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Sydni Tokuyama

Bystander Psychology: Why Some Witnesses to Crime Do Nothing | Healthland | TIME.com - 18 views

    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      Just like this quote to the right, some people only help if it is someone that they know and if it is someone they know they are more likely to help.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      If it is someone they know, they may ask if they need help but if they make a story up then they may move on and keep walking.
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What Makes Us Moral - A to Z Health Guide 2007 - TIME - 4 views

  • Merely being equipped with moral programming does not mean we practice moral behavior. Something still has to boot up that software and configure it properly, and that something is the community.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      I agree with this that we can learn something but it may not work until someone "boots us up." It is just like the phrase, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't force it to drink the water"
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What Makes Us Moral - A to Z Health Guide 2007 - TIME - 5 views

  • The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person, often in one instant.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      It is interesting that the madness would lay in the whole body it self other than the mind. I find this interesting because when people say someone is going mad, they usually mean in the mind.
  • And at the same time, we slaughter one another.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      Fun thought: Like the Book Thief
  • The same is true for people who steal or despots who slaughter.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      I do not think that if someone stole or slaughtered, they wouldn't feel nothing until caught. I think that they (at least most people) would feel a little bit of guilt
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Teaching Kids How to Break Up Nicely - NYTimes.com - 7 views

  • Breaking up shouldn’t be a competition!”
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      Why should it be a competition?? Do they think if they take it down faster no one will notice? There is only somuch that you can keep from the world.
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Obama remembers September 11 with message of tolerance - CNN - 40 views

  • The United States went to war against extremists in Afghanistan shortly after the 2001 attacks
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      Even though America doesn't like war I think they deserved it because of what they did to us.
  • "The perpetrators of this evil act didn't simply attack America, they attacked the very idea of America itself," Obama said.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      Obama was/is right because they didn't just attack the people of America but they attacked our pride and personalities.
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The Power of Birth Order - TIME - 7 views

  • Even when siblings play the same sport, they play it differently.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      very much true!! My brother and I play the same sport but its never the same strategies.
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Mark Moffett Ants | The 'Jane Goodall of ants' - Los Angeles Times - 45 views

  • You can get more different types of ants in one tree than you can in all of Great Britain. It's the drama of the Amazon. The early explorers called the Amazon "one big ant hill."
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      I can't believe there are more types of ants in one tree than in all of Great Britain!! Is that even possible! Wonder what that tree looks like...
  • Colonies of leafcutter ants put their trash in their innermost chambers that can be huge and take years to construct.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      I can't believe they put so much effort into this!! If we were like that would we be more constructed?...
  • Sick ants wander off and die on their own rather than infect anyone else.
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  • All you have to do is trick a young ant into thinking it is part of your colony, and it will work to death for you.
    • Sydni Tokuyama
       
      That's so mean! Good thing that today everyone isn't that gullible.
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