Loyalty Essay

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    Many works such as “Macbeth”, “Beowulf”, “11/22/63”, seem to portray the importances of loyalty, bravery, and internal conflicts. These characteristics often determine the fate of a character. For example, in the book “11/22/63”, the main character Jake Epping tried to stop the assassination of JFK, and during the process, he failed many times due to his emotional weaknesses and conflicts with others and himself. All of the three books share similarities when it comes to internal conflicts and…

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    What is loyalty? Loyalty means to be faithful to a certain someone or something. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a group of friends must stick together when one member is forced to kill someone to protect his friend. This event then leads to a chain of new problems. In the book, Hinton emphasizes that loyalty is important because it allows a person to be able to trust the people close to them, along with the fact that loyalty is most often needed to allow two people to have a stable…

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    Duska uses John Ladd’s definition of loyalty to best define loyalty. He quoted “Granted that loyalty is the whole-hearted devotion to an object of some kind, what kind of thing is the object”. Loyalty can be a person or a group of persons. You can have a whole-hearted devotion to an either. Two examples would in my life would be I have loyalty to my father. I would never betray him nor would he ever betray me. A form of loyalty within a group is me playing on the football team. I devote a large…

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    Building customer loyalty requires a multifaceted approach. Before you begin your brand-building campaign, you must thoroughly understand your ideal clientele. Once you have researched your target demographic, you need to find ways to your buyers’ needs. One way to do this is by providing quality customer service. You can use technology to increase organizational efficiency and provide higher service levels to more patrons. Successful loyalty building is an ongoing learning and revision process.…

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    What is true loyalty? In the story The odyssey, there are many themes that come out throughout the story. Loyalty is one topic or theme that is important to the story of The Odyssey. Without this themes, the story The Odyssey has no purpose because loyalty is what drives a;; these characters to do what they do and helps connect the story till the end. Loyalty is an action that is portrayed in the immediate family members of Odysseus, a loyalty that is strong no matter the circumstance.…

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    will you walk” which is a question of a duel. Mercutio doing this is a great act of loyalty toward Romeo. Mercutio’s death by Tybalt adds to his heroic services to Romeo. Romeo shows his act of loyalty back to Mercutio by getting revenge on his soul, he does this by beating Tybalt and overall killing him. The line “for Mercutio’s soul” tells the audience that he did do it to avenge his soul. The final example of loyalty portrayed in the text is by the nurse to Juliet. The nurse helps Juliet by…

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    Loyalty is different for everyone. It means more to some people than it does to others. It is more difficult to gain for some people than others, but in the end, loyalty is important and must be respected if given. Odysseus understood that. He knew the value of his word. He knew what he was capable of and the lengths he would go for the people he was loyal too. Odysseus did not hand out loyalty like a free sample at the food court. He was not loyal to everybody, but Odysseus was loyal, just like…

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    allegiance to a person or institution. My parents show their loyalty by showing forgiveness. Throughout my life I have made many mistakes but my family continues to forgive and care for me even though I may have disobeyed them. On the other hand, being loyal can also impede you from others. Many friend groups in our school and others tend to only collaborate with the people their closest with and less with other people around them. Loyalty is recognized and portrayed by Romeo, Juliet, and others…

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    Loyalty; or the lack of, is seen several times throughout The Iliad. The most prevalent case would be with Paris and the kidnapping of Hellen (Homer, “The Iliad”). Whereas the complete opposite happens in The Odyssey, when Penelope is able to remain loyal to Odysseus while he is lost on his travels (Homer, “The Odyssey”). Although Hellen did not necessarily have a choice with her riotous ways the lack of loyalty exemplifies why loyalty is so important in Homers poems…

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    Did Kuniyoshi really create art that showed he was against everything Japanese? Differently, was his loyalty to the United States – and his sense of Americanness – a function of self-preservation at a time of racialization and exclusion? Wang’s article follows well what Elise Lemire asserted last week, namely, that we cannot analyze the inner workings of individuals outside of the historically specific moments in which particular beliefs and actions occur. In this case, Kuniyoshi was faced with…

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