Hester23

__**Honesty**__ Honesty to me is the most important trait a person could have. To me it means that you don’t lie and people trust in you. The reason why I think that honesty is the most important trait a person could have is because if a man is not honest then no one will trust him. Like the boy who cried wolf, he was in a field watching over the sheep and he thought it would be funny to yell WOLF, WOLF. Everyone ran up to the field to protect the sheep, but when they got up there, there was no wolf just a boy laughing in a field of sheep. They scolded him harshly and then returned to the city the boy wasn’t affected by the yelling. So the next day he yelled WOLF, WOLF again. This time the town ran up to the field, but when they got up there, there was no wolf just the kid laughing again. The town yelled at him again and the kid said that he was sorry and he would never say it again. The next day the kid was watching the sheep again and in the distance he saw a wolf so he yelled WOLF, WOLF, WOLF SOMEONE HELP THERE IS A WOLF. He kept waiting but no one came. He didn’t know what to so he went to fight off the wolf and he got eaten. So because he wasn’t honest he died. The whole town had no trust in him because he lied two times before about the same thing.

__**Friendship**__ Friendship is the second most important trait a person could have. Friendship to me means that you have someone that you would trust your life with. Friendship also means to me that you would do anything with. For instance my friend Devin is a person that I can always relay on if I ever have a question I can ask him because he always knows the answer, and if he doesn’t then he will have a good guess. There was one time where I had an important question but it was a little silly but I asked him anyways and he took it seriously and it helped me a lot. If you develop honesty then you can have a friendship. Friendship is important because if you have no honesty then no one can trust you.

There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!" The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces. "Don't cry 'wolf', shepherd boy," said the villagers, "When there's no wolf!" They went grumbling back down the hill. Later, the boy sang out again, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!" To his naughty delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away. When the villagers saw no wolf they sternly said, "Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don't cry 'wolf' when there is NO wolf!" But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more. Later, he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, "Wolf! Wolf!" But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn't come. At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn't returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping. "There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, "Wolf!" Why didn't you come? An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village. "We'll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning," he said, putting his arm around the youth, "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!"
 * __Honesty__**

"Story Library." 2007. 28 Nov 2007 .

Honesty is something that everyone needs and uses at one time in their life. For example in the boy who cried wolf story, the boy is watching over the sheep and looking for a wolf and if by chance he sees one he has to yell WOLF WOLF THERE IS A WOLF HELP!!! And the whole town will come running to help their sheep. He thinks it would be funny to yell and tell the town there is a sheep. He yells out that there is a sheep and the whole town comes to save them and it turns out the sheep aren’t there. The town goes down the hill after yelling at him. Because of this dishonesty later when the real wolf comes and he yells to the town to come and help he is left alone to fight off the wolf because no one trust a liar… even when they tell the truth.

Hip-hop bad boy mine once sought to dispense some 'responsible advice' to his fans. "Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent," he pleaded. "Leave that to me!"
 * __Responsibility__**

"E responsibility." Anecdotage. 2002. 28 Nov 2007 .

Responsibility is when a person can tell another person to do something and not have the slightest worry about them not being able to finish the task. Responsibility is also when a person does things that aren’t bad like doing drugs, being violent and having unprotected sex. If you are responsible then you will not do any of these things but you will try to stop those things. In this story Eminem is responsible by telling everyone not to do those things, but at the same time he is being responsible by saying that he should be the only one doing it. If he wanted to be responsible then he would have to not have said that he is the only one that should be doing it. By saying that he is the only one that should be doing it the others get the idea that it is ok to do it because Eminem does it. Maybe some people will say that it is not ok because the said he is the only one allowed to do those things. So maybe people will not do it because he said not to but that is giving him the benefit of the doubt. So if you want to be responsible than you need to tell people not to do things and not do those things you told them in the first place.