Means End Chain Model Dealing with real estate purchase are considered high involvement goods that require complex decision-making. However‚ in order to understand consumers’ cognitive structures and to extract the deeper motives behind an individual behaviour in buying houses using Means end Chain model and laddering helped us to understand the why and how products are important in an individual’s life. The means end chain interview sample size was 10 and the respondents were couples‚ all aged
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Ender’s Game: A Simulation to Justify All Means Ender’s Game is author Orson Scott Card’s best-known work. The novel has sold over one million copies and is published worldwide (Whyte). The novel won the Hugo and Nebula award in 1986; science fiction’s most prestigious writing awards (University of Utah). In summary‚ the plot of the novel is a story about a young child‚ Ender Wiggin‚ taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space
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Do the ends justify the means? In other words ‘does a good outcome excuses any wrong doings committed to attain it?’ The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was the method to end WWII in the Pacific. Although there is justification‚ the attacks did not definitively end the war. There were many alternative ways of ending the war‚ the best being through negotiation‚ or though a combination of conventional bombing and naval blockade. The US war strategy was cruel and the destruction
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Did Stalin’s accomplishments justify his means? While in some ways his methods prepared Russia for World War II and caught the country up with the rest of the world‚ his methods for reforming the Soviet Union were brutal‚ cut throat and resulted in the deaths of millions. Therefore‚ after much thought‚ I have come to the conclusion that Stalin’s accomplishments did not make up for the horrid acts he committed for the ‘greater good.’ During the time that he was in power‚ it is estimated that he was
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(How does Aristotle justify the existence of Slavery?) Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophical minds of ancient Greece. He is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy and his writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy‚ encompassing morality and aesthetics‚ logic and science‚ politics and metaphysics. Even though there were a lot of things happening during his time‚ and he wrote as much as he could before his time on this
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Means and Ends: How Hamlet’s supposed insanity justifies and masks his true goal of revenge In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Hamlet uses “comedy” and insanity as a façade to mask his inner turmoil. By using humor and insanity‚ he can misdirect his own means of whether or not he wants to kill his father’s murderer‚ King Claudius. Hamlet believes that if he can keep people off balance regarding his physical state of mind‚ they will question only his sanity‚ not his ultimate plot of revenge. However
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1. How did Carnegie justify the accumulation of wealth? Carnegie believed that people were born with certain attributes that would lead them to be successful in their lifetime. He also mentioned the idea that we as human beings should accept the conditions that are placed in front of us and work around them to achieve the impossible. Also he believed that it is up to one’s ability and energy that will allow them to produce the wealth that they seek for themselves. 2. What are three ways Carnegie
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Machiavelli is known for coining the phrase‚ “Ends justifying the means” in his book The Prince. This quote leaves us with the question‚ “is it worth it to reach a goal no matter what you have to do to get there?” Machiavelli believed that wrong deeds can be justified simply by having a good purpose for those actions but his theory is flawed‚ because no matter the end goal one should not try to reach it through evil actions. People are only to be excused if the means used to reach a certain objective are
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1469-1527. He became convinced that political unity and independence were ends that justified any means. Machiavelli meant by “the end justifies the means”‚ that the end result of an action was justified by the actions you took to get there. This famous quote is relevant in leadership today by examples of Harry Trumans dropping of the atom bomb‚ Hitlers final solution‚ and the attacks of 9/11. “The end justifies the means” was expressed in Truman’s decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and
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What is workplace bullying mean ? Bullying is seen as any acts or verbal comments that could hurt or isolate a person in the workplace. Also‚ it can involve negative physical or cyber contact between the two parties. It usually involves repeated incidents or a pattern of behavior that is intended to intimidate‚ offend‚ degrade or humiliate a particular person or group of people. Many people described bullying as the assertion of power through aggression. Bullying is a workplace issue!! We can’t
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