For the word "forgiveness," I found a total of 55,400,000 sites. In further studying the sites listed on the first few pages, I discovered that many of them talked about the psychology and health consequences of holding grudges and the importance of forgiving someone. There were also a few sites about the Bible and its definition of forgiveness. This word had the second most results of the three terms, but I think it would have been first if it weren't for a t.v. show title that I will discuss later in this post. I believe that there were more sites on the power of forgiveness than reconciliation and revenge because it has a direct effect on our health and well-being. Forgiveness is also a skill that requires a great deal of practice and personal growth. I think it is more difficult to forgive someone as an individual than it is to work with another party to reconcile, or to find a way to seek revenge. Reconciliation is based on the needs of two or more parties, which makes it a little bit easier to determine because there are multiple people working together on the solution. Revenge is simple, harmful, and not suggested to solve an issue with another person.
Reconciliation had 52,300,000 sites on Google, and most of them had to do with religious topics and war. I think this is because reconciliation, as previously mentioned, involves two or more parties going through the process of ending a conflict. Also, I found that the top sites on the first few pages were sites giving the definition of reconciliation. This may be because many people get it confused between words such as compromise, resolution, and forgiveness. Revenge had the most results by far, 264,000,000, but this is because there is a popular new television show with the same title. Otherwise, I think that this word would garner the least amount of results because revenge can be harmful, ineffective in solving an issue, and, in many cases, illegal. I would hope that this word would not have as many results because there are people trying to prevent potentially dangerous sites from being posted. However, the internet is a free medium that is not policed as I believe it should be, so I am grateful that the television show is dominating the Google results pages.
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ReplyDeleteGreat post this week. This week’s blog was a fun one to research. I as well used Google as my search engine to find the words forgiveness, reconciliation and revenge. Most of the sites I found were about health and psychology. I also found a few music videos that popped up. When I looked up reconciliation, I mostly found sites that were giving the definition of it. I like how you mentioned that some people get that word confused with other similar words and that might be why a definition was given mostly on the first couple of pages. And same as you, most of the sites I found when looking up the word revenge was the new tv show Revenge. This also produced the most results and if it wasn’t for the t.v. show, I don’t think it would have produced that many results. Good job.