PAST PAPER QUESTIONS JANUARY 2011 1. Explain what is meant by the term ‘cultural deprivation’. (2 marks) 2. Identify three educational policies that may have contributed to social class differences in achievement. (6 marks) 3. Outline some of the ways in which factors outside the education system have resulted in improved educational achievement for girls. (12 marks) 4. Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess the view that the education system exists mainly to select and prepare young people
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How would you feel if someone decided that you should never get a chance at life? It is horribly that many people are killing their own babies through abortion. In statistics that showed over 1.3 million abortions are done yearly in the USA and 43 million worldwide has been the steady number for several years now (Statistics 1). Abortion is murder of an innocent unborn baby. People think that when you get pregnant‚ the baby isn’t really anything until a certain point in the pregnancy. Whatever
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Explain Kant’s Moral Argument Kant’s moral argument focuses on reason‚ good will‚ duty and the notion that we ought to strive towards moral perfection (Summum Bonum). He believes that people are ruled by a ‘moral law’. This moral law for Kant was universal and objective. An example of this might be seen in the wide scale agreement that murder or torture is wrong. There seems to be agreement across cultures that certain actions are intrinsically wrong. This‚ for Kant‚ suggests that there is a universal
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10/31/2011 The Abortion Debate The permissibility of abortion is a highly debated ethical dilemma. There have been many valid arguments for both sides. Don Marquis is an author who presented his view on the topic in his article titled “Why Abortion is immoral”. An equally convincing paper has also been written by author Judith Jarvis Thomson debating the other side of the argument. Her work is titled “A Defense of Abortion”. Both of these papers attempt to use logical arguments to persuade the
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Abstract The movie‚ “…First Do No Harm” is an excellent choice to clearly see how ethical principles can be followed and/or violated in the healthcare system. In the movie‚ Lori Reimuller discovers that her youngest son Robbie has epilepsy. At first she puts her trust into the judgment of the medical professionals‚ but as her son’s condition worsens‚ she becomes frustrated and decides to take things into her own hands. She discovers an alternative treatment called the Ketogenic diet; one that would
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What Do You Know About Hamlet Symbols? Many plays and novels use symbolism to express a feeling or emotion in an intelligent way. A symbol is something that is used to show something else. It can be a tangible object or a written symbol used to represent something that is not actually there. Symbols are important to have within any written work because you can then relate it to a theme that it may have and get a deeper connection with it. Within the play Hamlet there were multiple symbols used
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When abortion came to my knowledge in middle school‚ feelings of surprise and confusion swept over me. First of all‚ how can someone perform abortion? What machines did they use? Why did people make this legal? Abortion should be stopped because life starts the moment of conception‚ because it is dangerous to the mother and the child‚ and many small lives die due to this idea of abortions. All my life I thought and believed that there consists of life in the womb before conception. Today‚ doctors
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teaching at a bad school in Bamberg‚ he decided to prove that he was better than that by writing a geometry book. He later went onto‚ in 1827‚ to write and publish a book about a circuit that he had made called‚ ‘The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically.’ He put everything he knew about electricity into this book. He wrote about how the electromotive force at one point in the circuit is the product of the strength of the current and the resistance of that part in the circuit. His name is used
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analysis and I think it is again appropriate to reference it when talking about how morality is defined in the case of Dr. Strangelove. Martin says. “Morality is a matter of respecting human rights; morality is fulfilling our duties to others; morality concerns the most important values‚ which should override all others; morality is obeying God’s commandments; morality centers around the happiness of self-fulfillment of all persons” (Martin‚ An Intro to Applied Ethics‚ Feb 9‚ 2006). Even though Dr
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Master thesis Philosophy of Behavioural Sciences Moral Judgements and motivation: how do they relate? Claudia Jansen Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jan Bransen Drs. Dorothee Horstkötter The most important thing about the practice of focus is that it cannot be forced. Trying hard to concentrate‚ doesn’t work. It produces frustration‚ tiredness‚ and narrowness of vision. Focus follows interest‚ and interest does not need coercion. A gentle hand on the steering wheel of attention will suffice -Timothy
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