When others dictate what we should think, feel, or do, it eats away at our
When others dictate what we should think, feel, or do, it eats away at our
If you see something wrong the logical thing would be to make it right. Unfortunately the reality it is that a lot of people are unwilling to do the right thing, due to lack of responsibility or fear of failure. I believe, that when people are willing to take a stand they have to come to the realization that they may not win in the end. Overcoming this stigma is difficult, but when people do they come realize that they are doing something great regardless if they win or lose. I believe winning is just a matter of circumstance, not all succeed, but that doesn't make their effort any less impactful.…
I don’t wear flannels, have dyed hair, or have a favorite obscure band. At first glance, there is little about my appearance to suggest that I am a nonconformist. Yet, I have always strived to stand up for what I believe is right, even if it meant straying from the crowd. I have my own thoughts, values, and passions, and throughout high school they have at times come into direct contrast with the typical students’ beliefs.…
Reverend John Hale: Sublime or Sinister? As Marilyn Manson so wisely said, “A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do.”…
Agnes White is a lonely 44-year-old alcoholic, drug-addicted waiter living in an Oklahoma motel room. Her abusive, violent exhusband has recently been let out of the slammer and wants to pick up where they left off before he was sent up. Agnes’s friend, R.C., introduces her one evening to Peter Evans, a Gulf War veteran to whom Agnes finds herself taking a shine. He moves in with her, more or less.…
It is reasonable to act against one’s principles if the general consensus requires a person to do so. Is that so? Is it really reasonable to throw one’s morals out the window to fulfill the majority’s needs? Is it necessary to deem one’s beliefs secondary to the beliefs of those around? Because it shouldn’t be.…
I will now outline Albert Z. Carr’s arguments showing how the business world follows game ethics rather than the ethics used in an individual’s private life. In his essay, Carr uses “the analogy of the criminal court, where the criminal is not expected to tell the truth when he pleads “not guilty”” (Carr, 1968, p.400) and how the job of the defendant’s attorney is get his client off, not reveal the truth” (Carr, 1968, p.400). The defendant not expected to tell the truth due to the fact that if the defendant is in fact guilty and does not want to go to jail they will plead “not guilty” and that the defense attorney’s goal is to acquit their client. The burden of proof in a criminal case is “beyond a reasonable doubt” and rests on the prosecution,…
Standing up for what you believe in is significant in our lives. The reasonableness of why it’s important to take a stand on what your beliefs are is because it motivates you to be more confident about yourself. Confidence will encourage you to stand up for what you believe in. Even if before you thought it was impossible to stand up for yourself since all the negative thoughts in your mind clouded up your mind.…
And at some point in the future we likely will be in a similar situation. It is difficult to stand up and do what is right when there is pressure from others to conform to what they do. At these times, will we have the strength and courage to stand our ground and do what we know is right and just? Or will we “cave in” to please others or to “look good”? Today may we pray for the strength and courage to do what we believe is right, even if others may not approve of our choice or our action.…
I do think that it is important to stand up for other people’s beliefs. People stand up for people who don't…
THERAPY Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is based on the assumption that behaviours and emotions arise from cognitive processes and it is possible for human beings to alter such processes to achieve different ways of feeling and behaving. REBT was originally named ‘Rational Therapy’, after that it was named ‘Rational-Emotive Therapy’ and again in the early 1990’s to ‘Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy’. It is one of a number of ‘cognitive-behavioural’ therapies.. BASIC ASSUMPTION…
Reflection Essay 3 “Speaking up at work” • The company experienced steady growth over the years including during the meltdown of the global economy. However, we felt we had to anticipate a possible future financial impact and looked at ways to reduce cost significantly. One of the projects was to outsource the manufacturing operations located in Canada to Mexico. The project had expected savings of millions of dollars and would help fund R&D to develop new technologies.…
As life goes on, we grow as well and there are phases of this development. In this procedure there are times of understanding and being able to see this world in other ways, with differences and similarities in every point of view. These stages can be essentially separated into two categories: the life of grown-ups, and the life of kids. The ways that life goes on in these two phases are definitely extraordinary yet specific viewpoints in how the mind is behaving and how it reasons circumstances can be clearly unique, or abnormally comparable. These differences and similarities between the stages can be thoroughly analyzed by using actions, thoughts, and the general will of an individual at a specific age and the way of understanding,…
The first example of standing up for what is right is…
I have learned the lesson from Betty Vinson situation in WorldCom Inc. when she was influenced by her manager pressure and her responsibilities towards her family to agree with what he asked her to do and rationalized it using the marginal cost theory by saying to herself “just this once”. Therefore, I plan to not allow anything affect my values and do the right thing whatever the cost is. I am sure that it will not be that easy to apply this strategy, but happiness and satisfaction that comes from doing the right thing is worth the challenge and the struggles I may…
Morality Many things can cause a person to ignore the strict guidelines of right and wrong that they have learned since childhood. Nothing compares to three main groups of people in a person’s life that causes the most compromising to a person’s morals than family, friends, and one’s job.…