In a 2 to 3 page, double-spaced essay (12pt font), write a personal and reflective essay and write it as an example of your best writing. Grammar, spelling, format, will all count. You must use at least one short quote from the reading “How to be True to Your Word” but no more than three short quotes and all quotes must be placed in quotation marks and followed immediately by proper APA citation information in parentheses. No other written sources for this essay should be quoted, copied, or summarized. No more than 40 words are allowed in any one quote. The full source information of the quote must also be listed at the end of the essay under work cited.After reading the article “How to be True to Your Word”, write about the following: Based on your experience with someone in your life who was not true to their word, tell the story of what happened and how it affected the relationship (you may use a false name for the person). Explain what one thing makes untruthfulness so very wrong in your view. Is your explanation of what’s wrong with a broken promise a consequentialist or a non-consequentialist type of reasoning? Explain. At what point does Cat Thompson use consequentialist or non-consequentialist reasoning about what’s wrong with untruthfulness in the article on “How to be True to Your Word” (LINK (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.)? Identify and explain the use as one or the other type of reasoning. Support your answers from the article.

In 500 words or more (no less), create a maxim and evaluate it via the three formulations of the Categorical Imperative. Your maxim should only involve moral questions [i.e. "Stealing is always wrong", but not "Doing jumping jacks is always wrong"]. The moral question should be general enough to apply to first principles and should involve no circumstantial qualifiers [i.e. "Stealing is always wrong", not "If I am not hungry or chasing a bad guy or when no one is looking, stealing is always wrong"]. You may use examples, but you will still need to include a full scholarly definition of each, with commentary. You may use any scholarly source other than a dictionary, to include online video lectures. You may use Wikipedia as a starting point, but be aware that Wikipedia is not a scholarly source and therefore can never be quoted in your paper or counted as 1 of your 5 bibliographic citations. You will need to include inline citations in your essay (last name, date, pg#) and must still cite any sources beyond the five required that you use to write your paper in the references section of your essay. If you include an inline citation, there must be a corresponding entry in the reference list or bibliography. You can find tools and examples of APA citation formats at the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.