Why should we study Tragedy?
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To get the lesson and preventing the same thing the other tragedies from happening.
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That is a good questions, many people wonder why there are so many tragedys and so much suffering. People of various religions have gone to their religious leaders and teachers to ask why there is so much suffering. Often, the response is that suffering is God’s will and that he long ago determined everything that would ever happen, including tragic events. Many are told that God’s ways are mysterious or that he brings death upon people—even children—so that he can have them in heaven with him. Though, Jehovah God never causes what is bad. The Bible says: “Far be it from the true God to act wickedly, and the Almighty to act unjustly!”—Job 34:10.\n\nDo you know why people make the mistake of blaming God for all the suffering in the world? In many cases, they blame Almighty God because they think that he is the real ruler of this world. They do not know a simple but important truth that the Bible teaches. The real ruler of this world is Satan the Devil.\n\nThe Bible clearly states: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) When you think about it, does that not make sense? This world reflects the personality of the invisible spirit creature who is “misleading the entire inhabited earth.” (Revelation 12:9) Satan is hateful, deceptive, and cruel. So the world, under his influence, is full of hatred, deceit, and cruelty. That is one reason why there is so much suffering.\n\nA second reason why there is so much suffering is that, mankind has been imperfect and sinful ever since the rebellion in the garden of Eden. Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and this results in wars, oppression, and suffering. (Ecclesiastes 4:1; 8:9) A third reason for suffering is “time and unforeseen occurrence.” (Ecclesiastes 9:11) In a world without Jehovah as a protective Ruler, people may suffer because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.\n\nIt is comforting for us to know that God does not cause suffering. He is not responsible for the wars, the crimes, the oppression, or even the natural disasters that cause people to suffer. Still, we need to know, Why does Jehovah allow all this suffering? If he is the Almighty, he has the power to stop it. Why, then, does he hold back? The loving God that we have come to know must have a good reason.—1 John 4:8.\n\nTo find out why God allows suffering, we need to think back to the time when suffering began. When Satan led Adam and Eve into disobeying Jehovah, an important question was raised. Satan did not call into question Jehovah’s power. Even Satan knows that there is no limit to Jehovah’s power. Rather, Satan questioned Jehovah’s right to rule. By calling God a liar who withholds good from his subjects, Satan charged that Jehovah is a bad ruler. (Genesis 3:2-5) Satan implied that mankind would be better off without God’s rulership. This was an attack on Jehovah’s sovereignty, his right to rule.\n\nAdam and Eve rebelled against Jehovah. In effect, they said: “We do not need Jehovah as our Ruler. We can decide for ourselves what is right and what is wrong.” How could Jehovah settle that issue? How could he teach all intelligent creatures that the rebels were wrong and that his way truly is best? Someone might say that God should simply have destroyed the rebels and made a fresh start. But Jehovah had stated his purpose to fill the earth with the offspring of Adam and Eve, and he wanted them to live in an earthly paradise. (Genesis 1:28) Jehovah always fulfills his purposes. (Isaiah 55:10, 11) Besides that, getting rid of the rebels in Eden would not have answered the question that had been raised regarding Jehovah’s right to rule.\n\nLet us consider an illustration. Imagine that a teacher is telling his students how to solve a difficult problem. A clever but rebellious student claims that the teacher’s way of solving the problem is wrong. Implying that the teacher is not capable, this rebel insists that
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is disaster a choice?
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The most tragic figure from that era was the American people who experienced the tragic end of the lives of three of the greatest inspirers, motivators, and men of insight we have had in our lifetimes.\n\nThey all had the ability to create a true grassroots movement that took place from the heart outward.  They sought to teach us about compassion for those underpriviledged, to show us how to put ourselves in the shoes of another and see injustice, they showed us how to live lives of substance and moral courage.  They showed a rare charisma and ability to motivate people to be their best selves.  And millions of people truly believing in making this a better world and workig hard to do so is a dangerous thing to those stealing charge of America.  Thus their platform, judged to be too dangerous, was taken from them and us.  When they died, so did much of our souls, conscience, and hope.\n\nBut they could not kill that seed they planted within some people who still are poplitical activists and involved due to the works and words and effects of JFK, RFK, and MLK.  Though most of the boomers in that generation sold out thier idealistic beliefs in a better world, some remain still motivated that even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, their remains hope for as Bobby said "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."\n\nIn the face of the country we love crumbling before our eyes I recall what Bobby said that "lFew will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation." yet he also reminds us what is needed " Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change."\n\nThis is Bobby's  legacy. The most tragic victim of the loss of that dynasty and also MLK is the world we could have had, the lives we could have saved, and the many whose souls might had been lifted to lead a life of service and compassion that instead have deadened their consciences.  That, my friend, is the true tragedy.\n\n\nFor those sitting in judgement, remember in his life the Lord overlooked sins if we have love in our hearts for the least among us and they did and noone can take away that legacy.
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Hi \n\nDepends on what Exactly you mean by Love.Because Love Just happens you can not say when and How.And Also its an in depth study which can not be explained in  a few words
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Harris Interactive, a survey research company, has conducted several studies on safety and violence among youth.  Many states have conducted research in order to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act's detrimental labeling of a "consistently dangerous school".  You can find these resources on the internet (check out some of the links below).\n\nMy opinion is that learning how to deal with something empowers you and gives you a sense of competence or control, so I would rather have the measures in place rather than the hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil approach which simply gambles that nothing bad will happen.
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Students must be made aware of bigger picture of damages due to disaster on society.
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You can do a project on the natural calamities happening in a particular place, the cause of the calamities and actions to be taken for that. It would be fun and you'll learn a lot.
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yes, and more peope should, if only people could understand just exactly what is going on , and how are thoughts and energy when negative are all to blame for natural disasters as well as war. If only we understood where we really came from and our true purpose, we could save ourselves from an ugly ending that has been repeated over and again by our forefathers
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I think it should be released, but part of the money they get back from the showing of the film should be used to help these families, specially those families of poor people who died in that disaster. The film shall be very respectful, too. People should go see the movie to learn from that and not just because.
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Because, with out the pain, there would be no joy. With out the hard times, there would be no good. You learn from pain, and it's the sad truth. Pain turns into so many things, wisdom, strength, knowledge. Learn from it, don't be scared of it.
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"Love and Other Catastrophes"
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You know - this is a lot like whisper down the lane.  Let's stop for a minute and think about this stuff rationally.\n\nFrom where I am sitting, I have found that there is no devil beyond our own worst emotions - and there is no hell beyond being steeped in our own worst emotions.  As far as I can see, we humans are running the show - but more like a bunch of college students on our own independent course of study.  We come, we learn, we go - we very likely come back again.\n\nSome deaths are tragic - and some have far reaching implications like nothing else in this world.  Some deaths are welcome - there comes a time when the journey is over, don't you think?\n\nGod is a little easier to understand if you think of it as the energy that powers this existence more than some old guy in the sky using us like Barbie dolls.  We all come here of our own choosing to learn something specific, not to be coddled and live in a paradise and do nothing.  It's meant to be a challenge.\n\nPeace!
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in shakespeare's tragedy of julius caesar, the omens (such as the entrails of the slaughtered animal and the nightmares) emphasize that caesar is ignoring all the signs that he should be paying attention to. they act as blatant foreshadowing and also serve to make the reader more sympathetic to the idea that he "had it comming"
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Probably not in the way that would be most satisfying for people like you and I. We live in a very frustrating time. We must keep reminding ourselves that is may take a hundred years, but historians will one day look back on this as a more than a mistake, but an actual act of terror perpetrated by the United States. \n\nFuture students will look back on it with the same kind of shame with which we view slavery.
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What's the theme of the exhibition?\n\nIf you want to do something that applies to current events, you could research the methodology behind the study of Mortality before and after the 2003 Iraq invasion and occupation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_mortality_before_and_after_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq ) and similar studies. While the subject matter is not mathematical in nature, it's an excellent way to show how mathematics (in this case, statistics) can be used to model real life.\n\nAnother project could look at polling (related to elections), either the telephone polls we hear about every night, or the exit polls, and questions about their validity after the 2004 elections.
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Tragic times seem to be the times when we most recognize our need for God--as well as the times when His tender mercies are most evident to us--because He always meets us right at the point of our need.  These also seem to be the times when it is easiest for us to reach out to Him.  Maybe our defenses are down, maybe we're in too much pain to worry about surrendering to Him, maybe we have a clearer picture of our own mortality than we ever have before, or maybe our experience of His love is just so overwhelming that we can hardly resist.  Whatever the reason, He is "the God of all comfort" and His love, mercy, and grace are sufficient for all our needs!