Moral Muteness

Like many others, my moral muteness situation was at work as well.  In high school, I worked at a local restaurant.  I hadn't been there too long but had heard some people talking about a lady that was a cook in the back.  They said that she may have been stealing some boxes of frozen food here and there.  I never actually witnessed it so I did not think that I should say anything because it may just be a rumor and I did not want to get a person in trouble if they really weren't doing anything wrong because like I said, I had not actually witnessed it.  Come to find out, about a month later, the lady was fired because they found boxes of food in her car before she was about to leave one day.  I just felt a weird feeling because I knew about the situation a month before and never said anything.

Looking back, I should have went to a superior and let them know.  The lady wouldn't get in trouble if she wasn't doing anything wrong.  So it would have been better to just bring it to their attention and let them look into it.  If she wasn't stealing then she would be just fine.  But I had the moral obligation to bring it to their attention and I didn't do it.  I have learned from that situation and honestly cannot think of too many since that time a few  years ago.

Blog #3

I took quizzes for age, weight and gender-career.  Coming away from these quizzes, I really was not too surprised with my results.  They are pretty close to what I would say I associate myself with.  

I assumed that I would have a slight bias towards younger people because that is who I am around the majority of my time whether I am in classes, at work, or out with friends.  However, once I got my results, I received that I was slightly bias towards older people.  This surprised me at first but then I thought of my superiors such as professors and my managers at work.  They may have influenced my bias a little.  Either way, I do not see my bias as really affecting the way that I think because it was only a slight bias towards the older generation.

The weight quiz was my second quiz so I understand how the quiz would be asked and how my results would come out.  With that in mind, I guessed that my result would be slightly or moderately towards thinner people.  My result ended up being slightly towards thin people.  I can understand this because I generally think of being active and playing sports.  That in no way means that bigger people cannot be active or play sports but in the most general sense of the term, active people tend to be thinner.

My last quiz was the gender-career one.  I got my results back saying that I slightly preferred male-career association and female family association.  I would completely agree with this bias for myself. I am going into sports for a career and it is a male dominated field.  Also growing up, my dad worked a job that required him to work 40 hours a week and then he may get called out all hours of the night. So my mom was the one that did most of the "family" things.  I totally believe that these roles can be reversed and don't think that woman belong at home and only men can work and provide for families.  But in my own personal experience, my dad did the majority of the working and providing for my family while my mom took care of the things at home.

Blog #2 Relational Leadership

I chose two clips from the movie Friday Night Lights.  Each one takes place at halftime of the state championship game.  In the first clip, a player named Ivory Christian, who is known as a great player but does not talk much, goes off on an emotional speech.  This is much to the delight of his teammate Boobie Miles who had talked to him earlier in the season and told him that he needed to be a leader.  Christian challenges his teammates.  The team that they are playing was known as the best team in the state and was just physically better than every other team.  But Ivory tells his teammates that they are just like them.  They both worked hard during two-a-days in 100 degree weather.  They should not be scared of them just because they are supposed to lose.  This is an example of a player stepping up and taking charge for his team.
The second clip is head coach Gary Gaines addressing the team during the same halftime of the championship game.  This is right before the team is to head back out to the field.  He asks his players if they can be perfect.  He goes on to say that being perfect is not about the scoreboard or winning.  Its about the players relationship with themselves and those around them.  He knows how hard his team has worked to be in this position but he wants to see them achieve more than winning a state championship.  He wants them to achieve in life.  He shows great leadership in caring for his players and knows that there is more to life than winning games.  He ends his speech by saying that his heart is full because of his players.