marriages? This is the ongoing debate our generation will have to address. California has been in the epicenters of this debate; as we witnessed voters oppose gay marriage in the elections of 2008. The success of Proposition 8 discriminated against those of homosexual orientation. Proposition 8 adjusted California’s marriage laws to prevent a change in language‚ favoring the majority of heterosexual America. As California’s constitution in article 1‚ section 7.5 reads‚ "Only marriage between a man and
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Creating a Successful Employee Value Proposition Create a clear‚ compelling and distinctive description of what a position offers candidates and current employees. 1 Employee Value Proposition What is an Employee Value Proposition (EVP)? An Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is a clear‚ compelling‚ and distinct description of what candidates and employees will experience from their overall work situation within your organization. This “experience” is made up of the type of work the employee
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Outline and evaluate Kants categorical imperative (25 marks) Kant’s categorical ethics is a deontological theory of ethics‚ this means that the actions are either intrinsically right or intrinsically wrong‚ this is due to absolute law; the outcome of the situation is not important to Kant’s theory even if the outcome may be good. Kant has a deontological theory because he believes that you must stick to the moral rules and beliefs that you have no matter what the turn out. An example of this would
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Proposition 187: Don’t Mess With Texas In November of 1994‚ Californians passed the most controversial piece of state legislation this decade. Proposition 187 was designed to stem the flow of illegal aliens into California by withholding all non-emergency medical benefits from non-naturalized citizens. Latinos turned out in record numbers to voice their disapproval‚ and for good reason too. The health care resolutions of Proposition 187 were products of poor reason and unsound economic judgment
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Kant’s Categorical and Hypothetical Imperative For Immanuel Kant‚ although everything naturally acts according to law‚ only rational beings do it consciously. This is the reason that humans experience impulses and desires that conflict with reason. So we experience the claim of reason as an obligation‚ a command that we act in a particular way‚ or an imperative. Imperatives may occur in either of two distinct forms‚ hypothetical or categorical. Imperatives say that anything would be good to
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Proposition 30 For the last couple of years‚ students have been struggling to enroll in college courses and colleges have been struggling with offering more courses due to school budget cuts. Statistics showed that since 2007‚ class sections have dropped about 24% and enrollment decreased according to L.A Times. More than 470‚000 students started the semester on the waiting list due to the insufficient number of courses the colleges had to offer due to the major budget cuts. Also many colleges
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These four propositions lead to a contradiction that is the cause of the mind-body problem. There are three main approaches to this problem‚ which each state that at least 1 of the propositions must be false. Materialism is the philosophical doctrine that minds and bodies are completely physical; they are spatial and subject to physical law. Idealism which states the world is wholly spiritual; it is neither spatial not subject to physical law but still has consciousness and intentionality. Finally
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reforms and solutions to an ongoing crisis.Likewise‚ California Proposition 47 is an attempt‚ along with Proposition 36‚ to begin the long awaited prison reforms. Thus‚ with the political enthusiasm surrounding Proposition 47‚ there came groups of supporters and opponents making political arguments regarding the ballot measure. One of the central arguments against of the Proposition 47‚ initiated by Californians Against Proposition 47‚ suggested that a proposal will “reclassify a wide range of [serious
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“Categorical Inequality: Schools As Sorting Machines‚” by Thurston Domina‚ Andrew Penner‚ and Emily Penner‚ discuss the concept of categorical inequality and how it presents itself in modern educational research. According to Domina and Penner‚ there are many issues today about the educational policy system including various graduation requirements and acceptance into selective schools; which can easily be manipulated into unequal educational categories. The theory of this inequality questions the
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Kant: the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative Kantian philosophy outlines the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative as a method for determining morality of actions. This formula is a two part test. First‚ one creates a maxim and considers whether the maxim could be a universal law for all rational beings. Second‚ one determines whether rational beings would will it to be a universal law. Once it is clear that the maxim passes both prongs of the test‚ there
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