Has Morality Changed Over Time

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Morality, morals, standards, are they compatible in all times and societies. Will morality be similar in twenty year’s time or a hundred years? Are these words interchangeable or not? Does morality evolve over time or are our perspectives of morality modified over time. Are societies established on a moral standard corrupted by time, or society, not established on morals, but people have added morals into society? How distinguish what is moral and not just what is normal or what we were taught? Humans are unstable and durable creatures, we can be molded as a youth, but what is impart to us and even as an adult, we can be tempted by the crowd. What is morality and is morality formed by humanity or created by something else, has merely changed or had we learned to understand it.
Traveling back in time, it was immoral for women to wear pants or own property for a certain amount of time. It …show more content…

From each school, there has been a separate structure not just in the way the building is designed, but in the structure of classes and the societal dynamics. Murray Elementary was similar to an Elementary School, having one principal teacher teaching your subjects, there were societal divides but unnoticed to the young children. Then there was Oakland, the ground where a pre-civil war plantation, deliberate about when a person scrutinizes over the perception of morality, this young girl walking to classes by myself, this school struggling against the norms letting little second graders walk to classes alone and classes structured by skill level, not age. I recall that I was in math with boys and girls older in than me, in beginning grammar and writing and in a high-level reading and comprehension class. This school’s distinct methods of not just following the norms, but changing the norms of the school, helped create me. Society has norms, but they're universal, there are the norms of a school, but not all schools are the

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