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Silvia Mendoza Professor Wohlstadter English 103—11:10 17 April 2014 Singer ’s Poverty: A Case of Logics‚ Emotions‚ and Values Imagine you have just picked up your paycheck from the office. As soon as you leave the office‚ all you can think of is paying your bills and spending the rest on items you fancy. Perhaps you wish to buy a new TV‚ or a new pair of shoes‚ or a watch that everyone already seems to have except you. On your way to cash it‚ you stop by a café and a little boy asks you for money
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money. Singer gives the example of Bob as well. Bob was close to retirement and had invested a majority of his life savings into an uninsured but appreciable Bugatti. One day‚ while parked on trail tracks‚ he’s ultimately forced to decide between his prize car and the life of a child who had been walking on the same track. He chose the Bugatti. Singer then turns on his readers and accuses them of being no better. He suggests that while the actions of Dora and Bob were cruel‚ the average person is
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who spared the innocent kids life trying to save his valuable Bugatti. However‚ the example of Bob failed to convince me as a good analogy for other people. First of all‚ Singer ignored one of the most considerable element in Bob’s scenario that Bob bore the psychological impact of directly seeing the kids killed by a train because he failed to throw a switch‚ when he suffered the pain of losing his “rare‚ valuable old car‚ a Bugatti” which he had “invested most of his savings” and the moral condemnation
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Unrealistic and challenging solution of Peter Singer Can you imagine that if you do not donate to charity‚ people treat you as a murderer? Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher‚ professor at Princeton University and utilitarian‚ who fights against poverty. There is a side of society that often goes unseen by the middle and upper classes—a side ridden with poverty and misfortune. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty‚” Singer calls on the prosperous to
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Installments First Generation This was when Need for Speed started out as a franchise that revolved around driving exotics in scenic locations. The Need for Speed (1994) Main article: The Need for Speed The original Need for Speed was released for 3DO in 1994 with versions released for the PC (DOS) (1995)‚ PlayStation and Saturn (1996) following shortly afterwards. The Need for Speed and its Special Edition were the only games in the series to support DOS. Subsequent releases for the PC run
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to go back for the boy. Singer explains how her selling the boy for $1000 and buying a new tv is no different than Americans upgrading to a better TV instead of donating money to a certain charity. The author also uses the example with Bob and his Bugatti. In this narrative‚
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Singer claims that this principle is generally applicable‚ overcoming emotional and physical barriers as well as the broad range of skill levels of those who intervene. His thought experiments‚ such as the one with the drowning baby and Bob with his Bugatti‚ force us to compare everyday indulgences to the moral imperative of saving lives. Singer’s logic compares
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and he will even be killed. At last‚ Dora decides to save the boy’s life to take him back. Another one is talking about a dilemma between saving a life or saving property. The example talks about a man who called Bob cost most his savings to buy a Bugatti. One day he put himself in a dramatic situation which he could only save his car or save the life of a boy who he never meet before. However‚ Bob choose to save his valuable car then indirectly killed the boy. “If you still think that it was very
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Marketing Strategy. “The Volkswagen Group’s unique portfolio is made up of nine successful brands that excite millions of customers around the globe”(Company Website). Volkswagen‚ Audi‚ Seat‚ Skoda‚ Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles‚ Bentley‚ Bugatti‚ Lamborghini and Skania are the unique brands that make up Volkswagen AG. Volkswagen AG slogan‚ “Volkswagen – Das Auto” is the basis on which all the marketing of their products is formed on. “Das – Auto” and the combination of these three core messages
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