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I think most people want to be naturally good and not only just care about doing good things for themselves, but people can have different meanings of good. Such as, in the story "The Most Dangerous Game" General Zaroff and Rainsford consider good in different ways. In the story General Zaroff thinks being good has in when he catches people he locks them in the dungeon before killing them so then they still have more time to live. In "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford considers being good by caring about people and not hunting other people as a game like General Zaroff likes to do.

In my life I try to be the best person I can be, however sometimes I can't always. Usually I try to be naturally good and I try not to be selfish by just thinking about myself. Sometimes people make mistakes though, because not everyone is perfect and handles everything the right way. I know everyone has had situations like this in life, because it can be hard to avoid.

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Paragraph 1 : The world consists of good people and bad people. Sometimes good people need to do bad things. For example, in the most dangerous game, Rainsford use to love to hunt animals. But when he found out that General Zarrof hunted humans, he realized that animals have feelings too. Also, when Rainsford kills General Zarrof, it was beneficial because General Zarrof killed a lot of people.

Paragraph 2 : In the modern world, many good people have to do bad things. For example, policeman have to kill criminals who pose a threat to the society in order for the safety of others. Many people are aware that policeman kill for the greater good, but it is still considered killing a human. Self-defense is another good example of why innocent people should do bad things. These are numerous examples of why good people should do bad things once in a while.

MDG/COA Question

Well I think that people want to perceived as good but at times they are pressured or make bad decisions, however personally I believe that at heart almost everybody as good but I believe that the people that are perceived as bad really are good people but they just make bad choices. for example in this book we perceive Zaroff as a bad person, because he believe that this world was for him to kill everything. Now that may seem like a definite oh my god he is horrible but we don't know how he was brought by his parents, we don't know if he had a traumatic experience as a child that made him angry and want to kill everything. Thus I really do not believe we should snap to conclusions and label him as a bad person. So I really think that he is not a bad person at heart he just seems like one.

I think of myself as a good person I always try to do the right thing and when I am doing something wrong I feel remorse, However in my day I have done some bad things I am not proud of that I deeply regret and some people might veiw me as a bad person but I am not. All of my friends and almost everyone I know have made mistakes that they regret, but if we labled all of those people as bad almost everyone in this world would be bad. However the word forgiveness is a great word and allows us to maintain our reputation. Since I have taken an interest in forensic science and investagation shows on court tv I have understood that even some killers are really not bad people but were in a tough state of mind or were confused and not conscious so to say. That is what I think

MDG/COA Question

I think that everyone wants to be good. The problem is what they think "good" is. In "The Most Dangerous Game" General Zaroff thinks that hunting humans is fine. On the other hand, Rainsford thinks hunting animals is o.k., but hunting humans is not right. In way they both are selfish because killing isn't right and they also killed animals but General Zaroff went overboard and started hunting humans.

In life you will always have people that are selfish and also good people. When I was younger and people used to have something that I wanted I would throw a fit until I got it (I'd say that's pretty selfish). I'm sure most everyone has done something selfish before. I think every one's intentions are to be good but they have little issues.

MDG/COA Question

I think that some people want to be naturally good, but everyone doesn't have the same meaning for "good". For example, in "The Most Dangerous Game", General Zaroff thought that hunting people was good, and Rainsford believed that hunting animals, not people was good. But, really, General Zaroff was thinking about himself when he hunted people because it was a challenge. He was only trying to please himself. Some people are selfish like General Zaroff and only think and care about themselves.

I think that I am a good person. I would never do anything to hurt anyone. Personally, I think that everyone can be good if they wanted to, but they just choose to be bad and selfish. Like at my house, when my sister fights with me, she could of chose not to, but she did. I think everyone can be selfish at times too. I know that I've acted selfish. One time when my mom and I went to the mall, I went into all of the stores that I wanted to go into and then I didn't let her go into any of her stores. But, overall, everyone can be good if they wanted to.

Naturally good

I think that people naturally want to be good, but they do things that are bad. In "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford hunted for fun. On the other hand General Zaroff hunted because he was bored of animals, he wanted a challenge. As the story progresses Rainsford realizes that the way he felt when he was hunted was the way animals felt.

At times I am a good person then at other times I am a bad person. Take at my house for instance. I do my chores when I want to so I don't get introuble. Then other days I don't feel like doint anything and my parents have to repeat themselves over and over until they yell at me. Outside my home I am a good person unless people are not nice to me. Then I'm going to be a bad person to the people who are not treating me with respect.

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I believe that most people want to be naturally good, but they're not. In The Most Dangerous Game Rainsford hunts animals for fun. He did not understand that the creatures he was hunting had feelings just like him. Zaroff hunts humans because he is bored of hunting animals. He says that humans are a "better gain" for his hunting skills. Eventually Zaroff hunts Rainsford. Rainsford begins to feel that being hunted is not fun. The same with animals, it's not fun for them either. Even though Rainsford learned his lesson, that does not make him a good person, it just means that he won't hunt anymore. He could still do something selfish or evil.

In my experiences, I learned that no matter how much you want to be or how many times you say you are, you really aren't naturally good. One point or another in your life, you will do something selfish. When I was younger, me and my friend went egging houses. The first couple of housed we egged without getting caught. But that last house we egged, we were caught by the cops. Right there and then I knew I did something bad and that I would get punished for what I had done. But my friend did not see it that way. Right away he told the cops that it was my idea to egg houses and that I made him do it. Of course, that was not true. He tried to get out of being in trouble by blaming me for it all, and acting like a victim. That was really selfish. In the end, the cops knew he had devised the idea and committed the crime willingly. How? I don't know, all I know is that we both got in trouble for egging houses.

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I think it utamatly depends on the situation, because you can be a bad person but then be good on certain situtaions. Like in MOST DANGEROUS GAME Rainsford liked to hunt and kill animals but at the end he learned that animals have feelings. And for General Zaroff he didn't care who he killed, he just cared about himself. And for Cask of Armatilldo, I didn't really understand that but someone killed another so the person that killed the other one must have been bad and selfish.

If your bad your bad but some people make a change in thier lifes in want to good, and want to stay good, becauses that's how they always been or that's how they've been taught. But everyone has a little of both.

Naturally Good

I believe most people naturally want to be good. In The Most Dangerous Game Rainsford was the protagonist. He was a great hunter. Throughout his life he has killed many animals. He never realized that all the animals he hunted had feelings until he was hunted himself. He wasn't purposely doing wrong. General Zaroff was the antagonist, but in his own little grotesque ways he didn't believe he was doing wrong either. He actually believed he was doing them a favor. In this story I believe the characters wanted to be naturally good.

In my own life I believe most people want to be naturally good. I don't always do good, but I try. Nobody is perfect. Everyone isn't always good when nobody is watching . When my parents say to eat more vegtables they don't mean to be mean. By saying this they are actually trying to help me and make me healthier, but I may percieve it differently. I believe all people have a little good in them

MDG/COA Question

From the stories we have read it appears that most people like Zaroff from The Most Dangerous Game care about themselves. Zaroff cares about himself because he makes sailors crash their ships and captures the survivors. He then hunts the sailors he captures for pleasure. Zaroff also says that "Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if need be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure". Also in The Cask of Amontillado there was a murder, which means someone just cared about themselves.

From my own experiences I believe that people truly care about others. Firemen care about others because they go out and save peoples lives. They also stop fires so people do not get their homes burnt down. On 9-11 firemen saved many peoples lives by going into the World Trade Centers and rescuing buisness people from the buildings. On 9-11 they evacuated people from neighboring buildings so they did not get hurt. They did this even though they were in danger and many firemen losst their lives.

MDG/COA

I think that there are some people in this world that naturally want to be good, and then there is others who only think of themselves. In the story "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford thinks he is a good person, but what he doesn't realizes is that the animals he hunts have feelings too. In the story, to tables are turned, and he is hunted. He then realizes that the animals he hunts have feelings and he wants to change, and be a good person.

I am a good person. From my own experience, People can be good and bad. I would not kill somebody for pleasure, but I'm sure that there are some people out there that would. I have made good decisions and also some selfish ones. I think that there can be good people who just sometimes make selfish decisions.

MDG/COA question response.

PART ONE. Everyone cares about themselves. Only because it's the natural independence everyone has. Like when Zaroff gives his feelings towards life, basically saying that the strong are really the only ones with feelings and are supposed to hunt the week. Then, when it gets to the hunt, Rainsford abandons all consideration for the guy and sets out to kill him. Which makes sense [it's self defense]. As for the Poe story, for real, I could not keep track of what was going on to make heads or tales of who was good and who was bad. But I'm pretty sure someone killed someone. That means there was a murderer. So. Like. Murder is pretty selfish.

PART TWO. After people start to realize that others have feelings too, they start to care about people more. I care about other peoples feelings mainly because I know how it feels to be slammed into the dirt. And I wouldn't want anyone to feel that. Unless of course they have done something to get me to the point that I feel the need to...return the favor. Okay, if you are at a concert, your natural impulse is to shove and pull your way to the front, right? Exactly. Yeah, I guess you could say that's greedy and careless for others. That's the best example of me not caring that I could think of. Otherwise, I'm pretty considerate.

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Good or Selfish?

I think that most people only care about themselves. In the book The Most Dangerous Catch General Zaroff said, "Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if need be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure." He has no feeling for the people that are weak or even just less stronger than him. And in the book, Cask of Amontillado, the murder is the kind of guy who only cares about themselves because he enjoyed killing someone else. Those are the type on antagonists that will never change being selfish and will always stay wicked.

I personally can say that yes, I have had my selfish times. For example, one time my friend was going through a hard time of her parents divorcing, but all I wanted to talk about was a break up figured out that I was putting a break-up before my best friends feelings and emotions so I turned it around and helped her through it. So everyone in the world does it, but it all depends on how much you do it, and also if you learn from it. As every day goes by I mature more and become less selfish. I don't take what I have for granted anymore, I give more than I take, and I put other people before myself.

Most Dangerous Game/ Cask of Amontillado Question

I believe that people naturally care only about themselves, but that outside influences can change their minds for the better and make them want to do good for other people. An example of this from The Most Dangerous Game is, while at the begginging of the story, Rainsford cares only about the self-pleasure he gets from "the hunt", by the end of the story, after his fiasco with General Zaroff, he then understands how perhaps the animals feel while they are hunted. Although I can see no change in the mind of Montresor in The Cask of Amontillado, this does support my theory that people begin with only the desire to please themselves.

As the idea of good or evil applies to my life, I personally believe that a good parental upbringing, religous morals, accountability between friends, etc. all influence whether or not we put others before ourselves. I feel that I am blessed to have all three of these aforementioned traits that HELP to build up selflessness, however, even with many events throughout your life that can help to persuade you to "be good", in the end, you alone may choose your own fate as it regards to this topic.

Mixed Emotions

I think that question can't be answered with an A or B answer. People have different scruples, as Rainsford has a calling to do good while General Zaroff wants to do nothing but grotesque acts. It depends on the person, like Fortunado only cares about himself, even though Montressor practically committed murder, he was still a good-natured person. Again, it matters if the person is good or bad inside if they want to do righteous or evil acts.

From my life, most examples point to the superficial answer. Although most people will help out in a time of need, most people care only about themselves deep inside. But most of that is just instinct, I think. Again, it depends on the person, but most people I observe on t.v., radeo, or any other form of media fit into catagory B.

MDG/COA Question

1. Well I think that most people want to be good or think that their good, but just think of themselves. There are people in this world that are good, their some that go from being selfish to being a good person and then you have those who don't change and think of nothing but themselves and their not even hepling themselves or anybody for that mater. Rainsford is one of those people that are lucky and change the way they are. He loved to hunt and kill the weaker, like animals but when it was his turn to be hunted he didn't like it. At that point he realized that it was wrong to do what he was doing beause animals have feeling just like him so he did learn from General Zaroff game. His job is to stop General Zaroff from killing people for pleasure. Now General Zaroff is one of those who thinks he's doing good but just thinking of himself. He thinks that those who are strong people in the world can do what they will with the weak people in the world. Zaroff thinks he's doing good just beacuse he's feeding his victms before he kills them but he's not. In the story Cask of Amontillado, the muder is the kind of person who only cares about themselve because he took great pleasure in killing another person. By the way it was hard to understand the story.

2. I would say that I'm a good person, I help others when they need it. I would never kill someone for pleasure only in self defence. I've made stupid choises in my life and I do know that they were wrong. I have also learned from them. Also I have something some don't have, I have a older sister who hase made misakes one after another so that tought me whats the right thing to do and whats the wrong. So I'm not saying that I'm perfect but I'm not the worst person ever.

Good or bad

I think most peopke want to do good but something happens to them or theey get driven to a point. General Zaroff was a high powered officer in the largest nation on Earth, who almst lost everything and became bored with his hobby.And the Messor dude was tired of being insulted and ridiculed by a midget wearing tights and an ugly hat.It alsohas to do with the way someone is raised, my parents taught me right from wrong and good from, not all people have the same kind of love and care we were brought up with. Some people are left to fend for themeselves and learn to do any means necessary to get what they want.

In my personal case, I hapened to be in one of those situations where you have top fend for your self and and it was really hard to think of other people. So I guess people don't really want to be mean but sometimes we are put through things that we dont really how to manage.

Most people are taught to do good deeds. Some people just only care about themselves. In the Most Dangerous Game, the general thought he could do whatever he wanted because he felt that other ethnic groups were inferior to him. Ransford, on the other hand, learned about other people emotions as well. In the cask of Amontillado, which was hard to understand, Amontillado was searching for his finest wine, but not thinking of the niter or his accomplice.

I have also mixed emotions. I have accomplished many good deeds as well as had some selfish ones. But over the years I have learned to be less selfish. Even now I do have selfish moments but they accrue less frequently.

MDG/COA Question

I think that some naturally want to be good and some people only care about themselves. General Zaroff is the kind of person that only cares about himself, and I think this because he believes that the strong people in the world can do with what thy will with the weak people in the world. I also think that Rainsford is the kind of person who is naturally good, because he does everything in his power to stop General Zaroff from senselessly killing people for pleasure. Also the murderer from the Cask of Amontillado is the kind of person who only cares about himself because he took great pleasure in killing the other person.

Some people are naturally good and those people are the kind of people that I see every month at a comunity service program that I do for my church. There are also people who only care about themselves, and those are the people that won't donate money or do a couple hours of community service for a charity, and I also see those kinds of almost every day at school or at other activities or places I am.

MDG/COA Question

I think people only care about themselves. The reason why I think this is because of the way the characters act in the story "Most Dangerous Game." For example, Rainsford does not care about hurting the jaguar while hunting it in the beginning of the story, he only cares about being a great hunter. Also, General Zaroff said "Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if need be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure."
This shows he does not care for other people that are weak, but he only cares about himself.

I also believe people care only about themselves because of the way people act in real life. There are some girls in high school that do not care about other girls' feelings, but they only care about their own. Therefore, they start to say mean things about other girls to make themselves feel better. This shows they do not want to be nice.

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Part II: What do you think you could do to improve your skills in that part of the writing process? (Be specific. Saying, "I could practice more," is not going to be specific enough to answer this question.)

Friday Journal

Last week I learned what the SAT words for list three and the vocabulary words from the story The Most Dangerous Game meant. I also learned the terms protaganist and antagonists and their meanings in the story. My favorite thing to do though was learning how to set up the class blogs. I like the idea of this because it is different than how you do your homework usually in all your other classes. Also, you can personalize it and make it your own by changing the font colors and choosing a background for your page.

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The hardest part of writing is writing process is when you have to rough draft i think that all of the info u come up with sketch it out and write it down once you 've got everything done writting everything down .. and make sure you dont have any mistakes.

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I can inprove by maybe writingand
not making mistake and and be more agressive in my work

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Part One: The hardest thing about the writing process, to me, is planning and figuring out what to write. The thoughts in my head don't come out the way I want them to. It takes me more time to figure out what I'm trying to say, and how I'm supposed to say it. I also don't like having to write about topics that I have no interest in. In my opinion, not being able to write about what you want, is very boring and a waste of time. Editing for errors is also tricky because there are so many, that when you re-read it, sometimes you don't always get all of them. Editing for errors is pretty boring as well.


Part Two: To improve my writing skills I think the teacher can give more interesting topics. Learning more vocabulary words could make my writing sound smarter as well.

Friday Journal

I learned what antagonist and protagonist means story-wise. I also reread one of my favorite stories, only i hate when authors try to leave you thinking. It's so annoying. my favorite part was when General Zaroff and Rainford was arguing. I love