We must be held accountable for our actions and perform to the best of our ability. My parents always told me, “know who you are and know whose you are.”. This statement will always carry over into my adult life.…
When you hear the word “responsibility” what comes to your head? When thinking about responsibility one may imagine someone with an obligation and a course of action to get that duty done. A responsible person is someone you can always count on when in need of truth or guidance even at the darkest of times. In the tragic play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the readers experience a forbidden love between two rivaling families, the Capulets, and the Montagues. Romeo and Juliet are star crossed lovers who will do anything for each other, even if it means dying.…
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” Eleanor Roosevelt As individuals we are responsible for the choices we make. From choosing to do our work or not to choosing to clean our room or leave it dirty. Each choice reflects our self responsibility, which is the control we have over our lives. Being self- responsible means being accountable for oneself.…
At first I believed that only we pay for our mistakes, not anyone else. However, after reading what Balko said about society having to pay for the consequences of other people’s mistakes and how society is paying made me shift my mind to believe his point of view. This really shows how powerful that phrase is. On the other hand, Zinczenko uses less powerful and simple phrases like, “provide calorie information on request, but even that can be hard to understand” (393). I thought that that phrase was really weak, because what may be hard to understand for…
It means seeing a call for help and wanting to do your part. “Responsibility is the counterbalance to rights. If we enjoy the right to freedom, it is because we accept our responsibility not to harm or harass others” (Visser, 2011. Pg.4). It is about doing to others what you want done to them. If we want people to be more sustainable and focused on the environmental needs of our world, we ourselves need to do the same.…
The second premise goes as follows, “[So] if you’re going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you’re going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are — at least in certain mental respects.” I can concede that we cannot be ultimately responsible for the way we are, but I deny the fact that ultimate responsibility for our actions necessitates ultimate responsibility for the way we are. It is important, for the rest of the argument that we make the distinction between you and the way you are. ‘You’ are the same as your Self, whereas ‘the way you are’ is identified by factors such as your motivations, personality, and character (MPC) – your Self and your MPC are separate from each other. Under this assumption, any actions you make are decided by your Self, not your MPC.…
He further emphasizes the need for people to assume full responsibility for their actions and building a sense of judgment. Fish uses various examples that support…
In the dictionary, the word responsibility is defined as “The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone” (“English Oxford” 1). From a young age, every person must accept responsibility for decisions that he or she makes. As situations arise that must be dealt with, people have a duty to deal with those situations. In many ways, the act of living itself is an act of ultimate responsibility. In Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel, All the King’s Men, the central characters of the novel all have to deal with the consequences of their actions, although many of the characters try to avoid this solemn duty of life.…
In the dictionary, the word responsibility is defined as “The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control someone” (“English Oxford” 1). Throughout life, people have the duty to deal with, or to accept responsibility for, situations that arise. As each new day and each individual action a person makes creates new situations, responsibility is unavoidable. Interestingly, the way in which people accept responsibility, whether they fearlessly embrace or avoid it, is often a defining mark of their character and is also a profound shaping factor in the ultimate course of their lives. In Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel, All the King’s Men, the central characters of the novel all have to deal with the consequences…
In the beginning of high school, I couldn’t understand the importance of handling my responsibilities, especially when it came to my school work. I just couldn’t find the motivation to hand in stuff like homework on time. I actually started to do less and less each school year. I never try to fix my problem because there were never any consequences to it. I would pass all my classes with decent grades with no problems despite ignoring a lot of the work, but then I was called by my English teacher to stay after class.…
Undeniably, the biggest influence to the development of my political identity would have to be my parents, and for a magnitude of reasons including their personal upbringings, emphasis on privilege, and importance of having values. My parents’ contrasting upbringing, mainly economic status, demonstrated the importance of utilizing my own life’s privileges and opportunities. My dad, having lost his mother at a young age, spent almost all of his childhood living in poverty being raised by his father. While my mother, much like myself, was able to grow up in a comfortable middle-class family. In sharing their separate yet intertwined stories with me, I learned the value of maintaining a perspective that empathizes with individuals’ differing experiences.…
But what does that mean. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy discusses moral responsibility as a warranted societal response to a when a person performs or fails to perform a morally significant action. In our society we have agreed on codified laws which we have agreed, as a society, are morally significant.…
In Mexican cultures, November 2nd is “El Dia de los Muertos,” or the Day of the Dead. This celebration lasts a weekend and lets families honor their fallen relatives. The reason I mention the event is because I have always found it ironic that on a day where so many honor their dead mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters, I celebrate my birth. In a way, it has actually shaped my beliefs knowing that so many celebrate the afterlife on my birthday. In fact, it humbles me to share a date with this event because, for me, it teaches that death is the end of your life, but it is not the end of your memory.…
Taking personal responsibility for the cards life has dealt is a big factor. Ultimately, it has to come from…
Responsibility is a virtue many try to embody and balance, but I believe it is best exemplified by my aunt, Kathy. Kathy was the oldest of nine children and when she was 21 her mother died of cancer. Her mother’s death was hard on her, but since her father had to work to support the family financially, Kathy had to take on the responsibility of essentially being a mother to nine children. Kathy had to be extremely responsible and balance college and caring for her younger siblings; making them food, making sure they were getting their schoolwork done, and being there for them emotionally.…