Mill would say that torture is acceptable if it increases the happiness of a greater amount of people than if the torture were not carried out. For example‚ if one prisoner had information that could free 1000 people from certain death and if by obtaining this information it would be highly probable that you could save these people’s lives then I think he would say that torturing the prisoner is justified. I don’t think Kant’s morality has to do with intentions like kindness per se‚ but more to
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HIST 101 WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT #2: The Enlightenment and The Great Awakening In conjunction with chapter 3‚ this assignment will ask you to read two historical accounts that correspond to American experiences with the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening in the mid-18th century North American colonies. These two social phenomena (the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening) each exerted a significant influence on the development of American political and religious thought in the years leading up
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by their actions (Shaw‚ Barry & Sansbury 2009‚ pp 64-70). Thirdly‚ Kantianism is also another moral issue‚ but as the same‚ it will not be acceptable. "act so as to treat people always as ends in themselves‚ never as mere means" (2002‚ Kant’s ethics in Bailey‚ p. 666). According to W.D. Ross with his 7 basic Prima Facie Duties‚ they did not follow the duty of beneficence‚ duty of self-improvement and duty of nonmalefience (Shaw‚ Barry & Sansbury 2009‚ pg 78-80). First‚ Ford did not give
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Analyzing The Annual Report-2009 of BEXIMCO PHARMACEUTICALS LTD Course Financial Accounting (ACT 101) Semester Summer 2010 Prepared for Mr. Polash Kumar Kundu Lecturer Department of Business Administration Prepared by Habibul Basher 2009-3-10-037 Fahad Bin Reza 2009-3-10-054 Ayaz Mohammad Arman 2009-3-10-073 Section: 05 Date of submission: 08 August 2010 East West University BEXIMCO PHARMACEUTICALS LTD BEXIMCO PHARMACEUTICALS LTD (BPL) Belongs to Beximco Group‚ the largest
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Hewlett Packard is an electronics hardware company founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1938. It started off producing printers and computer hardware but has now spread out and is developing a large range of electrical goods and services. HP is now one of the largest technological companies and has the title of the world’s leading PC manufacture which is a long way from when it was founded in a one car garage. HP still states that its number one value is the customer satisfaction of one of
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theoretical perspectives were used. I will briefly illustrate each of the main theoretical perspectives of functionalism‚ conflict theory‚ and symbolic Interactionism. During this semester I have watched two films‚ Food Incorporated and The Vernon Johns Story. I will describe how a theoretical perspective is used in each of these examples. Then I will provide my own two examples where concepts and theoretical perspectives can be illustrated. My First example is the Boston Marathon Bombings and the
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influencing personality. Sigmund Freud believed that our childhood experiences are what influence our personality as an adult. The nurture theory proposes that environment is what influences each individual and determines their personality. B. F. Skinner and John Watson both suggest that personality is a result of interaction between the individual and the environment. The case study of “Genie‚ the wild child” comes to show how much we require all of the environmental factors in Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
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Btsisi Kinship Trevan Davis Ashford University Anthropology 101 Instructor Jorge Garcia-Herreros April 12‚ 2013 Btsisi Kinship The society I have decided to write about are the Btsisi people. The Btsisi way of life and Kinship system is very similar to modern society worldwide. Btsisi are Horticultural people meaning they cultivate and produce their own food and they typically live close to water to provide them with another food source besides what’s cultivated. For this assignment‚
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Humanities 101 Midterm Review Weeks 1 and 2 Mesopotamia: Sumerians‚ Akkadian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian Euphrates River Tigris River Fertile Crescent Uruk Cuneiform: wedge or nail shape marks pressed into wet clay –used for over 3000 years Sumerians 3500-2350 Located in lower Mesopotamia Between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Part of the Fertile Crescent Invented writing and beer (Kassi) Purpose? Records of goods and services 2700 BCE: rough date assigned the historical Gilgsmesh‚ King
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History 101 Study Guide for Exam III Early Rome Etruscan Etruria Herodotus Lemnean Theory Tarquinia Caere Necropolis Fasces: form of power gladiator needs to have when they are fighting Gladiator: sports and entertainment; warriors Tinia Uni Menerva arx Cardo: north south Decumanus : east west toga Romulus Remus Sabines: used party as form of distraction to distract sabines women and conquer the men. Tarquin (Rex) ( title for king): form of monarchy Kings. Estrucian dynasty
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