What is the value of a word?
On a day similar to today, a teenage girl asks her father, "Dad, can I get a new phone? This one is old now and has problems." The father replies, "I'll get you a new one if you do well on your exams." With this in mind, the girl set out to do her best in her exams. Night after night she stayed up reading, studying, and memorizing book after book. The exams came and went. When her results were revealed she was a bit disappointed. She had not come first in her class. In fact, she came fourth. Her father was also disappointed and decided not to get her the new phone because she had not kept up her end of the bargain. The girl went to her room and cried, feeling not as a failure, but betrayed. She knew within herself that she indeed kept up her end of the bargain. Her father did say "if you do well", not "if you came first". How well did this girl do on her exams? She did well enough to land her an average grade more than what was required for h...