My Core Personal Values

All my life, I have been told that I should treat others the way how I want to be treated. That I should follow the Golden Rule and treat others with the utmost dignity and kindness in order to get the same treatment in return. Although I tried to follow this rule, I often ended up breaking it. I still occasionally mistreat others to seem superior, to feel as if I am worth more in society. Almost everyone does it because they often desire superiority in their community, to feel as if they are better than others and that they are worth more. We can occasionally break the Golden Rule by treating people with cruelty and disrespect to make ourselves seem wealthier, in better social standing, or racially to others. Although we profess a belief in

I will stop standing in the way of my own success, and restrain myself from holding back my full potential. I will stop myself from being a victim of circumstances and situations, and overcome all the obstacles I face. I will be optimistic, passionate and motivated about every single thing I do, no matter how small it is. You only win and accomplish things if you set your mind to do so, and you fail if you walk in with the attitude of a loser.

Pride, I want to be a part of something that has an immense amount pride. That practically drips with it. But not just any kind of pride. But a type of Pride that

Personal values, beliefs, and principles are important for individuals to know about themselves. However, when asked the question, “what are your personal values, beliefs, and principles?” The first response is often a laundry list of characteristics with the assumption that those three words are synonymous. From my experience when posed this question the laundry list became long and in retrospect, I began to wonder what the differences were between each of these terms. As a teacher, employee, mother, and Christian knowing these differences and how to answer the question is an important component of determining how I make decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas. Hence, began the investigation of how the terms relate, their meaning and what my answer is to this question. Since my laundry list was quite long for this essay, I will share and explain the top two elements for each category, how they relate to one another and how the knowledge influences tough decisions.

Drugs, promiscuous sex, birth control, and total happiness are the core values of the World State in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In today’s society things like drug use and reckless sex are often seen as taboo, but in World State, these activities are glorified and even considered normal. Aldous Huxley attempts to address to readers the harsh realities and cruel ways of our society in an exaggerated form. His purpose in doing so is to open the eyes of society to what the world might come to if things like technology and humanity get out of hand. In the World State, the motto that people are conditioned to live by is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, all three of which are ironically twisted to encourage members of the society

• To see each day as an important stepping stone to eventually achieving my goals, and contributing to the greater good of society.

would be to continue to serve the local community with a focus in our future, our children.

Throughout our lifetime, us as people decide to admire different objects, ideas, and people due to what pleases their thoughts and actions. The infinite examples of things we could’ve valued could’ve been toys, friends, book, etc.. But then we began to mature and begin to come out of our little shells to discover new products, views of the world, and new ways to advance in our technology and therefore influencing what we value today. And as I matured in my lifetime, I established a novel value to my parents the greatest.

very much to be able to live a life not bound by rules and acting

My personal code of ethics has helped me achieve my goals in life and do well in school. Whenever I have to do something that is important to me, I make sure to keep my code of ethics in mind. My code of ethics comes from the values my parents have imposed on me and the lessons they have taught me throughout my life. Whenever I make a mistake or get in trouble, they make sure I understand what I did wrong and make sure I understand the consequences that I will endure if something like that happens again. The mistakes I have made helped me realize that I need to take responsibility for my actions. My principles have developed with my experiences as well. For example, during a tennis tournament that I played in last year, I had to compete against a girl that was very good athlete and won many more tournaments that I have participated in. Even though I knew I would lose, I didn’t give up after the first game; I continued

My first resolution is to get better grades in class because I want to make parents be proud in ways that you can’t think of. They do so much for me and by getting better grades it’s like I pay them all their hard work. So if I get better grades I will make my parents proud.

To try and go above and beyond for my students, To help me be that voice that my students might need one day. Whether it is to help them find their own voice or encourage them to keep going against all odds that might come up before them. Evaluating my own and others’ experiences can help me have a better connection with my future students. The classes that I have taken have made me want to be a Diversity and Multicultural Scholar and a Social Justice Collaborator through my LS 380: Teaching for Social Change, LS 394: Multicultural literature , and LS 398: Social Foundations of Multicultural Education classes. I really hope I can become this inspired Educator one

Both my mum and dad are highly knowledgable and identify with the perks of regular physical activity. My parents have four core values when it comes to health and fitness. Furthermore,this is highly esteemed to them that they got it framed in our house back in Nigeria. The first fundamental value is healthy eating. They understand that eating the right way is the cornerstone of enduring health. To illustrate, my parents always eat breakfast to start their day. They know it can affect their temperament , concentration and blood sugar levels. I have received countless emails from my dad that explain binge eating and over snaking if we don't eat breakfast.Their second core value is getting at least 20 minutes of daily physical activity. To demonstrate

Excellence. I hope that as long as I live I will strive to excel and learn. Achievement of a short term goal leads to a long term goal and it never ends unless I will it to end. Since I’m passionate about learning and setting goals I believe I will continue to learn and achieve new goals. One goal I am working on now is learning how to write an excellent paper, in proper APA format.

Explanation: I will be courteous and respectful in my day-to-day dealings with people. This conduct is consistent with my value of family and religion. I will value human dignity and rights and will never cause harm to anyone intentionally. I will treat everyone with respect, regardless of who they are and what they have done. I have a responsibility to be the best I can in all situations, even when dealing with unpleasant people (Josephson, 2002). Put simply, the golden rule “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.