Doing The Right Thing Analysis

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Did you know that 35% of people witness people witness people doing the wrong thing and don’t report it? This is an issue because you need to do the right thing and have courage and report it. After reading and analyzing the texts Thank you ma’am, Doing the right thing, and The Road Not Taken, I found that doing the right thing isn’t always the easiest and when you have to chance to do the right thing you really should do it, and it almost always has a positive outcome for you.

In the article, “Doing The Right Thing” by Rick Reilly, It shows that people can get courage from many people and many things. But Jelani Bruce, Anthony Biondi, Thomas James, and Kell'e Gallimore got it from their families. These four men went into a catch all chain store called Buddy’s Small Lots, after hours unknowingly when the front door was accidentally left unlocked. They grabbed their items, and looked for someone to pay. They searched for ten minutes and found nobody to pay. So Thomas James got $5 and waved it at the surveillance camera and set it on the counter, covering the cost of the batteries and video
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He is a leader not a follower. In the text it says, “Because it was grassy and wanted wear.” Meaning that many people went down the other path because it was clean. But, the narrator pause and is taking a while to deciding. In the text it says, “And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood” He says, “long I stood” meaning he was deciding for a long time about his decision, not just going down the nice path like everyone else has. He is giving it thought and have in un-biased opinion. He finally decides to take the path that few people have gone. “I took the one less traveled by,” the narrator says. This means that he finally picked a path and went along. This is doing the right thing by taking the easy way, diverging from everyone

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