evil? Compare IS and the RUF.
Step 3 | GOAL SETTING Set your Goals for the Socratic Seminar today.
Step 4 | SEMINAR PREP
- Fill out the Socratic Seminar Prep and Questions Worksheet on Paper, pulling evidence from the book.
- Draft at least 3 questions to ask in the Socratic Seminar for each level.
Step 5 | SOCRATIC SEMINAR
- Inner Circle: Use the checklist to make sure you are...
- Speak at least once
- Make eye contact with the speaker
- Use academic language (sentence starters and questions frames included in your packet)
- Respond to at least one other person
- Cite the book at least 2x when backing up your point
- Outer Circle:
- Listen to the discussion and keep track of your partner's participation using the Observation Form
- You may use Today's Meet to offer questions/interact with the inner circle.
HOMEWORK: Study A Long Way Gone Vocabulary and complete Ch 1-4 Questions.
**If you haven't scheduled your African Geography or Benchmark 1 retake, please do so, there are only a few weeks left of class before graded post!
- If a person is truly evil, they feel no remorse towards a person they kill.
ReplyDelete- Everyone has a little good in then, because I'm sure people have had a sense of doubt in the actions they commit.
- Evil is already embedded in everyone, it just takes action to be released out from within us.
- Even if not necessary in order for there to be good.
I feel that a person can not be truly evil but yet someone can be more as mentally ill or misinformed about his or her actions. For example, recently with shootings at colleges, the suspect was always mentally ill and supposedly had a purpose for their actions but in all is just dumb to the common person. I do not believe that evil comes from an all powerful god, but from within. What god would allow for someone to kill or do other actions under his or her name. I do not believe that there is a cure for evil but rather that is just how someone is.
ReplyDeleteTo be truly evil is to be look at life as a negative aspect no matter what its always negative to the person's eye
ReplyDeleteI Believe evil is a fools tail, a fairy tale, people are just bad and just because your the baddest of the bad doesn't mean your always and forever going to be bad. people alway no matter who you are have good in them, they may not show it the way you want it to be shown but the good will be shown.
I believe evil comes from fairytales of where the evil/bad guy always ruins the day only to be put back in his place by the good guy.
In my opinion its not evil its just the balance of good and bad, I follow the belief of the yin and yang where good and bad always circle around to keep the world balanced.
Again evil is a fairytale and if there were a cure, it would be to fix the person's past to make things right.
To me truly evil is like making choices with out a feeling or knowing that, that is wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think that pure evil does not exist because everyone has a little good in them even if they dont show it.
I believe that evil is created by not thinking at all and making wrong decisions on purpose.
I think that you dont need to be evil to show that your good because there are may other ways that you can show that you are good.
I think that the best cure for evil is to think really hard in making a decision of good or evil.
nothing if a person has noi remorse for their action whos will stop them. your actions are controlled by you and evil is just a word put over the bad actions done by a person with a meaning in life. It does not the question shouldn't even be asked in that point it should be is pure evil just a fantasy a tale someone made up? It comes from no where if you want to put a LABEL the evil is dumb actions committed by a person. No good should just be without a reason you doing it without a cause. No because it should not exist.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think truly evil means is when a person kill people for no reason or for fun.
ReplyDeleteI believe that everyone has good in them no matter how bad they are.
where i believe evil comes from is that evil may come out of no where it may come out of me or my friends nobody really knows.
Evil is not really necessary to be good, good comes on how your educated
Yes i belive theres is a cure by helping them or trying to see what good and whats bad.
1) For me a person to be truly evil is that they have to be a completely bad person and not care about anything they do.
ReplyDelete2) I think that everyone has a little good in them, and i dont think they choose to show it sometimes.
3)i think there is a little evil inside everyone.
4) evil is not necessary in order to be good.
5) i dont think there is evil.
I think for a person to be truly evil they do something for no reason or they do have a reason but its a selfish one.I think there is pure evil ,every one has good in them but the evil is just to strong for us or them to see.I think evil comes from power.Like some people would do any thing for power.I think there might be a cure like religiously speaking they can get for giveness.
ReplyDeleteI think that a person to be truly evil is to have no feelings for other people that they cause harm. I don't think that there is pure evil because Ismael eventually goes to the RUF and kills people, but he is doing that because he is scared. I believe that evil is everywhere. Wars, diseases, losses I think are the example of evil. I really don't know if evil is necessary for there to be good, but it would make changes. I think that there is cure for evil, you just have to make a change and work it out for the outcome is that the change is good in the end.
ReplyDeleteA person who is truly evil seeks satisfaction from pain in someone else's eyes. I do believe that pure evil exists. I believe evil can stem from both situations and emotions, if a person feels that they have been wronged to the point that all they want is to see other people be hurt, they will become evil. In that same sense some people are just born evil and want to hurt others without being hurt.I don't feel that evil is necessary but it can't be helped. Good would exist with or without evil. However, if we only had good we would live in a utopian world, but we don't. There is no cure for evil, because there will always be a thurst and hunger for the satisfaction they feel from others pain. It's their crutch.
ReplyDeleteWhen someone is evil it means that then have no feeling towards what there doing and don't care if what there doing is hurting other people.
ReplyDeleteThere is always evil in if something you do is wrong to someone else and it wouldn't matter to the person that it effects.
It comes from the hate that people get and store inside of themselves and trying to do someone that someone else thinks is wrong but it right to them.
Sometimes yes because if someone tries to take oever something for the good someone might think it is bad.
i have to say but is someone was to do that they would start another chain that would affect someone else.
It means that someone is hateful and has malicious intent.
ReplyDeleteI believe pure evil exists, for example hitlers deep hate for jewish people lead him to produce one of the worst genocides in history
I believe evil is learned and adapted from someone or something. I do not know why evil is here.
No it is not necessary.
no there is not.
A truly evil person is one who's actions are non appropriate and hurt other people. I do believe that pure evil exists because there are some people who act violently based on their beliefs, Hitler is an example. I think evil comes from the person itself, their reason is too strong and makes them be evil. Evil is necessary in order for there to be good because we wouldn't know what good is if there wasn't no evil. I believe there is no cure of evil because as long as people truly believe in what there doing is right, then they will still act upon it.
ReplyDeleteI believe that for someone to be truly evil the person is creating harm out of pure enjoyment, enjoying people being in pain, or sorrow. Also damaging and taking away peoples lives so that in the end it will on benefit themselves. I think pure evil does not exist. I believe that every on has a reason or has something that is behind there reason of being evil that in a way motivates them to cause evil. For example, killing people for money because you need the money to maintain yourself or someone else like family. If there was not evil people wouldn't know what good is. I believe there is a cure of evil, you have to put the person that is causing the evil in the situation they are putting others and make them feel what others feel to spark guilt and regret in them.
ReplyDeleteWhat it means to be truly evil is when someone is doing the opposite of good which means it affects someone's perspective to create suffering. I don't believe that 'pure evil exist' because everyone has their own perspective to see or to be believing what it is evil and what is not. Also the way 'evil' might be good for other, because others might be thinking that the wrong dedication that someone has made made them evil, but in reality might be a good thing for the person. Evil doesn't always have to be someone breaking or creating a bad thing because it can only mean they are helping themselves by something that people won't understand. But what I do believe is that every human being, they have good in themselves because no one is created bad. If evil is there, then there has to be a contrast of evil which is 'good'. There is no cure for evil because evil is what people decide to live life with and they make their own choices to do good or bad things in their life.
ReplyDelete1.For me a person who is truly evil does not have a heart, does not see the consequences and doesn't care for what he/she is doing.
ReplyDelete2.I don't believe in pure evil I believe everyone has something good but might not what to show it for personal reasons or something.
3. I believe evil comes from yourself what you've been through could lead you to an evil person but not pure evil.
4.In my opinion evil is necessary in order to be good but it depends in what way.
5. Theres not a cure for evil put you can stop it yourself if you really dont want to be evil you'll do something about it.
1) to kill with out fellind bad for it.
ReplyDelete2) i believe that pure evil does exist because if people felt bad for what they did they wouldn't have done what they did.
3) i dont know where evil comes from.
4)i think so because people wont risk their lives if evi
1) For a person to be truly evil is to have no demonstration of feeling towards anybody or anybody all they think of is violence and death.
ReplyDelete2) Yes I believe that pure evil exist for example the devil. Human Beings can be extremely evil but they can also have something good in them by showing tears , and mercy to a loved one or emotion.
3) Evil comes from hell from and we are sinners. YES, I believe in a all powerful God and there is still evil in this world .
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to be truly evil is when someone uses things that would make someone evil, and takes that as a drive to cause something negative.
ReplyDeleteI believe that their is no such thing a pue evil and that everyone has something that makes them good because everyone has something that pushes them to live and the fact that the use that push to keep living and going on with life is good and everyone that has that, has a good in them because will ti live if good.
I believe evil comes from the fact that there is good because for there to be good there has to be something not good which is labled as bad or evil.
evil is nessecary for there to be good because if there isn't evil the definition of good wouldn't exist.
1. In my opinion, I believe that there are far too many factors that play into describing someone as being truly evil. The meaning of someone being categorized as so could be someone who puts their beliefs, wants and ideas before the others in where these selfish acts can do to harming people either psychologically, physically or both to then only get a sense of rightness from it.
ReplyDelete2. Everyone has a little good in them. Human beings aren't born with a sense of being evil which would then discard the thought of pure evil existing. Everyone has some kind of good within them, it is only a matter of whether these people choose to hold on to it or get rid of it to then become what people could describe as evil. Everyone has a different definition of what good is to them (some of these definitions may even be twisted ones such as beliefs of ISIS) and its only a matter of the way we see such thing in a person.
3. If we mix religion into this, we have to understand that as human beings, God or whatever being it is one chose to believe in, has given us free will. By free will, this being will not intercede in or action no mater what their consequences may be. We all have a choice with our ideas and actions and religion usually sets guidelines by which we should follow and as well, these guidelines are set as a choice in which everyone has the free will to do what they most feel like. Evil may come from ones situations which they have lived or by the amount of wanting they have towards their own elfish needs.
4/5. I believe that evil has always existed and a balance between what is good and bad will always exist in order for either to be in this world. As to the question of there being a cure for evil, I believe that there could be and there could be different factors that can play into it such as showing kindness, love, introduction to religion and many more aspect that could become the cure yet the thought of there being a cure does not mean that this cure will be accepted.
1.For a person to be truly evil they would exceed the capacity of having to hurt an individual or a group of people.
ReplyDelete2. I believe that people are all good, nobody is born evil.
3.I believe evil comes from society. Many people have different perspective on why they are evil, is it cause human behavior or how society develops a persons personality.
4.Evil is not necessary in my opinion everyone should be good inside and out, nobody should have a shoulder to watch over.
5.There is always a cure for evil people should let go of things and not try to fix them in any harmful way, they should forgive other people, society is changing the way people think and act
In my opinion people don't want to be evil but sometimes their actions are not seen wrong in there eyes. I think evil is a form of humanity. The same way we feel sad or happy is the same way evil can exist. You can stop being evil. Some people find religion to keep themselves from doing bad things. For example if you are a christian or catholic you follow the 10 commandments . That helps people from doing evil things ,like killing one another. I don't think there is a cure for evil but I think there are many ways you can prevent yourself from doing evil.
ReplyDeleteWhen a person is being evil, they don't have a heart to another person or everyone else. What I think is that pure evil does exists because they rather see other people beg for life, second chance or they ask something so they won't get hurt. In most people they do have a little good on them because once they open their eyes, everything to them realized that they did is wrong and they are going to change that from what they did. I think that evil comes from one person mind that they think its a good idea but to the others its not, its more like hate, cold-hearted and evil. Everything will change from that point and on.
ReplyDeleteTo be truly evil in my opinion means to do bad things and not feel bad for what you did. I do not think that anyone is purely evil. Everyone has a good side to them even if they are really evil. For example, somebody can do something that we might think is evil, and then later reflect on it and feel bad for what they did or regret it. I believe everyone has that good in them it just takes the right person to see it, because everybody has a different definition of evil. Evil is necessary in my opinion because that way we could decide if we want to be evil or good. I do not think there is a cure for evil, everybody has their emotions and feelings and nobody can change how anybody feels or thinks.
ReplyDeleteFor people to be evil they must really hate their lives or other people. I think that people are evil but some just don't show it. To be evil they must have no remorse when killing someone. They must really hate life or the person that they are going to kill. They could have two different personalities like in school or around people they could act normal or nice, but when that person is going to commit a crime they are cruel and have mo sympathy.
ReplyDeleteFor one to be truly evil they must commit atrocities that no other has committed. One who has tortured the lives of many without no form of remorse. One who feels no compassion with anyone except for himself. Power, greed and deception cloud their very person.
ReplyDeleteI foresee a balance of evil and good in everyone. Yin and Yang, light and darkness. For some individuals, it may just be an unbalance of one and the other, but the other still lingers within. Nothing isn't composed of entirely evil or entirely good. That's the case for everyone.
Evil is an entity that cannot be seen physical, but rather through emotion. It is unknown to me where this evil originates. but it roots and sprouts from somewhere, maybe the heart. Even with a God in our beliefs and souls. He made us all unique, but equal. I can't discuss this issue of God, since I don't consort myself with God and religion.
Evil is always necessary. Without evil, there can't a balance, and also there won't be evil individuals to present challenges to the good, or the good will always prevail in numbers that will outmatch the evil. For cures, there isn't a vaccine or antidote to cure evil. What does cure evil, is the human psyche changing our hearts for the better.
Sometime I think that people can be truly evil. But then again, my perspective is coming from somewhere that doesn’t have the whole story. Sometime people act out in order to get something from someone else. Maybe attention or gratification or something that they were missing in their lives and hope to find in someone else. I evil come from your actions and are determined by the people around you. Because sometimes in someone’s mind they feel as if they’re doing someone a favor which could be misconstrued in someone else’s. I think people should just try to help others and look at things from all perspectives. In order for there to be good, there has to be evil to balance it out otherwise the world is just bland.
ReplyDeleteI think that true evil stems from being hurt or trauma in the early childhood of a person. True evil is allowing yourself to hurt other people with no remorse. Rapist, serial killers. mass murderers, all of these are examples of either. In my opinion, everyone has a choice to be evil or to decided to be good in life. Everyone has a choice in the way that they live. Some people decide that they do not want to lead a clean and well lived life. As a result, they do harmful things to other people. Sometimes, when these things happen, they are reflecting their inner thoughts and feelings onto the world.
ReplyDeleteWell, to be truly evil is when a person shows no emotion or feeling towards anything at all. In my opinion evil is something necessary in life because in that way, a person can and then decide if whatever they want to do should be evil or good. I believe that pure evil exist, an example of that is satan. Other than that I also believe that people can be bad or evil but when they find it in their heart that they want to be good, then mights as well be good. Thats where the concept of being evil with little good falls in. I think evil comes from the worlds influence on the people.
ReplyDelete1. A person is truly evil when he/she goes against the morals and customs of the majority that follow them. It doesn't matter if they have killed or injured others ,but merely if they go against the way of that regular life others follow.
ReplyDelete2.Pure evil does exist, there no good or even a little good in a person in evil people. The reason I say this is due to many people who are 'evil' go against the morals and ways of regular life, they are thought to be evil because they did their evil act for a purpose that went against others values and way of life.
3.Evil is with us all, from the moment we are born to the day we die, it is always with us. Evil is with in our mind and in our supposed soul ,but
1. I would say that for a person to be truly evil they would have had something really terrifying to trigger out that bad of a person.They would have gone through something that most people do not understand so we would not know how to help them so we cant really help them now.
ReplyDelete2. I do not believe that pure evil exist. Everyone always has one good thing about them. They always have a reason for what they are doing. Like for example if someone is of certain religion and that person kills someone in you family and you see how it happen, you swore that you were going to do everything you could to make that person from that religion suffer.
3. I believe that everyone has evil in them its just takes something terribly horrific to trigger that thing that makes people be afraid of you. I guess that evil has to exist for there to be good. It has to outweigh itself out.
4. I feel that is the only reason evil exist. They set an example for us good people not to follow the horrible things they do.
5. If the person believes they can change then maybe there is a cure.
For a person to be truly evil, I believe it means that they have absolutely no love in their heart. Whether it'd be love for anyone else of love for themselves, an evil person has none.
ReplyDeleteI believe that everyone does have a little good in them and this is not the optimism speaking. This is because EVERYONE has something they care about, even if it's just their pet hamster or a fictional object or something, but they have a need to protect it. Even wanting to protect themselves counts as having a little good, because caring about yourself is equally important. (Being good is not always about caring for others only you knowww)
I have no idea where evil comes from, yo. I think that God WOULD let an evil exist in the world because without it, there would be no point of even existing. Evil makes way for self growth and purpose in our world.
Yes, evil is necessary for there to be good. Without evil, there would just be good. Eventually though, it wouldn't even be called good because it would lose its meaning if everything was the same way. Good wouldn't exist without evil because good would become the standard way of living.
I think self-growth and learning who you are and what truly makes you happy can be a cure for evil, but obviously not everyone undergoes that. Which is alright, I guess. You don't have to be good if you don't want to. I just think everyone should be happy and if being evil makes you "happy" then you do you, gurl. I ain't gon judge you. I personally prefer the way of being good, though.
1. If a person is truly evil, they are cruel to other objects, or people. They make actions that harm other and can sometimes also harm themselves without feeling remorse. If a person is truly evil, it can either be an illness they were born with and can't control. or an event in their life that triggered the cruel actions they are making now.
ReplyDelete2. I believe pure evil does exist, because an example of pure evil would be if someone were to be born a sociopath they would be naturally evil, because they can't control what they do, they can't tell the difference between good and bad and they don't feel sorrow for the actions they commited because they either felt it was necessary or their illnes has control over them.
3. Evil would be more like a trait. It would come from the same place other traits come from. Such as good, smart, nice, mean, friendly etc. Its what makes the person who they are and it's not like they choose the character they want to be.
4.If a person is pure evil, then no. However their are methods doctors can use on the patient whom is a sociopath, to calm them down, or teach them how to keep control of their lives. If the evilness was provoked because of an event then yes, by perhaps talking to them, showing them of what they did was wrong , going to a physciatrist, taking medication etc.
Evil can take many forms and take place for many reasons. Usually, pure evil is an evil with no motives or any goals. It is an evil that will do something bad for other reason than to hurt the person or people it chooses. I do not think that we are not born with any good or evil in us. We learn those things when we start to learn or comprehend the things others do and teach. Evil is such a broad concept it cannot be described in such a short amount of time.
ReplyDelete1) I think someone who is truly evil is a person that enjoys to see pain on the faces of other people or like to torture others but then again their are people that are nice, that laugh about videos that show a person hurting their self. In a different perspective I also believe that it no one is truly evil they just have grown in different circumstances and now they do what they believe is right. it could also mean they got hurt in some way and they are plotting revenge.
ReplyDelete2) I think that there is no such thing as pure evil or at least I don't want to believe it because I wouldn't like to know that there is something so wicked like that in the world. I would like to think that people do things for a purpose most likely because they got hurt somehow.
3) I do believe in god and I know that god does everything for a reason. I don't know this reason but im sure its a good thing.
4) A way that i could describe this is the dark and the light. if darkness wasn't there, there would be no such thing as light or... their wouldn't be a meaning for it, it just wouldn't exist.
5) I believe their is a cure i just don't know what it is.
I think that a person has to be a murder or even worst to be a truly evil person.I believe that everyone has a little bit of good inside them because I think that they wouldn't like to hurt their parents or siblings.I really don't know where evil comes from, I just think that people become evil overtime.I think that evil is necessary in order for their to be good because if there was no evil things then the people who fight wouldn't have anything to stop.I also think that there is no cure for evil and that it will always be around no matter what.
ReplyDeleteI think for a person to be truly evil means to have no heart not care about anything. I think everyone has a good side to them i don't believe in pure evil because yes theres people out there and killing people like for example ISIS those people are killing innocent people but i know that deep inside theres something good in them. I think evil comes from hate, I think evil is in the world but with that evil in the person there is also good. Sometimes evil is necessary for there to be good.
ReplyDeleteFor a person to be truly evil is when that person does not care for those who are around them, in my opinion true evil does not exist, every person has feelings and emotions, thats is what makes us human. Although a person can be evil, there is always a opportunity to change no matter how bad of a person is. evil comes from what surrounds the person, if the person was alone and neglected then it will be most likely that the person will be cruel to those around them. if god truly exist then good things will happen to good people, the time will come when carma will get that person and they will get what they deserve sooner or later. I don't believe that in order for there to be good there has to be evil, each one can exist on their own, however is their opinions on how they get into conflict. when it comes to evil, there is a cure, in my opinion it is comrades and loved ones, if you have a person you cant truly count on then it will be alright.
ReplyDelete1. For a person to be truly evil.. Well, they must be tainted to some level. I believe that this evil comes from society expecting so much from a human being. Nowadays, society just drains the modest humans, and makes us believe that the only way we can succeed is by bringing others down. "First come. First served." Doesn't that make you paranoid? Doesn't that make you want to trip someone to be first? Sociopaths are made this way. I myself could turn into a sociopath, who know? empathy for others is just dying on the inside at times.
ReplyDelete2. Most of the antagonists in the shows I watch are just manipulative sociopaths.. Not much backstory is shown, but I do believe that their evil has a meaning. They must have started with the lowest levels of evil that exist, like hatred or pity. Eventually paranoia and madness start to form, and it all gets mixed with ideals that could be harmful for others, but not for them. Once they get delusional they believe what they're doing isn't evil. Pure evil builds up from low levels.
3. All loving God? pff, Well the religion that I follow does not accept evil. However, I believe that balance has to be done. No evil, no good. Neutral humans are necessary on earth.. Earth needs just balance! Madness and evil could be hidden, but not cured... Control the hate human.
To me a person that is truly evil is when they don't think about others. I do believe that pure evil exist because maybe that person has been attached of seeing horrible things that this became their habit. I believe evil comes from the underworld and somehow there is a portal for those entities to come to our world and manipulate our energy to be put in bad use. I think evil is necessary for there to be good. This is basically saying that if you believe in god you also believe in the devil. There are cures for evil that can be diminished like showing the positive vibes like love, passion, caring and much more. To me this is time consuming because they have to change their behavior so they can be on the good vibes.
ReplyDelete1. In my opinion, I believe when someone is being truly evil they have a mind set to do harm things and maybe even putting individuals/groups in harms way. They have a careless intentions demonstrating not having any sympathy for their actions.
ReplyDelete2. Pure evilness does exist because there are people who does evil things such as, a serious of murders/rapes.
3. I believe pure evilness comes from your inner pain, when it builds up people let it out in harmful ways that can harm others.
4. I believe it is a cure if someone goes to get the help they need.
Being truly evil is having no mercy or any type of regret with the person or people they hurt.
ReplyDeletePure evil may exist but some actions are committed for attention or simply to obey. Ex. religious beliefs, government control.
Good is always in you whether you acknowledge it or not.
Evil comes from many different sources. You may have been taught or manipulated to be evil by young age so it would be a normal lifestyle, or you slowly develop becoming ruthless. Or it just happens.
It's necessary to have evil in society to pin point the right and wrong.
A cure is a variable for each and everyone.
It is possible for someone to be pure evil, but personally, I find it difficult to believe someone can be cold and heartless on a very high level. They must have a little good in them. Coming from a religious background, I have molded myself to believe that somewhere down in everyones soul there is good. It can be as simple as a good thought or good intention although it doesn't show. The devil was once an angel and angels are pure good. So the devil may be evil, but it isn't pure evil since it was once pure good. Good and evil contrast each other. They bring out each others qualities and you can't have one without the other, they coexist. I believe in the almighty God. It's not clear to me why terrible things happen in the world but I somehow have concluded that bad situations are suppose to emphasize the good that exist. Humanity, and people individually, must choose to live for the little good there is in the world, or to hide away because the terrible things exist. I don't think there is a cure for evil, but it sure can be, in a way, preventable. This does not mean that evil will not exist, it means there might be less of it. But not less enough for us to drastically change humanity
ReplyDeleteI believe there is no one who can be truly evil. That would mean they don't care about anyone or anything. If that was the case they'd be completely alone with no purpose. most people who are considered evil in history are cruel indeed, but have a purpose to achieve for the better of themselves which would bring them happiness. Evil is both internal and external. There is evil in "A Long Way Gone," but yet they are achieving their goals for the better at least in their mind.
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DeleteThe purist evil is the man that has nothing to loose. there is some evil people but but they all have a weakness the only problem if finding that weakness to stop them. ISIS and RUF are evil but they cant be stop because they are too strong but eventually they will fall
ReplyDeleteI believe that pure evil is when someone does something without feeling regret to someone they hurt. To do evil I believe it comes from the inside yet damages the outside and inside of a person. I for one don't know if there is pure evil for it hasn't affected me or have any experience. Insurgencies are/can be a bad thing just depending on how it's taken.
ReplyDeleteThan again this topic can have multiple answers but at least I can give a somewhat insight of my opinion.
Truly evil means do be mean to people not care about different stuff that are happening. I do not beleive in pure evil because someone can be forced to be evil by threatening there family so they can kill innocent people. i think that the evil is external because because the evil is outside people because a person can be good in the inside and bad in the outside. i think in the book theres pure evil since the rebels are killing innocet people.
ReplyDelete1. For a person to be considered truly evil they would need to have no remorse or not have any good in them. In my opinion, pure evil doesn't exist because there has to be a little good in everyone because they had to have had a little good that might have led to that evil.
ReplyDelete2.Evil is expressed externally but we don't know for sure if that evil person is evil internally.
3. There is examples of pure evil in a Long Way Gone, as it can be seen by the action of the rebels who have attacked civilians in Mogbwemo.
4. Insurgencies are evil depending on the motivations behind it. If it is just for the good of the rebel, then yes it is evil. However, if it is for reasons of government issues then it is not evil because the government must be doing something wrong that can cause insurgencies.
3. In addition, there is evil expressed in corruption as it has lead to a war in which families were separated.
DeleteEvil what is evil? evil is how you act you can be mean,bad,there's a lot types of mean or bad like calling on people is not evil,evil is when your physically evil ,and so many more,but you decide to be evil because you chose your actions how you behave so you decided that yourself,in my point of view evil does not exist to me no more maybe years ago yes but now no, for example i'm learning how the "rebels'' ARE EVIL they are just killing innocent people that to me is evil.I know people kill for a reason it can be for protection but that doesn't make them evil, the rebels are because they have no reason why? because there evil they had no reason.
ReplyDeleteBeing evil is having to much hate against someone or a group.
ReplyDeletePure evil is just to get attention or just to get back at someone that has hurt you. They also do this because they don't got nobody in life or they just heart broken. Many young kids are evil or have hate against people because they don't know what to do in life. They just have a 2lot that there going through there lost they have no idea what there doing. Well thats what i think thats how i feel about evil.
All sort of people have inner feelings. There is no natural definition for evil, but if there was such a definition, evil would be a person full of hate and cold hearted. People who are "evil" commit crimes like murder and any other crimes against humanity. But in my opinion, Every person has a conscious and have the choices to cause good or bad. They must have a grudge from a personal experiences and now enforce their depression or anger at others.This is going to be internal because the "Evil" person holds a grudge. The the book there is example of people being cruel and ruthless by murdering them and capturing them. Which is separating families, forcing the people out, and killing the innocent. They do have their own goals, but i believe they can find a new tactic to overthrow the government. ISIS was considered good to their people but to others viewed as evil. why? because they are trying to protect their people, even if it means by hurting them and hurting others. They believe that they are right, which most people are. They have their own beliefs , the U.S is also guilty of crimes against others but to us, it's a good thing but of course to the opposite side its bad.
ReplyDeleteFor a person to be considered truly evil they have to be heartless, not care about anything or anyones feelings. I don’t think the have to be killers, they can be someone who is mean to people. I believe everyone has a little bit of good but hate and anger has taken over. It’s easier to be angry and hate someone than love a person. I don’t think people are born evil, I think they are taught to be evil or hate a group of people by someone who is influential to them in their life. There might be evil in the story, they were basically killing many innocent people.
ReplyDeleteno i don't think their is truly evil, everyone has different levels of being bad or evil but i don't think there is such thing. if there was truly evil i think i'd be internal like an emotion.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has good in them no matter how much evil they do or evil they are. No one is born evil. Evil starts off being internal. When you keep stuff in and don't know how to control it, it is external. No matter what you do, evil will always end up external. If you're evil, you would not care of others nor think of others and do hard to them. There are levels in evil and in the book A Long Way Gone, they have perform evil tasks; such as killing innocent people (especially children). Yet they were really evil cutting off legs and arms of innocent people. That was out of line. In my opinion, ISIS and RUF are the same. They are really related to one another. They both kill and take over land. They're both the same level of evil. They take away homes, freedom, education, and lives. They both separated families and train children to kill. There's really no difference other than their names and where they're from and their background history.
ReplyDeleteMe personally, i believe that behind every evil person there is still a little good in them. Even though some may not show it, i think its there. Evil is morally wrong and painful to another human or creature. Truly evil is the evil within a person and the evil thoughts which leads to evil action. I think evil is both internal and external.
ReplyDeleteTo be pure evil a person would have to be completely careless and have zero goals.I believe there is no one who can be truly evil. That would mean they don't care about anyone or anything. If that was the case they'd be completely alone with no purpose. most people who are considered evil in history are cruel indeed, but have a purpose to achieve for the better of themselves which would bring them happiness. Evil is internal ; you can say that because what if you see someone murder your family ,then u would be filled with anger on the inside. Anger witch can almost always lead to the creation of someone evil. There is evil in "A Long Way Gone," but yet they are achieving their goals for the better at least in their mind.
ReplyDeleteTo be evil to me it is that u have no hart you feel nothing that you could look some one in the face and do what other people or what you know is wrong.I think that evil is external because babies are know with what they see around them so if a baby is in a house with anger and hate then it would grow up to hate whatever it does not like because it see thing different.Yes there are some pure evil in A Long Way Gone because people were shooting at other people who were just trying to get out of the way but they still shoot thimand killed them.
ReplyDeleteI think evil does exist because people would have to have no conscious in order to kill someone because they want to. Some might have good in them but not enough if they are capable of killing.
ReplyDeleteThe evil is most likely internal because it is within them and their thoughts and feelings.
I think to be truly evil you have to be extra mean.I don't believe in pure evil and I think everyone has a little good in them.There is pure evil in the Long way gone because they cut people hands to convince people in Sierre Leone not to vote and also they make chid soldiers kill people.ISIS and RUF have lots in common. One of them is that both think they are doing something good.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe their is a definition of Evil. I believe that evil is shown in many different types of ways. Of course it's still a bad thing, but everyone is different. To be truly evil you'll have to take it to max and just not care about anything. There is many different actions that show if a person is truly "evil". You don't necessarily have to commit crimes or anything like that. Think that being evil is just the way you act around others. I believe evil is external. The way you act is mainly by the actions of others.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I don't believe that pure evil exists because i believe that everyone has at least a little good in them. I believe that evil is mostly internal because it is anger that a person has been holding in for so long that they decide to take it out on others. No one was born completely evil. Every person was born with love and care but something happened in a persons life that made them be the way that they are now.
ReplyDeleteIn a Long Way Home, I believe there is evil, in the way that the soldiers get little kids to fight at a very young age.
If a person is truly evil, they feel no remorse towards a person they kill everyone .Everyone has a little good in then,evil is already embedded in everyone.
ReplyDeleteEven if not necessary in order for there to be good there has to be evil
For a person to be truly evil that means that he/she is merciless. They don't care if people die and they only want to accomplish their own goal. I don't believe that their is pure evil but I do think that everybody has good in them for example ISIS did't begin to kill people for fun. They wanted to help the people from their community , but then the power went to their heads. Evil is both internal and external because evil may start with one person who disagrees some one and then they might get other people to join them. People might join just to have power over something but never thought of being evil by their own, someone else gave them the idea to be evil. ISIS began small and started growing because the Sunnis were joining to get "revenge" on the Shia for killing many innocent people. In the autobiography of A Long Way Gone their is evil because their was a part in the story that a man was in a car with his family but the revels just shoot everybody in a pass by and killed them all except for the driver. Evil has overcome the revels because they had no mercy and just killed a family.
ReplyDeleteIn my point of view a person is not "truly evil," everyone does things that are evil but that does not make them evil. Some people might do certain evil things and may not even realize they are evil because they think they are doing it for a good cause. Sometimes people do certain things for their own benefit, sometimes because they get something good out of it and don't realize that along the way they are hurting others. For example, ISIS is seen as evil but in reality they are just trying to live in peace and want the best for themselves however, others might not view it that way because as ISIS is trying to get what they want they are hurting others and that is why they are considered evil because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want just like everyone else. I don't think one can be pure evil because everyone has their good side. Before one was "evil" they were a total different person, but maybe their life experiences made them change along the way. Evil is more of an interior than exterior thing. In a long way gone the people were somewhat evil but besides all evil they had their reasons to do these things, maybe they got something good out of it that others do not understand.
ReplyDeletemalevolent. Pure evil doesn't it's just that people have different thought about what other people do and/or act and if there were a such thing as "Pure evil", We wouldn't be able to get involved by it (because the only pure evil I only knew of would be from the Reaper or Death itself. Although no one in this world is Purely evil, "Evil" is actually Both, depending on how someone "uses" that profession. In the book"A Long Way Gone" there's someone/thing that is evil, and that is the Rebel group or the RUF.Yes, insurgencies are evil because it means "a armed rebellion" which makes IS and RUF alike.
ReplyDeleteEvil is inside of everyone it is something that is asleep inside of you waiting for something to happen to you that lets your guard down then it takes over and you become a different person fuled by rage.
ReplyDeleteBetween the RUF and ISIS I see them as the same thing due to the fact that one they're both rebelling to get what they desire in they're eyes everything they're doing is good for their cause while in other peoples prespective they are practicaly evil it self.
I say everybody has good in them because when growing up they all did good one time in they lifetime.
ReplyDeleteI say its external because it seem that they were force them to be evil.
They are levels of evil and it depends on the person or how angry are they.
I say ISIS more like a threat and powerful then RUF because RUF just had war with their people and force them in RUF.
I think that there isn't any definite definition of evil. Evil can be determine in many ways, your actions and words. I feel that evil is both internal and external. It can be internal because you can have hatred towards someone, but you like to keep that to yourself. Then, you begin to think of a way of harming someone. That's when the external portion comes in. For example in A Long Way Gone the RUF, Revolutionary United Front (rebels), in Sierra Leone. The RUF went into Mogbwemo and started to kill people.
ReplyDeleteIn this world i don't think nobody evil because its like kill or be killed ;(
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