Defying Domestic Duties During the Victorian period‚ society was upheld by rigid social and moral values‚ with ideal forms of masculine and feminine behavior. Moral respectability and domesticity were important ideologies of feminine behavior. The woman’s mission was that of a supportive wife and caring mother and her domestic role was seen as an important and essential part of society. However‚ Kate Chopin’s main character‚ Edna Pontellier‚ in her novel‚ The Awakening (1899) and Jane Campion and
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THE DUTIES OF THE AGENTS TO PRINCIPAL The duties of an agent depend primarily on the contract of agency if there is one. Subject to any such express terms‚ the agent owes a number of implied duties or obligations to his principal. It is the agency relationship as such that gives rise to these obligations so that‚ as a general rule‚ they fall as much on the gratuitous agent as on the paid agent. 1. Obey the Principal’s instructions Section 164 states‚ The agent must obey the instructions given to
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The Law of Directors Duties The law of Directors Duties stems from the systems of corporate governance in order to ensure that the persons occupying higher positions within the company will take good care of the company‚ as well as not act in a way that will create deficiency. There are 3 sources to the legal duties: the common law; the principles of equitable fiduciary duties; and the statutory duties stated under the Corporation Act section 180-183(Harris‚J.‚ 2008). The penalties of breach
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What role does duty play in ethics? Based on this‚ do you resonate more with the utilitarian‚ virtue ethics‚ Kantian‚ natural rights‚ or egoist theories? Provide an example if you choose to answer this question. While‚ I tend to agree more with the Kantian principle of categorical imperatives which tend to say that morals should come not out of desires or wants but out of duty as desires and wants are hypothetical Imperatives. Duty should be the deciding factor for what is ethical or not. I tend
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Additional Duty: My recommendation for your additional duty is becoming the Unit Training Manager. Being the Command Post Unit Training Manager requires you to be a subject matter expert of all functions within our job. As a seasoned and very knowledgeable Staff Sergeant I believe you would excel within the position but also will provide a challenge for you as well. Being the Unit Training Manager you’ll be required to interact with others and briefings to leadership. Due to your anti-social behaviors
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certain duties to his country an nation. A citizen should have duties and responsibilities for his country. He should try to do the public good. He should control his conduct on the light of the good of his country. He should exercise his rights with proper judgment and obey the law of road and the like. He should try to build himself to do the best service for the country. He should have patriotism and fellow-feeling. As a citizen‚ he should know his responsibility to discharge his duties. Conclusion:
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‘’Duty of care’’ Letter to a friend. What is meant by the duty of care? How the duty of care affects the work you do as a care worker? Hi friend‚ So you want to work in social care? Well here are a few things you should know‚ Such as the term ‘’Duty of care’’ this means having the duty or responsibility of being a care taker for another person‚ someone too young or too old‚ too ill or unfit mentally or physically to take care of themselves and requires another person to assist them. This
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“On the Duty of Civil Obedience” I do not accept the motto. –“That government is best which governs least.” Government is a completely necessary institution. Without it‚ nations would crumble‚ famine would flourish‚ and massacres would occur daily. Of course it would be nice if humans didn’t need government‚ if men’s moral compasses all pointed in the same (correct) general direction. But they do not. It is just a far-fetched fantasy of perfection‚ it is impractical. Which is why government is necessary
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Tennessee Williams’ Depression-era play‚ “The Glass Menagerie‚” must battle through this specific plight. He struggles to find the answer to the question of when desire overrides duty. All humans are blessed with a plethora of gifts‚ but all have one in common: life. This being said‚ there is one common humanistic duty: the obligation to live that life in the most satisfying manner in the hopes of reaching fulfillment. However‚ the individual decides which manner is most pleasing to himself or
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Assignment Topic Traditionally‚ the performance of an existing contractual duty did not constitute valid consideration for a promise to pay extra money to the contractor. See for example‚ Stilk v Myrick (1809) 2 Camp 317. However‚ the decision in Williams v Roffrey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) [1991] 1QB1 impacts upon this traditional approach. Explain and justify the traditional approach of the courts and extent to which that approach is varied by the decision in Williams v Roffrey
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