...A good work ethic will help you accomplish your dreams. Work ethic to me, is when you have a goal and you work hard to accomplish that goal even if you do not want to. My mom always says to me “you are lazy.” She is right, but she is also wrong in some aspects. I am lazy when it comes to school, but when it comes to wrestling I have a great work ethic. I believe that the time and effort I put into the sport helps me develop a better work ethic for when I grow up. My mom saying that I am lazy helps me better understand that to have a good work ethic you need to do everything to your best potential, even school. Furthermore, I explained how I have a good work ethic when it comes to sports, but when it comes to school I don't. Mrs. Jones always...
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...Dream Big America White picket fences and a comfortable savings account are a couple things that people often associate with the American dream. Most people believe that this idea is becoming less achievable as time goes on. It also goes back to how a person defines the American dream, is it the rags to riches story that most people only hear about, or does it go deeper than that. Now I believe the American dream is about securing a life that is content and debt free. Having a life where one doesn’t have to be burdened by bills and living paycheck to paycheck. In the essay, “ Is the American Dream Over?” by Cal Thomas, he blatantly puts blame on the government for diminishing views of the American dream. Thomas says, “ The creation of government that is out of control, and thus out of touch robs every citizen, preventing fulfillment of the original American dream(569).” He thinks that society has put too much faith in the government. Even though it seems as if the American dream no longer exists working hard towards your goals make it very attainable. Thomas then refers to Bob Herbert’s composition, “ Hiding from Reality,” disagreeing with him that the American dream is alive and one should not put too much dependence in the government. A person needs to take initiative of his or her own lives and put in the necessary work to make it happen. I agree with Thomas, the American dream is very much a reality the necessary steps to achieve this dream is a good education, respectable...
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...In America we have something called the American dream. To us the American dream is for everyone to be able to be financially stable and be able to maintain a good stature. The dream is for everyone to be able to maintain a social rank that can make you respectable. If you want to be well respected in America you have to have a good job if you aren’t you’re portrayed as a failure. When you’re a failure you are not apart of the American dream and are placed in the category of the ones who disappoint. After Analyzing “From Ragged Dick” by Horatio Alger and “Horatio Alger” by Harlon Dalton as they argued against each other on social mobility and economic prosperity as they express different views . After analyzing both readings and considering...
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...Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 What is Plutocracy? 3 Is America a Plutocracy? 3 Ethics and Plutocracy 4 Why is America Still a Plutocracy? 4 The Rich Get Richer 5 The American Dream 6 Objectivism and Plutocracy 7 Utilitarianism and Plutocracy 8 Solutions to Plutocracy 9 Glossary of Terms 12 Bibliography 13 Plutocracy in America: What is Plutocracy? Plutocracy is a political system where the wealthy rule. Examples of plutocracies throughout the years include the Empire of Japan before WWII, some city-states in Ancient Greece, Carthage, and the Roman Republic. (Wikipedia, 2011) It’s not surprising that places such as these were plutocracies. Wealth can easily be converted into power and power can easily be used for political control. Systems such as these have an immense disparity between those that are wealthy and those that are not because once you are wealthy you can use that to become even more wealthy which leads to more power and if desired, more political control. (Warden, 2008) Before WWII Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany referred to western democratic states, such as the United States of America and Great Britain, as plutocracies. They implied that a small number of extremely wealthy individuals were controlling these countries and holding them ransom. (Wikipedia, 2011) While this may sound completely untrue there is more merit to this implication than meets the eye. Is America a Plutocracy? Yes, America is a plutocracy...
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...Plan Work ethic, reliability, and results. These are three of the important character traits that I feel separate me from other candidates when it comes to competing for a job. The time that I spent in the military is what I credit a large part of my work ethic to. From Day one in the military you are required to do everything to the best of your ability and to continue to do so until the task is completed. Even as a child, I was told that that if I say am going to do something or be somewhere, then I am to keep my word and follow through with every commitment. Once again the military further hammered in that mindset and even introduced me to the phrase; “if you are 15 minutes early, you are on time. If you are on time, you are late.” Both of these influences have molded me to value the characteristic of being reliable not only by presence but by carrying my own weight as well. The third trait that I feel solidifies my value as an employee is my ability to produce results. Of course the first two characteristics play a role in my ability to get results but I have always had a competitive nature as well. Coming from an athletic background and excelling at sports my whole life, I developed a hunger to be the best at whatever it was that I was doing. If I were to make a list of dream companies that I would like to work for, the first job that would have to be at the top of the list would have to be working for the Phoenix Suns at a corporate level. My first dream job that...
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...CONTENTS Sl No Description Page No 1. Acknowledgement 2 2. What is meant by Advertisement 4 3. What is Ethics? 5-7 4. Ethics of Advertisement : Introduction 8-9 5. Ethics & Advertising 10-17 6. Ethics of Advertising 18-21 7. Some Ethical & Moral principles 22-26 8. The Ethics of Behavioral Advertisement 27-30 9. Attention, But at What Cost! 31-38 10. Benefits of Ethical Advertising 39-42 11. Harm done by Unethical Advertising 43-48 12. Conclusion 49 13. Bibliography 50 What do you mean by advertisement? Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. “While now central to the contemporary global economy and the reproduction of global production networks, it is only quite recently that advertising has been more than a marginal influence on patterns of sales and production. The formation of modern advertising was intimately bound up with the emergence of new forms of monopoly capitalism around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century as one element in corporate strategies to create, organize and where possible control markets, especially for mass produced consumer goods. Mass production necessitated mass consumption, and this in turn required a certain homogenization of consumer tastes for final products. At its limit, this involved seeking to create ‘world cultural convergence’, to homogenize consumer tastes and engineer a ‘convergence...
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...The New Work Ethic BUS 309: Business Ethics The New Work Ethic It is becoming harder to find good work ethics in this day and time. A lot of employees view their job as one the worst jobs to be in. In the article that Sheehy wrote, “A new work ethic”, he describes his employees as having a carefree attitude. He writes about how many employees just want to go to their place of work, but actually do no work. Employers have said that it is becoming such a big issue in finding reliable employees with a drive and willingness to actually perform their job duties. Companies are trying to reintegrate that they need greatly devoted and dedicated people that love the job that they are doing and are willing to help with the continuing growth and profit of making the business a success. Sheehy talks about his employees having a do what you want and get away with what you can kind of attitude (Shaw, 2010). Sometime you could even see them slow down the pace of their tasks or even put it on hold so that someone other than them would have to finish the job at hand. Most of the employees were either upper or middle class college student that just saw the job as a way to make some extra cash. Their customer relations skills were getting rid of the customer as fast as possible and with hardly any effort. This made the integrity, reliability, quality and service of the business very poor. Many researchers fear that college students have no realistic concept of the term “a day’s work...
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...Ethics, Morals, Values and Beliefs Personal Ethics and Life David J. Graves Business Ethics Ottawa University Professor Donald Dunn July 7, 2013 This paper explains and defines my personal ethics, morals, values and beliefs, which will continue to grow as my maturity grows. My personal ethics in life stems from my family, my parents and from the continuous mistakes and accomplishments that I have made in my life. A famous philosopher, Frederick Nietzsche once said, “That which does not kill me makes me stronger.” I try to live my life by this principal, as difficult as it may be. This paper does not pretend to provide definitions for complex terms such as morality or ethics; it is merely a means to orient the reader in understanding my personal ethics in life. One of the most important characteristics of moral judgments is that they express our values. Not all expressions of values are also moral judgments, but all moral judgments do express something about what we value. Expressing one’s personal grasps of ethics and life may not always be understood in the context of the world at large, the environment or amongst the others in the household. This is usually due to the every person has some difference, small or great, in the development of their belief systems. Belief systems are established early in life through the environment of home, church, school or other social gatherings which help mold or shape their belief. Most of these beliefs and patterns of behavior are established...
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...that’s why if there is one, I suggest, you grab it so close! This is what I always learn from my everyday undertakings. Well, as we all coexist and live as a society together, it is of the essence that a code of demeanour is recognized to live harmoniously; to be able to make things proper, to do things in a right way, to show good influences to others, to implement creative ways of dealing with everyday activities. While seeing the beauty of life, I noticed that we are always confused about how to differentiate between what is right or wrong, both personally and professionally. This is just one simple thing that may lead to a great distinction as to how people act towards a scenario which could be his own life saver when it comes to his job, school concerns, family constraints, or some other relationships as they may deem very important to him. Looking at different places, while strolling inside the malls, or even on my way to school or back to our home, I see faces of people from whom I can feel diverse sentiments. Some are happy- go- lucky. Some may seem problematic. A lot of them, I see, are unsmiling and serious, although some are witty and funny-looking. I believe, these auras help us cope up with the very rough surface of professionalism, in connection to ethics, of course. Based on some existing distinctness, ethical behavior is something that goes beyond simply obeying a set of rules and regulations, it is about committing yourself to do and act according to what...
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...Career Plan I like dreaming. When we were tiny humans and our brains were developing, we were excited about tomorrow. Our parents told us to dream, and that we could be anything we wanted to be. We started school and again our teachers told us to dream, dream big because we could be anything we wanted. In the first grade I dreamed about being a cowboy, then an Indian. As I grew and changed grades and schools, I continued to dream, it became an astronaut, and a policeman, an army man, and yes the president of the United States. Childish dreams seem impossible to become reality. Once in high school our dreams were tested, the SAT, ACT and the ASVAB. Some of our dreams became reality and we moved on, some did not and we moved in a different direction. I am in a different place now, considering I did become that army man and retired over ten years ago. I am back in school to complete a degree that will allow me to enter into and finish a second career, and so I would say my short term goal is to complete this course on my journey to graduate. In the long run, I would like to attain a job working for the US Government as a contract specialist. Location is the biggest concern with a new career. My thoughts on a location is very simple, I own my home in north Alabama and my son is buried in this area, and it is my intention to stay local in order to be able to visit his grave as often as I can. In considering a career with the government, ethics and honesty...
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...Dream Small… Hi Friends You would be really surprised to have a look on the heading of this article “Dream Small”, when all the genius people out there are shouting “Dream Big”, I am whispering “Dream Small”, ofcourse that means I am not a genius. Keeping jokes apart, this is for all MBA-Freshers who are expecting big bucks after completing their MBA. “Dreaming Big” is not an issue but achieving that dream always starts with small steps. It is said that “Rome was not built in a day” similarly you can’t demand higher salaries because you are a MBA. What if you are a MBA? Are you having anything else to boast, about which the corporate world would appreciate. If yes, then go out and shout “I am having this X thing which could meet Y Company’s expectations and for the same reason, I should get salary of ` Z”. The point is to think big but build small, something you can be proud of. If you don’t have the things to boast about try for Plan B. Make your career plan in such a way that you start with small company with small salary learn lots many things over there of-course at the Company’s cost, look out for options and in next couple of years take a big leap. Being a Placement Officer with KSMCS, I hear lot many times that students are saying; that I am having 2 years of work-experience and my last salary was ` 20K. So they must get at least that amount during placement process. My question to them is that if they are having experience of selling pharmaceutical products and they...
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...teaches us anything is that ethics and character count a whole lot, especially in the business world. These executives, by their failures of ethics, all because for their personal benefits, had destroyed and tarnished not only the organizations reputation but, in many cases, its financial impacts resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars as damage and tarnish their reputation and their prospective career, not to mention damaging their prospective families financial security and, in some cases, serving many years in prison as the ultimate consequences. In today’s volatile, high tech, interdependent business world, charisma leadership style without conscience and being clever without character are a recipe for economic and personal failure of epic proportions. As quote from President Roosevelt –“To educate the mind without the morals is to educate a menace to society. The following core ethical principles, if one chose to follow rigorously, can play a vital role to success to leadership: Honesty, Integrity, Promise-Keeping, Loyalty, Fairness, Caring, Respect For Others, Law Abiding, Commitment To Excellence, Leadership (Exemplify honor & ethics), Reputation & Morale, and Accountability (Principles for Business Executives –Josephson Institute). * Honesty. Be honest in all communications and actions. Ethical executives are, above all, worthy of trust and honesty is the cornerstone of trust. Ethical executives do not deliberately mislead or...
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...authentic (real). At the existing time, we as mortals have no forthright way of discerning what is real. Reality consists of everything we encounter. Our thoughts, perceptions, feelings, dreams, and even delusions, living and dying; are all involved in this experience we know as realness. The physical world is more real than the spiritual or psychological world, because its not a world of fabrication or imagery, yet an ultimately real atmosphere for the mortal spirit. The spirit world is an independent domain of reality, however it fuses with the physical world. Yes, there is a such thing as a soul. In mortals the soul is what makes us mortals, the body acts as the armor for the soul. The soul cannot survive outside of the body. Each individual has free will it is our preferences/decisions that influence us to the passages that we are on and the passages that we will acquire in the future. Our free will is what establishes our fate. Epistemology: Epistemology is a category of philosophy that researches the basis, character, means, and restrictions of mortal ability. Anything can be known, its comprehending and perceiving the aspect of what is known that is the troublesome part. The basis for knowledge is genuine ideas and standards and rational approaches for utilizing those ideas and standards. It is innate, because the adequacy we have to learn essentially occurs at birth. All knowledge appears to have a subjective component in the perception that there should...
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... When a company of that size and magnitude tries to combat something such as corruption which has been present in the world for centuries, it is without a doubt an uphill battle. I feel that Boeckmann can be successful in corruption free contracting if the right steps continue to be taken. The fight against corruption needs to happen on multiple levels; financially, politically, and intellectually. One of the first steps in eradicating corruption is on the financial front. Fluor can do this by continuing to support leading advocacy groups. (1) There is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In 1998 more than 30 nations, including all of our major trading partners, implemented rigorous anti-bribery commitments mandated by OECD. (1) One company that pioneered the private sector getting involved with anti-corruption acts is the the Partnership Against Corruption Initiative (PACI). (1) Each signatory company agreed to maintain a zero tolerance policy towards bribery and corruption. Along with this a broad based anti-corruption program was implemented to guide the behavior of employees.(1) These two groups have set a foundation for the most basic form of consequentialism to be implemented. There is power in numbers. The more countries and corporations we can have signatory to these types of advocacy groups the more of a Utilitarian way of thinking will come about....
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...work hard to get good a grade. As an employee, you should work hard to get a promotion. This is a classic American dream: as long as you work hard, you can always achieve your dream no matter what backgrounds you come from. However, reality seems to be disappointed. Working hard is not the only way to get ahead any more. Those who work much harder seem to be less successful than those who work less hard but know how to play tricks. Cheating is a secret weapon that could make you move forward. It is becoming more common, tempting and covert than it was fifty years ago. It is the time to hold our remaining virtues to fight against unethical behaviors. We should identify factors that have led to the phenomenon of cheating and then seek effective ways to conquer it. In their book Final Accounting, Toffler and Reingold (2003) talked about how the world once greatest accounting firm Arthur Andersen cheated together with its clients to mislead investors and eventually collapsed after being disclosed many astounded accounting scandals of the firm. Toffler and Reingold (2003) pointed out that people tend to blame such cheating scandals to a few bad individuals. Whereas, it is the culture that should take the responsibility. It is the corrupting culture that makes cheating an attractive way to get what you want (p.204). In the book, The Cheating Culture, David Callahan (2004) provided a lucid analysis of how this cheating culture we are living in generated and what we can do to get over it...
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