Nghi Le PHIL 301 Professor Stieb Midterm Exam‚ May 2‚ 2013 1/ What is ethics? What are some common ethical types? Why do business people need it? Can ethics be taught to people? Ethics is a study of morality‚ stems from the ancient Greek “ethos” meaning custom or habit. It is a study of theories concerning what is good and evil in human conduct. There is no particular set of laws defining what is ethical and what is not‚ because there is no right or wrong answer. The second sense of ethics speak
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The author starts Scene Three with ‘The Poker Night.’ giving the impression this scene is an important one in the book through the use of a short direct three word sentence with each word capitalised‚ this suggests that the happenings in this scene are going to have an important impact on the rest of the play. After this‚ Williams carries on with stage directions; these directions show from the beginning what kind of ambience the scene is going to take on‚ the kind of ambience that he wanted to
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to make friends with liar‚ people with bad habits and quiet people. It is truly not a good idea to make friend with liars. Almost everybody lies in the modern world. However，there is a specific type of people who tell lies every day. They are called liars. They lie to their friends‚ and they even lie to their parents. They are not trustful. Nobody could trust them. If a person makes friends with liars‚ probably the person would pay a price for the friendship. Those liars think that they do not
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Section 5 Permutations and Combinations In preceding sections we have solved a variety of counting problems using Venn diagrams and the generalized multiplication principle. Let us now turn our attention to two types of counting problems that occur very frequently and that can be solved using formulas derived from the generalized multiplication principle. These problems involve what are called permutations and combinations‚ which are particular types of arrangements of elements of a set. The
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on his own. So again‚ even though not in the best of health‚ Doc went to help Wyatt out. Another type of friendship is the one that came between John Oakhurst and young Tom Simson in the story of The Outcast of Poker Flat. In this camaraderie the two men were in a poker game and young Simson lost all of his money to Oakhurst. After the game Oakhurst pulled him aside and gave him his money back and a little lecture on not to gamble any more. By this he made a slave (friend) for life. A few
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special about it.” One of the biggest factors that made “Down by the Bayou” stand out was the addition of gambling. Unlike the average casino‚ students/attendees didn’t need to invest any money‚ but still got the chance to play blackjack‚ craps‚ poker‚ and roulette. “I thought [the gambling] was really fun‚” senior Brynnah Glas said. “I learned how to play a couple games and I really liked blackjack; I was better at that one. Craps was a little more complicated‚ but it was fun… It was like
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ACCT301 Week 2 Homework 1. In two to three paragraphs‚ describe the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and why it is important to the accounting profession. (15 points) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in 2002 by Congress after a series of scandals involving companies such as Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and Tyco. This was passed because of shady transactions and misrepresented financial data which caused shareholders to lose millions of dollars and their trust in investing in public companies. It was passed to create
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fortune in the goldfields of South Dakota”( Wild Bill Hickok). While in South Dakota‚ Wild Bill Hickok became a regular poker player. Just like many other poker players‚ he had won the game many times and he made many enemies. One of Wild Bill Hickok’s enemies‚ Jack McCall‚ who eventually killed Wild Bill Hickok on August 2‚ 1876. Wild Bill Hickok was killed while playing poker and the hand that he was holding consisted of two black aces and two black eights‚ better known as “Dead Man’s Hand”. The
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On the surface‚ “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” and “A Street Car Named Desire” are two literary works that have little in common. “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” is about a Wall Street worker that gradually reduces the amount of work he does after his initial hiring‚ while “A Street Car Named Desire” is about a newly married couple‚ Stanley and Stella Kowalski‚ in New Orleans that have lives interrupted by Stella’s sister‚ Blanche DuBois. However‚ both texts share a similar theme‚ the struggle to gain power
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The story “The Man with the Scar” I would like to speak about is written by W. Somerset Maugham who is one of the most popular and widely read English writers. He wrote novels‚ short stories‚ plays and most of them had a great commercial success. W. Somerset Maugham traveled a lot during his life‚ he met different people‚ saw their lives so he gained a lot from his trips. Sometimes Maugham’s stories were thinly disguised episodes involving his host or others he had met on his travels-circumstances
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