Disrespect: It Hurts

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Disrespect is everywhere. It can be out in the open or invisible, but it's out there. People can be disrespectful without knowing it. Some know they're being disrespectful and are just interested in a reaction or they honestly don't care about the other person's feelings. In my opinion, animals have more respect than humans. Disrespect can target anyone from lower class citizens to higher class citizens.
Even people who were famous mathematicians weren't treated as equals because of what they believed in.
Evariste Galois', for example, his school reports described him as singular, bizarre, original and closed. The most original mathematician at that time received criticism for being original. His math teacher, M. Vernier, reported that he had, "Intelligence, marked progress but not enough method."
On July 2, 1829, his father committed suicide. The priest of Bourg-la-Reine forged Mayor Galois' name on cruel jokes directed at Galois' own relatives. His father, a good-natured man, couldn't handle the scandal and hanged himself shortly after. Following his father's suicide and his previous math teacher's death, M. Vernier, Galois attitude changed. He was expelled from his school, Ecole Normale, and was arrested many times after that. Violence became his new best friend. May 31, 1832, Galois died in a knife duel. He is an example of how disrespect can ruin someone. He was disrespected, his father was disrespected, and so was other relatives. Look how it ended. This proves how disrespect affects everyone. Another example, Georg Cantor, felt utterly humiliated when his theory was criticized in the third
International Congress of Mathematicians. Serious depression occurred after this incident. He also faced disapproval from many Christian...

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...but it doesn't help me with my future career. Animal science does. It's all about interest and the enthusiasm we have for a current subject. Disrespect occurs do to this because we the students honestly don't want to be at school and learn about something we are not interested in. r repeat for hopefully the last time: Disrespect is a never ending circle. So what can we do to stop it? That question may not have an answer. Maybe listening to our superiors can prevent the next unwanted essay or any other punishment that awaits us. Maybe not talking while our teacher in trying to teach us something valuable could help as well.

Works Cited
1. http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/hjstOly/Biographies/Galois.l1tm!
2. http://www.famous-mathematicians.com!~(.org-cantQrL
3. http://www ,ased .or~/pub I ications/educ ationaJ-leadershjp!oct06/vo 164/num02/Qn-Bein~-Disrespecte
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