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    happening in their children’s life. They learn to have a sense of appreciation and the desire to waste is less. They do not have a huge variety of clothing so they are learned to make adequate usage of what they own. Within Indian cultures‚ parents use a form of authoritarian discipline in the raising of their children. Indian parents provide strict rules and regulations for their children. These children are not asked to do something‚ for example‚ their chores‚ they are told what they are suppose to do

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    The philosophical theory that I choose to do is called “utilitarianism”. In a brief sentence‚ utilitarianism means the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Basically what this means is‚ doing the right thing is based on how many people your action benefits rather than how much it benefits you. According to the Oxford American Dictionary utility means “the state of being useful‚ profitable‚ or beneficial”(oxford dictionary‚2013). The whole theory is all about how much it benefits and

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    Utilitarianism depends on the happiness of people and by happiness I mean pleasure. When a person experiences pleasure they usually experience pain along with it in some form‚ or the pain is caused to somebody else. Pleasure is not the only thing that utilitarianism depends on. Along with pleasure it depends on the amount of pleasure‚ how great the pleasure is‚ and more things that are along the lines often pleasure the consequences of an action has as an outcome. Despite the action or decision there

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    are two levels: on individual level and on society level. On individual level is a person’s own moral beliefs i.e. what he accepts as right and wrong‚ good or bad. For example‚ vegetarian and non-vegetarian and on society level is norms and standards accepted by a society. The word ethics derived from Greek word‚ ‘Ethos’ which means customs. Ethics is basically the philosophical study of morality and the word moral is derived from a Latin word ‘mores’ which means manners.

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    by the name utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the view that actions are morally acceptable if and only if they produce at least as much happiness as any other available action. The more happiness and less suffering that results from our actions‚ the better the action is and the right action is the one that produces the greatest balance of happiness over suffering. Utilitarianism can be broken up into two parts‚ a theory of what is valuable and a theory of right action. Utilitarianism is a way of

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    AP English Language and Composition Period Argument Analysis for Shaw – “On Experimenting with Animals” A. Briefly Paraphrase each paragraph of the essay. Paragraph 1: The author opens his essay by introducing information that is logical to the reader. This is done by discussing the rights to know and live; while also discussing the pains that follow. Paragraph 2: This is where the author gives contrasting statements on how too much knowledge is not restricted. Instead‚ people

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    1.Distinguish between pidgins and creoles. Pidgin language is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. It is most commonly used in situations such as trade‚ or where both groups speak languages different from the language of the country in which they live in (but where there is no common language between the groups). In addition‚ pidgins have a distinct set of characteristics that make them differ from the

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    Utilitarianism is a philosophical idea that can be used by individuals‚ governments or agencies‚ in which the purpose is to help pick an action to take. According to Utilitarianism‚ the action one should take show be the action that produces the most pleasure and the least pain for everyone involved. In order to make this decision‚ Bentham suggests using a hedonic calculus‚ through which you "...sum up the numbers expressive of the degree of good tendency‚ which the action has‚ with respect to each

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    1. The Super Express Fund Case shows that urgency doesn’t help to explain the difference in your moral judgments. It does this by making the envelope case (non-urgent)‚ an urgent case. Even then‚ if you don’t donate the money which could have been used to save the most urgently needy child‚ no one will think of you as morally wrong. 2. We are obligated to help even those people who‚ if saved‚ would live a wretched life because if you didn’t save them‚ it could have negative impacts on other people

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    Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher‚ jurist‚ and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham sees that man is being governed by two feelings‚ this is pleasure and pain. These determine that which is good and evil for man. These are also the basis of the act of man‚ and these-pain and pleasure would be the fundamentals of the philosophy‚ utilitarianism. The principle of utility "is the action that approves or disapproves an action whatsoever". By the principle

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