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    CHILD PROTECTION POLICY It is the responsibility of all adults who care for children to protect them from harm. In accordance with the All Wales Child Protection Procedures and the Children Act 2004‚ First Steps Playgroup operates a child protection policy. At least one member of our staff has received child protection training and training will be cascaded to all members of staff. The designated Child Protection Officer is the Playgroup leader ’Vicky Price ’ and the Deputy leader of the

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    Ethical Theory Examination Ethical Theory Examination An action can be considered ethical or unethical depending on the perspective. There are three main theories of ethics: virtue‚ utilitarianism‚ and deontology. Each theory uses different criteria to determine if an action is ethical. Although the idea of performing ethical actions is similar‚ each theory follows a different approach. The virtue theory of ethics determines what is right and wrong based upon how it will affect one’s character

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    and differences between virtue theoryutilitarianism‚ and deontological ethics. All theory address ethics and morality somewhat differently. I will use a personal experience to explain virtue‚ values‚ and moral concepts related to one of the theories. . Similarities Between Virtue TheoryUtilitarianism‚ and Deontological Ethics. Doing what is right being the basic similarity common to virtue theoryutilitarianism‚ and deontological ethics. All the theories identify to uphold justice and

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    actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness” (11). That quote is from “Utilitarianism” written by John Stuart Mill. Mill is noted in history as a man who pushed for radical change of social and legal principles using Utilitarianism as his guide. That quote sums up his belief in that theory. In this essay I will be discussing Mill‚ the theory of Utilitarianism and how that theory relates to contemporary ethical issues. Mills was born 20 May 1806 and died in 1873 (MacKinnon

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    I think Utilitarianism is the most morally right thing to do in situations where human lives are involved. I believe this because in a situation where you can either save nine humans lives but you have to kill one or you just don’t do anything and let the nine people die and one survive I think it is only logical to pick the option where you save the most lives. However some people will say that using utilitarianism shouldn’t be used because you would be regarded as a murder which is a sin and is

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    of the biochemical produced a cure causing thousands of lives to be saved‚ then this may make him a good person. The result of this biochemical produced happiness for the masses by saving lives and curing disease. Considering the principle of utilitarianism is pleasure of the masses‚ the result of his actions would now be considered moral due to the amount of happiness that was produced. Although this may be a simple explanation of the scenario‚ other factors must be taken into account‚ such as

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    The theory behind utilitarianism is that one’s actions are right if it promotes happiness or pleasure and wrong if it does not promote happiness or pleasure. The main point to this theory is the principle of utility that states “according to which actions should be chosen that bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people.” (Palmer) Jeremy Bentham gave essentially utilitarianism its name and brought more attention to it than those before him. Bentham came up with

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    A short essay exploring key feature of a personalised learning environment commenting on different aspects that may improve a pupils levels of achievment For this assignment I will be discussing the concept personalised learning‚ analysing and commenting on aspects and key features of the personalised learning environment that I have devised for pupils in key stage 3 and 4. Addressing how the learning needs of the pupis will be met‚ including reference to reading‚ I have chosen to focus my

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    Final Paper SOC 220 OL Dr. Leon Geter 9/17/2014 Anne Bilben Sund I Theories of Crime and Justice II Intro In this paper‚ I aim to examine and explain different criminological categories. By looking at the link and relevance between criminology and criminal justice‚ certain different criminological theories‚ and the understanding of rational choice and deterrence theory‚ I wish to communicate why criminology and criminal justice is important to understand and further prevent crime. In an

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    Explain the difference between rule‚ act and preference utilitarianism (25 marks) Utilitarianism is the ethical theory behind justifying an action for being for the greater good. This is a teleological theory because it looks at the consequences of an action. Utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory. There are three types of utilitarianism: Act‚ Rule and Preference. Jeremy Bentham began the Utilitarianism theory. Utilitarianism is a hedonistic theory because it is based on pleasure and happiness

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