Saturday, November 25, 2017
Journal Question #7
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About Me
- TGriffin
- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
One of the most important thing to live in this world is to show gratitude. If someone does for me something then i will have to give them back and show them the gratitude that they should have. With me, i’m very grateful with my family specially my parents. Also I’m very respect my teachers, who teach me a lot of new things that i haven’t ever known. In Vietnam, every special day to show gratitude i will give some gifts to my teachers to show respect.
ReplyDeleteI think we all schools show gratitude because every time we show gratitude to our parents when they buy us something or to our friends when they help us in a problem they feel better knowing that they helped us and knowing that we are happy and grateful because they helped us. For example I am grateful for the effort my parents are doing to pay me the school and the way I show gratitude is doing my best in the school and having the best grades in school.
ReplyDeleteGratitude is a person must have a quality, a person should have the heart of gratitude, then will have a good attitude to face their life! Be grateful to those who have helped you, to thank those of you who dig you, thank you for your enemies, thank your opponent, be grateful to those who have refused to you, thank you break up with you once a lover, thanks to your parents, your side each friend, because they have rich your life! When you face your life with a thankful heart, you will feel like a lot of things will be changed!, for example.The greatest modern physicist, Stephen Hawking, was paralyzed and unable to speak. After an academic report, a reporter this question to him: "Mr Hawking, Lou gehrig's disease has already permanently fixed to a wheelchair, you don't you think fate let you lose a lot of way out?" However, hawking is full of smile, can he activities of 3 fingers, struggling to tap the keyboard, appeared on the screen the following words: I have a grateful heart, my fingers can activity, my brain can also thinking, I have a lifelong pursuit of the ideal, I have a love me and I love relatives and friends.and first I think I must grateful to my parents，they give me the live and power.I think what I can do now is study hard.
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ReplyDeleteGratitude is very important for everyone because we might meet many people who are loving us and responsible to us. We should keep a thankful heart for them because that's what we suppose to do. I think we have a lot of people and objects to be gratitude such as parents , families, teachers and friends. And the way to be thankful is we suppose to be nice and kind people, spend more time and patience for them. I think get nice grade is best gift for teachers because that's the best answer for their work. If we want to be gratitude to friends we should believe them and be responsible.
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ReplyDeleteGratitude is very important because people help each other. Be grateful, do not forget those who helped you. The people I want to thank are my parents. The first thing I want to thank is that my parents let me come to this world. Also my parents took care of me when I was young. Without parental care, we are not so happy at the moment. So the best person in the world I also need to be grateful is my parents.
When you are in a difficult time, someone helps you. When you are not in difficulty, you should thanks him for his help. You can give him a very small thanks or a big thanks. My friends always help me something,I usually invite to a dinner，every one need thanks before help you people.
ReplyDeleteGratitude is very important because people helps each other. Being grateful does reminds those people who helped you. The people that i wants to thank are my parents, because they let me study in United States and they gave me an opportunity to study on better environment. Also i thanks to my sister who supports me on study and about anything i need. So i grateful to my families the most.
ReplyDeleteI think that showing gratitude is a way to show respect to another person and that’s the most important in life, having respect to everybody. I’m grateful for the things that my family, especially my mom, does for me; allowing me to study in this school and supporting me every day. I show gratitude to my mom with good grades and not being bad with her on anybody else.
ReplyDeleteThere is an old saying in China “A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring.” Which means even if it was just a little help from others, you should return the favor with all you can when others are in need.Showing gratitude is very important for everyone. Cause that's make the world better. If anyone can help the people who need help. And people who get help know gratitude back. The world will in peaceful forever.
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The meaning of gratitude is to express gratitude for the help given by others, It is a reward for helping others. We should be grateful to many people，our family,our parents,our friends,our teacher , even strangers...In China，It is very important to learn to be grateful to others.Every day, thanksgiving says "thank you", not only makes you have positive thoughts, but also makes others feel happy. When others need help, extend the helping hand; and when others help themselves, with a sincere smile to express thanks; when you are sad, someone will take the time to comfort you, these little details are a a thankful heart.Learning to be thankful is very important to us.”
For us,thanksgiving is very important.Thanksgiving is a philosophy of life, but also the great wisdom of life. A wise man should not be preoccupied with what he does not have, nor should he blindly claim and inflate his own desires. Learn to be grateful, give thanks for what you have, and thank you for giving you life. So you will have a positive outlook on life, always healthy attitude.Gratitude is the nature of a person's own possession and a manifestation of a healthy personality. Life, work, study will encounter someone to help you and concern, maybe you can not return, but to express their gratitude is necessary.Have a grateful heart, so that you change the perception of many things in the world, so that you less complain and blindly claim. returning a Favour many times more. Parental care, grace between relatives and friends, the fate of common work between students and so on. Do not wait until lost, only know how to cherish. Gratitude is not only a state of mind, but also a virtue.
ReplyDeleteI think it is important to express my gratitude because people always encounter difficulties in their lives and when they can not do it alone, they will look for help from others. Others may be busy with things at this moment, but he will set aside his own things to help you and sacrifice your time. When he helped you accomplish this, then you say a thank you, his heart will be a warm, but if you do not have to say thank you, he may be a cold heart, I thought he helped you for a long time, But you do not even have a thank you. He will feel you are not polite, may next time you find him to help when he will find reasons to shirk. So in life you turn to help others, no matter the other side to help you finish or did not finish, we must say thank you, to express my gratitude.
ReplyDeleteGratitude means to express your respect to someone that helped you by saying a simple thank you to them. However, a thank you in some case is not enough. For example, Mr. Griffin is talking a story of a country which was suffering in an aftermath of a tremendous explosion which killed approximately 2000 people, however the immediate response of supplies came from Boston. To show that gratitude, thank you isn't enough so they're sending a giant pine tree on every Christmas days to show how grateful they are for the help. For me, gratitude is one of my most important thing in my life. I show gratitude and respect toward everyone that I've met in my life, especially my parents, they have given me a chance to learn in a international environment. They have taught me how to behave and they sometimes tell me about the stories come from their experience, and experience that taught them a life- lesson. They are putting a lot of money in for me to go out and learn but however, the only thing they want me to accomplish is to study well and to experience a life without them.
ReplyDeleteWhy is gratitude important? Should be grateful for my hope that the teacher's demeanor. When we are grateful, we have greater happiness and satisfaction in our lives. We recognize the Lord's influence and the blessing the Lord has bestowed upon us. And I wanted to thank my teacher, it taught us a lot of human reason, but also taught us some learning knowledge. Without them, there is no us today. I will use my actions to express my thanks to the teachers, I will study hard.
ReplyDeleteGratitude is very important, I thank all the people in my life, especially my parents, my teacher and my friend thank my parents gave birth to me, thank my teacher taught me knowledge, thank my friends to help me，thanks for everyone.
ReplyDeleteGratitude is one of the most important virtues. We thanks a lot. We thanks for small things, even big things that even can change our lives. I am grateful for my parents. They are supporting me. Therefore I can study in the US as an international student. And when I in troubles they help me. When I confuse they guide me. They helped me a lot. And I feel that is too great to my parents.
ReplyDeleteEveryone must learn gratitude, and I will be grateful to my teacher for helping me to solve the questions I did not understand. My friend faced difficulties with me when I encountered difficulties and helped me find a solution to solve the problems. My parents usually told me Care those things should deserve our gratitude. I feel grateful that them should help them with the methods which how they help us. When friends are in difficulty, face up to their misery and care about our parents every day. I think this is the best way to be grateful
ReplyDeleteI think the appreciation is very important in our life. When I was born, my parents told me that I need to know how to appciate others. You will meet a lot of people who help you in your life. When you accept their help you have to think of one day when they need help you have to repay them. In ancient China there was a very famous ohilosopher called Confucius, he tells us we need a grateful heart. I care very much for those who helped me and thank them very much.
ReplyDeleteIt is important to know how to be grateful，Everyone should know how to be grateful.If someone help you, you should say thanks for him Everyone has no obligation to help you.They help you because they are kind.They help you because they are kindNot that they have to help you.
ReplyDeleteIt's important to be grateful when someone does something good for you,because it shows the person that you appreciate the effort they made for you and it's a way to give back the favor.You can do it in a lot of ways such as.Giving them a present ,doing a favor for them ,etc.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, knowing how to be grateful is one the best quality of human. People will never get a strong interpersonal relationship without a grateful heart. A highly grateful person must be a pleasant and relaxed person. Also knowing how to be grateful to others and give back is a virtuous cycle, this makes things being easy. For me, I am very grateful to my parents. They have been teaching me to be a good person. And they provide me a great education. In the future I will take good care for them to show my gratitude.
ReplyDeleteSay thanks is very important in our life.When someone else helps you, it is worth the gratitude of others for helping others.
ReplyDeleteI gratitude my parents.They gave birth to me.And they give best life.Encourage me when I'm sad.They do their best to help me grow.I’ll hard to study and get a good job.I will try my best to give them the best life when they older.
All in all,I think gratitude is important in my life.
In my opinion, itt is very important to show gratitude to others. There are a few reasons for this. First, if you help someone out but he don’t even say thanks to you,how would you feel? If I am the person who offers the help, I’ll feel that the person I helped if impolite. Second, there is a famous saying called there’s no free lunch in the world. Whether you believe or not,it is true and paying back to others can help you make more friends and so when you are in trouble again, someone will help you get through. For me, I am very grateful to my middle school head teacher. She told me that I should try to improve a bit everyday although there’s only 10 days till the high school entrance exam. But I didn’t listen to her. Instead, I gave up on myself. But when I get my final score in the exam, I need 10more points to enter my old school. I will never forget her words and I will try my best on every difficulties I am facing.
ReplyDeletePeople, should know grateful. Many people often complain that nothing is worth a gratefulness. In fact, around us, there are many things worth our thanks.For example, parents care about you meticulous care, you should not go to thank you? When you can not find the eraser, the same table understanding delivered to you, you should not go to thank you? Sick friend's words of concern, you do not Should you go thanks? Visible, there is no shortage of things to thank you, but you do not have a pair of eyes to discover these things!Once I, do not know how to be grateful. At that time, I felt that I would not have to be grateful if I could help without others. However, the fact made me realize that no one can ever need help from others and there is always a day when others need help.Since you need someone's help, you should know how to be grateful. Thanksgiving does not mean that he will help you pick up the book, and you will be able to repay yourself with a cow, using only a "thank you" sincerely or a smile. It's that simple!
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view, being grateful is one of the most necessary qualities in our lives and be gratitude to somebody is an important thing that we need to do it every day. For instance, it is a grateful behavior if you think that it is so brave and great for a mother brings her child into the world. That is the most common thing you can be thankful for. Gratitude is not difficult at all. The only thing we need to do is to show our gratitude. For me, I am grateful for my parents and my friends’ love. They make me a better person. They keep me away from the dark side of the world. I would take good care of them to show my gratitude.
ReplyDeleteIf you smile to the world, the world will also smile at you. So when we are grateful, the world will reward us for it. The importance of gratitude is particularly obvious. To me, I want to thank my family, my friends, my teachers, wonderful things and even the setback in my life. And what I most want to thank are my parents. My way of expressing my gratitude to my parents is simple. A hug, a sentence of thanks or a small gift is enough to express my gratitude.
ReplyDeleteGratitude is the one of the most important thing in human society. Our society is builded on gratitude. One person helped another person, and because of the grateful, the another person will must help back. It is a very good thing. So we are all have to learn to be grateful. You should be gratitude to everyone who helped you. I fell grateful when some person help me. When someone need me. I will would like to help.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, to say “thank you’’to someone it is very important. Because this is not just a the basic etiquette between people, also this can show out what is your attitude to things. The “ thank you” is not hard to say, you always say thank you to someone can make the relationship firmly. My parents always say if someone help you, you need say thank you for them. So the say thank you is very important.
ReplyDeleteActually, I think the word “thank you” never enough to the people that change your life in the future. This is my own experience. I have a amazing host family last year. I can say I am so lucky to have them and spent ten months with them. They changed my life and let me grow up. They had already became the part of my life, they are my family. I can’t say thank you to them because it not enough. I think if I’m the part of family, I should help my family to do anything that within my ability. It doesn’t have to be something really big, maybe just help to cut some food, or help do the dishes or do the vacuuming. So, my opinion is that you should do something from your heart not just say thank you.
ReplyDeleteI think that show gratitude is very important because is an act of respect and with only say the word “thank ypu” you can show gratitude and also I am grateful for my family and friends and I show my gratitude by always be respectful and and I always say r
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I think showing gratitude is very important to do, because if someone gives a favor or give a hand for you, you must give them back that you have been received from someone. It is respecting to do that. For me I show my gratitude by saying to them thank you and also I tries to give them back to show respect to them. Also when someone needs my help of something I tries to help to be a good people like who helped me before.
ReplyDeleteI am gratitude mom to send me to America to study, thanks her give me better education and better future. The why to gratitude her is study harder to have better graders to apply a good college
ReplyDeleteShow gratitude is a kind of courtesy. Everyone should have a thankful heart. I am grateful to my parents because they created me and taught me a lot. If a cashier helps me to checkout, someone helps me to hold the door, I would say “thank you” to show my gratitude. If someone helped me with something big, I would use another way to show my gratitude. For example, I had hurt my ankle when I was in China. I need crutches to keep so that I can not take school bag myself. Some of my classmates helped me to bring my school bag upstairs to the classroom and downstairs into my father’s car. So I invited them to eat delicious to show my gratitude.
ReplyDeleteShowing gratitude is very important. If someone help you by heart not by goods we should be grateful for that. I am always showing my gratitude to my parents who help me to study abroad , learn at a better education, who are always by my side. I will study well to make them proud.
ReplyDeleteShowing gratitude to others people is really important to express your thanks to people who help you in your life and it is one of the ways to show your respects to everyone. I want to say thank you to my parents, teachers and friends who has always been by my side whenever I get in trouble.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's very important to show gratitude. Showing gratitude means that you're grateful to someone, to the deeds that they've done for you. I'm grateful for all the hard works of my parents that brought me to TA. I'm trying my best to earn knowledge, also a way to show my gratitude to my parents
ReplyDeleteGratitude is one of the most important parts in our life. People should be thankful for what the others had done for them. Nowadays, students are being taught to be grateful in school. Showing gratitude means you respect the person that helped you. Not only for what they had done but also for what you feel about their action. As for me, my parents has spent lots of money for me to study in the US, one of the most famous educational system in the world. Therefore, i’m still trying my best to get the best result in school to not them down. They’ve spent their best things for me. Hence, I will be successful person as a thanks for what they have done for me.
ReplyDeleteI fell that gratitude is so important because you know that you need help from other persons so you need to be grateful with them, because they put some of their time in you that why I think it’s importamt, I’m grateful with my parents because they give me literally all their time and they give me the opportunity to come to the US and study in a very good school.
ReplyDeleteGratitude is really important in our life, some people do somethings for you and never requires back. We need remember them. I really want to gratitude for my parents first, my parents is different as lots of Chinese parents, they always encourage me try something new and if I like they always support me do that best. For my parents, the best way to show gratitude is don't let them worry me. And be a good person.
ReplyDeleteAt my opinion it’s very important to show at least minimal, but still some amount of gratitude. Because in that way you show that you value this person’s work, and everything that he did in general, or in this particular situation. Sometimes being thankful show a person that you appreciate that he helped you even at a loss to himself, and that he did not owe you anything.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, grateful is one of the most important virtues. People like to make friends with gratefully people. Because they know that people who show their appreciation will help them too when they are in trouble. What’s more, be a grateful person can make you happy. If you are nice to others, they will be nice too.
ReplyDeleteThanks, everyone, for your comments on gratitude. Most of you mention your parents, and some of you say that "Thank You" is not enough to show gratitude in many cases. Actions speak louder than words.
ReplyDeleteI will donate something within my power, and our purpose is to help the poor people. I will choose to donate food and clothing, and the most important medical supplies. These can guarantee that people in disaster-hit areas can survive.
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ReplyDeleteGratitude is very important to us. If someone help us, we should remember it and if one day that person needs help, we should help that person too. Even they did a small things for us, we still should remember, my parents told me that the most important thing in our life is know how to be a gratitude person, also, I think before we learn study, we should learn how to be a justice person . People help us is not because they supposed to help us, because they think we are very important to them.
Gratitude is one of the most important qualities of human.Someone helps you they maybe not ask for feed back,but we should remember to help home when he is in trouble.During the human’s evolution there were many stories shows up how important gratitude is.When someone helps you,you might be friends with each other by showing your gratitude.And that is good for you in this social.
ReplyDeleteI think we need to be more hard working to show them how we effort and we will keep sending the tree in Thansging, and we will remember and appreciative forever
ReplyDeleteGratitude is really important to everyone. Everyone should used to say "thank you" in their life. From the data, each person could meet 29 million and 200 thousand people in their entire life, but only a really small part of them can stay in our life and it although will not stay to long, but each of them, whatever the person we hate, our best friend in part of our life, or the girl/man we loved, every single one bring a lots of thing to our life, maybe helpful maybe not, maybe happy maybe not. But all in all we still need to thanks all of people who appear in our life, they make us not alone.
ReplyDeleteI think , Someone helped you , you should say thank you. It's the basic etiquette. Because say thank you, it shows your respect.
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ReplyDeleteGratitude is very important for me to respect and thankful to everyone who has been
helping me overcome my hard times. I want to show my gratitude to everyone who always be with me to help me overcome my hard times, especially my family. My family always encourages and supports me when I have any trouble.
I think people must be grateful to be grateful if they live in the world. We must first of all thank the parents for their kindness to us, and secondly, thanks to the teachers and friends for teaching and expressing their gratitude to the people for their moral character and upbringing. Part of us must have a grateful heart
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