Reputation

but they don’t see the whole picture. People are afraid of pit-bulls because of their reputation as fighting dogs. The only thing that they see is the strong looking dog and its lockjaw. In fact pit-bulls have been great family dogs for a very long time. Pit-bulls should be allowed as pets because they can be cared for like any other dog, they are loving companions, and they don’t deserve their poor reputation. To start off, pit bulls are just like any other breed of dog. Just like other dogs…

Diesels bad reputation My senior paper is not only the most important paper I have ever written but it is also about something near and dear to my heart, because it is about the bad reputation that diesels have. Owning A diesel, myself I have people that think bad of me as a person because of it or make fun of me. This paper consists of diesels bad reputation and bad name, and their misconception of being underpowered. My paper starts off with the questions that were addressed and researched…

I chose to read the book Story of a Girl this unit. This book had many themes such as, love, family, home, and respect and reputation. While I believe all the themes in the book were important and played a big role in bringing the story together, the theme respect and reputation stood out to me. One incident pretty much ruins Deanna's reputation at school and at home. When her dad found her and Tommy "messing around" in the back of Tommy's car, he kind of just disowned her. He would not speak…

In old legends, the creature created by Victor Frankenstein was view as a mythical beast. Its large body with stitches around its limbs, its frightening body, and ugly features. The creature was created with body mysterious body parts and came alive. The creature has the capability of feeling emotion like any other human and innocent like a baby. Its wish is to be able to be one with society and in this story, it tells us how its point of view is different than what we expected of ourselves. It…

of the Greek community receive from the public eye. Current and pasty members of the Greek community are faced repercussions of this issue every day. Their reputation as individuals is at stake when the names of their respective organizations are tarnished or slandered. Members of the Greek organization would argue that their negative reputation is undeserving, biased, based off of single opinions. Greek Life impacts its surrounding communities in a number of different ways. These communities…

Even though Abigail pretends she’s angry at Elizabeth Proctor for damaging her reputation, the more powerful emotion is envy of Elizabeth for her marriage to John Proctor. Here she stoops to childish name-calling in order to cast doubt in John Proctor’s mind. This shows that Abigail believes that Elizabeth Proctor destroyed her reputation. Third, Reverend Hale, who is the naïve witch-hunting reverend, entered the play in Act I when Parris summons him to examine his daughter, Betty. In a…

Franz Kafka’s engrossing characters and plot in The Metamorphosis develop the story’s overall reputation. The Metamorphosis opens as Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, awakes to find himself transformed into an insect, and we read upon the chronicles of this transformation. Although Gregor indeed suffers a change in some sort, is it truly physical or all a hallucination? Gregor veritably beared several mental disorders, such as: psychotic depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, which were never…

have a different sense of what reputation is than those who are only passing through. In the play Shakespeare creates a character named Leonato who cares where he is on the social class, and this negates the beliefs of Don John, a selfish character that focuses on his ominous plan. Nonetheless Shakespeare also created Dogberry who cares about the approval of others on an intelligence ranking. In the play there are many references to the citizens of Messina’s reputation and how they differ on a…

Joseph Hall once said, “A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.” Even if one fixes his or her reputation, society will still remember the mistakes that led to one’s poor reputation, which suggests that people only concentrate on the negative aspects of others. In his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne focuses on the theme of reputation, which the aforementioned quote describes. In many parts of his…

Reputation has been a factor of society that determines image and actions towards an individual that prompts secrecy either towards themselves or towards society, in order to maintain that reputation. Puritan beliefs and social structure heavily depended on a good name in order to have respect and success within a community. Maintaining a good reputation allows for safety and prohibits an individual from acting outside the rules of society. This is shown in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” where…