I sincerely believe Troy's email is malicious slander. I know this should not affect me, but I take pride in my education, work experience, and good reputation in the community. It is hurtful when someone is using written defamation to damage your good reputation or malicious and contemptuous calumny. Especially, as I stated, being the first college graduate in my family, born in Mexico, and coming for a low economic status, I've worked hard to achieve my success and it hurts to have others devalue
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How does a reputation influence the actions of an individual? Is it more important to uphold the truth or keep a good name? In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible there is a constant struggle between the up keep of a reputation and staying truthful. Some characters, like Abigail William, are motivated by fear to keep up a good reputation, while other characters like John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse decide that the truth is more important than their name and stick to their morals. There are many factors that
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Relationships Between Productivity, Reputation, and Strategy Abstract: Businesses seek to maximize productivity because it increases efficiency, motivates employees, and can help firms compete on the strategic elements of time, cost, and quality. Productivity has been shown to be positively correlated with reputation such that firms with good reputations tend to have higher productivity. Reputation can be improved through corporate social responsibility initiatives that seek to enhance social and environmental wellbeing
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Wauford Mrs. Hollewell The Crucible 11 May 2017 Importance of Reputations in The Crucible The desire to maintain an upstanding reputation greatly affects characters in The Crucible. During this time period, people were very concerned with their positions in society. They were in a very judgemental community where everyone knew each other, and because of this, people were very worried about how others perceived them. A poor reputation could cost someone their social life and many characters made
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The tarnishing of one’s reputation and personal integrity is something that many people fear and this is shown through the characters in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World and John Hale’s A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft. The Crucible is a play about the Salem witch trials and the characters who are accused and judged based off of their reputation. Each character’s perception is different than what the actual reality is of the witchcraft because
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Truth and Lies How can one’s reputation affect his or her decisions? Reputations decide whether or not one is accepted or denied within the community. With reputation, comes a great responsibility, the responsibility of maintaining that reputation through actions of right and wrong. One’s actions can overall result in a truthful representation of one's reputation, or the falsity behind one's lies. In the tragedy, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, reputation motivates one's actions, whether right or
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Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial. By Gary Alan Fine. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 267 pp. Every good story needs its hero and its villain. In Gary Alan Fine’s book, Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial, he urges the importance of history’s villains, and those with controversial reputations, in modern society. Eight case studies are used to show how controversial figures in public memory
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The Crucible, many of the conflicts—including the more indirect conflict of John Proctor and Reverend Hale—hinge upon the theme of the importance of reputation. In a time when ones good reputation is the cornerstone for a content, healthy existence, it makes sense that reputation is an important recurring theme in The Crucible. John Proctor’s reputation is built upon his willingness to argue for what he thinks is right while managing to stay just this side of being a reputable, upstanding Puritan citizen
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image -Branding is at the centre of reputation management, it requires a clear corporate mission and philosophy. -Trust and credibility from public are indispensable to build a strong brand image (Schweizer & Wijnberg, 1999). -Brand personality and identity must be clearly understood by each stakeholders to portray the brand values. -The culture and values of a brand are a key part of the brand image. Improve Financial performances -Good reputation leads to higher customer retention (Caminiti
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible gives an insight into how reputation is one of the most crucial parts of colonial living in the 17th century. When living in a small colony, one’s reputation is linked to quality of life. Having a good name is necessary to do business, have friends, and, for the Puritans, being known as a religious person. Someone without a good name in the community would be rejected, and avoided by all other townspeople. This is noted in The Crucible, where characters like John Proctor
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