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1.  Define Each Sin
Apathy towards others and the feeling of not wanting to get anything done

2. Provide examples of each Sin in modern day (at least 2)
Going to school for some is a big problem since it starts to cost them a lot to get up early or they simply don't feel like studying and just because they are lazy they prefer not to go to school.
-Not helping people who really need the money and ask for help on the streets.

3. Find 1 credible article that supports your examples of the modern day Sin.
News, Deseret. “Sloth — Some Say It's Worst of the 7 Deadly Sins.” Deseret News, Deseret News, 25 Mar. 2006, https://www.deseret.com/2006/3/25/19944751/sloth-151-some-say-it-s-worst-of-the-7-deadly-sins.

4. Explain that article and cite it
In this article it simply explains that
is the lack of motivation to work that causes a person to not want to do it. This will frequently result in resource waste. It also talks about a psychologist who wrote about sloth and says that this can start as something unnoticed but then it begins to become a habit and that is where it becomes even more serious that it is very dangerous for health and soul

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In 1967, actor Dudley Moore wrote "Bedazzled," a movie featuring the Seven Deadly Sins in which he portrayed Sloth, a lawyer who dozes all day long and ignores his wife, Lust, portrayed by the then-young and beautiful Raquel Welch.

Despite her beauty, her husband never opens his eyes. He doesn't notice his gorgeous wife.

According to many theologians, this is why sloth is the worst of the seven sins.

While the other sins grab at life and gobble it up, sloth just doesn't care.

What could be more sinful than apathy, religious leaders ask. What's worse than ignoring God's amazing world? What's worse than being ungrateful? Than not making the most of the life you've been given?· · · · ·

"This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." - Psalm 118

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At first, sloth seems to be a straightforward kind of sin - sloth equals laziness, nothing more, it seems.

But when you talk to religious leaders, when you hear the philosophers, you realize that sloth takes many forms.

In modern times, when religious leaders talk of sloth, they usually refer to "lack of spiritual discipline," says Steve Goodier, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Salt Lake City. By spiritual discipline, Goodier means prayer and church attendance. He also counts service as a spiritual discipline. After all, God tells us to help each other.

But let's say you are an atheist and don't feel an obligation to pray or go to church. You can still fall into sloth. Because you do feel compelled to help other people, you too are vulnerable.

At the Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake, Imam Shuaib Din says prayer is an obligation and "the point is to fulfill the obligation."

If you feel lazy and aren't concentrating when you begin your prayers then one of two things will happen. First, you may draw closer to God anyway and become rejuvenated. On the other hand, you may pray the entire time without concentrating and feel no closer to God than you did when you started.

But still it is better to have prayed, the imam says, because praying is the right thing. "Not praying is a victory for the devil."

The early Christians also saw prayer as an obligation. They used the Greek word "acedia" or "lack of care" to describe the soul too sleepy to bother.

In the fourth century A.D., when the monk Evagrius made up his list of deadly sins, he actually had eight sins on the list. He listed "acedia" and also "tristia" or sadness. Evagrius called acedia "the most oppressive sin of all."

Several hundred years after Evagrius, Pope Gregory trimmed the list of sins down to seven and left off acedia. Some historians say he left it off because it is similar to tristia.

Other historians say Gregory did not list sloth as a sin because he understood it to be depression - and he understood that depression was beyond man's control and, therefore, not a sin at all.

Yet many of today's religious leaders - and some psychologists, too - separate depression from sloth. It is possible to have a slothful soul without being depressed, they explain. Depression can't be cured by prayer, but sloth can.

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"One thing is certain. If you only do what you feel like doing, your life will be miserable and you will be a failure." - Matthew Kelly, "The Rhythm of Life"

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In the final analysis, apathy can be a symptom of sloth or depression. But sloth also implies a certain amount of disdain.

A British psychologist, Anne Maguire, wrote a book called "The Seven Deadly Sins," and says this about sloth, "At first it may not be obvious why sloth is regarded with such gravity. It is described as a thankless distaste for life or a general feeling of apathy. . . . It becomes clear, however, that even more than a coarse excess or an outbreak of passion, sloth may be the result of a deep-seated selfishness, which is at base a sullen rebellion against, and an alienation from God. Sloth is generally an unconscious sin, insidious and pernicious and extremely dangerous for the health of the soul."

Sloth can also be defined as being apathetic about government, says Robert Solomon in his book "Wicked Pleasures." Solomon says the failure of public will allows fascists to take over. He urges involvement, saying, "Occasions for good present themselves every day, and every day we pass them by."

Ghulam Hasnan, a Salt Lake man who is a Shiite Muslim, also talks about involvement. He talks of the bravery of Husayn, the grandson of Muhammad, who stood up for his religious beliefs even when he knew he would be killed. Hasnan also mentions Job, the Old Testament prophet who suffered deeply but never stopped being grateful to God.

How easy are our lives in comparison? Hasnan asks. Can't we fight for justice? Can't we be grateful?

Wendy Wasserstein's book called "Sloth" came out in 2005, shortly before the award-winning playwright passed away. She called to task those who, to the untrained eye, don't appear to be slothful at all. People who exercise faithfully and have full schedules didn't impress Wasserstein very much.

"Their hyperactivity is no different than your or my slothfulness," Wasserstein wrote.

They may be riding their stationary bikes at 70 mph, but they are going nowhere, she said. They are creatively and spiritually void. Wasserstein saw the irony - that the cure for sloth may actually involve taking time off from work so as to develop a more creative and spiritual life; so as to have time to experience gratitude.

At the Newman Center at the University of Utah, the Rev. Peter Rogers says he sees many students who struggle with sloth, or what they perceive as sloth. "For example," Father Peter says, "one student sort of confessed to me that she had hoped to use spring break for studying and she didn't and was feeling guilty.

"So I told her, 'Spring break is called spring break because it is supposed to be a break. It needs to be a time of rest and refreshment,' " he told her.

He told her she is not a sloth.

E-mail: susan@desnews.com

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In 1967, actor Dudley Moore wrote "Bedazzled," a movie featuring the Seven Deadly Sins in which he portrayed Sloth, a lawyer who dozes all day long and ignores his wife, Lust, portrayed by the then-young and beautiful Raquel Welch. Despite her beauty, her husband never opens his eyes. He doesn't...

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1.  Define Each Sin
Thinking self-centeredly and only caring about your own desire for money or power

2. Provide examples of each Sin in modern day (at least 2)
- My best friend told me that he would bring me a cookie and he didn't.
- My co-worker didn't want to share the tips we got yesterday.

3. Find 1 credible article that supports your examples of the modern day Sin.
Andrei, Mihai. “Why Nestle Is One of the Most Hated Companies in the World.” ZME Science, 1 Feb. 2021, https://www.zmescience.com/science/nestle-company-pollution-children/.

4. Explain that article and cite it
Companies, such as Nestle, are eager to maximize their profits by engaging in activities that are beneficial to only themselves such as claiming that their infant formula is better than breast milk, draining aquifers without any regard to environmental concerns, refusing to publish any reports on how much water they use, and worker exploitation. All of these issues combined reveal that they're only concerned about money, which is essentially what greed embodies.

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Child labor, unethical promotion, manipulating uneducated mothers, pollution, price fixing and mislabeling - those are not words you want to see associated with your company. Nestle is the world's largest foodstuff company, and it has a history that would make even hardcore industrialists shiver. We're gonna look at why Nestle has such a bad reputation and whether or not it deserves it.

Introduction

People love to hate, and they really love to hate on big companies - whether or not they have a reason to. I especially dislike it when the latter happens. Companies (big companies included) are the very backbone of our economy, and they often get a bad rep for little or no reason. But sometimes there is a reason, or as in this case, several solid reasons, as we'll see below. Which brings me to the next point: why are we writing this article? ZME Science is a science website (crazy, right?), and this is not strictly science, at least not in the way our regular articles are. But we also write about environmental issues, especially when they affect many of us, and especially when we can make a difference.

Nestle is a Swiss multinational food and beverage company. According to Wikipedia, their products include baby food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks. Twenty-nine of their brands have sales of over $1 billion a year and have over 8,000 brands. They have 447 factories across 194 countries and employ around 333,000 people. They truly are what you would call a giant. They're also considered to be one of the best employers in Europe with six LEED certifications and sponsor numerous activities and sustainable projects. Looking at only these stats, it would seem that Nestle is one of the "good guys"... but then why are they so hated? Let's take it step by step.

Baby Formula and Boycott

We're in the '90s, and this is a sad story about poverty, breastfeeding, and greed. Nestle aggressively pushed their breastfeeding formula in less economically developed countries (LEDCs), specifically targeting the poor. They made it seem that their infant formula was almost as good as a mother's milk, which is highly unethical for several reasons.

The first problem was the need for water sanitation. Most of the groups they were targeting - especially in Africa - didn't have access to clean water (many don't to this day), so it was necessary for them to boil the water. But due to low literacy rates, many mothers were not aware of this, so they mixed the formula with polluted water which put the children at great risks. Nestle seems to have knowingly ignored this and encouraged mothers to use the formula even when they knew the risks. Breastfeeding, one of the most important aspects for an infant, especially in unsanitized areas, was cast aside. Baby formula was "the nearest thing in the world", and this "splendid triumph of care and science" is "so like mother's milk that the tiny stomach won't notice the difference". But the tiny stomach did notice the difference.

"Breastfeeding is unparalleled in providing the ideal food for infants.The optimal way to feed a baby is exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months followed by breastfeeding combined with complementary foods until the child is two years old..." - a 2007 Save the Children report.

Many mothers were able to read in their native language but were still unable to read the language in which sterilization directions were written. Even if mothers understood the need to boil the water, they might not have had the facilities to do so. UNICEF estimates that a formula-fed child living in disease-ridden and unhygienic conditions is between 6 and 25 times more likely to die of diarrhea and four times more likely to die of pneumonia than a breastfed child. Another problem was that mothers tended to use less formula than needed - to make the jar last longer, resulting in many infants receiving inadequate amounts.

But even if the water was boiled, and even if the formula was administered in the right proportion and in the right quantity, it is lacking in many of the nutrients and antibodies that breast milk provides. Breast milk contains the required amount of the nutrients essential for neuronal (brain and nerve) development, and to some extent, protects the baby from many diseases and potential infections. According to the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), Nestle used unethical methods to promote their infant formula to poor mothers in developing countries. But it gets even worse.

IBFAN claims that Nestle distributes free formula samples to hospitals and maternity wards; after leaving the hospital, the formula is no longer free, but because the supplementation has interfered with lactation, the family must continue to buy the formula. Nestle denies those allegations... sort of.

"Nestlé takes reports on non-compliance with the WHO Code very seriously and we have endeavored to investigate all allegations brought to our attention, despite the fact that in many cases we are not provided with accurate details substantiating the accusations. This makes it difficult for us to investigate how, where and when the alleged infringement could have occurred. Some of the allegations are several years old before they are brought to public attention, which also could complicate the investigation."

Health experts were concerned from the very start. It's been known for quite a while that bottle-feeding infants in impoverished tropical environments, with limited sanitation and refrigeration, can be a recipe for disaster. But Nestlé's asked that critics should focus on doing something to improve unsafe water supplies, which contributed to the health problems associated with bottle feeding. They also later used this approach to promote their bottled water, using their huge marketing budget to influence people's behavior, while avoiding denying any direct responsibility.

Today, several countries and organizations are still boycotting Nestle, despite their claims to be in compliance with WHO regulations. There's even a committee, the International Nestlé Boycott Committee that monitors their practices. Several universities and student organizations have also joined the boycott, especially in the UK.

More recently, the company has also been under head for a study on breastmilk substitutes in India. India's apex medical research authority asked the company to stop paying study participants, which included pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.

It's not clear how many lives that were lost directly and indirectly due to this aggressive marketing campaign, and of course, Nestle does not claim responsibility for these tragedies. But it was easy for them, as it was easy for everybody to see the risks and the negative effects their formula was having. It was easy for them to save many lives, but they chose the money instead. Profits before children -- check. Let's move on.

Nestle and Water

Few people know it, but Nestle is actually the world's largest producer of bottled water. In fact, they're so keen on their water business (which also involves many of their other products), that they believe water isn't a universal right. Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said:

"There are two different opinions on the matter [or water]. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That's an extreme solution."

Having access to water is not an extreme solution. It's what we have called a basic need for centuries. Even Brabeck, after the media attack that followed, backed down. He said that he "believes that water is a human right" and "advocates for universal access to safe drinking water". But his actions, as well as Nestle's actions, show that that's just greenwashing.

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At the second World Water Forum in 2000, Nestle pushed for making access to drinking water from a "right" to a "need," a defining change. Meanwhile, Nestle drains the aquifers it controls as much as possible, without any regards to sustainable usage or environmental concerns. A recent case is the California drought - an issue without precedent in the past 1,200 years. But Nestle doesn't care. Even as Starbucks recently announced they would transfer their Ethos water bottling facility from California to Pennsylvania, Nestle CEO Tim Brown said: "Absolutely not. In fact, if I could increase [water bottling operations], I would."

Yes, if he could, he'd increase water bottling operations, even though Nestle has been working without a permit since 1988. Inhabitat reports that the company has been sourcing its water from the San Bernardino National Forest without a permit and they've been recently been bumped to the front of the queue for permit renewal (which will take around 18 months), and they can keep working in the meantime as long as they pay a laughable $524 annual fee. Also, California doesn't know how much water Nestle uses, because they have no legal grounds for making the company divulge this information, and Nestle hasn't published any reports. An independent analysis puts all their water usage at 1 billion gallons a year.

Arguably, that's not much when you considering that 500 billion gallons of water that will be saved under Gov. Brown's new water restrictions, but there's something absurd and immoral about a private company using as much water as they want while the rest of the state is facing severe restrictions.

But other areas in the world have it even worse than California.

In the small Pakistani community of Bhati Dilwan, a former village councilor says children are being sickened by filthy water. Who's to blame? He says it's bottled water maker Nestle, which dug a deep well that is depriving locals of potable water.

"The water is not only very dirty, but the water level sank from 100 to 300 to 400 feet," Dilwan says. (source)

Indeed, unsustainable usage of aquifer water can lead to a significant decrease in water levels, and can even exhaust the aquifer. That's right, underground water isn't the inexhaustible source many people believe it to be. In the case of Bhati Dilwan, people are getting sick because if the community had fresh water piped in, it would deprive Nestle of its money source - bottled water under the Pure Life brand. Greedily using natural resources for profits? Check.

But when Nestle isn't trying to privatize water or use it without regards to the environment, it's simply bottling... tap water. A Chicago-based business has sued the company (again), claiming that the five gallon jugs of Ice Mountain Water they bought were nothing else than tap water. It may come as a shock to you, but nearly half of the bottled water in PET plastic bottles is actually from a tap - though Nestle never advertised this. They know what's likely going to happen though, as this is almost a dress rehearsal of a previous scandal. Twelve years ago Nestle Waters was sued over allegation of false labeling, and ultimately settled for $10 million in charitable contributions and discounts.

More recently, Nestle expressed their concern to the city of Flint, Michigan, which was undergoing a massive water crisis at the time -- a crisis which still takes a toll to this day. Meanwhile, the company was using nearby water reserves for their own bottled water products. Nestle was bottling hundreds of thousands of bottles, paying only $200 to use this natural reserve.

Child labor, abuse, and trafficking

Most people love chocolate, but few know the dirty deals behind chocolate production. The 2010 documentary The Dark Side of Chocolate brought attention to purchases of cocoa beans from Ivorian plantations that use child slave labour. The children are usually 12 to 15 years old, and some are trafficked from nearby countries - and Nestle is no stranger to this practice.

In 2005, the cocoa industry was, for the first time, under the spotlight. The International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit against Nestle (among others) on behalf of three Malian children. The suit alleged the children were trafficked to Côte d'Ivoire, forced into slavery, and experienced frequent beatings on a cocoa plantation. In 2010, the US District Court for the Central District of California determined corporations cannot be held liable for violations of international law and dismissed the suit - a controversial decision which has since been appealed. But even if Nestle wasn't legally liable for these abuses, they are, at least morally. But that wasn't the only case of this kind.

A report by an independent auditor, the Fair Labor Association (FLA), says it found "multiple serious violations" of the company's own supplier code. It was reported that Nestle hadn't carried out checks against child labor and abuse. Additionally, many injuries caused by machetes, which are used to harvest cocoa pods, have been reported. Nestle's excuse can be summed up broadly as 'everybody does it':

"The use of child labour in our cocoa supply chain goes against everything we stand for," says Nestle's Executive Vice-President for Operations Jose Lopez. "No company sourcing cocoa from the Ivory Coast can guarantee that it doesn't happen, but we can say that tackling child labour is a top priority for our company."

The FLA reported that Nestle was fully aware of where their cocoa was coming from and under what conditions, but did little to improve conditions. Child slavery and abuse? Check.

Health Threats

In July 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned consumers to avoid eating any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough due to risk of contamination with E. coli O157:H7 (a foodborne bacterium that causes illness). In the US, it caused sickness in more than 50 people in 30 states, half of whom required hospitalization. In particular, one woman had a fatal infection before the batch was reclaimed.

"The fact that our product was implicated in Linda Rivera's 2009 illness and tragic passing was obviously of grave concern to all of us at Nestle," the company said in a statement. "Since then, we have implemented more stringent testing and inspection of raw materials and finished product to ensure the product meets our high quality standards," which sort of makes you wonder - why weren't stringent testing and inspections implemented in the first place?

But this is just a minor incident compared to the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal. Six infants were killed and 860 were hospitalized with kidney problems after Nestle products were contaminated with melamine, a substance sometimes illegally added to food products to increase their apparent protein content.

In October 2008, Taiwan Health ministry announced that six types of milk powders produced in China by Nestlé contained low-level traces of melamine and were removed from the shelves.

The scandal quickly escalated, with China reporting over 300,000 victims, raising concerns about the security of major food companies operating in China. Two people were executed and several life prison sentences were issued, with the World Health Organization (WHO) referring to the incident as one of the largest food safety events it has had to deal with in recent years.

Nestle denied implication and claimed that all its products are clean, but the Taiwan government linked their products to toxic melamine. As a response, Nestle says it has sent 20 specialists from Switzerland to five of its Chinese plants to strengthen chemical testing.

As with any "respectable" large company, Nestle has been involved in several incidents regarding pollution. A 1997 report found that in the UK, over a 12 month period, water pollution limits were breached 2,152 times in 830 locations by companies that included Cabdury and Nestle. But again, the situation in China was much worse.

While people in the US and Europe are slowly becoming more environmentally concerned and some are opting for more sustainable sources of water, Nestle has moved to another market - Asia. Alongside companies such as Kraft or Shell, Nestle made several environmental violations.

Nestle Sources Shanghai Ltd's bottled water manufacturing plant also made the list for starting operation before its wastewater treatment facilities had passed an environmental impact assessment.

"These are only some of the water pollution violations committed by multinational companies in China, since our website has yet to cover information about air and solid waste pollution," said Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs. "The parent companies in their home countries are models for environmental protection. But they have slackened their efforts in China."

Another article claims that Nestle capitalizes on China's already-polluted waters to make a good profit, while Corporate Watch highlights the fact that Nestle continues to extract water illegally from Brazil for their Perrier brand. Although Nestlé lost the legal action, pumping continues as it gets through the appeal procedures, something which can take ten years or more.

Ethiopian Debt

In 2002, Nestle made what turned out to be a colossal error: demanding that Ethiopia pay them back a debt of US$6 million. There's nothing wrong with that per se... if Ethiopia wasn't facing extreme famine at the time. For a company that has 29 brands that make over $1 billion a year, asking a famine-stricken country to pay you back 6 million seems questionable, to say the least.

Nestle's claim dates back to the 1970s when the military regime in Addis Ababa seized the assets of foreign companies.

The public roar came almost overnight; with the company receiving 40,000 letters from outraged people, in one of the most famous cases of public opinion beat corporate greed. In the end, Nestle took a U-turn, settling for a partial debt which was also invested in the country's bouncing back from famine. For Nestle, who initially insisted that the compensation issue was "a matter of principle" and that it was in the best interest of Addis Ababa to settle the demand to repair its record with foreign investors, it was a huge moral defeat. For analysts, it was an exciting case which showed that even giants can falter in the face of public opinion.

"This is a welcome result because it shows that Nestle is not immune to public pressure," said Phil Bloomer, a senior policy analyst.

A Deal With Mugabe

Striking dubious partnerships to make a profit seems to be a recurring theme. The Swiss multinational made a deal with the wife of the infamous dictator from Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe, buying 1 million liters of milk a year from a farm seized from its rightful owners by Grace Mugabe

Grace has taken over at least six of Zimbabwe's most valuable white-owned farms since 2002, building a farming empire from illegally confiscated farms, which led to an international boycott, as well as EU and US sanctions. She is known for her ridiculously lavish lifestyle, which includes overseeing the construction of two luxuriant castles. In 2014, she was given a doctorate diploma only three months after signing up for the program. Nestle went forward with the deal though, even as the country's agriculture-based economy was collapsing and inflation was reaching unheard of levels.

Price Fixing

In Canada, the Competition Bureau raided the offices of Nestlé Canada (along with those of Hershey Canada Inc. and Mars Canada Inc) in an investigation on price fixing. Nestlé and the other companies were subject to class-action lawsuits and ultimately settled for $9 million, without actually admitting liability. Furthermore, former president and chief executive officer of Nestle Canada is facing criminal charges.

In the US, another, larger trial was rejected, because even though it was plausible that the same thing happened in the US, there was no clear evidence of any foul play. The suspicion remained however and still lingers with the company.

Promoting Unhealthy Food and Mislabeling

That Nestle is promoting unhealthy food should come as no surprise, but the level at which they operate it is simply staggering. A recent report by the UK Consumers Association claims that 7 out of the 15 breakfast cereals with the highest levels of sugar, fat, and salt were Nestle products.

"Nestlé claims to be 'the world's leading nutrition, health, and wellness company', but when it comes to food marketing to kids, Nestlé is a laggard, not a leader," said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan.

Nestle dismissed all responsibility in promoting healthy food. To pour even more salt in the foods wound, mister Brabeck came out with a dismissive interview in the Telegraph, claiming that he is not obese yet 'every morning I have a tablet of dark chocolate as my breakfast' and that it is the perfect balance and contains everything he needs for the day. Hey, after all, who would actually think that Nestle's cereals are healthy, right?

But while Nestle's labels aren't simply misleading, they have also been downright false. In November 2002, police ordered Nestle Colombia to decommission 200 tons of imported powdered milk, because they were falsely relabeled, not only as a different, local brand, but also with a different production date. A month later another 120 tons suffered the same fate, causing uproar among the Colombian population.

Nestle bringing old powdered milk from a different country and labeling as local and new is not only unethical and illegal, but it poses health hazards for consumers.

Drawing the Line

All major companies have incidents, accidents and scandals. When you have so many people working for you, it's virtually impossible to maintain a clean sheet. Someone will eventually screw up, someone will eventually do something they should. As I was preparing to write this article, a friend actually asked me if other companies don't have a similar record, and advised me to look at Mars, for example. What I found was that Mars and other big companies have indeed had their share of scandals (sometimes the same ones as Nestle), but not nearly on the same scale. Nestle has shown, time and time again, that they have few ethics and little interest in a real social responsibility. From promoting their formula to uneducated African mothers to lying about production dates, to using water without a permit to dealing with ruthless dictators, they have often gone the extra mile to make an extra profit - even when the extra mile meant hurting people, directly or indirectly.

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1.  Define Each Sin
Excessive confidence and narcissism

2. Provide examples of each Sin in modern day (at least 2)
-My best friend told me that he was an adopted person.
-My cousin is pregnant and out of fear and since she doesn't trust her parents and she preferred to trust me and she told me.

3. Find 1 credible article that supports your examples of the modern day Sin.
“A Fragile Ego: When Trump's Mythos Collapses It May Drag Fervent Followers into His Narcissistic Downfall.” The Milwaukee Independent, 2 Sept. 2022, https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/fragile-ego-trumps-mythos-collapses-may-drag-fervent-followers-narcissistic-downfall/.

4. Explain that article and cite it
The article talks about what a narcissist person is and a clear example that he gives is Trump since his parents were very strict and he had a tough upbringing.He became a person who only wanted to grow, be successful and take all the credit himself, cheating and taking advantage of everything. Believing himself the best, pretending, when he himself knows that  he is failure.

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Trump is a classic extroverted, grandiose narcissist of such severity that numerous professionals in the psychology field have pointed out how he could easily be diagnosed as suffering severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).

Narcissists of this type are often at the top of their fields, driven to over-achievement by a deep underlying sense of inferiority and shame. In Trump's case, this probably came from his having a criminal psychopath as a father and a mother who so disliked him that she sent him off to military school at a young age and went, alone, to Scotland during the summers when he was home from school in New York.

He grew up filled with shame, lying and cheating to "win" the love and approval of others, stealing from his family and people he did business with to physically build around himself the trappings of success.

NBC taught him how to do television and turned him into a star, and he leveraged that into politics where he gets constant daily affirmation from people often damaged the same way he is. On the outside, he seems rich, powerful, and successful.

Deep down inside, though, he knows he is a failure. He had failed at school; he failed repeatedly at business; he failed at marriage; he pissed away the entirety of the more than $400 million he stole from his father's estate and still had to be bailed out by the Russians; he had even failed at being a child loved by his parents and siblings.

His narcissism is his defense against this history of failure and the inevitable shame associated with a lifetime of it. And his narcissism is of the most severe variety - the grandiose form - where he makes grand claims to the effect of, "I, alone, can fix it," and, "I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and my people would still love me and vote for me."

This is the behavior of criminals and mobsters: in his father and Roy Cohn - both mobsters and narcissists themselves - he learned from the best.

When narcissists are publicly outed as failures, particularly if the outing is public and high-profile, it often provokes a condition called narcissistic collapse.

For a narcissist like Trump with considerable power, the ability to harm organizations/institutions, or who can meaningfully threaten damage to other people, this is the moment of maximum danger for those around him.

Hitler, another classic narcissist with a similarly unloved and miserable childhood, confronted his failures in the last weeks of World War II. In the movie Downfall, which portrays Hitler's final days, you can see and hear him disintegrate.

My dear departed friend Armin Lehman was the 15-year-old Hitler Youth soldier portrayed in the film who handed Hitler the news the war was lost. He wrote a book about his experience, In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days, which we discussed extensively when he was first writing it and during the three years Armin and I traveled the world together, mostly across the US, Europe, and the Far East.

Hitler, in those final weeks - Armin told me and the historical record verifies - actually welcomed the destruction of Germany by American and Soviet bombs and tanks.

He had not failed: his narcissism would not let him confront that.

Instead, in his mind, the German people had failed, his generals had failed, his soldiers had failed. They had failed Germany, but, more importantly they had failed him - and he wanted them punished for failing him.

When he was finally pushed into full-blown narcissistic collapse - the final days that Armin spent with him - he succumbed to the fate of many severe narcissists who experience a failure so undeniable that it provokes full-blown narcissistic collapse: he killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself.

In the final stages of narcissistic collapse, long before suicide becomes an option, first comes the blaming and the attempt to punish others.

We see this now with Trump blaming the FBI, the courts, and his "political enemies" in the "deep state." Along with the blame, though, often comes a murderous rage.

Americans are most familiar with this dynamic/process through stories of long-suffering wives of narcissist husbands who finally proclaim their intention to leave him. In a rage, the narcissist kills her, often followed by his own suicide. Sometimes he will even kill their children as part of his narcissistic breakdown.

This is the danger America faces today, because Trump's businesses are in crisis just as he is increasingly exposed as a thief, liar, and traitor to his nation. His business manager is probably going to prison. His lawyer turned on him. His wife lives a mostly separate life.

His elaborate façade of competence and invulnerability is being punctured and shattered in real time for the world to see, and he has already moved from denial to the early stages of lashing out and making threats.

Most recently, he threatened the Department of Justice with the "anger" of his followers, a claim amplified by his Congressional factotum, Lindsay Graham, who then predicted that white supremacists would "riot" in the streets if Trump were indicted for his crimes.

It is a prediction we should take seriously, in no small part because many of Trump's most loyal followers are narcissists themselves, which is why they resort to wrapping themselves with Trump paraphernalia to build their own "tough" identity through association with him. Strapping on a few big guns helps them feel strong, too.

Just like the key to his sense of self is others' perception of his wealth and success, the key to their sense of self is their fealty to Trump. And their belief that he reciprocates it.

But he doesn't, and when a person's sense of self - their core identity - is threatened, they often react as if their very life is at stake.

When Trump's mythos collapses, when Trump himself collapses, many of his most fervent followers will also suffer narcissistic collapse. When that happens - and there's a reasonable chance it will happen - all bets are off.

Right now the odds are that Trump and his fragile ego will maintain his narcissistic façade intact through much or most of the coming times. He will bluster his way through court proceedings and media inquiries, proclaim his victimhood as he has charged with crimes, and up the rate of rallies he is doing so his followers can keep massaging his wounded self-esteem and make him feel loved.

But at some point - probably, depending on how this all plays out, when or if he is charged with a crime - he will confront the inevitable truth that he is a fraud and a failure, and has been one his entire life. A fraud and failure who sold out his own nation just for money, power, and glory. Who not only committed treason, but has now lost the entire game.

That will be his Fuhrerbunker moment, his abused-wife-is-leaving moment, his Jim Jones-in-the-jungle moment, when he will fully turn on America and lash out, trying to destroy whatever he can in and of this nation.

That is when he will call his people to murderous violence.

That is when stochastic terrorism could rear its ugly head in a widespread way across the country, with "lone wolf" murderers picking off perceived "Trump enemies."

That is when the "civil war" - violent attacks on politicians; Democratic and "disloyal Republican" celebrities; and authority-figure government employees like police, judges, and members of the FBI - predicted and fretted about by so many, will be closest.

I will leave it to actual professionals in the fields of psychology and psychiatry to tell us how best to deal with - or even head off - this possible eventuality.

From my perspective, it seems the best thing would be to incarcerate him as quickly as possible to minimize the damage he can do, allowing his narcissistic followers to retreat into the fantasy that he is merely a martyr. It might buy some time.

But I cannot claim to have the answers; I just know the history. And I know that we should have a conversation about this - and hopefully those within our government are doing that right now - as part of our national dialogue about recovering from the damage inflicted on America by Trump and his MAGA Republicans over the past six years.

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A fragile ego: When Trump's mythos collapses it may drag fervent followers into his narcissistic downfall | The Milwaukee Independent

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Trump is a classic extroverted, grandiose narcissist of such severity that numerous professionals in the psychology field have pointed out how he could easily be diagnosed as suffering severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Narcissists of this type are often at the top of their fields, driven to over-achievement by a deep underlying sense of inferiority and shame.

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1.  Define Each Sin
An extreme desire for someone/something

2. Provide examples of each Sin in modern day (at least 2)
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Respect for each other’s needs and wants.

For now. No plans for the future are involved. You both don’t even speak on it. In other words, you’re enjoying the moment.

3. Find 1 credible article that supports your examples of the modern day Sin.
Smith, Lai. “Love or Lust?” Medium, Medium, 28 Sept. 2016, https://medium.com/@laismith/love-or-lust-adc4cbf6ac6b.

4. Explain that article and cite it
This article talks about the difference between love and lust, which are two very different definitions, and love entails having mutual respect, understanding each other as a couple, treating each other as best friends, and practically having the same connection with each other. Lust is about more than not being taken things seriously and that person always has thoughts beyond what love really is, lust is that a person does not know what he wants and is just playing, so in conclusion, the article explains that many times we confuse love with lust since love always will last more than lust.

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In today’s society, the line between the two is slowly fading away.

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1.  Define Each Sin
Overindulging and excessively eating or drinking without any self-restraint

2. Provide examples of each Sin in modern day (at least 2)
- still eating more at a buffet despite already being full

- partaking in a food contest where you get a free meal if you  finish a 50 Ib steak under a certain amount of time

3. Find 1 credible article that supports your examples of the modern day Sin.
Troitino, Christina. “The Tragedy of the Buffet Commons: Reducing Food Waste at Hotels.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 14 Sept. 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2017/09/14/the-tragedy-of-the-buffet-commons-reducing-food-waste-at-hotels/?sh=6aa2b81a17dc.

4. Explain that article and cite it
This article talks about all the food waste that exists in hotels, buffets, etc.
When we go to buffets we always tend to grab everything and we want to try everything so much that we serve ourselves many plates full of food that in the end we don't eat and end up throwing it away because we are already full and we don't even get to try everything

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There is nothing as universal as the quiet excitement travelers feel when hearing the classic closing line to any cheery hotel check-in: "And don't forget--breakfast will be served until 10."

Breakfast buffets are one of the most important factors that contribute to a guest's decision to book a room at a particular hotel. Major hotel chains seeking to remain competitive nearly universally offer them, partially out of fear that their absence is more notable than their presence. As a result, guests have grown accustomed to daily smorgasbords that include colorful platters of fruit, sizzling waffle irons and the wafting aroma of freshly crisped bacon.

However, this familiar image of excess presents a startling contrast to the most unfortunate trade-off of this business model: its generation of tremendous amounts food waste.

Food waste is a global issue with rippling environmental effects. The FAO reports that up to one third of food is spoiled or discarded before consumption, which contrasts the 800 million people considered chronically hungry globally. Moreover, wasted food accounts for 19% of the waste dumped in landfills, which contributes to the production of greenhouse gases like methane. And unfortunately, the issue is only getting worse: U.S. per capita food waste has increased by ~50% since 1974, with each individual generating upwards of 220 pounds of food waste per year.

If hotel owners aren't concerned about the environmental implications of these findings, their bottom lines should be: a recent study found that only a little more than half of the food put out in hotel buffets was actually consumed . This means that hotel owners are overstocking their buffets, and further hurting the already difficult margins associated with food service.

Initially reported by the New York Times, the international design firm IDEO, famous for their disruptive designing of products ranging from Apple's first mouse to the Swiffer, studied the Hyatt Regency Orlando to understand how much food was regularly being wasted by its buffet service. The conclusion that nearly half of its food was being wasted, coupled with a 2016 ReFED report indicating that nearly 40% of food waste is generated by consumer-serving businesses like hotels , reconfirms that hotels play a significant role in the generation of food waste.

With growing awareness of this issue, hotel chefs like Lawrence Eells are seeking to overhaul their operations in order to reduce waste. One of the biggest challenges that hotels face in this realm is concern that reduced buffet sizes will increase the likelihood that food will run out, which in turn will upset all-you-can-eat expectant guests. Fearful of not getting enough food, buffet goers experience a classic tragedy of the commons phenomenon, wherein they overstack their plates in order to get an adequate share of the table. Another roadblock preventing hotels from better managing food waste is the lack of federally standardized food donation regulation policies, which generate confusion around inconsistent state and local food donation laws and in some cases even prohibit the acceptance of food that is otherwise safe to eat.

To combat these obstacles, hotels are looking to firms like IDEO to help streamline their offerings, as well as implement operational updates that encourage more conservative servings. IDEO has already seen early success, with quick fixes including the replacement of meat and cheese platters with sample plates that can be instead ordered to table. They also surveyed the types of foods that were most commonly wasted, like bread and cakes, and have reduced both the quantity served and the serving size of these items.

Other studies have suggested that presentation also has a meaningful impact on the serving sizes selected by guests. One study found that food served on red plates was often consumed in smaller amounts, whereas square-shaped and striped foods were perceived to be larger than identically sized circular portions. Moreover, plate size was one of the most influential factors in minimizing food waste, with a reduction from just 24cm to 21cm resulting in almost a 20% reduction.

Other researchers believe that food waste can be reduced by listing the health benefits of a food item near its station. More curiously, however, was a study that showed that higher plate waste occurred most often when fewer hotel guests were in the breakfast buffet area which could suggest that isolated guests felt less shame about throwing out food. To capitalize on this element of guilt, hotels could also use a limited number of servers to establish a sense of personal accountability in nearby buffet goers.

IDEO believes that future improvements are possible with the use of big data, messaging tests and the collection of guests' dietary information prior to check in. In the mean time, hotel owners must tackle quick fixes to preserve both the environment and their profitability, while reconciling with a new business truth: Breakfast, economically, is the most important meal of the day.

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Nearly half of the food served at hotel buffets is wasted, according to a recent study, a finding that has big implications for hotels' bottom line, as well as the environment. Hotel owners are partnering with researchers to see how they can curb appetite for the most important meal of the day.

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1.  Define Each Sin
Acting on your feelings of extreme anger, violence, or hate

2. Provide examples of each Sin in modern day (at least 2)
-One of your partner fails you and hurts you and you want to do the same as him to record it.

-Spanking his children for the problems he has had at work or on the street.

3. Find 1 credible article that supports your examples of the modern day Sin.
Dellapelle, Jaime. “The Role of Wrath in Modern Social Movements.” Phys.org, Phys.org, 28 Mar. 2014, https://phys.org/news/2014-03-role-wrath-modern-social-movements.html.

4. Explain that article and cite it
In this article, they comment that wrath is considered something inhuman and violent, but a doctoral candidate disagrees because she says that it is also the work of understanding social justice.

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The role of wrath in modern social movements

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Wrath is commonly considered to be an inhuman, violent, and irrational vice which can frequently overcome self-control. As one of the seven deadly sins, the advantages to wrath are hard to come by.

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1.  Define Each Sin
Discontent with yourself and having resentment towards others for their accomplishments

2. Provide examples of each Sin in modern day (at least 2)

- Your friend gets a new car and you resent them for having one because you don't own one yet

- Getting jealous over your friend on social media having more followers and likes than you

3. Find 1 credible article that supports your examples of the modern day Sin.
Jay HillJay writes about communication and happiness on Lifehack. Read full profile, and Jay Hill. “How Social Media Is Making You Feel Bad about Yourself Every Day.” Lifehack, 16 June 2017, https://www.lifehack.org/600150/how-social-media-fuels-jealousy.

4. Explain that article and cite it
This article talks about how social networks can greatly influence us, including our own idols, since when we begin to see what their rich lives are like, their physique, their trips, we begin to feel bad about ourselves, we begin to hate ourselves, and that's when we begin to feeling envious and jealous because we can't have what they have or do

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Are you bored at work right now?

Sitting at your desk, wishing you could be anywhere other than here, doing anything else...?

You're not alone.

Even when you have a job you love, it's easy to get bored. And if your job isn't something you're passionate about, it's even easier for boredom to creep in.

Did you know it's actually possible to make any job more interesting?

That's right.

Whether it's data entry or shelf stacking, even the most mind-numbing of jobs can be made more fun.

Understanding the science behind boredom is the first step to beating it.

Read on to learn the truth about boredom, and what you can do to stop feeling bored at work for good.

VIDEO SUMMARY

I'm bored - as you're watching the same film over and over again, even though it's your favorite one

When you experience something new, your brain releases opioids - chemicals which make you feel good.

It's the feeling you might get when you taste a new food for the first time, watch a cool new film, or meet a new person.

However, the next time you have the same experience, the brain processes it in a different way, without releasing so many feel-good chemicals.

That's why you won't get the same thrill when you eat that delicious meal for the tenth time, rewatch that film again, or spend time with the same friend.

So, in a nutshell, we get bored when we aren't having any new experiences.

Now, new experiences don't have to be huge life changes - they could be as simple as taking a different route to work, or picking a different sandwich shop for lunch.

We're going to apply this theory to your boring job.

Keep reading find out how to make subtle changes to the way you work to defeat boredom and have more fun.

Your work can be much more interesting if you learn these little tricks.

Ready to learn how to stop feeling so bored at work?

We've listed some simple suggestions below - you can start implementing these right now.

Let's do this.

Make routine tasks more interesting by adding something new

Sometimes one new element is all it takes to turn routine tasks from dull to interesting.

Maybe there's a long drive you have to make every single week. You get so bored, going the same old route to make the same old deliveries.

Why not make it a routine to create a playlist of new music each Sunday, to listen to on your boring drive during the week?

Just like that, something you dread can be turned into the highlight of your day.

For other routine tasks, you could try setting a timer and trying to beat your record, moving to a new location to complete the task, or trying out a new technique for getting the work done - you might even improve your productivity, too.

Combine repetitive tasks to get them out of the way

Certain tasks are difficult to make interesting, no matter how hard you try.

Get these yawn-inducing chores out of the way ASAP by combining them into one quick, focused batch.

For example, if you hate listening to meeting recordings, and dislike tidying your desk, do them both at the same time. You'll halve the time you spend bored out of your mind, and can move onto more interesting tasks as soon as you're done.

Break large tasks into small pieces and plan breaks between them

Feeling overwhelmed can lead you to procrastinate and get bored. Try breaking up large tasks into lots of small pieces to keep things manageable and fun.

Try breaking up a 10,000 word report into 1000-word sections. Reward yourself at the end of each section, and you'll get 10 mini mood boosts, instead of just one at the end.

You can also plan short breaks between each section, which will help to prevent boredom and keep you focused.

Give yourself regular rewards, it can be anything that makes you feel good

Make sure you reward yourself for achievements, even if they feel small.

Rewards could include:

Eating your favourite snack.

Taking a walk in a natural area.

Spending a few minutes on a fun online game.

Buying yourself a small treat.

Visiting a new place.

Spending time on a favourite hobby.

Your brain will come to associate work with fun rewards, and you'll soon feel less bored and more motivated.
Boredom doesn't have to be a fact of life.
Make your working life feel a thousand times more fun by following the simple tips above.

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How Social Media Is Making You Feel Bad about Yourself Every Day

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Are you bored at work right now? Sitting at your desk, wishing you could be anywhere other than here, doing anything else...? You're not alone. Even when you have a job you love, it's easy to get bored. And if your job isn't something you're passionate about, it's even easier for boredom to creep in.