According to Winch (2013) and "The Greater Good" website created by UC Berkeley, there is a way to effective apologize that serves the purpose of maintaining a healthy relationship. 1. These two suggest that there are four aspects to an effective apology a. The first aspect is acknowledgement of the mistake you think you've made. i. This may sound like this: " I'm sorry that I made you upset." b. After this acknowledgement, you need to explain the unfavorable action that caused
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I owe you my sincerest apologies for making the worst mistake I've ever made and because of my improper maintenance procedures and lack of proper handoff procedures I have lost you the life of your loved one. Captain Craig was a good man he was a good leader and a good role model. He was always somebody I could look up to in times of need and crisis. If I could I trade my life with his because of a mistake I made I would because he did not deserve to die this way but because of my mistakes in aviation
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After the Sophists, Socrates turned philosophy inward and began to emphasize self-reflection. Rather than simply contemplating the workings of the world, he considered how it is that we attain knowledge about the world. The Pre-Socratics and the Sophists lacked this emphasis on self-examination, which is argued to be the true starting point of philosophy, thereby dooming their investigations to failure (xxiii). Socrates avoided these criticisms by beginning his search for what can be known, “since
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for not believing in the gods of the state and for speaking with contempt to the high ranking officials of his time (Ober “Gadfly on Trial” 2). The accounts of his trials were written by his avid and equally popular student Plato in Apology (Colaiaco 17). In Apology, he quoted: For if you kill me you will not easily find another like me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by the god; and the state is like a great and noble steed who is tardy
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Jane Doe Professor Urkel ENG-225 24 February 2012 Application of Aristotle's Poetics in the work Apology by Plato According to Aristotle, the criterion that is expressed in Poetics should be based on the matter, subjects and method. For example; for matter, the melody, rhythm and language are the key considerations to be looked into. The subjects in Poetics usually bring out the character traits that are related to human characteristics. This is what brings out the difference between tragic
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In Plato’s Apology, Socrates, an Athenian philosopher, is accused of not believing in the gods by corrupting the youth with his philosophical beliefs. Socrates uses the forces of logos and ethos to build the trust of his audience over his accusers, Meletus and Anytus, who have created prejudices against him in trial. Socrates uses a grand mixture of socratic irony and rhetorical devices to make his claim and prove his point in efforts to hopefully help find his innocence. However, in doing so,
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have done worse to save themselves from the torture of others. When we are children we don’t understand the reason we do what do, it is a basic instinct to survive and our brains are not developed enough to understand this. With the story of “An Apology” our author Bjorn Skoquist explains very well that instinct to fit in and survive and what this caused him to do to an innocent young girl named Tiffany Stephenson. Our dear Tiffany is the unfortunate victim of childhood bullying and a classic example
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comes from one day to another. This week I thought about forgiveness and being mindful towards be forgiving towards stuff I have a hard time letting go off. Analysis 1. Forgiveness is accepting an apology without using it later on against that person. 2. What is it? Forgiveness is accepting an apology without using it later on against that person. How does it work? Forgiving someone for something they
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Ali Mousavi ENG 102 9/11/14 Rhetorical Analysis of an Apology Draft Kobe Bryant the 6-foot-6 guard was a member of the Lakers team that won three straight NBA championships in the 2000-2002 seasons. He was named most valuable player in the NBA All-Star game in the 2002 season. In 1998, Bryant became the youngest player to appear in an NBA All-Star game. On December 16, 2003 Professional basketball player Kobe Bryant was charged Friday afternoon with sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman in
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