The only way to gain someones trust is to have integrity. If someone has integrity they are trustworthy and have a good set of moral values. Most Americans would agree that they strive to have integrity, because if someone they do, then they will be successful. For example, in the short story Coyote and the Buffalo by Mourning Dove, the buffalo trusts the coyote to have integrity. “ Coyote promised to remember [not to kill the young cow]” (Dove 47). However, the coyote had terrible will-power and couldn’t keep his promise. So he told himself, “Buffalo Bull will never know… so he took his young cow down beside a creek and killed her,” (Dove 48). What happened was that Bull Buffalo gave the coyote a gift in the form of a young cow. The coyote would’ve had food for his entire life, but he got greedy and decided his promise wasn’t worth not being able to eat all of the delicious cow… so he killed it with plans to eat it. He wasn’t able to eat it though, because Bull Buffalo came in the form of crows and an old woman, and he took the meat and bones with him. The coyote had no integrity and that made him loose all he had gained. He could not be
The only way to gain someones trust is to have integrity. If someone has integrity they are trustworthy and have a good set of moral values. Most Americans would agree that they strive to have integrity, because if someone they do, then they will be successful. For example, in the short story Coyote and the Buffalo by Mourning Dove, the buffalo trusts the coyote to have integrity. “ Coyote promised to remember [not to kill the young cow]” (Dove 47). However, the coyote had terrible will-power and couldn’t keep his promise. So he told himself, “Buffalo Bull will never know… so he took his young cow down beside a creek and killed her,” (Dove 48). What happened was that Bull Buffalo gave the coyote a gift in the form of a young cow. The coyote would’ve had food for his entire life, but he got greedy and decided his promise wasn’t worth not being able to eat all of the delicious cow… so he killed it with plans to eat it. He wasn’t able to eat it though, because Bull Buffalo came in the form of crows and an old woman, and he took the meat and bones with him. The coyote had no integrity and that made him loose all he had gained. He could not be