Doing The Right Thing 'And Thank You Ma' Am

“Doing the right thing is not always popular, but isn’t it enough that it is right?” (Senora Roy). Doing the right from wrong is not always easy, but having someone who motivates you gets a lot easier. After reading the texts, “Doing the Right Thing”, “The Road Not Taken”,and “Thank You Ma'am” it is evidence that people can have the courage to do the right thing when they have someone in their life who is dear to them and important who’d they would hate to disappoint. The first example provides that some people can get the courage to do the right thing from a loved one such as a family member. In the text, “Doing the Right Thing” by Rick Reilly, four division III football players Anthony Blondi, Kell’E Gallimore, Thomas James, and Jelani Bruce went into a catch-all chain store, Buddy’s Small

In the poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the narrator comes upon two roads in the woods and he could only take one. “Long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth,” This shows he is looking into the future results of things and thinking about his decision. “Then took the other just as fair and perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear; though as for that the passing there.” This shows the two roads are being looked at even though one is more grassy which is the road no one really takes in life and another one is worn down which is the road a lot of people take. In the end of looking at the pros and cons of each road, he did the right thing and took the one less traveled, “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” He took the harder path which relates to the more challenging way of life. He found the courage to do the right thing from within himself. By him taking the hard way out it benefited him and his