Making Good Choices
By: Keria Owens
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
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Often times it can be difficult if not impossible to make what you think at that moment will be the right choice. One of the biggest factors that will hold people back is that to too often than not we are not completely clear on what type of result or outcome we want from a situation. Think about it, if you don’t really know what kind of result you want it is going to be pretty hard to know what choice is going to be the right one. So what do you do? You get a clear understanding, before you make any choice. Think about its effects in the long term, and short term. Knowing exactly what you want is very powerful. We have all heard the golden rule; do onto others as you would have them do onto you. This is probably one of the most important ideas to keep in mind when making good choices. When we are young a lot of us develop this me, me, me, attitude. We want all the toys, and we don’t want to share. Now this mentality may get us a lot of toys, but it defiantly doesn’t help you make friends. In this day and age a large part of personal success is based on working with others to achieve our goals. If we can help others get what they want, it will be much easier and they will be much more willing to help us get what we want. So when making any choice it is always ideal to think about how can I
Director and actor Spike Lee presents his "truth" about race relations in his movie Do the Right Thing. The film exhibits the spectacle of black discrimination and racial altercations. Through serious, angry, and loud sounds, Lee stays true to the ethnicity of his characters, all of which reflect their own individualism. Lee uses insulting diction and intense scenes to show how severe racism can lead to violence.
The decision-making process occurs at all levels of management. However, the top executive managers, middle level managers, and front line managers are responsible for guiding the decision making process within their healthcare organizations (Liebler & McConnell, 2008,p.148). CEO’s are responsible for guiding the actions and behaviors of their employees to collectively achieve the organization’s goals. The mission and vision statement are the foundation of what direction the healthcare agency is heading. The CEO and top level executives are responsible for developing code of ethics and code of conduct to align with accreditation, licensing, and federal and state laws.
It is very important to make good choice in life. You should always think before you do and go over all alternative options rather than making a poor choice. Bad choices can reflect heavily on your life while good choices won’t do any harm. Try and make the best choice in every scenario for yourself and for the good of everyone. One bad choice can cause your life to turn around dramatically in the span of a few minutes.
Spike Lee’s movie Do the Right Thing is an excellent portrayal of what life was and is most certainly like in some areas of New York City and across the United States of America.
pick the right decision even if it's not the way others think. Whether it's a great or small
There’s always a point in our lives where we are faced with a decision to make. Sometimes we make the right one, sometimes we make the wrong. Either way, these difficult decisions have some kind of impact on us; some good, some bad. In this cluster, authors recall tough decisions they’ve had to make; sometimes it’s the right, and sometimes the wrong. These essays talk about the impact these decisions have had on them for the rest of their life, and what it changed for the good.
The weather is sizzling hot and tensions are slowly coming to a boil in this Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn neighborhood. Slowly but surely we see the heat melt away the barriers that were keeping anger from rising to the surface. The Blacks and the Hispanics own the streets the Koreans own the corner store and of course the Italians own the pizzeria, the Cops who happen to be all Caucasian, prowl the streets inside out, looking for anyone to harass. Toes are then stepped on and apologies are not made. Spike Lee creates the perfect set-up for a modern day in Bed-Stuyvesant. Without fail Spike Lee is transformed into an anthropologist. Spike Lee’s goal is to allow viewers to glimpse into the lives of real people and into a neighborhood they
In Hills Like White Elephants, the short story written by Ernest Hemingway, we are taken to a train station where we eavesdrop on two individuals having drinks, engaged in an intense conversation. “Jig” and the American, the two main characters, sorrowfully discuss a difficult decision they have to make. The author uses symbolism to compare their situation to the sides of the hills that look like white elephants; one side with “no shade, and no trees” (1) and the other side with “fields of grain and trees.”(70) While the subject at hand is never directly mentioned it is plain to see that it is an unplanned burden carried by both of them. In his juxtaposition, Hemingway uses the side of the hill with no shade or trees to represent the
In today's business and personal world, ethical decisions are made on a daily basis. Most of these decisions are based on company ground rules. The others are based on personal ground rules. All decisions can have a number of ground rules that help us determine whether our decision is ethical or unethical. Each decision whether it is based on company or personal ground rules will have its own set of implications. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the impacts of ethics on decision-making, discuss the elements of an ethically defensible decision, define what the ground rules are; what they could be and what they should be, discuss
I have conducted a study on the topic of making choices, particularly educational choices. I have carried out this study in an attempt to figure out what factors students are most influenced by when choosing which post-secondary institution to attend, as well as other decisions they have made regarding their post-secondary education. Specifically, I tried to find what factors have the greatest influence on students when making decisions on what to major in and what particular courses to take. For this study, I selected three questions regarding educational choices that I have asked five students whom I chose to interview. This study utilizes qualitative research methods as qualitative research methods employ verbal reports while quantitative research methods typically do not employ verbal reports and are preferred for their precision (Palys, 2014, p. 16). In other words, this study utilizes interviews to acquire data, rather than using numbers or statistical data. Furthermore, in qualitative research methods, researchers listen to their participants in an attempt to comprehend theoretically crucial dimensions from their participants ' perspective and try to incorporate that into their analysis (Palys, 2014, p. 11). In conducting this study, I listened to what the participants told me and tried to come to a conclusion by incorporating their experiences into my analysis, hence this is another qualitative approach that I employed. The method of participant selection that I
Why do you make the choices in life that you do? There are many different theories which attempt to centralize this decision making process around key concepts; hedonism, the claim that only pleasure and pain affect our well being as well as are the only things that motivate us, is one of such theories. To consider whether hedonism is true, a thought experiment is introduced detailing an “experience machine.” To expand, imagine you are given the option to plug into this hypothetical machine, where anything that gives you pleasure will be maximized, and you’ll ultimately get whatever you want. This means you can control your achievements and the process leading up to those achievements; any relationships you have will be even better, and new relationships can be formed to maximize your pleasure and well-being; you can also control your health and property. However, all of this is fake. Would you plug into this machine? Would you consider your life and well-being better or worse in this alternate reality? Is there ways we can alter this scenario to make it better? A common concern would be that people do not want ingenuine connections with other people. Changing this machine to incorporate a multi-person Matrix would thereby systematically prevent any fake interactions. But what about the achievements? Simply negating this portion of the experience would negate a large purpose of the thought experiment as a whole, so we will continue the scenario as constructed. It
The board should be able to draw on information from the management development program to evaluate each manager in relation to the qualities that everyone
“Do what your heart says and follow your dream” is a common saying. “It’s easier said than done” is also a saying and in this case they fit well together. It’s not always easy to follow your dream or what your heart says. But the dream you follow don’t have to be the biggest and hardest one. Maybe you have a smaller and easier dream you can choose that also makes a change. Sometimes people think “I have to do that” not because they want to but because they feel that they have to. Not everything you do have to be for others benefit, it’s important to do things that makes you happy and you want to do. Also what you do can make other happy even if it’s just for yourself because sometimes that you are happy, makes them
Everyday we are tested as individuals to make the right choice. How we view ourselves as individuals and how others view us are directly correlated to our moral decision-making. But morals are somewhat misleading. What might be a wrong decision for one person might be a solution to another. So how do we define morals? Do we follow Gods’ moral rules because to do so would increase out likelihood of obtaining salvation in the afterlife? Or is it simpler than that. Is God going to deny our entrance into heaven because we have run a stop sign here and there? No. I believe our moral values are much simpler than that. I believe that our moral decision-making comes from our upbringing of what is right or wrong. Our parents and
We often think that there is a right and wrong way to pairing wine and food and to living our lives. There is a problem with this thinking – it assumes that things that are pleasurable and creative are either right or wrong. And, if you choose the wrong option, perhaps you will suffer from that decision. When we let go and add in some creativity and playfulness into our pairings and life we start living with loving ease.