Bad Choice Research Paper

Ever walked into a store or business and get a whiff of the stale tobacco smell lingering by the cashier? My mom smoked cigarettes from the time she was sixteen and in high school until she was married and had children. It affected every aspect of her life, which included her health, the way she carried herself around her friends, and, most importantly, the time she spent with her family. This seemingly insignificant habit of hers was starting to take over not only her life but the life of her family. Her husband, my dad, did not like the smell nor did my sisters and I. It got to the point in which she had to go outside to smoke, spending an hour of her time talking on the phone, lighting one cigarette after the other.

As Matthew 6:1-4 and Romans 12:6-8 tells stated, we all have different gifts from God and we should use them no matter what it is. One of the gift everyone has is giving. Everyone has this ability and power to give, even the poorest one. Give to the needy without announcing it. Do it with love and not wanting yourself to look like a kindest person in the world. It is so much better to be someone who can give rather than being someone who receives and the one that you give will eventually give you back when the time comes. In the time of need, if you never give anything, you will most likely not get any help from anyone. It’s more blessed to give than receive. God has given us the opportunity to be a blessing to someone. The bible tells us that when our heart is set on blessing others, God will bless us in the process.(biblereasons.com) One of the easy ways that can make people to start giving is to not think of yourself more highly than you ought. Matthew 7:1-2 made it clear that if you judge other people, you too will also be judged. Romans 12:3-5 also stated that through Christ, we all belong to each other. However, the verse is not telling you to not judge, but to make evaluations, to be discerning and to even make a judgement.(“Don’t Judge?” Greg Laurie) "Don't you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world, can't you decide even these little things among yourselves?"(Corinthians 6:2, NIV) If we stop to think of ourselves more highly than others, we can easily start to give to others without thinking much and the world will be so much

When you are a smoker you are making the decision to damage your own body, but little do you know you are also damaging everyone else's body that you are in the room with. John

In warning about the evils of greed, Jesus used a parable: “There was a rich man blessed with [fertile land.] He thought to himself, ‘What will I do? I have no place to keep all my crops.’ “Then he said, ‘I know what I will do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger barns! I will put all my good things together in my new barns. Then I can say…Rest, eat, drink, and enjoy life!’“But God said to that man, ‘Foolish man! Tonight you will die!... Who will get [your things] now?’ This is how it will be for anyone who saves things only for himself. To God that person is not rich.” (Luke 12:13 21)

In Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth”, he believes that when it comes to giving aid, the key principle should be to help the individuals willing to help themselves. During this document, he made the statement “…for in almsgiving more injury is probably done by rewarding vice than by relieving virtue”. To Carnegie, just giving money and items to those who were supposedly in need, was not helpful. It was not helpful because many individuals who gave to those in need, do not really know the true conditions of the “needy”. This leads to those

“There was no big-screen television or voice-controlled computer. Just a math book, a pad of yellow paper.” (p.109) . Justin also wears thick glasses. Justin has an eye problem which couldn’t be healed in a world without free trade. But as Dave tells the reader, Justin is only wearing the glasses because the “people Upstairs” made this happen. Justin normally doesn’t wear glasses at all, he “would have lost his eyesight entirely”.(p.110) The company Merck will only be able to develop the medicine Justin needed in a world of free trade. Otherwise America would be too busy by doing everything for itself and there wouldn’t be “enough people, machines, and land to go around to make everything as cheaply as could be made under free trade.”(p47)

Humans live in a world in which every day they encounter numerous choices. The way they decide and the outcomes of their decisions define their lives. Their day to day life essentially revolves around the choices they make. As a whole, a community benefits or suffers from the outcomes of its choices. Freedom of choice is the grant to an individual or community to make its own choices out of free will and without restrictions (Pereboom,2003). This is essay will discuss that though freedom choice leads to variety in life, it does not necessarily guarantee satisfaction. It will also argue that although some choice is undoubtedly better than none, more is not always better than less. It will then consider the implications of the paradox of

To answer the question, “Whose obedience is false; whose love is false?” would be extremely tough for a man to answer because he judges the outward appearance of a man while God looks at the inward part of man, the heart. You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool God.

Christian teaching on wealth and possessions varies slightly regarding the amount of money and possessions that should be given to the poor. Some Christians follow the teaching in (Mark

The Myth of Choice: How Junk-Food Marketers Target Our Kids and “Marketing to kids gets more savvy with new technologies” show how children are targets in marketing. They both show the bad points marketers do to get children to buy their product. For example, on Webkinz they have you watch free ads to earn virtual money but they get money every time you click the “free ad” button on the site while in The Myth of Choice: How Junk-Food Marketers Target Our Kids, Anna Lappe from Real Food Media Project mentions that junk food is etched in the kid’s mind. In Myth of of Choice: How Junk-Food Marketers Target Our Kids shows how marketers target kids in the case of junk food while “Marketing to kids gets more savvy with new technologies” shows how

     Blessed are the merciful, for they shall see God. How can someone who has so much not even spare one can of food for someone who has none. Is it fair for all of us to have so much and some people have nothing? What is there to do? We need to be able to give some of what we have to those people. It is not right to have so much when your neighbor is starving. Be merciful and give to someone who has none. As a high school sophomore I do not believe it is fair. I try to help in any way I can even if it is just one can of food I know I can spare it because there are probably five more of the same thing in the closet. So if everyone just gave one thing it will make a bigger difference then

Making choices can affect any and everything in your life whether it’s dealing with your family or just everyday situations. Everyone in life is faced with good and bad choices that can either have a good outcome on your life or it can make a turn for the worst. Yes, everyone wants to make good choices in life. But does that always happen? Nine times out of ten know. Recently, I made a bad choice that affected my life in numerous ways for instance when I got caught shoplifting my parents looked down on me as if I was this thief. I’m very embarrassed of my actions but there’s nothing I can do to erase it I can only make this a learning experience and make better choices next time around. As teenagers

Now that Ms. Jeanette is older and wiser she states that smoking is not good for anyone and especially not as a teen because more than likely if one smokes as a teen you will continue to smoke as an adult, and it can cause one long term problems as an adult and you could develop different kinds of cancers and different issues concerning one’s body and a person defiantly does not want that on your back. (Mentor, October, 2011). She also stated that now that she has a daughter, she does not want her to be influenced by what

In chapter four it talks about the poor. I think that most of the poor

We have to think about the qualitative factors that are involved in our decision making too. In the decision making process, as we saw in a case called The Nancy M. Hohman, we saw that many times the numbers will not speak louder than our personal preferences. The Nancy M. Hohman was a less than one year old ship, worthy US$ 40 million, carrying 200,000 tons of crude oil and 28 crew members and had an engine malfunction 9 miles way off the coast of South Africa. However, Port Elizabeth (the nearest one) was too small for the ship and the next close one was 380 miles away.