Cultural Values, Personal Ethics

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This paper attempts to show the connection between the writer's personal life and values and the values instilled in him by his corporate life at IBM. The paper explores the writer's childhood and discusses the important roles played by his mother and grandmother. The writer examines the positive influences his career at IBM had on his personal values and ethics.

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"Preppy, Wasp, Conservative Republican. These are the adjectives frequently given to the upstate New York State culture from which I hail, so memorably depicted in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, herself a proud product of this "stock" and geographical region, as depicted in short stories such as "Where are you going, where do you come from?" Or the culture, one could add, so memorably satirized in Lisa Birnbach's The Official Preppy Handbook, although I like to think that the New York working class WASP culture has a slightly less noxious sense of entitlement than the New England WASPs the handbook chronicles. My own upbringing placed a strong stress upon hard work and core, American values, contrary to some of the attitudes expressed in the Guide as well."

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