I always have and I always will. As long as everyone lives a good, moral filled life and people learn to coexist with living with each other. “I wished to live without committing any fault at any time,” and in my opinion, everyone should live in that manner. Kayden: That makes perfect sense. Benjamin Franklin: As for a leader, I believe I have a few characteristics of a “leader” … I recently published my successful “Poor Richards Almanac”, which in my opinion tells what all moral beings should strive to do.
To Be Proud or Ashamed of Jason Peter Hero of the Underground, a memoir written by Jason Peter is the story of Peter’s struggle through drug addiction. His story is riveting, exciting, and inspiring and it gives an insight into the internal struggles of drug addicts. Even through out his combat with his addictions, he is still a role model. Peter went through a dark period in his lifetime due to depression and loneliness, and through many attempts, he got his act together and now lives a life anyone would be proud to have. Jason Peter expressed how much mental strength he possessed as he led the reader through his life story and never seemed to have lost hope.
My father was an alcoholic!” John’s says that he sort of listened but eventually forgot as time passed. He experimented with various drugs as well, some for personal exploration, some to see why others were doing it. Drugs were never John’s thing and by this thirties he was a regular, heavy drinker.
(Maria) The accident with the ostrich caused him to be sent to the hospital where they gave him pain medication. This caused him to relapse, and he got so addicted to the pills that they started to affect his digestive system. He started drinking to cope with this. It was not too long after this that he started to rediscover his addiction to amphetamines. (Maria) Johnny Cash had a lot of awards and achievements.
If any of my family is ever in trouble or needs help, I am always there for them when others are not. By doing this, I am often forced to make a great sacrifice of my time or stop whatever work I am doing. However, no matter what I may be doing, my family always comes before anything in my life. As a kid, I suffered many consequences for my actions that had been taken fourth towards others around me while still being able to push on through all of the trouble to become successful and keep on with my life in the right direction. While the story of “Antigone” displays obedience to civil law that everyone must abide by, it also gives a larger image of loyalty and obligation to
The only way to survive life is to shut down or get hurt, and die. This is the life I once lived, and the way I believed it always would be. Growing up, everything around me was inconsistent, physically and emotionally. Of course, at six years old, inconsistency often goes unnoticed. I was living with a father who was addicted to drugs.
But I have been a witness of many people who are repeat offenders when it comes to drug addictions. Drug addiction is a horrible disease and cannot be treated easily. As per Stanton Peele, Ph.D., Esq., the 12-step program being used in these rehabilitation programs only uses abstinence to help these offenders to cope with this disease. (Stanton Peele, 2010, Stanton Peele, http://peele.net/lib/court.html). As per this thirty-year experienced doctor, he has seen many of these people fall back into their addictions after rehabilitation.
Lisa went first. Her initial "statement of position" was much fuller than usual. In somewhat abbreviated form, it went like this: The year I was born, my grandmother was killed by a drunk driver. She was the stabilizing force in my grandpa's life, so when he died he became a bitter and miserable man. The only time I've ever spent with my grandpa is when he lived with our family after he was seriously injured in another drinking and driving incident.
He told us that if we are being forced here, that we will not gain that much from meeting. However, if we want to be there; then the meetings will help change our lives. This man has been sober for nineteen years. He ended up marrying his girlfriend and he is very active in his son’s live. He states it continues to be a struggle and that he will continually be an alcoholic, but he knows that he has stopped the cycle.
I find myself sometimes unintentionally causing people to become upset and or cause pain because I can be so focused on a great motive. That statement is a very truthful statement about me, sadly it is true that I can and have caused pain numerous times in order to achieve my goals. It also states that I tend to believe that ethics are a set of universal rules that everyone must follow, as I do. I have to follow the rules so everyone should. My strengths according to the statement are temperance, meaning that I act with integrity in the exercise of all my values.