Modified Form Of Ignorance

Senior year I was trying to puzzle together this geometry problem in my mind. I couldn’t figure it out, I felt like I hit a brick wall and couldn’t break through it to solve the problem. Maybe if I reworded the problem to be similar to a real world situation I could solve it. In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, his thesis is that intellectualism is more valuable than academic intelligence. Graff begins talking about how schools fail to reach into the minds of kids who are street smart and connect that into their academic school work. He states that students would be more willing to take the academic intellectual characteristic if the schools would engage them into subjects they are interested in, rather than what the teachers think. Graff then opens up to a personal

“In the 60s, the Catholic Church in Massachusetts began hearing complaints that Father James Porter was sexually molesting children. Rather than relieving him of his duties, the ecclesiastical authorities simply moved him from one parish to another between 1960 and 1967, actually providing him with a fresh supply of unsuspecting families and innocent children to abuse” (Ericsson 162).

Questioning the validity of religion within a crime drama series is relative to modern society. The conspiracy within the Catholic Church to suppress hundreds of child molestations committed, by Catholic priests is a pertinent sign represented in True Detective . Southern Louisiana is located in the heart of the American Bible belt, where religion is not a choice, but a

The well-known Australian theologian was reported by The Advertiser and The Sunday Mail to have engaged in “sexual misconduct, predatory sexual behavior, [and] morally reprehensible and deceitful conduct,” in several illegal heterosexual and homosexual acts throughout the 1970’s.

In over a period of years, an increasing amount of attention has been shed to the problem of child sexual abuse in the church. While churches, and other facilities which care for children, have had their experience of this problem, most attention has been brought to the abuse in the Catholic Church. Around the world, case after case has been seen in the press of clergy and members of religious orders being charged with sex offenses against children. Some of these cases go back decades. The issue has certainly brought attention around the world. The reason why, is the question that ponders in everyone mind.

I have been in a country where this kind of sexual abuse, like sexually assaulting a child, is being kept away from media. Some authorities will not make any legal actions regarding this, instead, they will do their best to cover this up to protect the wrongdoers. In fact, there was a situation where “priests with pending court cases were acquitted and even quietly reinstated to pastoral duties.”

We have countless examples of dishonesty in our daily lives, media, etc. For the Common Book Assignment Just Mercy – which focuses on the tale of a talented lawyer and wrongfully imprisoned inmates – there are many examples of people manipulating the truth for their own benefit. This novel was an incredibly moving piece and opened my eyes to the crucial problems happening in the criminal justice system. Bryan Stevenson focuses the main theme of his novel on the statement, “the opposite of poverty is not wealth, the opposite of poverty is justice.” In the novel, it brings up issues such as the death penalty, racial profiling, as well as inequality and poverty to emphasize the corruption not many are aware about. From Ralph Myers, who purposefully made a scapegoat out of an innocent man, we can cite instances of dishonesty in multiple resources.

The Boston Catholic Church’s dangerous employment of power prevented justice and instead allowed for the growth in number of churches and children that were exposed to the sexually abusive priests through the concealment of the abuse.

Michael Rezendes worked for the “Boston Globe” on the Spotlight team, which was small team of people who worked for months on a specific project to make a massive headline on the cover of the “Globe” about every other month. In 2001, Rezendes was working on a small story, one with some potential, alongside his team when they discovered a massive controversy hidden in the dusty files of law offices, parishes, and their own newspaper- the veiled crimes of the assaults on children by local Catholic priests, after which the priests were never convicted.

Mike Rezendes is a member of the Spotlight team and made it his obligation to inform the public about the sexual abuse in the Catholic Church with priests. Rezendes was raised as a Catholic, so to find out the priest were raping little children especially boys he wanted to know why these

In 2002, on the wave of scandalous revelations and inaction, the Vatican issued guidelines specifying what to do with allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests. He urged that all cases be referred to Rome, but did not even mention the reports to local law enforcement agencies.

Most types of higher education has value. All learning has value. Even low mean jobs benefit from more educated people. Our world depends on and our survival depends on a more comprehensive education. Ignorance should not common denominator. Education needs diversity as well as amplitude of range for judging its effects. Technical schools cannot be put on the same plain as Law schools, but they hold the same importance and complement each other. They can also reach the same earning potential. ACT tests and SAT test today test for two different types of learning. They are only prove a student’s ability to apply themselves towards learning a hurdle. Not a predictor of success. Having standardized tests for colleges is a ludicrous as having standardized

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure" (Twain). Ignorance is most usually defined as a “lack of knowledge, education, and awareness” (Webster); confidence is defined as “faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way” (Webster). The two abstract ideas can correlate by both granting success (according to Twain) afterwards and it is very plausible to have confidence in your ignorance. There are many situations where you could just have to fight ignorance with confidence and then you will be successful, which is how I personally perceive the quote. Twain could very well be saying that you need to defeat ignorance with confidence, and then you will succeed.

Nelson, Jeffrey A. (2009). "Sex Abuse in the American Catholic Church and the Attempt at Redemption". Communication & Theater Association of Minnesota. Summer: 37–51. "From a review of the New York Times, January 9 through April 18, 2002."

In the world we live in today, bad news spreads faster than ever. In the days of JFK he could do whatever he wanted without it being reported, today’s media will air your dirty laundry as quickly as possible. When I have pondered the fall of so many people, especially in the church, I have always felt the sin did not just appear, but rather it was something under the surface for many years. The authors really opened my eyes when they pointed out how childhood issues, many of which usually drive one to be a success, can become the root cause for a potential moral failure. Moral failures do not just creep up on a leader, the roots for the possibly upcoming failure run deep within our psyche (McIntosh & Rima, 2007, p. 28).