Every day most Americans successfully gain employment as a source of income. Typically, full time employees work on average forty hours a week. Some people go to work receiving more money than their coworkers, friends, and even family depending on their hourly or salary pay. Fortunately, the economy in America is steadily improving, leading to more unoccupied positions that need to be filled by workers, allowing the unemployment rate to be lower than past years. For example, if someone made ten dollars for every hour they work, by the end of the week that person would earn four hundred dollars before taxes are taken out by insurance and the government. In most circumstances, the money that is made goes towards living expenses and other
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A person’s life has an extraordinary meaning to it, especially seen through a loved one 's eyes. Aristotle seems to agree, he thinks that virtue is the greatest form of happiness and is the ultimate goal. Life can bring a lot of joy and happiness to the person 's loved ones and family members. I could relate to this, according to both my parents, when I was born it brought a smile to their face they still can’t wipe off when I’m around them. However, when a person physically dies, the death tends to bring a lot of sorrow, grief, and even depression into the people that loved them. Many times people will feel a physical absence in their everyday life because that person is no longer with them on earth. Now, when faced with the opportunity to give someone some money that would literally save their life from death, that would 've gone to some beers after work instead, I’d hope that people would make the right choice. The right choice in my eyes, is to give the money to that person. That person is someone’s child, brother, sister, father, and the list can go on and on. The point I want to get across is that a human life is worth more than anything else in the world, especially money. In the grand scheme of things, ten dollars is just a minuscule amount of money that you’ll make over the course of your life. A person who would keep the money for themselves, letting that person die is someone that could be a threat to society as
A person’s life has an extraordinary meaning to it, especially seen through a loved one 's eyes. Aristotle seems to agree, he thinks that virtue is the greatest form of happiness and is the ultimate goal. Life can bring a lot of joy and happiness to the person 's loved ones and family members. I could relate to this, according to both my parents, when I was born it brought a smile to their face they still can’t wipe off when I’m around them. However, when a person physically dies, the death tends to bring a lot of sorrow, grief, and even depression into the people that loved them. Many times people will feel a physical absence in their everyday life because that person is no longer with them on earth. Now, when faced with the opportunity to give someone some money that would literally save their life from death, that would 've gone to some beers after work instead, I’d hope that people would make the right choice. The right choice in my eyes, is to give the money to that person. That person is someone’s child, brother, sister, father, and the list can go on and on. The point I want to get across is that a human life is worth more than anything else in the world, especially money. In the grand scheme of things, ten dollars is just a minuscule amount of money that you’ll make over the course of your life. A person who would keep the money for themselves, letting that person die is someone that could be a threat to society as