<p>These are all under timed conditions. Feel free to steal any phrases you like, but I hope that if you read this, you can give me a score on a scale of 1-12 and some suggestions/pros/cons.</p>
<p>Do all established traditions deserve to remain in existence?</p>
<p>Established tradition is indisputably an important aspect of society. During the Harvest Moon in the autumn, the Chinese celebrate the moon festival as they did hundreds of years ago. Christmas has been celebrated for years by Christians and has even spread to people of other religions. However, there is a misconception that perennial traditions should be maintained and hailed as irreproachable. In terms of established societal traditions, no matter how long they have been enforced, not all government policies should be upheld without question; after all, problematic views and government corruption surface every now and then.</p>
<p>Sometimes, established government regulations need to be changed because the current government holds misleading views on how to run a society. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, an oppressive government believes that literature should be expurgated and replaced with technological entertainments such as Seashell radios and T.V. walls. Such an erroneous conviction creates a benighted world that lacks the natural joys from curiosity and awareness. The governments policy is enforced for years but that does not mean it should be kept in existence. This policy of censorship is clearly misguided, and despite its perennial existence, it should be removed.</p>
<p>Furthermore, government corruption may taint government policies, in which the situation calls for change regardless of the length of their existences. The tyrannical rule of Napolean in Animal Farm by George Orwell illustrates this point beautifully. Napolean, a sagacious pig, leads an insurrection with his fellow farm animals to overthrow human rule over a farm. Initially, he establishes countless salutary policies, such as equal amounts of food for all animals. Gradually, however, Napolean grows corrupt and begins to enforce vitiated policies in which all farm animals except pigs must perform twice the workload. These policies endure for months without dissension, even though there was quiet unrest amongst the other animals. Although any type of change was precluded by Napoleans despotic rule, it is quite clear that these malevolent, long-lasting policies should be changed to be equitable.</p>
<p>No matter how long a government policy or tradition has been in existence, societys people cannot idly sit around and blindlessly obey societys people must impugn and scrutinize the government policies to ensure that the polices are not corrupt or faulty. Heaven knows that this scrutiny is needed today.</p>
<p>Do people truly benefit from hardship and misfortune?</p>
<p>If sadness were absent, happiness would nonexistent. Humans benefit from the extensive range of both positive and negative emotions because interdependency exists amongst conflicting feelings. Similarly, misfortune and hardships are necessary to become more aware of the world and prevent ignorance, especially in situations regarding government policies.</p>
<p>When controversial government policies are prescribed in society, it may take a catalyst a hardship or difficulty to stimulate people to start impugning those policies. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, an oppressive government enforces the expurgation of literature because of its ability to cause instability in society quite a dubious policy, considering the ignorance that would result. Guy Montag, a fireman who works for the government-run fire department and mercilessly burns books, blindlessly obeys government orders until slight hardships begin to silently slip into his life, first through a traumatic experience during a response to a fire alarm call, and then his dalliance with a strange girl named Clarisse. After he witnesses an old lady sacrifice her life to protect her books, an iota of discontentment surfaces in his heart, unable to comprehend why such a sacrifice was made for mere books. Once Clarisse sparks up the curiosity within Montag, he grows wholly unhappy with what the governments policy of censorship, and he begins battling the fundamental beliefs of his society. </p>
<p>Once Montag endures, as his boss Captain Beatty would call it, the misfortune of being exposed to literature, he realizes how inane he had been to enforce censorship without impugning its morality. Because of his unhappy encounters, Montag discovers that he lives in a benighted world of an ignorant society one devoid of awareness and knowledge. He learns that censorship precludes any possibility of natural human joys, joys that are intrinsically intertwined with sensibility and edification through knowledge. Had Montag not ran into the earlier grim incidents with the old lady and Clarisse, he would have mindlessly continued to follow government regulations, but because he experienced these hardships, Montag was able to become aware of the faults embedded in censorship and fight against ignorance.</p>
<p>Misfortunes and hardships may have negative connotations in the eyes of myriad people; indisputably, these words do carry with them a despondent feeling, but they are not invariably malevolent. Difficulties in life can help enlighten people to make them more aware of what is going on around them heaven knows that this ability of perception and understanding is needed more than ever today.</p>
<p>Should schools help students understand moral choices and social issues?</p>
<p>School is where dilemmas and problems ranging from he punched me first to whether or not to smoke a cigarette for the first time frequently surface. Because children spend the majority of their daytime at school, schools should indisputably assist in the process of instilling a sense of rectitude and propriety in their students schools have a major impact on how children think.</p>
<p>In a psychological study by Stanford in 1989, research showed that daily activities that students participate in at school strongly shape their perceptions of what is morally right and wrong schools should ensure that students receive are influenced properly. Myriad teachers and school administrators may be unaware of the malevolent predators to be more specific, students own fellow peers on school campuses that are seeking to inculcate their own lessons in children before parents can. Negative influences tend to be ubiquitous even in the most prestigious schools, which results in perfectly innocent, well-behaved students to be led astray into shady, illegal ways.</p>
<p>In order to prevent such catastrophic situations from arising, schools need to take action after all, students are glued in their seats for class every day, where teachers can take the initiative to teach students what is right and wrong. Such proactivity has shown to be effective and multitudes of efficacious programs with such intentions are already running in schools all over the globe. Elementary schools hold their yearly anti-drug assemblies, high school clubs advocate for humanitarian causes and volunteer work all of these programs impart to children various lessons on social and moral aspects of life.</p>
<p>It might be difficult to believe that there are dangerous, surreptitious activities being performed on campus, but coming from a person who sees this kind of frightening activities on school campuses, it is essential for someone to teach the children before the wrong people do. With the rising crime rates around the world, heaven knows that students the right guidance by the right people and schools are ideal for this mission.</p>