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Stand Against the Evil
“Every person has the choice between good and evil. Choose good and stand against those who would choose evil.”(Friedrich Kellner) This is a common statement among many young students in the world today. As a result, Jodee Blanco is one of the students who stand out against evil behaviours among one's peer group from middle school through the end of high school. In her book Please Stop Laughing at Me illustrates the plight of the emotional, as well as, physical torture she had to endure while growing up as a child. Most of her friends didn’t support her situation for doing the right things. Often she understood as the wrong person to the eyes of her peers, yet she is always …show more content…
However, Daniel Pink believes punishments and rewards that we get from ourselves and our surroundings motivate us in order to survive. In his book Drive, he called this motivation, motivation 2.1 which can’t be external and there should be an inner motivation within people in order to survive. He continued that there are two different kinds of motivations in motivation 2.1 which one of them called intrinsic motivation and the other is extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation means it comes from within of people and also extrinsic motivation means it comes from our environment. Therefore, in order to be fully motivated, people need to have both within and without motivations. This claim of Pink contests the idea that “Intrinsic motivation is conductive to creativity [and] controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity. (11)” In other words, he argues that intrinsic motivation is a behaviour witch driven by our internal rewards and finally satisfies us. Thus, the action of intrinsic motivation makes people to enjoy the work itself and makes people strive toward a personal goal which leads to creativity. Typically, feeling of pleasure, accomplishment, and personal achievement are the examples of intrinsic rewards. Moreover, extrinsic motivation is done for the outside reward which requires particular goal. Thus, the inspiration of extrinsic motivation is an external reward in …show more content…
The story begins by Jodee’s display of an unusual behavior among her peers. Apparently, she decides to volunteer with a special needs students association at Holly Ascension Catholic School. This is an uncommon attitude that requires individual strength and self-determination. However, her friends didn’t accept Jodee’s idea. For this reason, it is notated that the first and the most fundamental group of individuals that cause Jodee trouble are her friends. Her friends are the largest faction that led to both emotional and physical trauma. For example, when making this decision, Jodee hoped that her best friend Marianne was the first to oppose this decision. Further, Jo Ellen also condemned Jodee’s decision to associate herself with the disabled in the society. In fact, Jo Ellen implored Jodee to stop relating to the retards if she wanted them to remain friends. Jo Ellen threatened to stop being friends with Jodee if she continued to associate with the group she referred to as “retards.” Without Intrinsic motivation, Jodee was likely to fall a victim of these threats. However, her determination and motivation in life made her continue supporting these special need children in the Catholic school. Because of her passion and intrinsic motivation, she decided to continue helping the mentally ill persons at the Catholic school. However, the fact that she was tired of