Cheating In The United States

We have all in some form have cheated in life. At some point, we may have engaged in some type of dishonesty that has given us an unfair advantage among our peers. Students cheat in school, prospective employees generate overachieving resumes to hyperbolize work experience, and the usage of performing enhancing drugs has gradually become a daily occurrence in the sports industry. No one is free from this dire predicament. At a young age, a child may unknowingly participate in cheating behavior when they begin to justify undesirable behavior with little white lies. However, these innocent lies start to evolve into intricate cheating practices that have gradually become the social norm in our society, since children begin to see this type of

The American dream is defined as owning a home surrounded by a white picket fence, a family, and a good job that allows you to make an ample amounts of money. To attain such dream, you are highly encouraged to achieve a good education that will propel you into a successful career. Emphasis is placed on children at an early age to succeed in their studies. Children are often pushed to extremes to develop the model student that is highly marketable and sought after by prevalent universities. Overtime children learn that standardized testing is the key measurement of their success. As a result, they will do anything possible to ensure they receive high marks on their exams even if means cheating. This cheating phenomenon has gradually grown into an epidemic that will continue to plague the education system nationally because of an unfair, biased standardized assessment of a child’s

Individuals often find it easy to cheat their way through life, without working hard for the things they hope to achieve someday. These individuals often live in the moment and take minimal consideration of the long-term consequences of their actions. Furthermore, these individuals fail to realize that their unethical actions yield small ripples that not only affect them directly but it also affects others. The economic recession the Unites States endured between 2007 and 2009 was a result of large banks engaging in unethical banking practices. During this period banks approved an outrages number of home loans and credit cards to consumers without enforcing any income verification. As a result, a vast number of these bank loans went into default, consequently projecting the U.S economy into a recession that lasted three