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Against Slothful People: A One-Horse Town By Booker T. Washington

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Against Slothful People Essay Imagine if your mom goes on strike and the house is all messy now. It is not good to be slothful because it can destroy your physical environment, it’s not fair to other people, and can ruin all aspects of your life. Not being productive can lead to you being behind on everything. If you forget to take care of laundry, the laundry will pile up. Not being productive can also lead to your environment being dilapidated. In "A One-Horse Town", the townspeople are slothful and their town “hasn’t ever been painted,”(pg 117) and it is run-down. It is also not fair to other people if you are slothful and expect someone else to do the work for you. If you were in a situation where you had a group project and someone didn’t …show more content…

Washington was a very hard- working person. Even though he was unable to get an easy education, he tried his hardest to try to learn on his own. Even though he faced many hardships,”he never succumbed to bitterness or hatred, but rather worked incessantly to build a better life for himself and his people.”(pg 119) He lived with a strict mistress and since he was so reliable, she trusted him. The same thing happens if you are like him. People trust you and want to be around you. He is a great role model for everyone. In my life, my father is definitely the most hardworking person I know. My dad gets up around 5 A. M. everyday and wakes me up. He also works a full-time job. Despite all of his work, he even helps my mom with work. With all of that, he still asks about my day and helps me with my homework. If my father isn’t hardworking, I don’t know who is. Unlike Booker T. Washington, a slothful person is irresponsible, lazy, unhelpful, arrogant, and unreliable. If we could hear the thoughts of a slothful person they might go like this: “Why should I work? They will just do it for me. I want to sleep all day. Why are they asking me to work? If they want a job done, they should do it themselves. I absolutely hate working. It is horrible to work. We should all just be lazy and kick the annoying ‘hard-working’ people out of town.” If you had heard these, how would you feel? You would be furious, right? Most people would …show more content…

After all, they betray a whole country or a close friend. However, traitors are actually better than slothful people. At least they are working, even if their purposes aren't righteous. A slothful person couldn’t even dream of doing what a traitor does. A traitor does things in secret, risks ruining their life, and courage to even qualify as a traitor. It doesn’t take any work to be a slothful person. Being a traitor is a hard job that requires the person to be brave enough to betray something. Being a slothful person doesn’t even require anything but being lazy. A traitor brings a country down or a person down, but a slothful person brings everything down such as people’s emotions, towns, cities, and workplaces. It is a bad decision to pity a slothful person, because pity will only encourage them and damage their life even more. The slothful person will find your pity as a reason to continue to be slothful. I ‘A One-Horse Town’, the town was run-down and in ruins: “The stores and houses was most all old shackly dried-up frame concerns that hadn’t ever been painted.”(pg. 117) Since the loafers were slothful, the town was a mess. The people of the town depended on them and they failed. What if a firefighter was slothful? The houses would burn down. Pitying a slothful person will only damage

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