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Personal Responsibility
Purpose: To Persuade
Thesis: I want my audience to understand that accepting personal responsibility is the cornerstone for making significant improvement on our social issues. ... Mary Caron reported in the May 2002 Insurance Journal that personal injury claims are a 4 billion-dollar industry and approximates that over half the claims based personal negligence and display a lack of personal responsibility. ... Thesis Statement: Accepting personal responsibility is the cornerstone for making significant improvement on our social issues. ... It was there that I learned the importance of personal responsibility and how accepting it can lead to success. ... Preview of Main Points: Now for you to understand how accepting personal responsibility can improve our society I will cover the following points. ... First, I will cover what accepting personal responsibility means. ... Second, I will discuss the negative consequences of not accepting personal responsibility. ... Last, I will review the behaviors required to make personal responsibility work. ... Dr William George Professor of Psychology at the US Naval Academy in the March 2002 issue of Proceedings magazine stated “Personal responsibility is acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life and for what you choose to feel and think. ... However, as adults we have a responsibility to tear down the rationale for why others are responsible for who we are, what happens to us and what we are to become. ... Accepting personal responsibility is about looking with-in first and not blaming others for the choices you have made in your lives. ... In 1999 as a Leading Chief Petty Officer onboard the USS Enterprise I would counsel sailors often on financial responsibility. ... Personal responsibility is only effective if you can let go of the anger and blame toward those in your past who did the best they could given their limited knowledge, background and awareness.
Approximate Word count = 1475
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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