Individual Reasons For Cheating

I am going to come clean, about cheating in the far past. I am taking, full responsibility that cheat is a unethical habit. Most students decide to cheat, because they want high grades, without much effort. I can’t remember the exact incident, that occured cheating, although I have. We learn, from our mistakes as we mature.

9/12/2016 Abdulaziz ENG -100 Assignment No.1 Kate Brennan In “Slip-Sliding Away, Down the Ethical Slope,” by Robert J. Sternberg, the author is concerned about a real problem that begins to spread within the whole society, which, in his words “goes much deeper than the occasional incident”. In fact, it is okay for cheaters to cheat, but they do not want to be caught. He starts off by giving two examples for two types of cheating. First, copying the work of someone else and getting exam answers beforehand. He considers it to be a serious unethical behavior, whereas many students either do not see anything wrong with it or if they do, they feel it is minor and there is no need to pay attention.

Likewise, the boy was of a minority group, people who are viewed as inferior. For those who don’t belong to those groups, it is easy to use that against them, instead of logical facts. The well-respected men of the upper class, are less likely to be convicted of crimes, simply because of their status. The clergymen would have be convicted of witchcraft because of their position and status is society. Fragility of justice is still the theme that applies the most because it only takes one to accuse you, to jeopardize your life.

His name means lucky and fortunate. Despite that, Fortunato was the complete opposite from lucky. First of all, he wasn’t lucky because he became friends with the wrong person. He was deceived and ended up being punished for his foolishness. It shows us how if we are friends with the wrong people, we can get into trouble and may suffer immensely because of it.

Utilize our slips-ups as a going stone. Allow them to be lessons in how you can do things differently. They mould you to be the best version of yourself. At times when you lie to your closest friends whether intentionally or unintentionally you don’t feel good about it, but when they find out the truth, they are hurt the most as you break their trust. At that time you don’t really realize your mistake but when the same thing happens to you, you understand the real mistake that you had done to them sometime back.

What if individuals accept the worse and when offered something better, they believe they don’t deserve it? George’s character is somewhat insinuating this because of his abilities he deserved to be handicapped, and if he does something out of the way he needs more punishment. I chose George because I believed that he depicted what was wrong with the society and how that we let higher ranking people tell us what we deserve. George is a smart individual, and knows that his government is wrong, yet does nothing. In some cases aren’t all individuals

In response to the choice of Street Sweeper, Equality thinks, “We knew we had been guilty, but now we had a way to atone for it” (26). With his intelligence and curiosity, Equality would do much better as a Scholar. The government punishes him for being different, and as a result, they can’t see him become advantageous. They are blinded by their beliefs on

All of these reasons explain why I think the justice system is corrupt. Humans are unreliable in many things, and the justice system just seems to prove it. I do not see humanity changing very much on this regard for quite some time now. But there are things that we can do to help make our justice system better and make up for the shortcomings of us

The next big problem in the play was peer pressure. Like mentioned earlier some of the characters felt the need to join in on things just because everyone else was. The strict rules of the time period made lying easier than telling the truth, same as today with overstressed kids. The last issue talked about was power gain. A big motivation for the characters was them trying to get something that wasn’t theirs.

The more the bully tortures the victim, the more his or her self-confidence declines. Victims may actually start to believe what the bully says and begin to think they are weak, worthless, and ugly. This may result for the victims to have social anxiety. Victims may isolate themselves from everyone, including friends and families. Having confident in you is very important and it allows us to be comfortable and enjoy life.