Student’s Name: Please read and follow all instructions. The focus of this course is the reasoning process used when we are making decisions. Some reasoning processes are for individual decisions‚ while others are for social decisions. It is important to remember that the course (and these assignments) are NOT about opinions (your own or the expert’s)‚ but rather about the reasoning process used in arriving at these opinions and decisions. In the homework assignments‚ you are being asked
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OPPORTUNITY CREATES ETHICAL DILEMMAS Definition of ethical dilemmas Ethical dilemmas‚ also known as a moral dilemmas‚ are situations in which there are two choices to be made‚ neither of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable fashion. In such cases‚ societal and personal ethical guidelines can provide no satisfactory outcome for the chooser. Ethical dilemmas assume that the chooser will abide by societal norms‚ such as codes of law or religious teachings‚ in order to make the choice
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Question One There were many ethical violations that occurred in the Zimbardo Prison Study. The first violation was deception. Although Zimbardo got consent from the participant‚ he did not fully explain what the participant would be going through. They were told that they would be participating in a mock prison study. However‚ they were not told that they would be arrested at their homes and striped searched upon arrival at the prison site. It is very important that you inform participants
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CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios 1. Should the SEC mandate disclosure of pay ratios? Why or why not? And if so‚ how should the ratios be determined? The pay ratio provision requires publicly held companies to annually calculate the median total compensation for all employees globally‚ and disclose a ratio of the median employee’s compensation to the CEO’s compensation (H.R. Policy Association‚ n.d.). The SEC should mandate the disclosure of pay ratios because there are too many CEO’s collecting excessive
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In The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will‚ Peter van Inwagen states that those with either compatibilist or incompatibilist views must accept some mysteries. In this essay I will first explain the three views van Inwagen suggests and the mysteries that arise with each suggestion. Then‚ I will explain which position he agrees with most and why he does so. Following that‚ I will demonstrate my stance on the matter as well as show opposing viewpoints to my own. I think the most compelling
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In Equus by Peter Shaffer‚ Martin Dysart is the psychiatrist of Alan Strang. He is assigned to investigate Alan’s horrible crime of blinding six horses with a spike. During his investigation‚ Dysart questions his career and life and whether it’s his passion. Even though Alan Strang suffers throughout the play‚ Dysart seems to be the one to experience true tragic. As soon as Dysart heard Strang’s story‚ he questions everything that he accepted in his life. This is learned when he starts to trust
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Gallipoli is the 1981 war movie directed by Peter Weir that depicts the failed seize of the pennisula in the Ottoman Empire by Australian Soldiers. The director uses exact details to accurately portray the unfortunate event‚ along with including minute details that help further the plot and the characters. The director made a choice to put this battle in the perspective of the Australians. It is shown at the end of the movie that the remaining Australians are sent onto the battlefield die before
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Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19‚ 1909November 11‚ 2005) was an author of numerous economics-related literature who was born in Vienna‚ Austria‚ the son of a high level civil servant in the Hapsburg empire. Since World War I left Vienna with little opportunity to offer‚ he went to Germany to work after finishing school‚ first in banking and then in journalism. He also earned a doctorate in International Law while he was there. The rise of Nazism forced him to leave Germany in 1933 and after
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ASSIGNMENT: Ethics in Statistics There are a number of possible ways in which unethical behavior can arise in statistics and researchers should steer clear of these. It is relatively simple to manipulate and hide data‚ projecting only what one desires and not what the numbers actually speak‚ thus giving birth to the famous phrase “Lies‚ damned lies and statistics”. However‚ this doesn’t happen all the time and there is no reason not to believe in the conclusions of a statistical analysis (Siddharth
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Peter Skrzynecki’s ’Migrant Hostel’‚ Parkes 1949 - 1951‚ illustrates how in the initial stages of belonging‚ people feel insecure‚ experience doubt and fear and search for friendships to establish a sense of security. The poem is in 4 stanzas and each stanza is more than 6 lines long. Each stanza is one sentence and several ideas are brought out within each sentence. This syntax visually shows how doubtful and tentative the migrants were when they came to Australia. Australia was supposed to be
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