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    1.1 Describe how to establish respectful‚ professional relationships with children and young people. It is essential to establish respectful and professional relationships with children and young people in the role of Teaching Assistant. There are certain strategies which enable such a valued and trusted relationship be established. A relationship in which a child trusts and respects their TA and feels comfortable in their company‚ allows the TA to offer a supportive and caring environment

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    emphasizes that the will can be trained. Adding on to the will‚ duty ethics is described “as an act has moral value when the will is perfectly aligned with duty” from the online videos. A maxim is a “subjective principle that governs action” which means it is generally a rule of conduct yet not absolute. For example‚ a maxim “is related to the individual‚ should not admit of any situational exceptions‚ is a subjective principle‚ and can be used to justify or govern one’s action.” A categorical imperative

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    duty derives its moral worth‚ not form the purpose which is to be attained by it‚ but from the maxim (Pojman and Vaughn‚ 245). What this proposition means is the action itself doesn’t have moral significance but the moral worth is found in the maxim (rule) itself. The third proposition is: duty is the necessity of acting from respect for the law (Pojman and Vaughn‚ 246). What this means is following maxims is needed in performing rational duties. If these duties are not carried out following the law

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    1.2 An overview of Vietnamese spoken language Le (2013) cites Huynh (1987) who argues that the Vietnamese language has three mutually intelligible dialects‚ namely Southern‚ Central and Northern with distinctive phonetic differences. Although these dialects vary in tone and pronunciation‚ they do not prevent Vietnamese people from understanding each other in communication. Le (2013) argues that spoken Vietnamese has a long history‚ which is considered to have existed since the fourth century BC.

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    used an illustration of a worker living in a poor country to easily explain this notion‚ wherein the worker uttered the sentence “This is a fine country” sarcastically. The worker does not say-that his is a fine country. What he did was to flout the maxim of quality; he tried to communicate by implying that his country is not really fine. It is important to determine when a person utters a metaphorical sentence whether he is saying-that or making-as-if-to-say something. Furthermore‚ Martinich

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    much money E. I think that active steps should be taken to correct such immoral executive remuneration practices Step 1: Evaluate the act using Kant’s categorical imperative (We ’ve done the first 2 steps for you) 1. State your proposed act as a maxim: "I will take ZAR 620 000 000.00 (A) when I ’ve done a year ’s work (C) in order to get really‚ really rich (E)." I will take that R620 000 000.00‚ at least take ¼ of that money for myself‚ the remaining ¾ of the money‚ I would open a sponsor fund

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    describes the cultural difference between the savages and English in North America. “Perhaps‚ if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality‚ we should find no people so rude‚ as to be without as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness” (Franklin 219). Franklin is saying that nations who are polite usually don’t have rules to have a polite society and societies that are expected to be polite are usually not. This is ironic

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    categorical imperative’s first formulation. Through these propositions‚ the first formulation arrives at the fundamental principle of morality and thus the principle upon a good will must act. It can be read as follows: ‘Act only according to that maxim whereby you can the same time‚ will that it should become a universal law.’ In order to understand how it is that Kant arrived at this first formulation‚ first‚ I will present a close examination and definition of concepts such as ‘good will’ and ‘duty

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    that everybody must accept” (pg 128) his idea behind categorical imperative is that you decide wither or not something is moral by first finding out what exactly the moral rule is or what is your maxim that you are contemplating‚ and then you have to ask yourself if you are ok with the idea that your maxim would become a universal law‚ to be followed by all people‚ all the time. If yes then it is an acceptable act if your answer is no then that act should not be committed. A couple examples of

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    1. State your proposed act as a maxim: "I will take ZAR 620 000 000.00 (A) when I’ve done a year’s work (C) in order to get really‚ really rich (E)." 2. Restate this maxim as a universal law; "All people (7 billion of them) will take ZAR 620 000 000.00 when they’ve done a year’s work in order to get really‚ really rich." 3. Ask whether your maxim is conceivable in a world ruled by the universal law; In a real world if individuals earned 620million for a years worth of work there

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