Definition Essay On Anger

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Benjamin Franklin once said that, “whatever begun in anger ends in shame.” This is a rather pointed quotation about something that can plague all of us. We all have an ability to lose ourselves and go a little overboard on something. Whether it is a political debate or maybe just an internet use policy that you don’t agree with, we all can get a little too angry sometimes. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, anger is, “a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism”. While the definition does technically state what anger is, it isn’t able to get deeper to fully examine this quite often capricious human emotion. I see anger as a fire inside every single one of us; anger can sometimes give us the drive to achieve great things, …show more content…

While anger may get a bad connotation from a lot of society, the brutal truth is that anger is a catalyst for many people to try so hard to achieve their goals. While this anger may be motivated by not extremely holy things, it nevertheless still motivates people to do many things in our society. When people feel true anger for whatever reason it may be, they feel a passion and a drive that wasn’t there before. Anger in its truest form can only be truly described as a deep and fervent burning fire that once ignited can push people to their limits in order to achieve their goals. Fire is dangerous and yet also a great tool, just as anger can be to many people. Through this it can be seen on an even deeper level of comprehension that anger is even furthermore a tool for each and every person to use for themselves. They are able to use it for good or for bad or even just ignore it with a level of callous ignorance for the possible ramifications. Additionally this shows that anger isn’t good nor evil, alas it is shown that people are what makes anger cause such temerity or such benevolence. Fire can also burn for many days and even weeks, anger can burn for that length or …show more content…

I was attending another day of Summer School (just like the days before) and I was logging onto my MacBook on order to finish some classwork and also view some materials needed for class. Once I was logged in I went to Google Chrome and clicked on my bookmark for Blackboard. Then I realized that the wifi wasn’t working properly, for the rest of class I continued working the best I could with the hinderance of not having a viable laptop to use for class (because my school laptop wasn’t working again). It was not until the next class that I was informed of a new internet policy the I.S.U. enacted last night. This new policy blocked all devices except for my school laptop from using my school internet account. When our class heard, cries calling what we perceived as I.S.U.’s naive despotism. We were all angry about this policy. I was especially angry, what this policy insinuates is that I.S.U. does not trust us whatsoever. Even worse cutting kids away won’t stop them from any perceived wrongdoing that I.S.U. may want to stop (because we have data), it only shifts the culpability away from them if anything were to happen. To add on even more, there is the fact that this will most likely also hurt our education as well. Our school computers can’t always be considered 100% reliable; open wifi allowed us to use other devices when school computer didn’t

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