Personal Resoonsibility

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Lack of Personal Responsibilities and Their Effects on the Community

Various studies have been conducted when it comes to examining the subject of personal responsibility. Yourself and the reader [Use "we," "us," or "our" to mean yourself and coauthors, not general humanity (or yourself and the reader)] will explore some of the [Usage: Some of the] facts about living [Doctoral rule (but good advice for any academic writer)--If not a noun (as in "human being"), the word "Being" is hard to imagine; it means "existing." Try to rewrite this without using "being"--with action words like "attending," "working," "living," "experiencing," simply "as"--or even removing "being" completely] responsible and/or ["and/or" is an awkward construction, a shortcut appropriate in a legal document, not in academic writing] the lack of being responsible. Personal responsibility is an act of...