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    health care system stands‚ whereas in the United States‚ not very many people can say that they are satisfied. According to our lecture on Health Care System‚ the costs for health care are going to continue to rise dramatically and millions more people will either be inadequately insured or completely uninsured as a result of this. Referring back to other countries‚ Canada guarantees everyone free health care along with universal child care‚ where each child under age six puts a hundred dollars per month

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    persona. ‘First Ice’ is about “a girl” who has broken up with someone for the “first time” by phone call. The girl was planning to go out to a party with her boyfriend and phoned him to ask him where he was. That’s when he broke up with her. It is a universal poem so it could happen to anyone. The poem was originally written in Russian but translated into English. We know the girl is going out somewhere nice because “she hides a face…..tears and lipstick” and she “wears earrings”. She is dressed up which

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    Natural Law and Relativism as approaches to decision-making. Morality serves two universal human needs. It regulates both conflicts of interest between people and those within the individual born of different desires and drives that cannot be satisfied at the same time (Wong‚ D. 1993). Natural Law and Relativism are two opposing approaches to morality. In comparing and contrasting the two approaches I will also briefly outline the background and principles of each. Natural law can be defined as

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    spoken language‚ English. Firstly‚ English is an effective method to communicate business transactions for a successful career. There are various ways of communication such as verbal and written form. Verbal communication conducted through phone can be used for telemarketing. For example‚ Ford Motor Company‚ American Express. (http://library.uow.edu.au/search/X?(telemarketing)+and+(examples)+and+(companies)&Da=&Db=&SORT=D). Call centres in banks also use written form of communication. For example

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    is a single standard in terms of assessments that can be made‚ and that standard is usually their own. In a clash of cultures‚ they often see the other culture as simply wrong insofar as it deviates from their own. Relativism sees each culture as correct in its own world and they deny any exhaustive standard in terms of which conflicting cultures can be judged. Philosophical flaws involved with two notions in relation to the concept of tolerance can be illustrated by the example of female genital

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    Submission Field : 1. Can there be any universal human rights? What issues can be raised when trying to assert universal human rights? Who should decide what the universal human rights should be‚ and what about those who disagree with them? I am of the opinion that there is no such thing as universal human rights. After WWII & the signing of the United Nations’ Declaration of human rights‚ even though it was signed by most nations‚ was not necessarily upheld. While our (as in U.S.) basic rights

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    citizens may benefit and cannot afford healthcare without the assistance of the general public’s taxes. Contrary to Canada’s ‘free healthcare’‚ the American government has not inherited the same healthcare system. This means that America does not have universal

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    Universal Methodic Doubt All opinions and beliefs must be doubted As we doubt‚ we cannot doubt that are doubting To doubt that we are doubting by itself proves that we are indeed doubting. Unless we are doubting‚ we can never attempt to doubt that we are doubting. The fact that we doubt is to affirm a truth. We doubt‚ therefore we exist. Unless we exist. Unless we exist‚ we cannot doubt. “I think‚ therefore‚ I exist.” “I doubt‚ therefore‚ I am.” COGITO ERGO SUM Since we doubt‚ we are not perfect

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    Cultural relativism is a process involving the examining and understanding of a culture‚ /different from your own‚ without discrediting their beliefs. Understanding differing cultural beliefs can be acquired by considering functions of practices‚ behaviors‚ symbols‚ traditions‚ and morals within a society. The initial concept of cultural relativism was created to turn people away from ethnocentrism‚ which is the belief that your cultures beliefs are authentic and all other cultures beliefs are

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    creation of new life‚ the permanence of death‚ and the inability of humans to defy physics and utilize magic. In literature‚ these laws offer a common topic of exploration‚ both in terms of what constitutes a universal truth and what happens when such a truth is rejected. Two examples of works that explore the latter theme are Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or‚ The Modern Prometheus and Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Shelley tackles the subject of

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