Character Traits – Discussion 1
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Although all of the Character Trait terms are detailed in this blog, please limit your FIRST comment to your own term. Responses can be prompted by and directed toward any classmate and/or any term.
Broward County Core Character Traits – not exactly an exhaustive list by any stretch of the imagination: Responsibility, Citizenship, Kindness, Respect, Honesty, Self-Control, Tolerance, Cooperation.
Responsibility (N) – (born 1787) Reliability or dependability;The state or fact of being responsible.
Responsible (A) – (born 1642) Answerable, accountable (to another for something); liable to be called to account.
Citizenship (N) – (born 1611) The state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen; the character of an individual viewed as a member of society; behavior in terms of the duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen: an award for good citizenship.
Citizen (N) – (born 1314) An inhabitant of a city or (often) of a town; esp. one possessing civic rights and privileges, a burgess or freeman of a city.
Kindness (N) – (born c. 1483 – and other forms of the word by other definitions can be found as far back as 1290) The quality or state of being kind;
Kind (N) – (born 1399) of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person.
Kind (V) – (born c. 1000) Belonging to one by right of birth, descent, or inheritance; lawful, rightful; Kindly.
Kind (V) – (born c. 1100) To treat kindly.
Respect (N) – (born c. 1330) esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability.
Respect (V) – (born 1542) To regard, consider, take into account; to heed, pay attention to; to observe carefully;
Honesty (N) – (born 1340) the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness; truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness; freedom from deceit or fraud.
Self-Control (N) – (born 1711) control or restraint of oneself or one’s actions, feelings, etc; Control of one’s emotions, desires, or actions by one’s own will; Control of oneself, one’s desires, etc.
Tolerance (N) – (born 1412) a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one’s own; freedom from bigotry; interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one’s own; a liberal, undogmatic viewpoint.
Tolerance (V) – (born 1950, died 1973) To specify a tolerance for (a machine part, etc.). tolerancing, toleranced – obsolete/not in use
Cooperation (N) – (born 1398) an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action; more or less active assistance from a person, organization, etc.
Cooperate (V) – (born 1616) To work together, act in conjunction (with another person or thing, to an end or purpose, or in a work): a. of persons.
Cooperate (A) – (born 1868) Caused to co-operate; brought into co-operation.
Can you think of other traits a person can have (or lack)?
Post a comment on a trait not listed: define it; create a word web for it; provide an etymology (what’s an etymology?); use it in its various forms; tell us what people have to say about it.
Now, take out your sheet of paper from class. You should have a word web on it. You should have a quote, and for that quote you should have written down your idea of what is meant by it. You should have an idea of how that quote could apply to you.
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Post your Quote with an explanation for why you picked it. Why do you like it?
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Post what you think it means.
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Post how you think it applies to you.
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Then explain the role your term plays in society. You might like to take these questions one at a time – place your word in the blank. Some of the questions may not work for your term- you may need to use another form of the word in the blank, and/or you may need to change a preposition or two in the quesiton:
How does __(your term here)__ effect the creation of laws? Do those laws apply to you?
In what way does _________________ effect individual’s rights? What if there were no (one) _________________ of/for you or yours? (remember what that expression means?)
How does _________________ affect freedom for all, safety for all? What if _________________ were taken away for/from you?
What role does _________________ play as far as making certain students have opportunities to grow?
my word was kindness, my quote on the word was, if you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up by booker .j. washington.I beleave showing kindness is ones choice.it is even easier to show kindness than to show selfishness, so why not show kindness and recive the reward. many people use kindness on and of ,show it different to different people.like on the news the other day when a women pretended to be pregnent. the women arround her were not willing to help and the young boy was not willing to give up his seat .but when it came to the men she had 10 differnt men willing to help.though when she was not pregnent noone cared. Now a days you have to be some way disable to recive an act of kindness,and there are still the people who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.
My words is responsible.Most of the times for teens, they donot act responsible and make wrong decisions.My quote is “Acting Responsible”…because people jsut need to do it.
Citizenship. Citizenship in this case is your behavior in terms of duties, rights, and privilages. The quote I picked was “Always do more than is required of you.” I picked this quote because it was worded in a fancy way. Regular people would say always do more than you are required to do. I think this quote means if you are expected to do something, you should do more than is wanted, expected, and required for you to do, no matter how hard, long, or complicated it is. Of course, many people don’t unless it is simple, easy, or there is something in it for them.
An example of how this applies to everybody is the FACT. You are only required to get a 3, but of course you want to get a higher score. Now, how is this an example of citizenship??? The only thing I can say is, it’s an example of the quote, and the quote is an example of citizenship.
Citizens effects the creation of laws because they are the one who need to obey them.
Citizenship effects individual’s rights because you have to be a citizen in order to have certain rights. For example in this country, vote to have the leader you want.
The role citizenship plays in terms of letting students grow is having the right to grow.
I found it very hard to answer number 4. Did anyone else?
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Tolerance, the word i’m representing the meaning to me that most took affect is having respect for someone who has different culture or origin than you take them for who they are. My quote was ” Dont judge a book by its cover” im pretty sure we’ve all heard this quote but not in a way of describing Tolerance,but why i picked it is because i tell my self this all the time it just takes patience. What it means to me is just because someone is different on the outside dosen’t mean there not interesting inside so you must have patience by the way patience is the synonym for tolerance. This applies to me cause i know if it were to happen to me i would feel so bad which leads me to another quote treat ohers the way you wanna be treated. Because you will have to use this lesson in life one day.
Dishonest adj -not honest, disposed to lie,cheat or steal not worthy of trust or belief. (Etymology)-Honest. You can be dis honest by not telling the truth,stealing or even cheating and being dishonest. The reason I picked this is because nobody really has it and every one in there lifetime has been dishonest. It does affect the law because you can be dishonest about something when asked a question. No one would want to trust you anymore. It cant be taken from you because it is something you do not recieve. Dishonest dosen’t really play apartin your life.
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1.”Who is respected ? He who respetcs others.”I chose this qoute because it was one of the shortest one and itwas easy to explain.
2. It means that the only way to get respect is to respect others.
3.It applies to me because I can have an attitude and it tells me if I dont respect people then they wont respect me.
4. Respect plays arole in society because if no one had any respect for the lawsthere would be way more crime inthe world. If people had no respect for others needs or feelings then we probably wouldn’t have the freedomwe have like freedom of speech or be able to have any religon we want and other things like that.
traits a person can have is kindness, responcibility and other things. some traits a person can lack is honesty , self dicipline, ect…
my word was responsibilty. ”Strive for excellence, not perfection”.-Anonymous. i try to do my best which might eventually be perfect. i think it means to try the best to your ability. i also like this quote because it makes you think.
RESPECT……esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability. The quote I used was “If wealth is lost, nothing is lost. If health is lost, something is lost. But, if respect is lost, everything is lost.” I choose this quote because I think that it is self-explanitory. To me, this quote means that respect is the key to getting by in life. I personally beleve that this quote or trait doesn’t only apply to me, it applies to everyone who wants to be a succesful person in this life. In my life, i practically have to practice respect on a daily basis. What i mean is that I have elders in my family or even at school who deserve respect.
A few questions were asked in the beginning…….
1.) How does _________________ effect the creation of laws? Do those laws apply to you?
Respect effects the creation of laws. An example is that there are many laws out there that restrict people from doing many things. Yes, this does apply to me because Iam no different from no one else in this world. In other words, whatever applys to you applys to me.
2.) In what way does _________________ effect individual’s rights? What if there were no (one) _________________ of/for you or yours?
Well, I would say that respect doesn’t allow other individuals to disrespect one another. If there was no respect, this world would be a rude place. People would go doing stuff to other people and the law would allow it.
3.) How does _________________ affect freedom for all, safety for all? What if _________________ were taken away for/from you?
Respect most definetly affects freedom for all, safety for all. For example, no one owns you and you don’t own anyone. If respect were taken away from me, I would be a totally different rude person.
4.) What role does _________________ play as far as making certain students have opportunities to grow?
It teaches them how to carry themselves respectfully in life.
Now…..this is what I think of respect. Most people I know are very respectful. Then again, you have those that are totally intolerant and don’t deserve respect but they want to get respect.
-What is your personal opinion on this?
-What would be a good way to make these people understand that if you don’t give respect you won’t get respect?
Well, this is all for now :)!
well, the person who said was Jose Ortega y Gasset. This is important in our society today because if this would continue the world would a world of hate and deceit.
Honesty is defined as being truthful, trustworthy, and sincere. Honesty is really athe best policy because some people love to be dishonest and it gets in trouble.The rule for my group was; Do not cheat, lie,or steal. Remember, be honest to every one plus yourself.
My Character trait was tolerance. my quote was “The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”
I like this quote because it sums up what tolerance means. To me this quote means courage comes when you need to speak up around people of close relations but tolerance comes when you are around large groups and you need th control your words and actions. This qoute applies to me because if i do not learn to be tolerante then I could end up in situations thatare hard to get out of.
1.how does tolerance effect the creation of laws? Do those laws apply to you?
without tolerance many laws would be too harsh, because there would be no room for mistakes and everything would be waited harshly
2.In what way does tolerance effect an individual’s rights? What if there were no tolerance for you or yours? (remember what that expression means?) tolerance affect individuals rights because without it our rights would be limited to almost nothing.if the was no tolerance than we would be living in a place were only the government would have a say and we would be persecuted if we didnt do as told. i think this would happen because to me if there is no tolerance, there is no compassion.
3.How does tolerance affect freedom for all, safety for all? What if tolerance were taken away from you?
Yes tolerance affects freedom because freedom means to be able to do as you plaese, but by following laws and if you cannot tolerante and obey the laws then freedom will be taken from you.
What role does tolerance play as far as making certain students have opportunities to grow?
Tolenance teaches kids discipline and it teaches control over the things we say.
“everyone has patience successful people learn to use it”i like this quate because i think that its a true statement.it means that people who control them selves become very successful later on in life.it applys to me because i want to be successful.it gos to society because you want to beable to get a good job and if you cant control your self you cant control a buisness.yes it applys to me because i want to run a buisness some day and you need to know how to take control of things if your going to go far.some one could get hurt if you dont know how to control your self.no one can take self control from you.if you cant control your self you wont go any where.
Cooperation. cooperation means to work with others to accomplish a common purpose. i believe this important to accomplish any task more succesfully. As the saying goes”there is no I in team!” for example, in the government, one person thinks of an idea then it is passed on from one person to another, suggestions and corrections being added in, until it comes to the “biggest person” where it is made note of. Some synonyms of cooperation is teamwork, united, and interacting together. In all this is my understanding of cooperation.
TOLERANCE my word is tolerance i think tolerance is accepting people for who they are inside, how they act and feel. As the saying goes “dont judge abook by its cover.” You shouldn’t judge some one by race, color, beliefs, or anything else.Thats what tolerance means to me.
self-respect when you learn to respect your self you can learn to respect others. respecting yourself is not walking around showing parts of your body that shouldn’t be showing. respecting yourself is being proud but, not to the point to where you’re being considing. I have self-respect because I was raised like that and because I dont want to be selling my self short.not everyone has self-respect and thats not always the persons falt but at the same time they have some blame . sometimes rhe parents are just not good role modles and the kid follows what the parent does.
My Trait was citizenship I think without citizenship the world would be more dirty, and a worse place to live.
“You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth.” I chose this quote because to me it means to have friends you have to listen you cant just talk talk talk. Basically means shut your mouth and listen to what others have to say because your not the only one. It applies to me because alot of the times when I first meet someone they like to talk talk talk or even when Im arguing with a someone they never want to listen to what I have to say which is why alot of friendships are broken.For the questions i didn t get them all but i did get the first one. Self control effect certain laws in many ways because you cant just go around doingt whatever you want these laws do apply to me4 even in school for example for example if i dont like someone i cant just hitthem i have to just deal with it.
I DID MY POSTER ON RESPECT THOUGH. I THINK THAT RESPECT IS A VERY IMPORTANT CHARACTER TRAIT BECAUSE IF YOU DON’T HAVE REPECT FOR PEOPLE PEOPLE WOULD NOT SHOW YOU RESPECT BACK.
My qote was “One for all and all for one.” by Alexander Dumas. I like this qote because to me it defines the word cooperation. This qote represents teamwork through the good and the bad. Wheter you like or not your teammates, you are all here to accomplish the same goal and must work together to do.
RESPECT! I chose respect because i thought if i looked a little bit deeper into the definition i would be able to more undrstand it.Now i will be able to tell everyone the real meaning of it. (SORRY i CAN’T ANSWER THE QUESTION FULLY I DON’T HAVE ANY OF MY REFRENCES.)
citizenship many do not use th power of citizenship
i think citizenship is the helping of ur community or group without bieng forced to do so
this can apply to my like if i see garbage on the floor i can pick it juss to help the community
lawss can be affected by this so a community will be more as a group
if there was no citizenship the community would be a mess
if citizenship were taken away it would not affect me but it would affect the enviroment
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CARING- That’s another trait I could think of. If you care about others, it’s like karma, others will care about you also. You are supposed to care about family and friends and other people that are close to you.
the reason why i liked the quote is because it is the truth no one is actually free.this term applies to my life because i came from another country thinking that america is the greatest place to live but i learned that it is almost like where i came from.
sorry this is late i didn’t know that you up dated the blog. my word is citizenship the quote i picked was “There are two freedoms-the false one, where a man is free to do as he likes: the true one where he is free to do what he thougt.”to me this means that a man is actually not free like the way he thougth would be but as free as someone says he can be.
Other traits that should be on the list is honesty and creativity. Honesty because its a very important thing in life. You need this trait to go through life. Your life woould just be so much easier if you have honesy, and some people don’t know that. Also, creativity. Creativity is major! If no-one had any, this would be a very boring, plain world. Also creativity makes you who you are; it makes you unique. It makes you, you.
I also agree with other people (christine) if you see a lady drop a purse and she doesn’t know, you should return it because if you take it, there will be payback for you……its called Karma.
Lets see, I think that Max is convinced he doesn’t have a brain because Freak kinda makes him feel dumb by always making him look up words in the dictionary. And, even after he looks them up, he still doesn’t know what the word means most of the time.
Also I do think our opinons about ourselves affect what people think of us because if you hate yourself, people probablly won’t like you very much. Also other peoples opinions affect us to because if people always make fun of you and hate, it’ll make you have a low self-esteem.
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The word I had was self- control. The quote I picked was “you can get more friends with your ears than with your mouth”. I think that means that you should listen to your friends and hear what they have to say. Its better than you always talking all of the time.
About self-control, it is a major thing in the society. I mean you can’t just run crazy where ever and just do what you please when you please. You need to have control over your actions and think before you do what you do. Also, after you do something, if you weren’t thinking you need to take responsibility for what you did and don’t whine and cry. Again, have control over your actions.
The word that I picked was kindness. Kindness is defined as being generous and considerate to others. Many people choose to use kindness every day, and many others don’t. The quote that I picked was “kindness is contagious. Is your attitude worth catching?” This simply means that attitudes can be caught, and is yours one you want others to catch.
The word that I picked was kindness. Kindness is defined as being generous and considerate to others. Many people choose to use kindness every day, and many others don’t. The quote that I picked was “kindness is contagious. Is your attitude worth catching?” This simply means that attitudes can be caught, and is yours one you want others to catch,
I think that hapiness should be another trait my definition would be acting joyful over or about something. the dictionary definition is having, showing, or causing great pleasure or joy. a synonym for happiness would be cheerfulness. Some people have to say that most people are always way to happy but other people say that they like being joyful and happy.
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The quote i picked is “Honesty is the best policy”
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I like the quote because its short and simple and gets write to the point. The qupte means you should be honest all the time to everyone. Its a policy everyone should have and keep.
The word that I chose was Citizenship, and the quote that I chose for it was “Freedom is a right & responsibility” – Anonymous. I chose this quote because having freedom is a right, a right to be yourself, express yourself and your thoughts, , and the right to do pretty much whatever you want…well legally wise anyways. But freedom is also a responsibility because its that persons responsibility to do the right thing and keep there freedom. Now this all fall into being a good citizen, because a part of doing the right thing is making the right choices and helping other people in your community or country to make the right choices and do what’s rights.
P.S. I was too sure if we had to answer the questions that was in the introduction, in our blog entry.???
My character trait was respect.The quote I chose was a qoute from W. Somerset Magham that read “When you chose your friends,don’t be shortchanged by choosing personality over character.” I really like this quote because to me what it’s saying is that you could have a friend that has alot in common with you and share alot of intrest with you but has has really bad judgement. I think it means that even though a person might like to do the same sports or listen to the same type or music as you if they’re robbing banks,smoking pot you doing something wrong that you should not be hanging out with them. This quote applies to me because in high school or even now I could come across someone whos a friend or not and it would be up to me if I wanted to continue hanging out with this person when I know of their wrong doing. My character trait respect plays alot in society because you will always have something or someone around you who you should respect. Respect affects the creation of laws because there are many laws that restrict people or animals from harming one another. For,example you can’t go out and kill someone ,well you can but there will be consequences like serving time in jail. These laws do apply to me because I’m no different than anyone else, and if I disrespect someone in any way verbal or physical I would also have consequences. Respect affects individual rights because it doesn’t allow them to disrespect others. If there was no respect I feel that the world would be worser than it already is. No one would feel that they can’t beat him/her up or steal his/her car. They would feel like why not do this if I know I’m not going to get in trouble for it. Respect definatley affects freedom and safety of all people. For instance, no one can own people anymore meaning there can no longer be slaves. Meaning that no one can put anothers life in danger or make them do something they don’t wan’t to do or harm them in any way. People are free now to say and do as they please ad long as they are respecting one another. If respect was taken away from me I think my life would take a full 360 degree change because people show me respect everyday from my family,teachers,and peers. So, going even one day without respect would affect me because no one care about how I would felt and would just do as they as they please onto me. The role respect plays in letting certain students have opportunities to grow is that having respect earns respect and will allow you to grow by being respectful. So, you can learn because if you’re being disruptive all the time you won’t be able to learn but if you’re being respectful and listening you’re you would learn more. In general have respect for yourself by allowing yourself to have respect for others so you can get respect.
The word is Responsibility. What Responsibility means is meeting obligation by being reliable,accountable and dependable to self and others. The quote i picked is “We are judged by what we finish not by what we start.” What this quote means to me is it doesn’t matter how we start something just the way we finsh it good or bad.
Responsibility:the quote i picked is “The price of greatness is responsibility.” I like this quote because it was the one in the group of quotes that i thought made the most sense. I think the meaning of it is, in order to be great you will need responsibility. I think it applies to me because if i want to be great one day i will need responsibility. Responsibility effects the creation of laws because before you make a law you have to be responsible in chooseing the correct standards that it needs to meet. I think that responsiblity effects an individuals rights because it certain places it may seem that its required to be responsible. Responsibility affects freedom in no way because its a choice if you want to be responsible or not. The role responsibility plays is that as you get older you may become more responsible and thats how it may effect the way you grow.
if you tell the truth, you dont have to remember a thing- mark twain
i picked this quote because its true.
what the quote means is that if you dont lie in the first place you dont have to remember other lies that you must keep in order to keep the first lie.
honesty applies to everyone because everyone should tell the truth.
My word was Cooperation and the quote i choose was “an axe does not cut down a tree by itself” I think it means that not only the axe can cut down a tree by itself it needs people to help. I think it applies to me because everyone needs help once a while i mean you can’t build a building all by yourself now can yah! I think that cooperation is a law like how wilma knocked all our power out so if we were driving we had to cooperate to obey the 4 way stop rule if we didn’t cooperate everyone would crash into eachother. If cooperation was no longer here I think no one would talk to eachother or everyone wouldn’t obey safety laws. I think cooperation helps everyone grow because it helps us make friends and how to work with eveyone and helps us with our future jobs.
My word is Respect and my quote is To gain respect you must have respect in other words in order for someone to respect you , you must respect that person .This relates to me because sometimes well before i didnt understand that .I believed that you must respect me before i even begin to respect you and thats even if i decide to.I went through a sort of mean girl phase .Now i understand that .sometimes you might think that person respects you but in the end you find out they fear you and thats the worst feeling inside .To me it was .It was a liffe changing lesson.
SELF-CONTROL. I picked this word because i think a lot of students in this school dont really apply to it. Self-control is the control of one’s feelings, desires, or actions by one’s own will. Many people at Westpine dont have very good self-control, hence the reason people here get into fights. They dont know how to control their emotions.
The Quote that i chose came from president nixon and it was:
“we cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another– until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our vioces”
This quote doesn’t exactly relate to my word, but I think it meant a lot. To me, it means that we can get more acomplished and our opinions can be better understood if everyone would just stop yelling and fighting all the time. The world would be so much easier to live in if everyone in it listened to each other.
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ok my characteer trait was kindness. i picked the qoute “Be kind. Every one has thier own secret battle to fight.” I think this quote is tyrying to say thaty everyone has thier own hardship at some point in thier life and being kind, just slightly could help them out a little. i mean think about it, if your going through a hard time like someone close to you died or wa sin the hospital for critical condiotion and the doctor said they werent sure if he would make it would some jerk treating you rudely help you out any? Or would a nice person who helps you, maybe pick up a paper you dropped in the hall. Or help with a assignmentg ou didnt understand or something of that sort. If there was mor ekindness the world would seriously be a better place. instead of violence and war and all thoose other things that we see ont he news. this our world, do you really wanna have to worry about all that stuff. about having to lock your door at night tyo make sure nothign bad happens to your childern why you sleep. to make sure your kid calls you every couple hours to make sure they didnt get kidnapped? if people were kind we wouldnt have theese problems.
I like cooperation as one of my favorites. Mainly because what the author, Ashley Montague quoted:”The more cooperative the group, the greater is the fitness for survival, whicj extends to all of it’s members. What this means to me is that youmust work together in order to move on in the future.
the word that i got was cooperation. the quote that i used was “there is no i in team” I think taht if you are on ateam and you want to win everybody has to help not one person can win by themselves.
i agree with what tiffany said about tolerance and her quote which said, the world is round so why take sides? i think that that is a very good question which would take alot of thought to come up with an answer. i dont understand the quote/question fully but it makes sense to me about what the author of the quote was getting at.
My word was tolerance. the quote that i picked for tolerance was “the only thing neccesary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” To me, this quote means that for evil to win, you don’t have to physically assist it. As long as you do nothing to try to stop it, it’s just as bad as helping it succeed. it applies to my daily life because sometimes i see things happening but i just sit there and watch it happen and wince or gasp or something but i don’t try to stop it or prevent it and i now realize that that is just as bad.
Q: How does tolerance effect the creation of laws? Do those laws apply to you?
A: If there were no laws on tolerance there would be alot of racism and people would feel bad because of there color or race. The laws on tolerance do apply to everyone including myself.
Q: In what way does tolerance effect individual’s rights? What if there were no tolerance for you or yours?
A: Then people would look down on us because we are a black family.
Q: How does tolerance affect freedom for all, safety for all? What if tolerance were taken away for/from you?
A: Tolerance gives you the security that whoever you are and whatever you look like, people will accept you. If it were taken away, there would probably be slavery again because some people would be looked down on. Alot of families would probably move out of the U.S.
Q: What role does tolerance play as far as making certain students have opportunities to grow?
A: Tolerance teaches students to respect others differences so that they grow up treating everyone as an equal.