Values Essay

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” This could not be more accurate because the people of a nation make up their own culture. Every nation in this world has a unique culture onto its self. Not one nations’ culture is totally and completely the same as another. There is only one reason for that, it is the people who live there. The people who live in these different nations have numerous things that make them special. The…

Having a strong personal integrity can have lots of different meaning to people. In the Photograph by Scott mutter there is a statue of a man with a shield. He must have did something strong and brave to have gotten a statue built after him. Maybe he went to war? Or stood up for his country or kingdom?. Whatever that man did took some bravery but he still did it and showed people what it meant to be brave and have integrity. Having personal integrity to me means standing up for what is right…

Integrity an uncommon word that the majority does not know its definition. The word integrity represents something important, that if every human were to have the world would be a better place. What is integrity? Integrity is defined as being honest, fair. By this we know that if the world followed this and lived it the world would be a much better place. It wouldn’t be perfect, but it would be better as a society and an environment. Integrity to me is being unique but being open to others…

As children, we were taught to live our life following the Seven Pillars of Character. Those pillars represented what traits a respectable citizen with strong morals should achieve. Among the commonly heard characteristics like Responsibility, Trustworthiness, and Caring, there was one that did not have such a straightforward meaning as the others; Integrity. Unfortunately, younger students never question the meaning of the word or an example of someone who displays good integrity, but we grow…

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish Poet, once wrote, “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” In other words, Life won’t always deal us a good hand, but how we play these cards of life may in turn be the better play even with the good hand we wanted. My cultural identity is best described by the word moral. My cultural identity has been molded in many ways. Three of those ways are through: my family’s catholic beliefs, my schooling, and reading spider-man…

I learned from a management course about corporate culture in four different levels of analysis; there are individual, group, organizational, and global. I see those levels in the real world of my workplace with different concepts. I am employed with Morrison Healthcare in INOVA Fairfax Hospital in Food Services. Morrison Healthcare is a subsidiary Compass Group North America, is a leader in food service management and support services for healthcare facilities. I have earned appreciation…

Throughout our lives, our minds are constantly growing and being warped, and depending on what environment you grew up in, your morals can have a huge difference from someone else's. External influences, or context, in different situations will push and pull at your moral bubble, and these changes can be permanent, or just temporary. Your environment and community will help you evolve as you move along with life. There is no true way to tell right from wrong, after all, the views of right and…

Throughout the course of human history, existence really, there is a basic need to stay alive; the stakes of which are endless. Whether it is keeping your children alive or just yourself, the instinct is there to do the best for yourself and not for anyone else. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a prime example of the cruelty of humans for the sake of themselves. The story does not only show human’s basic instincts, but the underlying obedience to do an act of horror despite knowing it is not…

What is the name of these subjective experiences? Anti- reductionists believe that subjective experiences is not reducible to objective characterizations. Nagel states that subjective experiences is referred to pour-soi which is french for subjective. Subjective is described as “for- itself” and are based of feelings and emotions. b. How does his bat example illustrate Nagel’s argument that these experiences cannot be objectively understood? Nagel states objective as en-soi which is…

Everyone has a story and almost everyone wants to leave some sort of a legacy — to be remembered for something meaningful. Our legacy is part of ourselves that, will be left in the hearts and minds of others. Some people leave a positive and inspiring legacy while some people willingly or not, leave a negative one. Nobody wants their existence to be lost to time. And just like everyone I wants to be remembered for the love and kindness I shared that has all become too scarce in today’s world. I…