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    Katrina Rufin Kroenung English 1 (7) 26 April 2013 Extreme Measures Have you ever tried to change yourself just to fit in‚ or even to make yourself seem more likeable? People seem to change themselves just to fit into society today‚ or maybe even to be noticed more by others. Whether it is getting plastic surgery to enhance your beauty‚ or giving somebody that first impression‚ everyone seems to at least change themselves a bit to be accepted into society. This is what the women in Snow Flower

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    This film "Extreme Measures" enables us‚ the viewers‚ to regard another side in medical issues today; in which humans are being treated as lab rats against their own will‚ in the name of science. It talks about a young British doctor named Dr. Guy Luthar‚ who is at the beginning of a great long term career with the Gramercy hospital in New York. The movie begins with two homeless men running for their lives from some unknown entity‚ one of which ends up at Gramercy hospital under the treatment of

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    | The Utilitarian‚ Libertarian and Rawlsian approach to Nestlé’s Ice Mountain Water | Justice Case Study Paper | | Rochelle Carlisle | 1/31/2013 | | Many people believe that water is just nothing‚ which in a way they are somewhat correct. Have you ever looked at the label on bottled water? What do you see or better yet what don’t you see. You don’t see numbers on the nutritional facts of bottled water because water is just that nothing‚ or is it? Water makes up about 70 percent

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    If you were given the opportunity to find a cure for cancer‚ or perhaps a person’s paralysis‚ would you kill another human being in order to find that cure? In the movie Extreme Measures‚ a medical researcher asks this question of a British doctor. Dr. Lawrence Myrick is a well-known surgeon who is doing experimental surgery that could allow people that have spinal cord injuries to be able to walk again. His methods of performing this research include taking homeless people and people that he

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    passionately debated subjects of controversy in the United State. Since the early decades of the 20th century‚ abortion was used as a measure of limiting families to a manageable size. In the past‚ due to the lack of knowledge‚ many families usually gave birth to a lot of children that they could not afford to raise‚ which is why abortion was abused in early times as an extreme measure of birth control to avoid further poverty to families. Today‚ many abortions are given to women under the age of 22. There

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    I have always been one to side with a utilitarian’s point of view‚ such as Mill and Bentham. The greatest happiness of the greatest number‚ or as cold as it may be‚ sacrificing the few for the good of the many. Utilitarian moral theories evaluate the moral worth of action on the basis of happiness that is produced by an action. Whatever produces the most happiness in the most people is the moral course of action. I will give the best arguments against Utilitarianism‚ and show in my own opinion‚ why

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    Utilitarian Approach

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    University of Nebraska at Lincoln Professor Sobel Philosophy 106 The Utilitarian Approach What is morally right‚ and what is morally wrong? Different ethical theorists have a wide variety of definitions to this question. Although it wasn’t until the ethical revolution during the 18th and 19th centuries that utilitarianism took center stage defying all other theories. David Hume‚ Jeremy Bentham‚ and John Stuart set this revolution into progress stating that utilitarianism explains that morality

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    measure for measure

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    consider Measure for Measure to be a problem play? Measure for Measure has been deemed as a ‘problem play’ due to ‘lacking humanity’ and the drastic and uneven ‘emotion and language’ throughout the play. Because of this‚ the play is constantly being addressed as ‘problematic’ by critics like Swinburne who describes the play as being ‘indefinable’ and ‘unclassifiable’. The term problem play was first made current by F.S. Boas who was the critique of Shakespeare and his Predecessors. Measure for Measure

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    SHAKESPEARE sillagescritiques.revues.org/2544 Act 3 sc 2 l83-164 1) Who / where / when & possibly why 2) Obvious elt : dramatic irony => 2 levels of reading 3) Lucio / Duke both serve as go-btwn in the play‚ go from one group to another. Both contribute to knitting all different trends in play. 4) Importance of use of words‚ which is all that’s going on in this particular extract 5) Lucio paired with other char‚ all sorts of unlikely combinations in play‚ for eg with Isab at convent. Here

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    major distinction between utilitarian and deontological reasoning. Make reference to all relevant aspects of the two positions including the ’act’ and ’rule’ versions along with pertinent examples that clarify your answer. The major distinction between Emmanual Kant’s deontological reasoning and Mill’s utilitarian reasonsing is that deontological reasoning refers to duty‚ which is usually determined without regard to circumstances or consequences where as utilitarian reasoning always considers

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