How can people best respond to conflict? Some people have very little conflict in life. For example what to wear to school or what to do on the weekend. Others have it a whole lot rougher, having to live in constant fear everyday or hiding for your life. I think that people best respond to conflict by staying positive and never giving up hope.
First lets look at some of the types people can face. People face many conflicts but one of the bigger ones include relationships. These are conflicts with family, friends, or boyfriends/girlfriends. Relationship problems often occur by miscommunication or disagreements about something. Another type of conflict could be values. People can value different types of things. For example in Anne Frank Anne is Jewish so she values something different than the Nazi’s did. Because of this, she had to hide for her life. And hiding for your life obviously has conflict written all over it. The last major type of conflict is leadership. For example in the United States many people right now are “divided”
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Peter Ertel was a german man who was drafted into the German army in the early stages of WWII. He left behind his son and family and was painstrucken. He always tried to stay as positive as he could because he knew one day karma would come back in his favor. Every Time there was an opportunity to be a good samaritan he was one. He was a POW coming to america to a camp. As he was waiting in Grand Central Station a toy ball (a kind he bought his son for his 3rd birthday) rolled to his feet. Then a little boy came over and told Peter it was his now. This gave peter so much hope he eventually was set free from the camp. There, he moved his family to America for a happy ending. In the end because of his positive attitude he is 94 years old and a proud american citizen. His family also lives with him in the United States