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    article‚ I realized Nacirema is American backwards. Horace Miner’s article Body Ritual among the Nacirema is about the way a group of North Americans and their culture. Nacirema’s people lived in the early 1900’s and these people were extremely obsessed with body rituals. During one of these rituals men used what’s described as a chisel to scrap faces. These rituals are usually done in what’s described as a shrine area where there’s potions and medicine to be used for these rituals they conduct during

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    Relativism and Absolution In order to promote harmony Morality dictates our actions‚ beliefs and behaviours it separates what we commonly call the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’. But we should not have it confused it with the law’s of what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ because they are not one and the same thing.To quote the “Random House Websters College Dictionary”: Absolutism is any theroy holding that values‚ principels‚ ect.‚ are absolute and not relative‚ dependant‚ or changeable. In The Meanings of

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    Running head: RELATIVISM AND MORALITY Relativism and Morality Rodney L. Cotton SOC 120 Robert Neely February 21‚ 2011 Relativism and Morality In the article‚ “Some Moral Minima‚” Lenn E. Goodman raises the question‚ “if it is true that no norm can be made absolute unless some other is compromised‚ are there no rules that tell us that principles are principles – no norms delineating concretely‚ and uncompromisingly‚ wrong from right?” (Goodman‚ 2010) Goodman goes on to state that the

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    In a situation where a group of people sneak up on someone and beat them up just for fun can be a moral cultural relativism in two different ways. Being beaten up for fun can be morally wrong or morally right. Ruth Benedict and Louis Pojman’s view on a random violence like this are based off of relativism and objectivism. Moral cultural relativism are the principles that an individual’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others. It is considering a moral in one society‚ but immoral to

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    After realizing “Nacirema” is American spelled backwards‚ it becomes evident that Miner is criticizing American culture. He describes the “tribes” behavior with a focus on changing personal appearance and magic-based rituals. Everybody goes to the “Latipso” to see “medicine-men” when they are sick and often are given potions or end up dead. This is like a looking glass into American culture. In our culture‚ there is a huge focus on physical features‚ but we don’t pray to fix it. Instead we take vitamins

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    Moral Relativism: An Evaluation The world is becoming an increasingly smaller place‚ culturally speaking. The modern world has more bridges to other cultures and ways of thinking than ever before. This phenomenon is due largely to the advent of the internet‚ global industry‚ and increased travel for business and pleasure to opposite corners of the world. This “global village” we live in introduces the average person to more cultural‚ and seemingly moral‚ differences than previous generations

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    influence of their Asian-American mothers. These conflicts have smothered their relationships and make them be on the opposite sides in almost perceptions. However‚ it is just the outer face of the problems. When we see the issues in the lens of cultural-relativism perspectives‚ we will realize the true meanings of scenarios happening in their intergenerational families. First of all‚ the author has described vividly the characteristic of Waverly‚ an Americanized daughter‚ with strong personalities and

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    Ethical Relativism/Subjectivism 11/09/2006 08:05 AM Ethical Relativism/Subjectivism Subjective‚ inter-subjective‚ and objective claims: A claim or judgment is subjective if its truth depends on whether or not it conforms to the tastes‚ attitudes‚ and beliefs of the claimer (the person making the claim). o Example: “Anchovies taste yummy.” (a matter of taste) A claim or judgment is inter-subjective if its truth depends on whether or not it conforms to the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ and conventions

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    Majority of people have rejected the theory of ethical relativism due to many reasons. A few claims that while the moral practices of societies may differ‚ the elemental of moral principles underlying these practices do not differ. For instance‚ in some societies they practice that if the parents reached a certain age‚ they were killed to reach afterlife and would live a better life if they reached it when they were physically active and vigorous. In our society‚ we would never practice that in our

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    scripts) did your “Intense Scan” definition perform? List them all after reviewing the scan report. 36 scans total 7. Describe what each of these tests or scripts performs within the Zenmap GUI (Nmap) scan report. 8. How many total IP hosts (not counting Cisco device interfaces) did Zenmap GUI (Nmap) find on the network? 256 9. Based on your Nmap scan results and initial reconnaissance and probing‚ what next steps would you perform on

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