Social Issues-Do Not be Daunted by the enormity..neither are you free to abandon it...

This week there was a horrendous earthquake in Haiti (look up info before you write, if you don't know anything about it).

People from all over the world are joining together to send help. 1/3 the population may need assistance, over 1/2 have been affected persoanlly. Imagine that happening in this country. People do not have access to medical help, food, water and many have lost or been separated from family.

What is the world's responsibilty? What is our responsibilty? What would you like to do? Look at the quote below, is it true? Why?

"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." The Talmud

V. Gaboury

I think that we should help hatti because they have nothing. It is also hard to rebuild when your government dosn't have the money to do anything. So if we help hatti in anyway even if it is just donating money or even setting up a food and water drive would help them out. At this point they don't have anything so every piece of material will help them them alot. I think our school should come together and setup a fundraiser for hatti. It would also make the people feel good about themselves knowing that they are helping people that are in need of help..

Haitian Earthquake

The Haitian earthquake was a really devastating incident to happen especially in times now days. The incident pushes the world to see how they are willing to help others. The US especially seems to be acting immediately to this pandemic. I feel it is the United States duty to step in and help these unfortunate people at there time of need. The small country of Haiti isn’t very rich or advanced in technology to begin with. The earthquake destroyed most of the medical centers that are severely needed to aid survivors. The US sees the misfortune and lack of supplies in Haiti, and we are doing a lot to help these people. I know that everyone everywhere in the US isn’t doing EVERYTHING possible to help, but from what I have seen in my community, a lot of people are working on making a difference. The news of the quake is getting out from multiple sources that I come in contact with. Some places I have heard it from are the news, commercials from Red Cross, radio stations, major websites like Facebook and YouTube, and my church. Most of these places have also included a way for me to donate money to the Haitian people or for medical supplies they need. The US military is also being sent into Haiti to find missing people, help clean up the destroyed buildings, and give support to the survivors. I have donated multiple times and continue to donate and my church and at my school where we are raising anything we can that will help the Haitian people. The quote "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it," from The Talmud relates to the Haitian earthquake. It is great advice to aim to live by. The quote basically states not to waste time. It states the truth in how you should not waste time to grieve, but rather act out to help to overpower the grief. Act positively in response to the death of a loved one, or the destruction of your home. And to innocent bystanders, you can’t just watch these people deal with their own problems. If you were them, how would you feel if you shrugged it off and wished you good luck? It is the world’s responsibility to help these unfortunate people in any way, little or large, that they can.

i think that we should help these people in haiti because they are deeply in need of help. if something like this happened to us. we would want others to help us too. and maybe if we lead example, other countries will pitch in and help. if we all lend a hand, we can help improve the lives that were affected by the earthquake. it is very hard to rebuild a life when it has been affected in such a way where thousands of people dies and many houses destroyed. so it would be the right thing to do to help out.

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Our Responsability to the people in Haiti is to do what ever we can to help them in anyway we can. Even if it is donating one dollar to redcross every little bite helps. The worlds responability to the people in haiti is much bigger everyone should be bringing supplies and food to haiti if they can afford it. Also every courty should to trying to organize fundraisers or donation boxes to whatever they organize to help the people in Haiti. The quote "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." The Talmud . This quote means you can't run away from your problems or the problems the world becasue no matter what they are going to stay with you until you do something about it. And fix the diaster in Haiti.

This quote is very true. It is hard to imagine what these people are going through, and we are very lucky. It may seem over whelming, but we can all help. It is obviously our responsibility as a country to help, and if you watch the news you can see the Obama is really stepping up to this responsibility. Even the little things we can do as individuals, and the things we can do as a school can make a difference. This is one of those things that you hear about, you will keep hearing about, and you can't ignore. It affects all of us.
I can't imagine what it would be like walking down the street and seeing dead bodies, buildings destroyed, and everything that I knew completely gone, but the people who were hit by the hurricane don't have to imagine. Just hearing that makes you feel sad, even if it's in a different part of the world.

I think it is so sad what has happend to Haiti. I truely feel bad because of all those people left without homes, food, cars, lost and dead pets, family members ,and friends. I believe the quote is very true. You have to live for today for you don't know what tomorow brings. Its scary sometimes to think that something like what happend in Haiti could happen in a few minutes, months, days, years to us or anywhere else. You can't spend your time thinking about that because no one knows what tomorow will bring you. What you can do is help any way you can today or soon. Some people aren't effected emotionly and physically about what happend. I don't know how they do that, but some people do. I plan on helping out a little like donated 10dollars from my phone, also maybe help out with projects they are doing in school.

Haiti

i believe when a person needs help it is common courtesy to help them, when a country is in need of help a single person may not be enough. i think that we should come together in order to help Haiti or any other countries that ever need our aid. we shouldn't limit what we can do to assist but we should do everything we can. If it was our country in need we would be grateful for any help we were given. i am willing to put whatever extra time i have into raising awareness of the world around us to my peers. I truly believe that if people knew about the hardships that exist in this world and that not all people have life as well as Americans; people would want to help. i will spread the word and make posters to help support fundraisers. Maybe even put in time to collect donations.

to me this quote is a perfect example of how humans should be. don't push the hardships of the world aside and wait for someone else to do something about it. take responsibility now and do what you can to help. you don't have to help, but don't pretend the problems don't exist.

responsible? or not?

i believe it is our responsibility to help the haiti or other countries when there is a natural disaster. other countries helped us when we had problems like i the ice storm and 9/11. so, now is the time to give back and help other countries. here in averill park i think our responibility is to raise money to give and help the people in haiti that are in desperate need of it. i would like to do anything i can. im all for helping the people, no matter what we choose to do. i like giving back and the feeling i get from it. and i think this is THE perfect way to give back and get that feeling. also, we should live life to the fullest and live one day at a time. because with a blink of an eye something like this could happen, and your life could be gone. when i look at the capital city port au prince and the destruction the earthquake has caused my heart drops. i feel horrible for the people that have to go through that today. i cant imagine how people that loose their family members feel seeing a white blanket over them, laying on the ground. im heartbroken, and i feel for these people.

Personally I feel that it is our responsability not as Americans but as fellow humans to care fo one another in times of hardships. Every person should contribute or at least aknoledge in some way whether it be in a group or individual donations. I hope to get a group of people to collect donations and try a thing similar to Relay for Life in which people walk or run the track for a given amount of time to show we care about Haiti.

Haiti

I think that everyone should take part in helping Haiti.I think Obama's idea to partner with other nations to help out,is a great idea.Personaly 100 million dollars is a little much,i mean we still have things to fix in the states...New Orleans for example.Instead of just giving that much money we should have donations and different things to contribute.The eathrquake,i heard was a level 7 earthquake so they definetly need as much help as they can get and even if it isn't on our territory its a nice to help out.Especially when there are people from Haiti living in te United States.

The quote to me means that if things like this happen you should just live for the moment and not look at the big picture.It isn't up to you to fix everything but don't just forget about it either..it still needs to be solved somehow even if not by you.

Hope for Haiti :]

the worlds responsibility is to take care of eachother and when disaster stricts to not sit around and do nothing. our responsibility is to support the people who are helping others. I would like to see this earthquake disaster fixed. The quote is true. its true because it is saying that peolpe dont have to help but they shouldnt completly ignore what happened.

Haiti

Hi Mrs.G it is Josh
I only know where haiti is because of spanish we learned most of the places in Central America. The principle said it was going to be a 10 to 14 mouth recoverey.

I think that the world's responsibility's is to help support them and help them out as much as they can. I think that all country's do feel sorry for Haiti becasue they just got over a brutal hurricane season. The least that the world cacn do is send some food and clean water for them to survive this. Our responsibilitys are just to do whatever we can to do to suport them, every effort counts. what we would like to do is do some sort of fund raiser to help them in any way. even if it is giving them blankets ect. I think that this is true because if we turn our back is unexceptable, but we cant fix the whole thing in hati. but just doing a little bit to help is the best that we can do.

haiti disaster

I think what happened in haiti is a tragedy. Natural disasters can't be stopped, and a lot of the time they cannot be predicted. Even though there is nothing we can do to prevent an earthquake, I believe everyone should help. The entire world should get involved in this; any country that is able. We all need to help out; the smallest donation or action can do a lot of good.
I also think we need to raise awareness because even though this is huge, there are some people who don't know the story, and especially that they don't know how to help once they find out. We need to find out information about websites and ways to donate and even start or help charities. The world's responsibility is to get military forces and medical people from their countries to go to Haiti and start helping. I'm happy that the U.S. was there right away.
Everyday people should help aswell; there are many ways that they all can donate, and no matter how many people are in debt or jobless, they should donate as much or as little as they can. I also think that celebrities are obligated to help. I know that there are many celebrities that are helping, but they can do a lot more. The Yankees donated a half of a million dollars to the cause, but lets face it-thats nothing. One players net worth is like, 10 million dollars and these multi-million/billionaires are being selfish (some of them) so I think these people with more money should do more because they can.
The quote is true true, because we absolutely need to do something and now. We cannot ignore it. I would like to donate money to help.

With Haiti in major crises does the World step in or watch it struggle to get back up and under controlled. In my pinion it depends when other countries should step in to help other countries. When it comes to natural disaters, it's the right thing to do, to step in and try to help out. If people are dying and there's no way for their own country help them, other countries should help out. Natural disasters are things no one can conrtol and its not a countries fault when they're suddenly struck by a harmful earth quake or some kind of storm. I believe that another country should step in but it is in no way the other countries duty to step in, it is simply their choice to help.
It's the other factors like political things in which I think other countries should not step in. If they are asked maybe they can do a little but to completely come in and help a country that just doesnt want to be helped is never a good idea.

Haiti

i think that we should send aid to the country and send search and rescue to Haiti. we should also send food and medical aid to Haiti so we can help the people who live there. i think that we should send money to the people who can we not find their family in there town and see if there are in there house and try to find there family's.I think the should send the army national guard to help find the people who are lost in the rubble under the collapsed house and other buildings.

Haiti

I think the earthquake in Haiti was terrible. One of my friends was adopted from Haiti when she was a baby, so it's scary to think "What if she was still there?". It makes me think about what all the children and babies in adoption agencies are going through and if they're okay. It upsets me most when really young peoples lives are cut short. Imagining something like that happening in the United States is pretty scary.
I think other countries in the world should definitely help out. We would want help if we were in that situation, so we should do everything we can for the people in Haiti who really need it. I think the quote is pretty true. Many countries see the hardship and want to help even though they aren't forced to. The quote basically says you don't have to help, but you can't just ignore something like that.

Haiti

I think we should help. If not for the people of Haiti, for our American workers who live there, or for our own people who have members of families there, or even a whole entire family. I would like to do some type of fundraiser for the people of Haiti because they desperately need aid. Also I'd like to think if we lead by example, other countries will help us in a time of need. It is our responsibility as people sharing the same earth to help eachother.

social issues - earthquake in haiti

I realize how devistating and upsetting the earthquake in Haiti is, however it is just another natural disaster that happened in the world. I dont feel its anyones responsibilty personally, not unless they make it their responsibilty to help them out. I would like to take on that responsibilty, and help them in some way. whether thats raising money, collecting food, collecting other supplies, clothes or whatever needs to be done. The best way to approach this would be to do something through the school. There are many kids here that are willing to help.
I do feel like the quote is true. i feel this way because, i think it sends the message that we should take action. But not because its our job to do it, but because we cant just walk away and not do something. I think people are more willing to help out and do something when they aren't obligated to do so. If they choose to help, they feel more accomplished and not like they just completed a job assignment.

The Earthquake in Haiti

I don't no much about Haiti, the only stuff i heard was the information today on the radio station my dad was listening to. I know that most of the buildings where knocked down because they where not built to with stand the earthquake, and all the ones that did stay up during the earthquake they fell during the after shock or are unstable.
the earthquake in Haiti was very devastating and terrible, people are with out there homes and food or water, there are people injured with no hospitals to go to. I think we should do some thing like that happened in new york we would expect other people to help us, and imaging being with no help in a terrible situation like that. I think that we should send care packages and money to Haiti.
the quote when I read it gave me goosebumps just like when I read the genocide books it is that powerful and what happened is just as terrible.