Important Quality of a Leader

Communication 

The most quality of a leader is great communication. Communication is the key to having strong relationships with others. Many successful leaders tend to show high skills of communication. Being able to communicate successfully is important because it can reflect on how you are as a person. Communication skills can also help a leader clarify their goal and anticipate the receivers viewpoint and feelings. Furthermore, negotiating with others is easier with great communication skills.  Being able to build relationships with others is important for a great leader. For example, Barack Obama has great communication skills and still keeps a strong bond with the citizens. Many reasons why people respect Obama as a leader is because of his great communication skills .Another example of communication skills is seen in the novel, “Ender’s Game”. Colonel Graff shows an effective use of skills in many ways throughout the novel. He first communicates well with Ender to have him come to battle school and get his point across well. In chapter 9, Graff also showed his communication skills when convincing Valentine to write Ender a letter. Colonel Graff manipulates Valentine into writing a letter for his own use. However, Graff still shows effective communication skills while in the process of manipulation. As a leader, Graff did a great job in using his communication skills to convince others for his own use. Therefore the most quality within a leader is excellent communication skills.   

War and Conflict Artifact

This picture is Albert Einstein’s point of view on war. He states “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. What Einstein is trying to get across is the idea of humans repeating the past and starting from the beginning again. He believes that war is repetitive and decreases human intelligence because of the fact that they are repeating war over and over again than finding a solution. In addition, by war taking place it involves several amounts of resources and causes a lot of destruction. Einstein is saying that if the process of destruction continues, it will eventually demolish all the resources resulting humans to start back from the beginning.  People will stop trying to look for other alternatives than war and keep resulting to the same actions to consult with the issues that they come across. Furthermore, by war occurring all around many people won’t be able to focus and ponder on other things. This picture better helps me to understand war and conflict because it shows me a point of view which states that war is repetitive. I also believe that by repeating the same actions that don’t result with more positive solutions but negative is completely wrong. It made me think more broadly, and helped me to realize many possible reasons why some countries/nations might result in war. Some may take part in war to show how much power and great technology they have, others may do it to please their ego. Overall, this picture made me think more about the consequences of war and how it begins to happen or why it happens. 

The Boy in The Striped Pajamas

Retell:

The movie, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is about a boy named Bruno at the time of World War II in Nazi, Germany. The story starts off by Bruno and his family moving from Berlin to a new unfamiliar home. Bruno is tempted to explore the area around the new house and is told that he is not allowed to explore certain areas. Bruno still decides to discover the area behind his house and comes across a Jewish boy at a fence around his age at a concentration camp. Bruno and his new friend, Shmuel bond together and discuss about their family background. Just as the boys start to bond Bruno’s family is planning to move away not allowing Bruno to speak to any Jewish person. They also restrain Bruno from knowing what his Fathers work actually is and what happens to the Jews. Bruno goes against his Fathers orders Bruno still visits Shmuel and brings him food and entertainment which aren't provided at the camp. Shmuel confides to Bruno that his father goes missing and he is worried. Bruno promises to help him find his father at the concentration camp and Shmuel promises to bring him pajamas to blind in with the people on the other side of the fence. Towards the end, Bruno goes missing. His clothes were found at the side of the fence in front of the concentration camp. As the boys search for Shmuels father at concentration camp they suddenly get trapped in a gas chamber. Sadly, it was too late when Bruno’s father finally realizes where he had disappeared to.

Reflect:

            This movie was about a start of new friendship. The desire of friendship is universal and important part of every child’s childhood. Bruno and Shmeul exist in completely different worlds and seem to meet due to Bruno’s desire to explore. Despite their circumstances they began to start a great friendship. Though they had conflict throughout the movie when Shmeul went to Bruno’s house the boys still developed to come across their problems. They both knew that they would get in trouble if anyone else knew about their friendship. I admired their friendship and the fact that despite their differences they still became great friends. Overall the movie was great and fascinating. It was unique to see life in the perspective of World War II.       

Relate:

            Bruno and Shmeul became great friends despite their differences in culture. It didn't matter to them about their differences even though they knew they would be in trouble if someone knew about their friendship. I can relate to this because several of my friends have different cultural backgrounds then me. I don’t care about their background but like them as my friend do to their personality. This is similar to Bruno and Shmeuls friendship because they also don’t care about their difference in background and still became great friends.