I thought the six question was on point because it looked at the different connotation of these three concepts, something which I had an inkling about but hadn’t bothered to look into. What I found was essentially what I expected. Hello no see the statistics that I gathered; I noted the number of search results for each word, the top five websites that turned up as well as the very telling related searches that was suggested by Google.
The results for forgiveness are mixed between religious and science-based sites in addition to the obligatory Wikipedia page. All of the sites talk about the benefits to the forgiver when they let go of grudge. While the scientific sites look at measurable benefits to our medical and psychological health, the faith-based sites talk more about spiritual health. There was even a Christian musician talking about god’s forgiveness. The related searches show an even stronger leaning towards the religious theme.
With slightly fewer results, the reconciliation search continues to show a religious theme, but less pronounced. Several of the sites simply define it, but they include the religious sacrament, financial/account reconciliation along with relationship and legal reconciliation.
With five times the results, revenge is clearly the most prevalent term, which could be a terrible sign of our culture. Of course, the numbers are likely seriously inflated by the popularity of the television series of the same name. There isn’t a single link devoted to the idea of revenge until the second page of results. I still think that our culture glorifies revenge. In storytelling terms, it’s just a sexier idea. Forgiveness and reconciliation make for humdrum Lifetime movies - revenge makes for a blockbuster hit.
Forgiveness - 55,300,000
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgiveness
www.mayoclinic.com/health/forgiveness/MH00131
http://christianity.about.com/od/whatdoesthebiblesay/a/bibleforgivenes.htm
www.psychologytoday.com/basics/forgiveness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Lu5udXEZI
Searches related to forgiveness
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Reconciliation - 51,900,000
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reconciliation
dictionary.reference.com/browse/reconciliation
www.americancatholic.org/features/special/default.aspx?id=32
Searches related to reconciliation
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Revenge - 264,000,000
beta.abc.go.com/shows/revenge
www.imdb.com/title/tt1837642/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_(TV_series)
https://twitter.com/Revenge
www.tvguide.com/tvshows/revenge/319536
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This was a great post! After looking over your results we did come up with the same results. I liked your format to how you created this post. You had it extremely organized and it was very easy for me to find the information I wanted without having to read one solid paragraph. What I liked even more is that you added more than just a response in word form. You added a log of what you were looking at. It was interesting how you provided the different things you looked up and many results were available for each of the words.
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