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    majority of tribe

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    Majority of tribe’s treatment of their captives was hospitable in order to assist with the assimilation into the tribe. These captives would most likely replace a lost or killed family member within the tribe. Women and children were treated the best as they were less likely to resist capture and would easily adapt to tribal culture. Mary Jemison was a great example of a captive woman marrying a Seneca man and raised a family with the Seneca tribe. I believe Mary Jemison would not accept any

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    A Surgical Conscience

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    SOURCE A surgical conscience may simply be stated as a surgical Golden Rule: Do unto the patient as you would have others do unto you. The caregiver should consider each patient as himself or herself or a loved one. Surgical conscience involves a concept of self-inspection coupled with moral obligation. It incorporates the caregiver’s values and attitudes at a conscious level and monitors behavior and decision-making in relation to those values. In short‚ a surgical conscience is the inner voice

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    Pi Conscience

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    which can make him cave in‚ and do things he is not proud of‚ leading him to his fate. “Courage without conscience is a wild beast” by Robert Green Ingersoll‚ describes that doing things without your conscience could get you harmed in the process. Pi demonstrates in the novel the necessary skills needed for survival‚ which were bestowed upon him as he listened to his conscience. Pi’s conscience prevented him from experiencing‚ or engaging in savagery‚ guiding him to make decisions‚ and made him do

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    The Battle of Conscience

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    anything to against the conscience‚ even if the state demands it." This quote is from Albert Einstein. In this quote‚ Albert Einstein tells us what a normal person should do when faced with a moral dilemma. What people do is often the opposite of what their conscience tells them to do. " The Sniper" by O’ Flaherty and "War" by Timothy Findley are both good examples of this. The two stories both show that war brings people pain because it forces them to contradict their consciences and feelings. "The

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    Macbeth's Conscience

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    Powerful Conscience In the play Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ the idea developed is that in life‚ one’s conscience plays an important role in their decisions and actions‚ and it is the past and present events which directly affect the behaviour of this conscience‚ sometimes in a negative way. In Macbeth‚ Shakespeare use sleep‚ darkness and blood imagery to demonstrate the role that conscience plays in affecting Macbeth’s decisions‚ which consequently leads to negative effects‚ as well

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    The Crucible - Conscience

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    Conscience is the awareness of right and wrong. In the Crucible‚ the idea of conscience in strongly emphasized. Miller himself said‚ "No critic seemed to sense what I was after [which was] the conflict between a man’s raw deeds and his conception of himself; the question of whether conscience is in fact an organic part of the human being‚ and what happens when it is handed over not merely to the state or the mores of the time but to one’s friend or wife." The idea of conscience in the play The

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    Huck's Conscience

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    In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ author Mark Twain uses Huck to demonstrate how one’s conscience is an aspect of everyday life. The decisions we make are based on what our conscience tells us which can lead us the right way or the wrong way. Huck’s deformed conscience leads him the wrong way early on in the chapters‚ but eventually in later chapters his sound mind sets in to guild him the rest of the way until his friend Tom Sawyer shows up. Society believes that slaves should be treated as

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    The Machine Conscience

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    In today ’s society‚ we use certain objects such as machines every single day to perform jobs and tasks that would require human intelligence and judgment. Artificial Intelligence allow machines to send information in a matter of seconds‚ regulate ground and air traffic‚ guide missiles‚ and can perform any human task‚ but what if machines are create more like humans in the near future. Would we welcome them into society as ‘one of the guys ’ or would we discriminate their kind? The excerpt on Machine

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    Surgical Conscience

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    Surgical conscience is the professional behaviour that demonstrates understanding and application of principles of surgical technology and legal‚ ethical‚ and moral responsibilities to patients and team members for which each practitioner is accountable. A surgical conscience means attention to aseptic principles during the perioperative period. A "surgical conscience" is the foundation upon which the skill and techniques employed by the OR team are built. He must know the principles of

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    The Moral Majority

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    sticker read‚ “The Moral Majority is Neither.” The fact that there was a bumper sticker criticizing the Moral Majority‚ measures how large of an impact they once had in politics in America. Led by Reverend Jerry Falwall‚ the Moral Majority was an ultra-conservative group that aimed to incorporate politics with strong conservative religious views. The mission itself was controversial which made their political agenda criticized even more. Falwell and the rest of the Moral Majority believed that American

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