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When faced with adversity do you change your morals?

              When faced with adversity people might change their morals.  She also say that a person is allowed to change their morals depending on the situation. For me, I believe that a person can leave their morals/ethics behind depending on the situation. For example,  if there is a big test that is really important and someone beside me is taking the same test and I could clearly see their answers, I might take look and cheat on a question or two. Usually, I don't always cheat, yet because of the situation that can be considered as an exception. Although, some people say that if someone changes their morals depending on the situation then they have weak ethics, I personally disagree.   

Video Message

             The video talked about how life was hard for Mohed Altrad, and that he was never able to give up.  Mohed was born in a dessert in Syria. His parents died when he was at a young age. He always dreamed of going to school, yet his grandmother that was raising him refused to let that happen. All he could do was look at the classroom from far away or from a hole in the wall. One time, the teacher caught Mohed spying at the class, she felt bad so she let him in the class. He got bullied because of jealousy, which led him into setting a goal for himself,  don't let anyone push you around anymore. After that with a couple of years he bought a company, which led him into accomplishing a lot of dreams. This company is said to be one of the greatest companies. He also has kids. He doesn't have an exact date of birth, so because of that his kids celebrate his birthday every year at March nineth. The fact that Mohed didn't give up at a...

Quote Meaning

            This quote is about how you view situation and how you control you ethics in certain situations.  Ethics are  moral principles that govern a person's behaviors or the conducting of an activity. By that you can get that the meaning of ethics are a person's behaviors in certain activities, in  other words ethics are also your morals. Your ethics are the aspects that help you look at situations with different kinds of lenses depending on your usual morals. In the quote when they said "the lens you use to see the situation"the lens is your ethics. In the short stories "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Lamb of the Slaughter" the main characters had to use their ethics in certain situations that are important. In the "Lamb of the Slaughter" the main character, Mary, didn't stick to her morals/ethics and killed her husband. In "The Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford , thought about how he could use his ethics and morals an...