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    Ezra Nugiel Ms. Rocchino English 2H‚ Period C Rebecca Study Guide: Chapters 1-3 Chapter 1 1. Describe the setting of the narrator’s dream: the house‚ the drive‚ the plant life‚ the general atmosphere. The narrator opens the novel with the line “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” At Manderley‚ there is an “iron gate leading to the drive”. Upon this gate there is a “padlock and chain”. The gate’s spokes are “rusted” and the lodge further down the drive is “uninhabited”. There is “no smoke”

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    example‚ a man who uses reason and the maxim does not kill will care for his life‚ because he understands this duty and has a natural inclination to it. If his life is successful‚ he should not have a problem with it‚ but his maxim of protecting life is not yet moral. The situation changes when someone is not successful in life‚ and the worries of everyday life overwhelm him so that he loses the desire to live‚ but out of duty he still protects his life‚ then his maxim has moral content and his actions

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    State University‚ United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Job titles are defined as socially reinforced symbols that are based on cooperation. Further‚ job title inflation (JTI) is defined as a deliberate violation of cooperative principle maxims that is intended to extract gains for an organization. The cooperative principle‚ which is borrowed from the theory of conversational implicature‚ is expanded to explain how job titles maintain social value‚ thus acting as important symbols. It is

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    Deontological ethics (Kant) key concept Categorical imperative- Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that is should become a universal law. What is the maxim that I am acting and should it be universal. (Apply it rationally) Ex. Person wants to cheat on the test based on the reason to pass and tries to make it a universal law‚ everyone cheats on the test. Borrowing- the maxim I will act on is lying saying that I can pay it back and then I would see if it could be universal

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    Better”. The ads are in regards to the same product and brand. Both ads target male personas stereotypes such as: outdoor muddy four wheeler riders and that of two men in a bar type scene. I obtained both ads out of the Rolling Stone magazine and a Maxim magazine‚ both from this month and year. Rolling Stone is a magazine targeting males mostly. The men are older‚ like mid-thirties‚ which like rock music‚ sports technology‚ and today’s news. Their income or social status would be mostly middle class

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    Kants Universal Law Kant’s universal law states‚ “Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law”. (Kant pg.37) So in the first instance this appears to me a rule I pretty much live by‚ and which have often been taught to myself and others as young children in a simpler form of “Treat others how you would like to be treated.” Kant describes his universal law in several examples and one caught my attention

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    because humans are the highest point of creation and demand unique treatment. Act as if you live in a kingdom of ends‚ this means treat all with respect. Kant believed that all of these helped to create ‘maxims’. A maxim is an absolute moral statement about a universal truth. For example a maxim: Murder is wrong. Therefore it is a universal rule that murdering anyone is wrong.  Kant believes that we can only be true moral agents if we are free to make our own decisions. He argues that our freedom

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    more detail into categorical Imperative‚ there are three maxim‚ first maxim is all your actions must have universality. therefore for if you want to do something it must be okay for everyone else to do it‚ as Kant uses suicide as an example he says “is it contrary to my duty to take my life if i am in despair due to my many misfortunes? First‚ i should ask what if all though this way and acted upon it and became a law of nature” Second Maxim is every human should be treated as a end and not a mean

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    bartender at the restaurant. And she also had 2 years experience as a server. Taber’s duties are serving the patrons who sat at the bar and making all drinks for the servers. Taber never chat with new employees unless it is necessary. At the end of June‚ Maxim and Shult the new managers of Hamilton-west Southern Steakhouse announced the sales figure which included a ranking system to determine the staff earlier performance. Rhodes got the first out of fifteen‚ but Taber got the tenth. In early July‚ Rhodes

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    In the following section‚ I will explain my objection to equivalence thesis in more detail‚ particularly regarding the explanation of maxims and how the feature within the CI and also with regard to the examples given by Kant and how CI is supposed to work here. I will first explain how Kant thought CI worked and led to concrete results. After this explanation of Kant’s formalistic ethics

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