Oooops! Shawn H pointed out to me that I didn't post the question on the blog. Here it is.
Which is more influential nature (what you are born with) or nurture (what you learn from your environment)?
Write a focused paragraph in which you develop an answer to this question. Remember to make an assertion (that's your thesis), explain the assertion, and support the assertion. For a paragraph like this the support can be difficult. Look for examples in your life and in the world around you. Remember that you are trying to convince me and your peers that you are right.
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I think nature (What your born with) is more influential than nurture(What you learn from the environment). I think everyone is born with good qualities you just have to accentuate these qualities to make them stand out. I think that you can learn from your environment to an extent. You can learn a lot from your environment but the instincts that you were born with will take over. When you learn something from the environment it is far less influential than being born with a quality.
Brett C.
I believe that nurture is more influential than nature for many reasons. Nature is what your born with but if you donʼt grow up and raised with what your born with then those characteristics will not carry over into your life. You become the person you are by how your raised and nurtured no matter what nature you have. The nature that your born with is not what you remember when you grow up. You remember the things that you are raised by. Nurture is repetitive and can occur on an everyday basis and that is what youʼll listen to especially if itʼs an everyday occurrence. Nurturing is raising and teaching at a level that cannot be matched by nature because what your born with doesnʼt always stick in your head if your not continuously doing it like nurturing. Nature also canʼt teach you anything, itʼs just a memory and canʼt influence you more than you already are because you know everything about it. Nurturing can be learning and by this becoming more intrigued by the idea and by this influenced by it. Nurture keeps changing and becomes more interesting while nature stays the same.
Angela R
Which is more influential nurture (environment) or nature (what you're born with)?
I believe that nurture is more influential. The reason why is because you grow up seeing things that are good and bad. For instance watching television how violent it can be. Another thing that is bad influence growing up in the city with gang violence and learning how to kill and steal. Also being in a violent influential area could help motivate you to get out of the life that you are living in that you had grown up with. Nature is what you are born with but it does not really develop your personality. Personality is developed in the environment that you live in. A example would be a child growing up in a broken home. The father or mother or both could be an alcoholic or a drug addict and could get a hot temper when drunk or high. That guy might grow and become an alcoholic or a drug addict and might end up getting a temper. This would happen because of the environment that he had grown up in. It was not because of what the child was born with it was because of the poor decisions that the parents make that had created that environment. Environment shapes the person for who they are.
Craig H
In the case nature against nurture, nurture would have to be the more influential factor. Nuture would be the more influential one because it is the way you were brought up, either in a good family or in a bad family. Mostly if you grew up in a good home you will have a kind heart, but in contrast if you grew up in a bad home you will most-likely end up being sort of a mean person. On the other hand you can grow up in a kind and loving home and still end up being a mean person due to the people you associate with in school. You could be brought up in a bad-hearted family and still be a very nice, warm-hearted and loving person. You can be a nice person but you have a bad attitude because of all of the violence you have witnessed in your childhood due to parents fighting a lot or the violent television shows that you watched. There are many influences both positive and negative but the person always has choices and sometimes just one good person can help them make good choices. If you grow up in a bad home because of parents fighting and getting a divorce that could either make you depressed or you could see it in a different prespective and it could make you an emotionaly stronger person. If the divorce makes you feel depressed you may start acting out in school because, you are trying to gain attention even if it is the bad kind. The divorce will make you feel like it is your fault and make it seem like your parents don't love you, and you will try to make your parents love each other and get remarried to make your family a normal one. Nuture consists not only of the immediate family, but relatives, friends, teachers, schools, churches, clubs and the whole community. Nature is just your genes, nuture is the whole community of people who can influence you.
Nick T
I think that both are equally as important as the other, but the one I feel is the most influential is nature. To be honest anyone can fake being anything, which would be faking "nurturing". But nature on the other hand is in your genetic code, its something you can't fight. Whatever your DNA has you to be made into, you will be made into that no if, ands, or buts. As you go along with nature, nurturing takes its toll on you also, but not to the same extant as nature does. Trying to fight nature is fighting off destiny, its bound to happen and its inevitable, but nurturing on the other hand can go anyway. You could nurture a small child to be a mass murderer, or a monk because you can choose that. Nature, meanwhile, nature happens over a course of time and it knows its going to happen. So basically nature can not be stopped, it will always happen, but nurturing can be anything depending on the type or nurturing.
I believe that nurture is more effective than nature. They way that people live is based on society and the things around them. Of course it takes a while to have a full effect but it does happen. For example if a young child grows up being beaten and is in a very violent house hold. He’s used to seeing that so it is very likely that he is going to grow up acting the way that he’s used to seeing which isn’t always for the best. Another thing is say a teenager is watching TV or reading their favorite magazine. They see their favorite star smoking or having an eating disorder or something like that. They’re most likely going to think it’s cool and start doing the same thing. Nurture affects the world more than we think it does.
I believe that nuture is much more effective then nature. Nuture is when your exposed to things and pick up habits from it, such as seeing people help other's, you are more apt to be kind and helpful. It's like the saying "monkey see money do." It all starts at a young age you learn from the people you are exposed to. Your first word when your born tends to be the word you hear the most. Since you are born you pick up on every little thing you see. In my opinon you are more likely to be kind if you see people acting in acts of kindness , and if your exposed to evil or rudeness your more likely to be evil or rude. I firmly believe in the quote "You are the product of your environment." If your parents teach you at a young age that something such as talking poorly about someone is bad and rude and will come back to get you then you will probably speek less poorly of people thanks to your parents teaching you right from wrong.
I think that nature is way more influentical that nurture. With nature you are born with the skills that you need. I also think that nurture is what you pick up in life. I also think that nurture can be more influentical then nature. A reason for that is you tend to forget the things that you are born with and just go with the flow and learn new things with life.
I think that nature is way more influentical that nurture. With nature you are born with the skills that you need. I also think that nurture is what you pick up in life. I also think that nurture can be more influentical then nature. A reason for that is you tend to forget the things that you are born with and just go with the flow and learn new things with life.
I believe that what one is born with is nothing more than human instinct which is the same for everybody making ones nature irrelevant. According to the theory of social cognitivism people learn through past experiences. With ones current preferences being shaped by past experiences it is hard to distinguish the difference between nature and nurture. What one is given at birth does not affect who one becomes but merely presents an environment in which to make themselves accustomed to. When arguing which is more influential to a person nurture or nature, it becomes a question of which do we learn from more. as humans it is instinctual to learn by mimicking what we see others do. Mimicry is a universal tool to all animals, because it is needed at one time in a species' lineage for survival. Although mimicry is no longer necessary for survival in humans we still use it subconsciously to learn how to behave. In the end, the question boils down to weather people are born with their abilities and just need time to grow into themselves? or is every person a product of their environment?
Jared W E Block
In my own opinion I feel as if nurture is by far more influential than nature. I feel this way because people can influence someone to do anything, if they approach it correctly and do everything just right. for example, the marines. The marines are trained to kill, they're trained to stand and shoot and to never fear death. Now no one in their right mind would really do these things without influence. People have a great way as should I say, persuading people into doing many different things. Also I hate to use this as an example but take little kids for instance. Have you ever had a friend from way back when who you enjoyed hanging around with but your mother or father told you that they weren't the right person to be hanging around with? Now look at where they are. They are most likely to be getting into trouble and you now realize how your mother was right. I feel as if these children were not nurtured properly. It could be a parent or any other figure that influenced them to not be brought up well. Now I'm not saying that their parents gave them a lecture on how to be rude and defiant. I'm saying that their parents or any other influential force guided them the wrong way. You can say its a small case of monkey see, monkey do. Take Frankenstein for example. Frankenstein was "A blank slate" as you can say. He wandered around the market exploring his new world. He was a blank mind, that could easily be influenced. When Frankenstein was being ambushed by the towns people he picked up a bad characteristic. He became violent. Frankenstein was not bred to be violent if you remember. He never attacked Victor or showed any desire to destroy him when he was first born. Then Victor hung him up in the rafters to die and Frankenstein then picked up another feature, by fighting back. Throughout this whole movie Frankenstein learns many different things such as reading, speaking, and actually helping families by picking their own crops for them. Frankenstein did not however learn how to approach things cautiously without hurting someone or something. When Frankenstein was playing the flute or some other instrument, the little boy approaches him. Instead of talking to him or playing it cool, Frankenstein looks at him and gets up to go after him. Frankenstein did not mean any harm by this but the little boy took it very differently. So as you can see Frankenstein only wanted to approach this boy but he ended up hurting him emotionally you may say. It was unintentional but I'm quite sure the boy was scared for his life.
Nurture and nature are both an important factor in someone’s life but I believe that nurture is more influential then nature for a plentiful amount of reasons. One, being that when people see someone do something they tend to follow and do the same thing. When someone is nice to a person that person will then be nice to another person. I have observed this in my child study class. Also, their behaviors are effected by nurture. One child would help clean up and when the others would see that child helping and then they all will start cleaning. They tend to follow each other’s actions. This shows that even being born with good qualities, how you act towards other people’s nurture is more influential.
Between nature and nurture I think they are mostly equal. People should be proud of what they are born with not what they have. Some people don’t enjoy what they are born with but they don’t realize how good it is for them. Nurture is also very important because as life progresses’ learning is the key to survival. If someone grows up to violence or any kind of harsh background they could or could not grow up to do what they have been around. Some people that have grown up in a bad violence community could grow up to be the very well known person.
I think that nurture is more influential than nature. I feel this way because nurture or in other words your environment, is always exerting pressure on you. While what your born with sometimes can be forgotten if always being pressured by something else for example some one could grow up thinking drugs are bad and they never want to try them but if he or she’s friends use drugs and every day ask her and pressure her to try them there’s a high possibility that some day he or she might try them. Or another less extreme example friends or people you know have dared you to do something that you know is dumb, but because in our culture no one can refuse a dare you do it any way, or if you don’t then you are looked down upon for refusing.
In this case I think that nature is more influential. Being born with abilities and skills will be better than someone who learns them from there environment. For example, someone who was born with the skill to throw compared with someone who learns how to throw. Nature will take out nurture.
The more influential thing in life would be nurture. Nurture because people need to be taught by reacting to the environment not just what you are born into. With nature the person is not going out and finding anything new just what is already known whule nurture is the way a person goes out to find the essential knowledge. In life the reason we live is to find out new things which would be nurture while nature is just showing us something that is already there.
I think that nurture is way more influential because you're not born with morals or opinions. Its how you're brought up, who you're brought up by/with, and your surroundings that molds you. You can't assume people are born knowing, they have to be taught things such as how to talk, walk, and express emotions. therefore, i think nurture is much more influential
I believe that nature is more important than nuture in a lot of situations. If a kid in kindergarden has no friends because he's fat or because of a genetic defect, like a unusual voice, then he is going to be teased, shunned, or harassed all the time. When this boy grows up, he would become aware of all the bad things in society or in his life. He might realize that no one is going to ever like or be friendly towards him. This is similar to what happens in "Grendel". I also think that nuture is also a huge factor because its what happens in life to the person, but how that person views those events is because of their upbringing. Miyamoto Musashi, a famous swordsman in Japan in 1645, was brought up to be a fighter. He was taught basic skills like writing and reading and then learned how to use a sword. That is why he is one of the most famous swordsman to date. If he was brought up in a politicians home, he could have been a politician or a banker.
The famous question of nurture or nature is not a question that i think can be answeared or can have a definitte side to stand on. think about it if you are born with great intellegence(due to a great history of intellegence in the family) then you will act diffrently then someone say who is not as smart(not born with intelegent gentics). But, if the smarter person is raised up to be lazy and due to this slacks on his studies, then the person who is not as smart could be raised as a hard worker and work hard to eventually become smarter than the person with the genetic advantage. In history we see examples of supporting the side of nature in the racsim america had. It doesnt matter how they were raised, no matter what they are still going to be hated and discriminated just becasue of the color of their skin, And all of that hate and discrimination can change people. So being born with that trait definitly would change who you were back in the early 1900's no matter how you were brought up. Another example of not being able to pick a side is the situation you were born in. If a person is born with an abusing farther and a drug addict mother, you could be born with fine traits (although unlikley with these type of parents but lets just say it happens) i dont care who you are your going to be difrent then if you had normal protective parents rather then non-caring parents with many problems of there own. But, here is where who your are comes into play. You could be born with great willpower and could be able to overcome this dreadful situation if your very strong mentally (which could be obtained through overcoming a situation like this but you are most likley born with this trait). But if are born with a wek mentallity then it will be harder to overcome. But, either way this is definatally going to change who you are regardless if your mentally strong or not. So, my opinion on the whole nature, nutrture thing is this, you cant really pick a side becasue it is scientifically proven that people have geneics and carry diffrent traits which cause them to be diffrent people. But, it is also noticed that if you hang out with someone or live with someone (lets say a wife) then you start to act like them, thus changing you. You could have also been brought up in an abusive family obviously changing you, but, then again if two of the same people go through the same situation then one person is going to be diffrent from the other becasue of their genetics. So, my opinion in this question is you cant pick a side because, nature and nurture both contribute to who you become.
I personally believe Nature is more influential to a persons life than nurture. Genetics play a large role in this argument. While it's clear that physical characteristics are hereditary, our vision of genetics get a bit more cloudy when it comes to an individual's behavior, intelligence, and personality. You could make the argument that people behave and act the way they do according to their genetic predispositions. You could also make the argument that people act the way they do based on their past experiences. Whichever the case, I don't believe there is one correct answer, just varying opinions and prerogatives.
When it comes down to choosing between your two best qualities, its not easy to justify which has had the most inpact on your life such like nature and nurture,in which both reflect off of who you are,or who you've become..
It's difficult to pinpoint which one is more influencial because it depends on who you are, and how you define yourself.
Nature is the relative importance of one individuals inner qualities all of which comes from the very beginning, its the ones you've known all your lives,the ones who have meaning, morals and values and probaly the only people you can put your trust into. Nurture is the enviorment your surrounded by it can be good people just as well as it can be bad people,
you segragate yourself into your own motive. and go with what you see, rather then what you feel is important.
I would have to say that nature would be more influencial.I believe this because nature contributes more personality,
where a person knows right from wrong, and develops some sort of integrity and motivation, all from haveing proper direction. Unlike baseing your intesions on what goes on around you, struggling to find the right place for yourself.
Nature is who you are as a person. Nurture you can drop like a bad habit and get yourself away from.
It all comes down to how you dfeine,yourself not how others define you.
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