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I do not feel that I should participate in the "Pay it Forward" assignment. This assignment is telling us to go be nice to people and we will get a good grade. If we don't do anything nice, we will not receive a good grade. I do not feel like anybody should be forced to do something nice, if they have to be forced, they shouldn't do it at all.

If it is not done for the correct reasons, it doesn't mean anything. I do nice things for people. If I am in the mood and feel that I should help somebody out, I will, but I will not give them a paper and turn it in to the teacher for a grade. How impersonal is that? If I receive a paper from somebody during this project, I will not feel grateful that they performed an act of kindness for me because it is not for the right reasons. Their act of kindness is for a grade in religion class.

Besides the "Pay it Forward" project has almost nothing in common with the movie. In the movie the little boy, Trevor, decided that he should change the world. His idea about how to do it is a good theory, but it will never work as well as anyone would hope it would. In the movie he saves a homeless man, and he took him home and gave him some money, food, and a place to sleep. He did not have to do anything at all. If I remember correctly, that assignment in the movie was for extra credit.

Today we received an assignment that is worth a very healthy sum of points for the second nine weeks. Why should we have to be given grades to be nice to each other? Has the world gone that bad? Having to basically bribe or force people to be courteous to others. That, in my opinion is wrong. This project has a good purpose but I don't feel that it is the right thing to do.

People should be nice to each other all the time, not just when we get points for it. I feel obligated to go and do good and be the nicest person I can be, but I would rather be nice to someone and feel the gratification that would follow that act. I do good things for people, but I don't write them down, sometimes I do them without even knowing it. Christianity teaches that you should love your neighbor as yourself. If everybody would live by that simple rule, we would have no violence at all, but as we know that is not the case. I am not a very religious person.

Although I am a confirmed Catholic, I do not attend Sunday masses, or any mass with the exception of school. I do not see the purpose. I do not see the purpose of prayer either. Prayer works on the same principle as voodoo in some cases.

For example, you want something to happen so you say some words, or prayers, asking God to grant you your wish, well, in voodoo, you say some words and you still almost ask for your wish to come true. I am not a voodoo expert or anything, but that is my understanding. I am an opinionated person, and I normally express my opinions. I am not the kind of person to keep my feelings to myself, and I am also quite honest. Which is why I have a problem with the senior religion book. The religion book is full of unsubstantiated cosmic musing.

A large portion of what we have covers so far this year, was written in a very opinionated manner. It seems to have the answer to everything and that answer is Catholicism. I do not agree with many of the things that are written in the books and that are on the tests. I do not feel that just because I listen to the same music or eat the same breakfast everyday, I am stuck in a rut. I also do not feel that everything I own is lent to me by God, but when it is on the test, I have to put that or I will get it wrong, and my grade will suffer. When I take a test and have to answer very strongly opinionated questions, with someone else's opinions, I feel wrong.

I have to lie on the test so I can get it right. It makes me feel like I am just cheating myself because I have to write down an answer that I don't believe. The religion classes during the past three years were about the church. Well this year it is about money, personality traits, work, sexuality, and other topics. How is this related to Catholicism? Everything in the book says that everything will be so great and good if you follow the church and live a good life.

If it was that easy, why should I have to go to school and even take any kind of education at all. All I should have to do is follow the church, and everything will work out just dandy. We all know that won't work, but that is the message I get from the book and the class in general. I hope this essay clearly explained what my feelings are and why I feel that way.

It was not my goal to offend anybody, or be disrespectful. I just let out my emotions the best possible way I could..