Comments on: Making A Difference

By: .:-:. kaulu .:-:.

.:-:. kaulu .:-:. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:36:53 +0000

I think that “the only thing necessary for triumph for evil is for good men to do nothing” to me means a way for the bad side to win. For example, there is a drought and everyone around you are slowly dying because they dont have any water. YOU have a big storage filled with fresh drinking water but you don’t tell anyone, that is a triumph for evil. Because you didn’t tell anyone, it is just like you not even having a storage of water.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:41:26 +0000

I think that Edmund Burke is trying to say that it only takes good people to do nothing for things to go back. This is like being a couch potato. We should not be like this because deep down we are all very good people. We just don’t always act like it. This is totally okay because we are humans and we will make mistakes.

It relates to me because I can always do something good to help people in need. But instead, what do I do, I just ignore it. I think that if the matter is not appealing so I ignore it. I choose when I want to take action and when I do not want to take action. I think that the whole nation is like this. The Rwanda Genocide was something the U.S. did not want to be a part of, so we did not take action.

By: Dylan keaweehu

Dylan keaweehu — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:59:52 +0000

This quote means that if you want your enemies to prevail and defeat you, then all you need to do is not do anything about it. If your enemy is trying to become more stronger than you for example, all they need to do is work on it and for you to stop training.

By: carson !@#$%^&(_)+/-.,?'

carson !@#$%^&*(_)+/*-.,?' — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:19:09 +0000

I think this quote means that if you do nothing to stop something that you do not agree with, it will always happen. But we may not always be able to stop something because if you look at Queen Lili’uokalani’s case it was almost imposible to stop the overthrow.

By: Codie Paiva

Codie Paiva — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:09:47 +0000

I agree with Traci that the quote means if you want evil to prevail, just do nothing. If you want good to prevail, then do something about it. If you don’t do anything, evil could prevail.

I can relate this to our blogs, also. We write good blogs but sometimes we don’t mean it. Some people do it for the grade. Some people do it for the money in our economics system. If you really care about what you are writting about, then you also got to do something in life. We write great blogs, we just don’t do anything. If you really care about the topic, you should do something, not just keep bloging it.

By: Traci Aiwohi

Traci Aiwohi — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:22:39 +0000

I think that this quote means that if we don’t want evil to prevail or succeed, then good men like us should do nothing ,and if you want good to prevail, then we should do something about it so good will succeed.

I can relate to this issue because sometimes I do not obey my parents and God says that all children should obey their parents. That is a sin and I am not following one of the ten commandments. By not listening to my parents, I am letting evil prevail and rule me over. That is how I can relate to this topic.

By: Kamalani

Kamalani — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:18:17 +0000

I think that this quote means that our problems and will just keep going. They will only stop if a good man stops it. We need to be those good men that stop evil. We cannot just let it go. Although those bad things have a huge impact on things, we don’t want to do anything because we are too lazy. It also means that we need to stop talking about what we are going to do, when we should already be doing something. The Hawaiians are always talking about how they lived a sustainable life, they acted then but how come they aren’t trying to change anything now? Don’t they want it to be like before so they can live a sustainable life? They should be the most worried about all of this because before the Westerners came, we took care of the land and we can still take care of it now.

I can relate to this in some ways. Just like Casey said, the connection that I made is my class. When we write our blogs, we feel so passionate about one subject and we have so much to say. What we say in the blog stays in the blog and on the Internet. We do not act for all that we say. We just do it on the blog so that we can finish our homework and go and play. We don’t mean what we say, we just say it.
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By: Kapena

Kapena — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:15:30 +0000

I think that it means if you don’t do anything and you just sit around, then evil will win and take over.

It relates to me because if I don’t care about things which happens a lot, I don’t do anything and I just sit around. Our class always talks about getting rid slavery but we don’t do anything about it. We can talk the talk but we don’t walk the walk. Maybe that’s why there is still slavery, because everybody talks about it but never does anything to help with that problem. If everybody does one little thing, we could make a big difference in the world so it would be a better place to live.

By: Arielle Taramasco

Arielle Taramasco — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:13:35 +0000

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke
This quote means that you can win the war if the other people just sit around and do nothing. If they are lazy and only worry about watching TV or playing video games, it is a perfect time for you to launch your attack. Yet, while the war is raging, those people still will sit around doing nothing and just watch the damage being done without lifting a finger to save the world.

It also means that there is still time to stop it, but if you choose the wrong path and just watch, your world will turn into shambles. You can make a difference in the world even though you are only one person. It means that the people asked to help aren’t helping others, they are just watching the damage being done.

To make a difference, you can’t just sit around WATCHING, you have to DO IT. You can’t just know and say, “This is bad, we really have to do something,” when you don’t do anything at all. If you want to make a difference, you have to get up and do SOMETHING.

By: Noah Crabbe

Noah Crabbe — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:13:14 +0000

To me this quote means that if some bad people do something, the only way it will go on is if a few good people not say anything or go against it. I also think it means that if good people do nothing, everything will be in chaos. This quote relates to my life because in my life if a few good people didn’t tell me that what I was doing was wrong, I would have ended up as a bad kid. What they did was separate me from my wrongdoings.

When Adolf Hitler convinced Germany that Jews were bad and people believed him, a few good men could have stopped him by standing up to him and standing up for what they believed in. People like Adolf Hitler didn’t start our as a bad person. He made bad decisions and he didn’t have people to help him stay on track and help him when he made bad choices.