Six Pillars Of A National Honor Society
National Honor Society Application Essay To begin, just like anything in life, we must define what we are doing. To define character, many people break it up into six different categories. These are called the six pillars of character, and go as follows: respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, citizenship and caring. I ordered these characteristics in which I think is the most important. I grouped respect with responsibility, trustworthiness with fairness, and citizenship with caring for following reasons to come. I grouped the way each characteristic has impacted my life the most. First of all, respect is a trait that should be exhibited at all times and for everybody. I know that everybody must be respected no matter how old they are, what their occupation is, what race they are, or their political views. Everybody deserves respect, no matter what they've done, although, I make it a priority to respect everybody. I’ve noticed that it comes full circle and sometimes there are times when adversity occurs and a person might not be respectful to you. Turn the other cheek, that is what I have told myself to do. Following respect is the responsibility that everybody carries with them. I can say that I’ve had a good upbringing with good leadership roles and support from my family. They taught me that it
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It can sway how people see you and it puts a good label on you. Trustworthiness is a quality that has come easy to me. When I know that a person holds their trust in me, I don’t want to let them down and that’s how most people should act. Along with trustworthiness is fairness. This trait of character has been lost in today’s world. Having four siblings, I have learned a lot about fairness from having to share things. Fairness has been shown with how we keep things even between us. There are always people that say the world isn’t fair, but if there is a will there’s a
It can sway how people see you and it puts a good label on you. Trustworthiness is a quality that has come easy to me. When I know that a person holds their trust in me, I don’t want to let them down and that’s how most people should act. Along with trustworthiness is fairness. This trait of character has been lost in today’s world. Having four siblings, I have learned a lot about fairness from having to share things. Fairness has been shown with how we keep things even between us. There are always people that say the world isn’t fair, but if there is a will there’s a