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    Universal or Core Values

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    Universal or Core Ethical Values Trustworthiness‚ respect‚ responsibility‚ fairness‚ caring‚ and citizenship — are six core ethical values. Using core ethical values as the basis for ethical thinking can help detect situations where we focus so hard on upholding one value that we sacrifice another — eg we are loyal to friends and so do not always tell the truth about their actions. 1. TRUSTWORTHINESS Trustworthiness concerns a variety of behavioral qualities — honesty‚ integrity‚ reliability

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    The first part of the film depicts the racist ideologies that are used as an excuse to commit internal colonialism. It also denotes Antonio Gramsci’s concept – hegemony‚ which refers to the ignorant ways and domination of the more powerful class over the other. It makes you question the grounds of these social construct and wonder why there is so much hate. Just when you start to think you understand the justifications for their behaviour‚ there is a scene in the second part of the film‚ with a flashback

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    Sorrows of Young Werther

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    WERTHER AND SELF DECEPTION Romanticism was deeply interested in creating art and literature of suffering‚ pain and self-pity. With poets pining for a love long gone and dead and authors falling for unavailable people‚ it appears that romantics in literature were primarily concerned with self-injury and delusion. In Goethe’s novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther"‚ we find another romantic character fulfilling his tragic destiny by falling victim to extreme self-deception. Werther’s story may

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    Andrew Jackson: A War Hero

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    Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828‚ making him the seventh president of the United states. Andrew Jackson was a widely recognized war hero for his efforts in the war of !812‚ otherwise known as the second AMericsn revolution. THere he made the "war-ending" victory against the bristish in the Battle of New Orleans‚ which had really occurred two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent which truly eneded the war. Andrew JAckson had ran for president once before in 1824‚ but he lost to JOhn Quincy Adams‚ who

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    1. When asked the vast majority of people will agree with the following two statements. Would you agree with them also? a. I have solid‚ well-considered ethical beliefs that can be altered only by reasoned arguments or new evidence. b. I have character and integrity that will carry me though when I face difficult moral choices. I believe that I do have solid and well considered ethical beliefs that can be altered only by reasoned arguments and the emergence of new evidence. I also believe that

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    Jenifer Montemayor English 1101 10 November 2015 First Draft While reading The Handmaids Tale‚ there were certain points that were brought to my attention. The main character in the novel was named Offred. Offred went through a really bumpy road throughout this novel. She had to do things that she had no say in doing. She was forced into becoming a handmaid. Margaret Atwood‚ the writer of The Handmaids Tale really focused on how the females in The Handmaids Tale were being

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    The French Revolution

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    Revolution was an unstable‚ blood-filled time. With 20‚000 sent to the guillotine and an equal number to prison‚ it is not hard to find importance but rather to find meaning. The most crucial thing to look for in the revolution is justification‚ reasons that excuse or bring significance to the deaths of many. John Locke‚ a philosophe of the time‚ may have argued that a leader who does not provide his people with inalienable rights is grounds for dismissal in the form of regicide1. On the other

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    Criminal Justice Essay

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    organized crime are on the rise. According to the CJi Interactive Media crime is defined as “ conduct in violation of the criminal laws of the state‚ the federal government‚ or a local jurisdiction‚ for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse.” That means that “ crime “ depends on where you are. The same behavior may or may not be a crime depending on the state of the actor‚ time of day‚ the year‚ the location of the act‚ or even the reasons behind the behavior. The government

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    Crime Today

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    Crime Essay There are all different kinds of crime today‚ some include‚ theft‚ abuse‚ torture‚ hate crime‚ organized crime‚ money laundering‚ kidnaping‚ homicide‚ stalking‚ sex crimes‚ arson‚ drug related‚ drunk driving‚ and finally‚ political and white collar crime. Every thing I just mentioned is a broad category of crime and each one has many more specific crimes within it. When you look at all of this you have to think why there is so much crime. I mean‚ are some people just evil? Some

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    the University of Phoenix CJi Interactive activities (2014)‚ the definition of a crime is “a conduct in violation of the criminal laws of the state‚ the federal government‚ or a local jurisdiction‚ for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse”. It is a complex and very difficult definition to agree upon because there are many points of view and controversies in defining what crime is. From a psychological standpoint‚ it suggest that the crime is a way of expressing the inability

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