...rTaking Responsibility For Your Life Everything you are or ever will be is completely up to you. Everything that has happened and is happening in your life is because of your behavior, words, and actions. You have the freedom of choice. Virtually every circumstance in your life so far, you have chosen out of your own free will. This means, that you are completely responsible for all your successes and failures; your happiness; your unhappiness; and everything in your present and future. Taking total responsibility for your life is one of the most important things you can ever do. Accepting complete responsibility for all your actions represents maturity in your life. When you accept complete responsibility for everything in your life, success, achievement, and self-actualization will follow. You can never accomplish anything of value in your life or have any real measure of happiness without first accepting complete responsibility for all your words, actions, and decisions. Accepting that you are completely responsible for yourself and realizing that no one is coming to the rescue will mark the starting point of peak performance in your life. Once you accept total responsibility for every decision you make and every action you take, there is virtually nothing that you cannot do, have, and accomplish. The acceptance of responsibility is so important, that it comes before goal setting. Until you accept total responsibility, you will not seriously set goals and make plans for...
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...Helen Keller once said “life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”. This is a very accurate statement, taking risks is a part of life as people go from day to day. If a person doesn’t make the best of life everyday, things just drag on and never seem to end. Those that take gambles and excite themselves in new and spontaneous ways are the only ones that can hope to break away from this. Many people tend to avoid risks and believe that risk taking is something they should not do merely because it could end with negative consequences; consequences that are almost always exaggerated a great deal. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the protagonist Macbeth made many decisions to achieve his deepest and darkest desire which was to become king. In order to take a hold of what he wanted he took many huge risks, and in taking those risks he achieved his goal. David Baldacci’s Memory Man and “To Risk” by William Arthur Ward are both works of literature about taking risks, if no risks are taken then no ground can be gained and no rewards can be reaped. Through the rewards of taking a risk, the motivations behind risk taking, and the importance of taking a risk, these works of literature show that in order to achieve a goal, a risk must be taken. Very seldom do people think of the rewards of taking risks and just wallow in the aspects of what could go wrong however, risks need to be taken in order to achieve progress in life. The novel Memory Man was about taking a risk in order to achieve...
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...is playing. She goes ahead to use the photos in her book known as the ‘My Neighbor'. On seeing this, Ms. Cluster’s neighbor sues her to the court of law for invading her private life without permission. She claims that the aim of Ms. Cluster was to invade her secret life by the photo exhibition in her book ‘My Neighbor'. Ms. Cluster claims that the photos had no justified expectation of privacy under any circumstances. She claims that the photograph did not show any intimate moments in the lives of the resident. With the case presented the judge gives the jurisdiction of the case. The modern technology has come with a lot of inventions. The wrist watch camera or the spy cameras are one of the most improved and current technology. The wrist watch camera is a fashionable watch and a surveillance device with durable materials. Its stylish design enables it to be worn in any situation. They are undetectable mini pinhole cameras that allow the device to shoot videos and cameras. The surveillance wrist watch camera is mostly used in crime investigation and business negotiation. In our case, Ms. Cluster used the device to her neighbor and captured some photos privately. The camera allows one to explore someone without their conscious or noticing. They also give room to exploit someone's private life. It is not easy to notice someone is capturing your movements. The device maintains high secrecy in its investigation (Edward Thompson, 1985). According to this case...
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...11/15/2014 Drugs Campaign - Information for youth - How drug use can impact your life YOUTH Youth Making choices Avoiding situations Impacts of drugs Supporting friends How drug use can impact your life Making an informed decision When making a decision about whether to take drugs it is important for you to know the facts about the drug you choose, and understand the risks related to taking that drug. Feeling confused about whether or not taking drugs is the right choice for you is not unusual. Drugs can appear initially to have positive effects – lifting your mood, relaxing you or even giving you more energy. However, they can also have negative impacts on your mental and physical health, your relationships, and your life in general. When you are making your decision, consider the following points: Do you know what you are really taking? For example, most ecstasy is not actually MDMA. What do you know about the person who's selling you the drug? Are you taking anything else (alcohol, illicit drugs, over the counter or prescribed medication) that might interact with the drug? How likely is it that you will have a positive experience? How do you know that the next experience is also going to be a positive one? Do you know that you will be able to control your drug usage and that it will be safe? Can you really afford it? Do you know the safest method of use? Are you in the right environment – is there someone to help if something goes wrong? Do you know what the risks...
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...countless of individuals are preparing themselves to leave their own country in favour to a new and definitely a better country where bombing is not a part of the daily life. People who is seeking after the life we are taking for granted. Even though, the nations of the West turn down many refugees and asylum seekers each year. The story "How Lucky You Are" by Debi Alper (2010) includes a Iranian girl, Ishraqi, whose life have been taking away from her in Iran as her parents were arrested during an anti-government demonstration. After this sadly event, Ishraqi was able to leave Iran for a better life and she ended in England, fortunately. In England she was taking care of by an older woman called Alexsa, who originally came to England from Kosovo, as a refugee herself. The older woman, Alexsa, had a job in the refugee centre and it was here where Ishraqi meets Max. Max and Ishraqi seemed to fit very well with each other, but soon enough, their relationship will fall apart as Ishraqi is set to be deported back to Iran. The Iranian girl, Ishraqi, is a girl, who has experienced more than most of the youth in Western Europe. When it comes to corruption and a government which is so anti-humane that a bad living condition is just as normal as the sun shines. This type of government has Ishraqi experienced in her own life (page 10, line 4-5) as she came to England as an unaccompanied minor, which means that she was able to leave her country as a parentless child. Ishraqi seems to be a...
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...the question, what is the moral responsibility of all participants in this business? In the realm of morality, human beings are responsible for every act they make in their daily activities, thus in our scenario of Blood Money doctors, patients and those in authority are morally responsible in their actions. It is common knowledge that, mental illness, hypnosis, bad habits, and violence influence our free will and critical thinking, thus erasing our moral responsibility (Carroll, 2009). From an ethical perspective, human beings have a moral responsibility of taking care of another person's life, and the actions of taking away another person's life are morally wrong, and it is punishable. Although human beings have a free will, one does not necessarily have a freedom of engaging in illegal business activities and the chilling executions of prisoners in china portrays the extent to which those in authority are taking human life for granted. Indeed the prisoners do not sign a consent form; thus there is a need for those in authority to be punished accordingly...
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...Taking Risks There come times in everyone's life when you're faced with a choice that involves risk. Perhaps you want to change careers, move to a different place, quit your job and start a business, begin a new relationship, have a child. Creatively, you may be faced with a choice of doing what you know is marketable or going out on a limb with your own vision, or giving up a steady job to follow your creative pursuits full-time. Risk is, by nature, scary. It's uncertain and unpredictable. You're heading off into uncharted territory. You may lose your life savings or lose face. You risk criticism and humiliation, or having to pick up the pieces and start all over again. You're giving up what you know for what might be. The rewards can be great, but so can the cost. So, why would anybody want to take a risk? ~ Risk gives you an opportunity to open up to your talents, interests, abilities and dreams. ~ Risk teaches you to set clear goals and follow through. ~ Risk allows you to feel powerful and proactive, making things happen rather than waiting for them to happen *to* you. ~ Risk opens you up to new ideas, skills, opportunities and experiences. ~ Risk allows you to grow and discover new things about yourself and the world, to develop your strengths and talents. ~ Risk allows you to conquer your fears. ~ Risk is exhilarating. It makes you come alive. When it comes to risk-taking, there are two extremes. Some people are afraid to take even reasonable risks, wanting...
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... 2 Do racing games increase risk taking congitions, affect, amd behavior? In this day and age, children, as well as adults strive for leuisurely time away from the hardships of school and work. This is often achieved through the form of entertainment such as video games. While seemingly innocent and a way to have fun, video games have sparked much controversy in recent years. Numerous studies and research has shown that aggressive video video games dealing with shooting and killing virtual people does in fact elicit aggressive cognition, affect, and behaviors. (Fischer, 2007). However, most of the aforementioned studies and research have only dealt and focused on the effects of one particular video game genre, which is shooter games. The empirical journal in question focuses on the psychological effects of a completely new genre of video games in which there is little research, which is racing/driving. Do racing games inadvertently encourage gamers to drive recklessly and in a risky manner when driving on the road in real life? Prior to the actual study, the researchers expected a positive association between the playing of racing games and self-reported risk promotion in real road traffic behavior. Furthermore, they also expected racing games (compared to neutral games) to significantly increase cognition, affect, and behaviors that are supposed to promote risk taking in actual road traffic situations. (Fisher,...
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...In the three informational texts, “Life of Frederick Douglass”, “Address to the Nation”, and “A Kenya teen discovery”, they all take risks, and show that risk taking is crucial in life, and it won’t be possible to succeed without risk taking. In the autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, he has to take a risk just to learn how to read. It’s a risk because it’s illegal for slaves to learn to read, and if his master finds out he tried to learn to read, he’ll be punished. “an unpardonable offence to teach slaves to read.”. If he learns, or is taught to read, it is an unpardonable offense and will probably be locked up forever because the slave is too smart. He also took a risk because he had no one helping him, he was alone. His mistress used to be kind, but under slavery’s “influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness”. After that, he had no one else to help him on his journey....
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...------------------------------------------------- University of Phoenix Material Thesis Statement and Informal Rough Draft Personal Responsibility in Life Rough Draft: According to Merriam-Webster (2014), Personal responsibility can be defined as taking responsibility for one’s actions, including accepting the consequences that come from those actions and understanding that what you do impacts those around you. Personal responsibility means being aware of my commitments, knowing what my resources are to use with those commitments, understanding deficits, exploring ways to better them, and being active with my goal planning. Management of time will be the largest hurdle to overcome. When I am considering how best to manage my time, I look at two areas: structuring time for my schoolwork, and scheduling me. Taking personal responsibility as a student, entails ensuring one’s own academic success by taking the steps necessary to attain goals, these steps may include taking charge of my life, when you take more personal responsibility for your choices and actions, you have the power to create the life you want. Increasing self-motivation, It’s hard to get motivated when you’re not sure what you want or where you’re headed. Improving personal self-management, learning many strategies for taking control of your time and energy will allow you to move more effectively and efficiently toward the accomplishment of your goals and dreams. Developing interdependence...
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...People need to help another person’s life out, take action, take control of own life. People need to stand up for what’s right and to speak up for those who need a voice. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and the Victims of the Holocaust help my claim because both of these sources state that we should take action and try to speak up and make a difference. Anne Frank talks about how to stay positive in conflict, though the Frank family took action by going into hiding,she stays more positive doing something about it. As these works show, taking action, taking control of the conflict is the best way to respond to it, taking action is taking control of your life, your own future. Elie Wiesel gives a speech about how he survived of the Auschwitz...
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...play major roles in your life personally and professionally. Very many people become successful whether it is luck, help, or taking things into their own hands and being responsible with life decisions. Very many live life from day to day and have no cares in the world. We sometimes get comfortable with the life we are living and we are not being focused on what is most important, stability. Personal Responsibility While you don’t have to be responsible in order to be successful, being responsible in your life and career generally will lead to success. I would say that personal responsibility is when you are taking ownership of your everyday life and your future to come. Personal responsibility and college success are very much alike in very many ways. Personal responsibility along with college success you must be focused, driven, determined, and overall responsible for your own outcome of the scenario. With both college and your personal success you have to show accountability and most importantly, you will have to be responsible. Career/Personal Life In my personal opinion I believe that taking personal responsibility, you must know that you do not have control over changing your circumstances, the season, or the way the wind will blow, but you can start with change from within. In order for me to success, I would start now by making sure I am keep up with my personal life such as health, bills, and...
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...To take a human life may not always be right, although certain circumstances may lead to the act to be more beneficial than detrimental to a community’s survival. Ethical subjectivism holds the argument that the morals applied to taking a human life is only in the opinion of the individual. This means that the feelings behind taking a human life are determined by the individual judging whether it is correct or not. In contrast to this, Utilitarianism holds the opinion that if something is deemed ‘correct’ it will lead to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people as a result. This train of thought does not have the individuals’ sense of morals included only the majorities sense of ‘happiness’. “Utilitarianism is a modern nineteenth...
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...look at my life and claim it as my own. I put myself here. I created this world that now seems upturned. I had to finally claim that personal responsibility' for my life. Taking this step required a skill that needs to be learned by many individuals. The acceptance of inner acknowledgment that we are solely responsible for our choices in life, even when life deals us a flop, will give us an upper hand. Taking control of that bum deal frees us to seek out and accept help for ourselves. In taking on this task we must ask ourselves this simple question, how rational are we in dealing with the part we played in being who we are today? And if not, who is the responsible party? Why are we so programmed to blame? Alexander Graham Bell (1827) said, A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with- a man is what he makes of himself. In entering adulthood we chose how our self-esteem develops, but instead we seem to always have that, if it was not for her or if I could only go back and do things different. We must learn to work out our anger, hostility and depression over those haunting ghosts and focus on our now. Who we are and where we are going with this life. In starting this process it is wise to make a list of those parts of our lives that are inconsistent with the lifestyle that we have for seen for ourselves. Taking small steps towards removing these inconsistencies will lead us to that life we desire. Now think of the very best moments in your life, what where...
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...thoughts on sustainability? I think Small Steps Big Wins is a very good platform for us to share our sustainable activities and encourage us to act sustainably in everyday life. I learned that everyone can contribute to the society’s sustainability by taking some small actions, like reusing water bottles, unplugging, and etc. These small sustainable activities we can do in daily life cause big effects to the society and they are critical. If everyone keeps doing these sustainable actions ever day, we could change the world a lot. In class, we learned that sustainability is to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. By taking this exercise, I think that sustainability is not only a responsibility of corporations but also a responsibility for everyone in the society. Everyone should contribute to sustainability by taking these small actions. 2. Discuss the administration of Small Steps? Where directions adequate from Ron, Liz or Net Impact National? Was the program easy to follow? What would you ask us to do differently next semester? How about incentives (extra credit, cash, great interview story, etc – discuss)? The administration of Small Steps is good and it was easy to follow the exercise. My contributions to sustainability by taking these small steps are shown clearly on the website. It is easy to see the impacts to the society caused by my small sustainable actions, like CO2 I reduced, money I...
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