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Week 2 – Definition Essay

Language Arts F

Courage is fearlessness, or acting in spite of fear. The soldiers on D-Day were courageous, charging a bloody beach with men, friends, brothers, fathers, falling all around them, bullets whizzing past, machine guns tearing into people with no cover to hide themselves. Courage has always been honoured and is one of the greatest qualities a person can have.

Courage is standing up to danger, facing fear and strife without backing down, doing what you know is right when all odds are against you. It’s being brave, noble, Honorable, doing what you should and have to. Following your conscience in the face of death. It’s determination to do what’s good and just no matter what. That is courage. That is honorable. That is what to strive for.

Josiah Klaassen is courageous. He joined the PPCLI, Canada’s infantry Battalion and will soon be going to Iraq to fight for people he doesn’t know. That takes courage. That standing up for what is right in the face of danger or even death. He knows he might not come back. But he’s still going.

Courage means different things to different people including the dictionary. The dictionary says courage is acting in spite of fear. I agree. But I take it farther, courage is acting in spite of fear to do what’s right it’s not courageous if, in spite of fear of the law, you murder someone. That is evil and courage is noble. So strive for courage, strive for honour , strive for what is good and right.

Week 2 – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Abigail, Language Arts 4/5

Once upon a time, a boy named Nathan and his dog were walking by the construction site. Suddenly, the dog leapt into a bucket. Nathan had to follow the dog and so he did .

The dog would not come out. Then the bucket started going and started to move forward. “What was going on?” exclaimed Nathan. They were going up and up and up. Soon the bucket was being dumped into a dump truck, and they were taken off to the dump, to be dumped in the dump. “Oh No!” shouted Nathan. “We’re going to get dumped in the dump.” The dog had fallen asleep and now had woken up because of Nathan’s shout. The dog was scared, for they were up high, very high.

And the dump truck had already reached the dump and they had gotten dumped out into a pile of garbage. “Yuck! This stinks!” yelled Nathan. “We’ve got to get home before mom gets worried.” And they brushed themselves off and went home. Nathan told mom the whole story and she was glad he was safe. She told him never to go to the construction site again and sent him to have a nap with his dog.

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