Why do people shoplift? It is the public, sibling, or just want to gain attention. I have been told if I don't want any trouble I should keep my mouth shut. There are approximately 27 million shoplifter and 25 percent are kids, 75 percent are adults. A shoplifter would steal at least twice a week. In my case it was more than twice a week. I soon learned that shoplifting is a controllable real-life game with no real outcome.
Like a paralyze person I stand and stare in dazed as I was ensure shoplifting is normal. I remember when we used to go Target, Dollar Tree, and Wal-Mart at all times. We were like a baby who cry in need when we want something. Growing up with strict parent is a pain due to my mom she was greedy with money. With this situation my brother start to shoplift until one of them got caught and no longer allow to enter the store. Soon, both of them are banned from at least one store in town. Knowing well shoplifting banned people me and my sister start to shoplift starting somewhere small. At the same location we shoplifted multiple times causing my sister to come from the store announcing,”We can't go to Dollar Tree anymore!” I relied in confused,”Why?” With a clear statement she said,”Were banned from Dollar Tree because we were caught stealing way too many times.” Knowing this will
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happen I stood in shock with a blank face and numbness. After being banned from a few place we become silent as mid summer night.
My cousin selled dubbed movie and TV shows often was Thai, Chinese, and Korea. I was more interested into Chinese TV shows because they were more meaningful and simple moral lesson. From the Chinese series, Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre, Zhang Wuji childhood was terrible and a disaster. Due to the powerful sword Wuij's parent died and was abandoned. The moral lesson is to forgive and forget in order to seek peace in life. This series help me realize being greedy and selfish at what I want won't bring long term happiness. My thirst for shoplifting slowing close and gradually gain
happiness. Watching and learning a few series isn't as useful to stop shoplifting until I learned it the hard way. Back in elementary I betrayed my best friend and regretted the decision I made. Many years has passed I learned that I deserve what happen to me because it was a life lesson. At the times we were on bed term and I really disliked her. So, one day I stolen her bike and took the bike with me. Less than two hour police showed up and begin to question me. Everything about shoplifting and theft begun to have dead end resolution. Facing the cop with empty answer was one of them. Like a Halloween corn maze in the starry night I had no answer to their questions. Days after rumor flies like a wildfire and it was completely unfair to me. With tight owl eyes and miles apart I feel like a criminal being stare down with a disgrace. This kind of atmosphere was something I never want to experience again or hit a reply of this terrible mistake. I shoplifted for the reason of bad role model and difficult distinguish between want and need. With the help of this experience and moral lesson TV shows I no longer take anything without looking over the consequences and result. I was a close minded person but now I'm very open to any situation. I recommended to watch at least one foreign TV show to enhance knowledge and important lesson because it has help me to become a better person than I was before.
Life is bursting with temptation everywhere and based on peer pressure, if you can’t get something you want you rather find another way to get it. Individuals of the community rather act out of action without thinking about it first, which can lead them to the severe consequences of their actions. Then you later think what I did was wrong, I could have prohibited that by doing it differently. Afterward, you feel a great deal of emotions running through your mind; encumbrance, sorrow, and helplessness. These reactions cause you to overthink and make you feel compunction than you already feel. At first you feel calm and assumed you can get away with it, but unfortunately it landed you nowhere but deeper in the grave. Even in its effects in “Shoplifting”
I Daniella M. Genzale was caught shoplifting from Sephora in Roosevelt Field Mall. I put two items of makeup into my pocket book and walked out of the store passing all points of purchasing.When I left the store the security made us stop and ask us to give them what items were taken and don't pretend nothing was taken because he watched us. Then we walked back into the store with the security and they took us into the back room, once we were there he showed us the video of us taking the items and calculated how much was stolen all together. We were in the room for about an hour before the police officers came and hand cuffed us. At this point I was in tears crying, I was worried my mom was calling me and she was nervous. I still don't understand
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other people’s possessions. Many times they will do anything to get a hold of what it is they want from
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2. A 7-year-old child asks you to explain why stealing is wrong. (We will assume here that it is wrong.) How would you go about explaining it?
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