The Importance Of Reputation In Much Ado About Nothing

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Reputation. It can help a person achieve their greatest dreams or make a person never able to live a “normal” life. In Much Ado About Nothing, the character’s, Hero, reputation is destroyed by three men. Anything can change what someone thinks about you and your reputation can be changed forever. Even if you correct a mistake or someone helps you change yourself, someone else will remember. Somethings cannot be erased. If someone didn’t come to work for a week, that gets written down. When an employer looks at that, there is a less chance of being hired than if that person had a perfect attendance. Information finds a way to spread no matter what. Your reputation, good or bad, influences you and others around you whether you know it or not. Someone’s reputation is like the first page of a book. It is not the cover because …show more content…
I want people to trust me. Overall, I think I have a good reputation because I have done well in school, have good friends, and try to help as much as I can. I do volunteer work and try to help everyone. I always do my best in school and get the best grades I can. Of course, there are times when my reputation could be better. When I was in 4th to 5th grade, I was shy and only was outgoing with my friends. I wanted to change that and now I am more outgoing to people and have worked on being more confident. Overall, I think reputation is important for your life, but I think our society thinks too much about it and is too concentrated on it. A reputation is the first page and the second look of how people see you. Having a better reputation will help you in life, but if our world did not just look at people reputations, I think people would live happier lives. I do not think because of one mistake, someone should be judged forever. Reputations are important, but not as necessary as we make them seem. They let you have a brief look inside someone without knowing

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