Reputation

fast that at that point I thought that I should be in a hospital. As an individual I was never a fan of public speaking and presentations. To me, presenting my work meant that if I messed up once I would lose everything including my friends, my reputation, and my grade. As class began at seven-twenty AM, my Spanish teacher Mr.Daniels announced that we would present our projects today. He had asked the students if anyone would like to…

The Great Gatsby but, how could one be so great? Living his life with innumerable somber events, it 's hard to understand F. Scott Fitzgerald’s choice of title. Gatsby was a liar about his past, he made his fortune by illegally selling alcohol, and he was interfering with Tom and Daisy 's marriage. Fitzgerald had a collection of possible titles, some of them included: Among Ash-Heaps, Gold-Hatted Gatsby, The High-Bouncing Lover , Trimalchio in West Egg, and Under the Red, White, and Blue. So…

Yet there are many things that at first held Zaitzev back from defecting; those things also kept many of his countrymen from doing what he is doing now. There is, of course, the reputation of the KGB, the most feared, ruthless, and savage “security agency”, as it was technically called. In reality, its main roles are intelligence and counterintelligence. As good as the KGB is at intelligence, its primary role, its capacity for counterintelligence is renowned. Any half-decent intelligence agency…

A Reputation Threads through Salem A relatively calm town was deserted in response to madness and mayhem. Who was accountable for this? Abigail Williams. Abigail was a teen girl in the small village of Salem, Massachusetts. Her lustful fantasies towards John Proctor and suspicious behavior in the woods is what drove her and a small group of her companions to start sporadically accusing innocent people of witchcraft. These allegations started shortly after Abigail’s uncle and the town’s local…

Reputation is an interesting concept. Such a big word with so much meaning. Reputation is simply how people in a community see an individual. This opinion is usually based on personal actions, but also on rumors. How is it that so much of life is based on how society sees a person? Reputations can be good, for example Rebecca Nurse. On the other hand, reputation can be demeaning. This was the case for Abigail Williams. The Puritans placed great emphasis on reputation. For them, a reputation was…

Character and Reputation. What’s the difference? When you go by the definition according to the dictionary, what we really understand is: Reputation: overall quality or character as seen or judged by people in general Character: the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual If you take a look at the definitions, you will notice that reputation is simply what others think of you. It is a formulated opinion. It is important for others to think highly of you, but your life should…

and has themes of heritage and reputation, and the expectations that come with it, themes that still apply in today’s world. Beowulf’s heritage, is a burden that he carries with him for his life, being expected to be as great as his father, Edgetheow. Similar to the expectations people have for me, coming from a successful family. Beowulf has a stellar reputation, one that he has crafted himself with the help of others, is challenged. I also am having my reputation challenged in this…

While Iago is discussing the relevance of reputation with Cassio, Iago explains how it has no value, although Iago contradicts this statement with the action of setting up a plot with the intent of reviving his reputation. When Iago and Cassio are talking after Cassio is demoted from lieutenant, Cassio is weeping and saying that his reputation is all lost. Iago comforts him by stating that “[r]eputation is an idle and most false imposition” (2.3.251), and is something that makes you live up to…

Reputation Management is integral to any organisation hoping to build a strong relationship with it’s various publics. Traditionally, reputation management has been seen as how an organisation ‘manages relations with all of a company’s key constituencies through the appropriate media’ (Argenti & Druckenmiller, 2004). With the ever changing environment of social media, and societies’ core values, reputation management is a growing element in any major organisation. This primarily focuses on…

Buffett once said “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently”. The way it relates to our generation today is that Chris Brown ruined his reputation in a short amount of time. There are a lot of people in the world who has messed up their reputation and as a consequence, they cannot come back from it. Chris Brown is only one of the many people that has messed up their reputation and cannot come back from their…