K-EQ4

EQ #4 Why is it important to balance personal, short-term benefits and society’s long term welfare?

Hansol
Since many people make up one society, it is very important to keep the balance between people. Like Black Death, if one person starts to get sick and spreads the disease around, then it will bring a big damage to the society. What's more, when you don't wash your hands before you eat lunch, the germs may spread through when you get fork and knife for food, touch the dish and whatever you do, then all people who ate lunch might get sick. This is a picture of black death. Like this, if balance of one person gets destructed, then it might effect all society.

Brittany
When you keep yourself clean and healthy, you are also helping others around you. That also means that if you don’t have good hygiene, you are risking others too. For example, you are sick are you are prescribed to take medicine. If you take the right amount of medicine for the right time period, you will be healthy again and the people around you probably won’t get sick because of you. But on the other hand, if you don’t follow the instructions for the medication, you might not heal and could even pass the disease to others. Then you would be causing others pain that you could’ve prevented if you just followed the directions. In other words, it’s all your fault. These are antibiotic pills that this person should be taking so they don't spread disease. []

Caroline
Small steps can amount to big leaps, and big leaps in this metaphor are equivalent to world organizations. If you wash your hands after you sneeze, you help prevent the passing of your germs around. If your hands were not clean, and you touched your friend's hand, if could have made them sick. But, since you did wash your hands, it kept one more innocent civilian sick-free, for now. You might think that not washing your hands just once after you finished using the bathroom may not seem significant, but in the long-shot, it's worth something. Likewise when you decide not to wash your hands before you eat or something. One small step of cleanliness can help you be healthy, and that's very, very important. You are also another small step in society. If you somehow were to become sick, or have a cold, and managed to maintain good hygiene and stay at home, you could be helping everyone at school or at work stay healthy. It's important to think of others. [] I chose this picture because this person is making an effort to clean her hands. In response to Brittany: I agree to your point of view about finishing our medications, I personally don't want to be responsible for the sickening of the people around me. Back to Top =Deric= Small little actions and habits can help you and the world around you in many ways. Sometimes it may not benefit you now but in a long term, it will usually benefit you. Here is one example. 'Achoo!' When you sneeze, your nose is trying to get dust or anything un hygienic out of your nose. Usually people would sneeze on a tissue if they had tissue. If they didn't they would sneeze in their hand or even let the public feel the wrath of his/her snot(I just had to make it sound gross didn't I). When you sneeze in your hands you supposingly help make the world a better place since you aren't spreading in through the air. Don't forget physical contact as well. After you sneeze and not wash your hands like Caroline had requested, many things can happen. When high fiving or holding hands of another person. You spread the bacteria. When you use your utensils or pencils and put it back, you are spreading the bacteria. You spread the bacteria in so many countless thoughtless ways that you are not aware of and sooner or later, everyone is sick. When a person close to you or important to you is sick, it affects you personally and mentally. You may worry alot if your grandpa was sick. If your teacher was sick, then you may skip a very important chapter that you don't understand. If a close friend is sick, you may think about the person more and become very non productive. It may also cause other people to pick on you and gossip about you. It affects your health as well. If you get sick too much, you will always be stressed and weak. You just can't do your best. If you just took a piece of tissue, you could save so much time and so many things. I hope you now know how important it is to get a piece of tissue. [] I just had to use this picture to gross you out and show you the shrength of a sneeze. At the speed of 90mph, it expels dust out pretty quickly. To Caroline:I think Caroline is very correct. It is very important to wash your hands and care about others. It is amazing how that one little step can help the world in so many ways. It is also very true that washing hands is something very small that most people don't do. It causes many troubles indeed. Back To Top

Madi
Everyone has a different immune system. What might be a common cold to you, might be a deadly sickness to others who's bodies have not experienced this type of virus. This was served as a great advantage when the Spanish were conquering Mexico back in the 1500s. The Spanish had an unfair advantage over the Aztecs and other natives. Immunity. When the spanish landed in the new world, they brought sickness and diseases unlike the aztecs had ever seen before. Soon all the Aztecs were dieing from simple illnesses like the common cold, that the spanish were immune to, but the Aztecs suffered greatly from. The Aztecs had never been exposed to these common diseases and their bodies didnt know how to fight it, they were greatly impacted. I think if the Aztecs had taken better care of their health and immunity systems, they wouldnt have been so hurt by minor sicknesses. This is a picture of an aztec woman dieing of small pox, a common disease. [] I choze this picture because it dipicts how much the Aztec people suffered. To Deric: I agree with your point, ill remember that before i sneeze and infect everyone around me haha. oh and nice picture.

Ray
Although it seems that you save a few seconds of your time by not washing your hands often, you might be hurting people around you. You could get sick and pass the illness on to others. The other people will spread it some more. One person could change the whole society. For example, there is a guy called Steve. He didn't wash his hands often and he got sick from another person at school. When he goes home, he spreads the sickness to his family members. The sickness keeps on getting spread like that. On the other hand, if you wash your hands often, you could prevent other people from getting sick because of you, so be nice and care for others. Also, this isn't only about washing hands. []

Sickness is easily spread, so take good care of your health. One example of how sickness can be passed around is shaking hands. That's why I chose the above picture.

To Madi: It's interesting how Aztecs were greatly damaged by common diseases, just because of their immune system. Back to Top =Daniel= It might be convenient for everyone to spit or throw garbage anywhere. But they hadn't thought about the future, which anything could possibly happen! You wouldn't think about what your garbage might contain. It may contain germs and deadly viruses which would cause deadly disease! And the street cleaner might have contact with your "garbage" and spread the disease around to more people, so I always keep myself clean. I always tell myself: It is not only good for you but also good for others! SO we should keep around environment clean.