Values Essay

This essay is a critical response to Jeremy Waldron’s essay Minority Cultures and the Cosmopolitan Alternative and Will Kymlicka’s Cultural Membership and Choice on the topic of state intervention , in the form of support, should be given to minority cultures. I argue under a liberal and capitalist context that particular communities (that of which cultures,religious, ethnic and minorities sections fall under) are beneficial to subsidised by governments on historical grounds. This is considering…

As many of us have experienced, decision making is arguably a far more vibrant process than black and white. Morals are what separate us from other species, in which they direct us towards ideas that we find humane and fair to human life. For many of us, we find our morals challenged given certain cases where we like to prove ourselves as good people to the rest of society. For one to make an educated judgement, they must consider the situation they are in to achieve a beneficial outcome. Thus,…

Integrity means to me being right all the time. My life it is nothing like integrity it is totally the opposite, I am like never right over half the time. Being 100% honest isnt me when it comes to being around home, but at school to my teachers, to my friends i'm about 70% honest. I can admit I have done many things wrong and i regret them, but when i do right i still feel like i'm doing wrong. When I have first shot my paintball gun and it hit my car, it felt so wrong to lie and tell my…

I live my life according to my own definition of integrity: do the right thing, no matter the circumstances and understand a situation from someone else’s point of view. One event in my life made me realize that doing things for my own personal gain is not always the right thing to do. In seventh grade I started thinking about other people with a less selfish outlook on life. One situation in particular helped me understand the importance of doing the right thing and following the golden rule,…

Merriam-Webster defines culture as the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. Culture can sometimes informs the way someone views other people and the world by thinking about cultural stereotypes. In the essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee, it discusses the struggles and stereotypes of Indians living in America. Mukherjee wrote, “…I was opting for fluidity, self-invention, blue jeans, and T-shirts, and renouncing 3,000…

Culture is the attitudes, customs, and beliefs of a group of people that make them diverse. A person’s approaches and opinions will influence their perception. Culture is defined as outlooks, views and customs that make people unique, which means that culture influences perception. Culture always influences a person’s perception of the world because traditions and ideas are shaped by culture. Cultural traditions influence a person’s perception of the world. In “My Mothers Pieced Quilts” by…

Integrity is when a person is honest through their actions, behavior, and words. A person with integrity would do everything in their power to do the right thing and if they ended up failing to do the right thing they would do everything in their power to fix their mistake. A person with integrity would pick up someone else’s wallet from the ground and only open it to find more information about the owner in order to return it. Integrity is important in the sense that, without it, chaos and…

Culture is a thing some people don't like to talk about. Some people don't like their cultural heritage because, of how other people treat other not of their own race. Some might look at others as outcast or aliens. It is clear, when reading "An Indian Father's Plea" , "Two Kinds, and "Everday Use" that culture impacts a person in more than then one way. "Legal Alien", they we're speaking of how "You may speak Spanish but, you're not like me". In some people's eyes we may be…

“Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness”(Henry Cloud). Integrity equals wholeness. While reading Integrity I found that being honest, having character, and being a good person is the sole make up of Integrity. There are multiple aspects behind it. You can tell that an organization has integrity when it posses these three things. Below I will talk about how Judson University has integrity, how I have integrity and where I might need…

To be who you really are in life is called integrity. Being themselves comes from every moments of their lives and number of experiences, giving everyone their own unique way to see the word integrity. Still, no matter the consequences of decisions or any form of persecutions that come, a person of integrity makes their own choices out of their own complete honest nature. Macbeth’s wavering doubts of his honest morals imitates his shallow integrity becoming weak and loss. Shakespeare’s…