Hey Everyone,
The topic I am discussing for today is reflecting on charity and poor relief in the United States and what role it should be playing.
Charity and poor relief in the United States is something we are always aiming to fix. Around Christmastime, especially since the holiday season is just around the corner, you see the salvation army collecting money to give to the poor. This is one of the ways I've noticed that we help give for people to have at least a decent Christmas. The holiday season is the season where we see the most giving back.
The role charity and poor relief should have in our society should be bigger than just once a year kind of thing. I think that people definitely need to make more of an effort to make this a bigger deal than it is. I feel as if we only do this whole charity thing at Christmastime to make up for when we didn't do it before. If we pushed charity more during the rest of the year maybe we wouldn't be so annoyed with the Salvation Army's bell ringing.
We should be doing more about giving back to the poor and giving charity because it makes us more humble. You don't hear too many stories about the good of people. I don't remember if I ever shared this story, but one of my favorite celebrities, Harry Styles, did an incredible thing. He was in Los Angeles and he bought $2000-$3000 worth of pizzas. He drove around the entire day handing out pizza to the homeless. To me, more people should be like that because it shows that their intentions are purely good. It wasn't the press or even him that said that, it was a friend of his.
Giving back more than just around the holidays is something that we should look into. Give to the Salvation Army on St. Patrick's day for a change. Volunteer in May. Donate food in January. Christmas seems to be our prime donation time, but giving back is something that needs to be instigated year round.
Until Next Time,
~Amanda
Friday, October 31, 2014
Friday, October 17, 2014
Medieval Communities and Neediness
Hello Everyone!
Today's topic is reflecting on some of the things we have learned about medieval communities responding to neediness. I think this is such an interesting topic and I had trouble forming what to write about because there were so many things we learned about.
One of the examples that stuck in my mind was what we learned about last week; hospitals. Hospitals were initially put in place to house the poor and take care of people with Leper and who were too sick to be anywhere normal. This is something that is worth emulating because, well, it's obvious hospitals are still extremely relevant. The hospital by my house, in the 16 years I have lived on Meade St, Appleton Medical Center has grown in size quite a bit. When we moved there, I believe it was just a small building, one structure. Now, it is a large hospital and it has many additions to it. This kind of shows that hospitals are still relevant and that the medieval times have stuck with us.
The manors are another thing that I thought of when I thought about responding to neediness. This wasn't a direct kind of thing, but they helped out the peasants in the fact that these manors housed them. The Lords gave the peasants land in exchange for working the land. I think this was important back then since there was famine, lots of death, and the weather was quite unpredictable. In today's class, we learned that the rain in England started one day and continued for the entire summer, for two whole years. The grain rotted because of this. So for these people to be able to work on the land they live in and still be able to live there was an incredible feat. This doesn't happen too often anymore. The people who have this kind of situation are able to get discounted housing with foodstamps. We don't really do the whole manor kind of system anymore. One thing that we do is we have shelters where the homeless and the poverty stricken families can go and in order to stay in those places, they are able to do chores to live there.
Until Next Time,
~Amanda
Today's topic is reflecting on some of the things we have learned about medieval communities responding to neediness. I think this is such an interesting topic and I had trouble forming what to write about because there were so many things we learned about.
One of the examples that stuck in my mind was what we learned about last week; hospitals. Hospitals were initially put in place to house the poor and take care of people with Leper and who were too sick to be anywhere normal. This is something that is worth emulating because, well, it's obvious hospitals are still extremely relevant. The hospital by my house, in the 16 years I have lived on Meade St, Appleton Medical Center has grown in size quite a bit. When we moved there, I believe it was just a small building, one structure. Now, it is a large hospital and it has many additions to it. This kind of shows that hospitals are still relevant and that the medieval times have stuck with us.
The manors are another thing that I thought of when I thought about responding to neediness. This wasn't a direct kind of thing, but they helped out the peasants in the fact that these manors housed them. The Lords gave the peasants land in exchange for working the land. I think this was important back then since there was famine, lots of death, and the weather was quite unpredictable. In today's class, we learned that the rain in England started one day and continued for the entire summer, for two whole years. The grain rotted because of this. So for these people to be able to work on the land they live in and still be able to live there was an incredible feat. This doesn't happen too often anymore. The people who have this kind of situation are able to get discounted housing with foodstamps. We don't really do the whole manor kind of system anymore. One thing that we do is we have shelters where the homeless and the poverty stricken families can go and in order to stay in those places, they are able to do chores to live there.
Until Next Time,
~Amanda
Friday, October 3, 2014
Memoria...
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Memory in the middle ages was a huge thing, even in today's society. The art of being remembered is something that is relevant way back then as it is now.
Memory and commemoration in general is something that people do to be remembered. They do this for something as little as a name on a classroom room number plaque. These people give money and their own spare time to help out their society in any way they can. Some people don't have a lot of money to begin with so they give what they can and that may be just a $20 deposit to someone so they can buy books for students.
I think the motives of these people are mostly genuine. These people are the ones I went to school with who wanted to make everyone happy. Not all of them, but most people I know who would give their time and money would be for something like this. These people live to make others happy and this puts a smile on the giver's face.
Others, however, seem to do this for a sort of selfish reason. They give money to schools and charities so it looks good. A prime example of this would be a celebrity, I believe most of them are forced to help charities out because it looks good for them. They are the ones who attend events because, like I said, it looks good for their name. The celebrities who do extra to help make money for charities outside of these events are the genuine ones, I believe.
My favorite example of this was told by one of my favorite artists, Ed Sheeran. He told the story of one of his good friends, who is in my favorite band, Harry Styles. Styles had bought £3000 worth of pizzas and handed these pizzas out to the homeless so they could have something to eat. This wasn't covered by press or anything until Sheeran had told this story. Genuine people like Styles are the people who I look up to.
Many people I have come across are the genuine givers, some are the not so genuine. The people who do things out of the good of their hearts is people who I look up to. The people who do things to create a name for themselves, I think they need to reevaluate why they are giving to a certain cause.
Until Next Time,
~Amanda
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