ity would arise to impart some of our generosity in the life of astranger. To touch one life with an act of kindness, is in essence, the start of a chaineffect. When compassion lingers, the people we leave are effected by the love webestowed upon them. For the persons life we touch will more than likely share thekindness we offered them to another individual. The importance of compassion is alwaysin the forefront of all of my actions. Daily I try to act towards others as I would want themto act towards me. I have found that this necessary and long founded truth to not onlycreate strong and lasting friendships, but to aid in my personal happiness as well. At the tender age of seven one is standing at a fork in the road of life. One path isleading towards personal destruction and the other towards personal growth andunderstanding. Without the proper guiding and mentoring of parents and teachers, anyindividual can easily choice the wrong path. With Mrs. Kennedys intervention I was ableto pick the road of personal growth. By continually pounding fundamental values andethical practices into our character for five consecutive years, Mrs. Kennedy lit thecorrect path for all of her students. It was then up to each student to make the choice tolive life by rudimentary, sever, or even no morals at all. With formal religion mixed with formal education, I received a completeunderstanding of my personal and academic strengths and weaknesses. For I was taughtthe fundamental principles of reading, writing, and arithmetic; as well as the differencebetween right and wrong. Personally I believe that each child in the United States ofAmerica should somewhere in their formally education be taught the difference betweenright and wrong, good and bad, expectable and nor expectable. In the past theses valueswere taught in the home. Yet with the increasing need for dual income families, there is adecreasing amount of time which parents are able to spend with t...
