English with Rachel
In the next class we will be talking about personal values, where they come from and they are integrated into our every day life's.
I would like you to write a 150 word essay on your personal values and attitude to values. Here is some vocabulary and a video to help you:
- Social Value synonyms - 105 Words and Phrases for Social Value
The writing exercise
A personal approach to social values
Today, although social values are present in almost every speech of our political and social leaders, their real meaning, their real outcome, is up in the air in our western societies, perhaps in all societies of the world...
Morality, honesty, truthfulness, trustworthiness, trust and any other abstract concept related to goodness in personal values are really in decline, as I see it. Why? Because the human race is selfish, capable of destroying everything in order to achieve an "ephemeral" goal, aimed at one's own benefit.
Have we changed over time, over the ages, in terms of our moral concept and our approach to justice in this world we share? Sadly, I think not, at least not at the higher levels of our societies, which, in theory, seek to correct our mistakes, errors and failures inherited from our survival instincts.
Anyway, one must try to be optimistic in these strange (always strange...) days and put one's little effort just to reverse our natural inclination to complete selfishness and love for destruction...
I really hope we keep trying to redefine our status, our attitude in this small and unique world in which we are trying to live and let live, at least...
