is to contribute to a better world. To do this, I have made it a priority to incorporate this goal in to my values and develop habits that will allow me to achieve this ultimate goal. Through my work, school, and relationships, I have found that when I focus on my ultimate goal, and applied my values, I have been able to experience enormous success in all three aspects of my life. These values that I find most important are integrity, respect and awareness. With work, my goals are to keep challenging
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The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) is a self-assessment used to categorize behavior and personal strengths within conflict and non-conflict situations. The SDI outlines seven different motivational value systems (MVS): blue (nurturing), red (assertive), green (analytical), hub (flexible), red-blue (assertive-nurturing), red-green (judicious-competing), and blue-green (cautious-supporting). Each color has a valued relating style (VRS) or behavior associated with it along with a defined rewarding
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"Integrity - To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day," (Winston Churchill). The school I am currently attending, Old Donation School, is built upon the honor system. This means the school trusts it's students and because of that my teachers entrusted me with a unit test while I had to go get surgery. There have been multiple group projects where I have taken lead and some I have had to do by myself. I had a math project where
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What is integrity and the ability to stay honorable to doing the right thing in a work place? Integrity comes in many different facets. It is not only the ability to do a job to the best of an individulas ability, but also knowing that if there is a problem with the job, that it gets fixed correctly. Not only is it important to get the job done correctly to be able to have a working finished product, but in some cases it could come at the cost of individuals lives. This paper will discuss all of
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In The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin creates a detective who has the traits of any professional detective such as bravery, intelligence, and keeping things confidential. The text proves that Turtle is a professional detective. All below has proof\evidence that shows Turtle is a professional detective.. The first way that Turtle is a successful detective is her bravery. In The Westing Game Turtle made a bet on how long she can stay in the home of the dead Sam W. Westing (2003), “Make it two dollars for
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Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. In the alliterative poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight “the theme of the story is “Integrity”. Having integrity means doing the right thing in a reliable way. Also, integrity means having wholeness of character. Integrity means doing the right thing at all times and in all circumstances. Integrity means you are being true to yourself. The Green Knight dared everyone to pick up his sword. King Arthur decided to pick it
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that you must acquire for living the American dream. Honestly, I believe that non-material culture is more important; basically experiencing that you are part of local culture is significant in my opinion. The main difference in culture involves the values and beliefs that are instilled in us from our birth, whereas material culture originates when we begin to perceive what others possess and observe media that influences our need to procure material possessions. For the first object, I chose my house
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A Case Full of Wonder Why are we so attached to our personal belongings? What makes one object so special to us? We all have at least one object that is significant to us. How we obtained it or who we received it from is part of what makes it significant. Irreplaceable and unique. These are a couple of traits that this specific object shares. There are countless reasons as to why this one object is important to us. This object could be a token of good luck, this object could reminisce us of good
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Morality and the Crucible It is said that everyone has morals, people know when they are doing something wrong but choose to do it anyway out of self-defence. It is seen everywhere people will lie on live television just to protect themselves and so others won't judge them. Everyone is supposed to know what's right and wrong but there are still areas in between where people cannot decide. The truth is right and wrong is on a spectrum some things are more wrong or right than others. This theme is
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Everyone has their own personal values, and through time their values will most likely change; but, not all personal values are good. Many pieces of literature show this, including “Abuela Invents the Zero” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “Home” by Anton Chekhov. Their works illustrate examples of bad personal values and how they change over time, no matter who the person is or what the situation is. Even though both characters start off differently, both with different conflicts, they end up being
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