Jerry An Ethical Man Analysis

Facts: Jerry Maguire has a moral epiphany and is fired by his co-worker Bob Sugar from SMI for expressing his opinions. Upon returning to the office Jerry tries to retain his clients, but is beat to the punch by Bob Sugar, who takes all of his clients including Kathy Sanders and John Swenson. Jerry loses all seventy-two of his clients but one, Rod Tidwell.

Jerry: Selfish to Selfless We can learn a lot from how Jerry set aside the signed glove for his family. Jerry from "President Cleveland, Where Are You?" by Robert Cornier is an important character who shows selfless in the face of his own desires after being stingy with his money even though it was his dad’s birthday. Through his actions he demonstrates the story’s theme of putting family or group goals before your own. Jerry displays selfishness in the beginning of “President Cleveland, Where Are You?”

Jerry’s death contributes to Tim’s decision of neutrality. Jerry’s death raised many questions, one of them being “What harm could he have done them”(166). Jerry died in a prison ship

But now that Captain Lee Harden is running the camp, Jerry is upset that he is no longer running things. While Bus is gladly running things with Lee, Jerry is refusing to help out in any way, just because he dislikes Lee. Jerry isn’t actually against most of Lee’s ideas, but because he wants to be the leader, he is taking advantage of the situation by saying the exact opposite of what Lee says, therefore forming two clear divisions of Camp Ryder. Jerry doesn’t hardly care about the safety of the group, all he really wants is to have the power, the control of the group. What Jerry doesn’t realize he’s doing though, is that he’s ruining the precious tribal Camp Ryder hub that he loves so much, that he wants control

Jerry is pushed beyond his limit when swimming through the tunnel and he struggled but persevered and kept swimming. After swimming for an unbearable amount of time, Jerry addresses that, “He was at the end of what he could do… [but] he must go on into the blackness ahead.” (Lessing 5). He acknowledged that he was being pushed out of his comfort zone but instead of giving up, he was determined to make it through. Dissimilarly, when Elizabeth was faced with the challenge of taking responsibility and owning up to her actions after striking out at Celia, she runs away, fearing retribution. After attacking Celia, Elizabeth experiences the feelings of guilt and fear, “…I ran as fast as I could…I was able to creep down to the girls’ washroom and quickly hide…I was so filled with horror…” (Huggan 80, 81). Elizabeth realized that she was going to face punishment for her actions but instead of accepting it she decided to run away from her problems. Jerry, displaying a growth mindset through his ability to conquer challenges, was able to successfully complete his goal. Elizabeth, demonstrating a fixed mindset, runs away from her challenges and faces consequences afterwards. Hence, having a growth mindset that is not afraid of challenges will accomplish more than having a fixed mindset that runs away from

The risk Jerry took is worth taking because the benefits of his accomplishment outweigh the risks. When jerry felt he can go through the tunnel, he wanted to become a man like the other older French boys. The motive of his risk is to be fearless and a brave man who could fight the danger and evade the risks. He prepared himself by practicing every day in the bay alone, he was aware of the risks he wanted to take, because every time during his practice, when he was practicing how to hold his breath he had chest pain and nose bleeding (line 202->216). He challenged himself by putting his life in danger to accomplish his goal to become a man, and he became the man he wanted, he fought the danger and evade the risk, he went through the tunnel risking

One of the biggest difficulty of people being an individual rather than actually judged it’s the fear of judgement. Most people assmus that they’re going to be judge, going back and though in their heads not letting themself be or do what they want. Unlike Jerry he said “no” even though his was done with the Vigils assignment without thinking, and then quickly rejected it. Jerry couldn't understand why said “no” again having a inner battle with himself, saying “ Why did you do that? I don’t know. Have you gone crazy? (cormier page 119)”. Jerry wasn’t the only one who’s scared of judgement Goober also wonder if he’s doing the right thing. He want to be there for Jerry but he doesn't want to become a victim too. Goober and Jerry were both scared

Adults within The Chocolate War bring a variety of both positive and negative messages for the adolescent characters to develop. In terms of positivity impacting Jerry, his father plays an important role in helping him decide what he does not want to be. In the novel Jerrys mother had died recently to a sickness. This resulted in his father acting like “a sleepwalker going through the motions” and “like a puppet being maneuvered by invisible strings” (The Chocolate War: 48). To Jerry this is brought back up at the end of the chapter where he fears that he will become like his father. After seeing some of the resemblance in the mirror he “turned away” because he “didn’t want to be a mirror of his father” (The Chocolate War: 53). The idea of

I believe that Jerry is an ethical person, even though he lied to the narrator about having a mother it was for a reason. That reason was he was trying to cope with the fact that he was lonely so, he used his figment of imagination to create a persona. Which was his mother who he claimed lived in Mannville and brought him gifts and saw him when she felt like it.

When I first learned that philosophy class was being taught at Johnston Community College I thought it would be an interesting class to take. Before I took this class all I really knew about philosophy was it dealt with the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. In addition, I always believed in the fallacious statement that in philosophy there was no wrong answer. However, even after just reading the passages from the first module from the books The Ethical Life and The Fundamentals of Ethics by Russ Shafer-Landau I realized that my previous belief on how there was no wrong answer in philosophy was completely wrong. The reason is in Chapter 5 which deals with morality and religions said in the book that a theory called Divine Command Theory is wrong it even states, “Therefore, either God is imperfect, or the Divine Command Theory is false. God is not imperfect. Therefore, the Divine Theory is false (Shafer-Landau 69).” In other words, Divine Command Theory is pretty much an act of morality in which people believe something is immoral or not depending on whether it 's been forbidden by God or not. This is false since this theory leads to people believing their is no morality without God. As well as, throughout the semester my style of writing and thought process has changed because in this class it shows students to look at the different perspectives to several different topics.

Was Jerry right, or wrong? People say lying is wrong but what if you do it for a reason? What if it makes you feel better to lie about something? What if you did it to benefit yourself? Why do people treat other human beings so terribly? No one doesn't deserve to be abused or not loved. Jerry is ethical because he was lying and he knows that he was but he did it to cope with his harsh reality's.

Jerry at first had shown that life had beat him down and he had no chance of getting back up. When Trevor offered him that opportunity he needed he took it and tried to make a change with his life but ended up going back to drugs. It wasn't until he met a woman on the verge of suicide that he realized that he needed to change something immediately and he made a choice to save that woman in order to save himself which worked out

Tom is Jerry's enemy, and Jerry is Tom's enemy. Jerry is regularly seen interacting with Tom and outsmarting him But over the years, Tom unconciously starts to care about Jerry. On one occasion, Tom chooses to help Jerry cope with breaking up with his mouse-girlfriend(what?)instead of ridiculing him.

This causes Brother Leon to panic, since it is his job at stake. Brother Leon begins to put pressure on Archie to stop Jerry from saying no, but not even the Vigils can stop him. Archie feels this as a challenge. So Archie begins to finds those who feel Jerry as a threat, with his saying no, and Archie sends them towards Jerry, to hurt him and to beat him. Jerry, against everything, keeps saying no to the sale, this begins to cause chaos throughout the school, people hang flyers for Jerry, others call him just to tear his mentality

Lily’s comment peaked my curiosity so I went online to learn more about situation ethics (aka situationism) and Joseph Fletcher, the American Episcopalian priest, professor and author credited with developing the theory of situation ethics. From the 1940s to the 1970s, Fletcher was a professor at the Episcopal Divinity School, the Harvard Divinity School and the University of Virginia. He wrote several books, two on the theory of situation ethics. He later became a proponent of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics and cloning and by the 1970s, left the priesthood and identified as a humanist and atheist. Fletcher stated in one of his books that "all laws and rules and principles and ideals and norms, are only contingent, only valid if