08 Nov 2012 Action or Inaction and the Ethics of Choice One of Peter Singer’s four main principles of ethics is that we are just as responsible for our inactions as we are for our actions. This means that we as human beings have an ethical obligation to act if we witness something wrong happening. Even if we do not see it but we know it is going on‚ then once we possess that knowledge we have also incurred a moral duty to act. Without this obligation‚ we become a liability to the community
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Recipe 2.5 Scaling the Movie 2.5.1 Problem You want to control how a movie fits in the Player‚ including the scaling. 2.5.2 Solution Use the Stage.scaleMode property. 2.5.3 Discussion The Flash Player defaults to a scale mode of "showAll" (except the test Player‚ which defaults to "noScale"). In "showAll" mode‚ the Flash movie scales to fit the Player while maintaining the movie’s original aspect ratio. The result is that the movie can have borders on the sides if the Player aspect ratio
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Ethics in Action Segment Responses Liberty University SEGMENT ONE: MANAGING BOUNDARIES 1.If this was your client‚ what would you say and do? Be specific. Why would you respond this way? If this were my client‚ I would further explore the reasons she desires the out of office interaction‚ and the possible risks and benefits of this interaction. For instance‚ I could say‚ “You say that meeting in the office makes you feel uncomfortable‚ can you elaborate
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Affirmative action can be a good thing and also a bad thing in the same sense. Affirmative active is used as a law to make companies make an effort to prevent discrimination in the workplace and also make it an equal opportunity place of work. Is this the right way to go about this? This is the question that many companies and job hunters ask themselves every day when they are hiring or searching for a job. As a company you must be fair but there are many reasons why the law is not fair in its own
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Action Research of Inclusive Physical Education for Raising the Regular and Special Education Students Participate in Teaching Activities EDGAR JOEY M. PERALTA Pidigan Central School‚ Pidigan‚ Abra Abstract The purpose of this study was to put into practice an inclusive physical education by adjusting a variety of teaching methods‚ so self-contained special education students and regular students can also join the general physical education. With the adjustment of teaching‚ teachers can rethink
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Affirmative action is defined as an action or policy favouring those who tend to suffer from discrimination‚ especially in relation to employment or education‚ and is otherwise known as positive discrimination or employment equity. This brings about many positives and negatives to the different lives and working fields in South Africa today‚ all of which will be discussed. (Nieman and Bennett‚ 2006: 307) Affirmative action was implemented in 1994 once Apartheid came to an end and is still in place
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Many years had passed until Affirmative Action was again brought up in court. In 2003‚ the cases of Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger set the stage for another challenge against Affirmative Action‚ but the Supreme Court stood its ground again and a decision was made that an increase in the number of minority applicants at a university was not unconstitutional. Affirmative Action was initially set in motion and passed as a law in order to alleviate a situation in which minorities were
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"Affirmative action should be eliminated" (Sadler 70). Affirmative action does not solve discrimination problems; on the contrary‚ it harms those the program is meant help. The program divides society into two groups based on ethnicity; this completely defies the effort to have a color-blind America (where society does not see ethnicity or a color difference in any person). Disguised as an equal opportunity program affirmative action discriminates against non-minorities. Affirmative action has its affects
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Jamie DuvaMgt 434Affirmative Action Paper As we know by now affirmative action is an effort to improve the employment and educational opportunities of women and members of minority groups through preferential treatment in job hiring‚ college admissions‚ the awarding of government contracts‚ and the allocation of other social benefits. First undertaken at the federal level following passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ affirmative action was designed to counteract the lingering effects
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This should not of happened to Peter Connelly – By Jonathan Pinder Born 1st March‚ 2006‚ Peter Connelly “Baby P” was only three months old when his natural father walked out after the mother; Tracey Connelly began an affair with Steven Barker‚ a racist thug obsessed with Nazi memorabilia and pornography. This was the start of the end for such a beautiful little innocent boy! In the world we live in today this should NEVER have happened! So many things should never have slipped through the net and
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