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The Selflessness Of Respect In The United States

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The Selflessness Of Respect It seems like many controversies are going on in our world today. Because of this, respecting others is vital to ensure that everyone feels important and listened to. If people think only about themselves without considering how their actions might affect others, people around them will not think highly of them. It will be hard to earn their respect in return. All over the world you can find endless examples of people respecting each other, animals, and the environment. From a very young age, we have all learned how to respect others and their rights, no matter our differences, but it hasn’t always been that way. As a citizen of the United States of America, I know that once I turn eighteen years old I will have the right and the privilege of voting in all elections.However, just about a hundred years ago women did not have the same rights as men and were not allowed to vote, even if they were of age. They were not respected in the same way as men, even though they could be born from the same parents, possess the same amount of land, and breathe and walk the same way as male voters. Now that the voting laws have changed, all citizens of the US are allowed to …show more content…

After our games, we are instructed to shake hands with the other team and congratulate each other, no matter if we won or lost. If the other team wins the game, I sometimes feel a sort of resentment before I have even really gotten to know the other players. But, when the time comes at the end of the game, I make sure to shake their hands out of respect for each girl, even if one of them might have pushed me particularly hard. I do that because I believe in showing genuine respect to other people. If you do that, it will be much easier to go through life knowing that you have made an effort to make sure others know they are important and make them just that little bit

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