RESEARCH PROPOSAL DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY D.PHIL DEGREE DATE: 23 May 2013 Title ‘INVESTIGATING TRANSPORT PRICING IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE IMPACT ON FREIGHT TRANSPORT COSTS ‘ BY BRIAN K CHIKWAVA. 1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY It has been widely viewed‚ documented and believed that South African transport policy and transport plans focus almost entirely on passenger transport rather than on freight transport‚ yet Freight transport plays a very crucial role in the whole transport pricing
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Alan Dershowitz details Jeremy Bentham ’s utilitarian justification as a means to protect the greater good‚ maximizing societal benefits (Dershowitz‚ Blackboard pg. 1-2). In the ticking-bomb scenario‚ torturing the terrorist to gain information for the location and/or disposal of the bomb would be permissible because it is all in the efforts
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place and we were produced only to be consumed?”. To continue this discussion‚ we must take it to a philosophical level... so let’s get started‚ shall we? On the one hand‚ there would be no point in this reading without talking about the Utilitarian Theory which believes that it is ethically satisfactory to keep raising animals for food on the off chance that we enhance their living conditions‚ however it is not ethically worthy to kill them .On the other hand‚ there are the Deontological
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INTRODUCTION Cotton is a soft‚ fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll‚ or protective capsule‚ around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal. The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world‚ including the Americas‚ Africa‚ and India. The fiber most often is spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft‚ breathable textile. The use of cotton for
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Roles played by each citizen towards contributing to the imagined South African future. The personally responsible citizen The personally responsible citizen acts responsibly in the community for example by volunteering‚ recycling etc. The personally responsible citizen works and pays taxes‚ obeys laws‚ and helps those in need. There are programs that seek to develop personally responsible citizens hoping to build character and personal responsibility by emphasizing honesty‚ integrity‚ self-discipline
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Introduction The continent of South America has about one-eighth of the Earth’s land surface‚ situated between latitudes 12°N-55°S and longitudes 80°-35°W; no other continent has a greater latitudinal span. Eighty percent of its land mass is within the tropical zone‚ yet it extends into the subantarctic. The extensive zones of temperate and cold climates in the vicinity of the Equator‚ in the Andes‚ are unique. The land area of about 17‚519‚900-17‚529‚250 km² is under the jurisdiction of 13 countries
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Utilitarians have a very divided viewpoint on how situations should be approached in society. In that viewpoint there is a lot of variability from one situation to another. In this paper the topic of utilitarianism and what a utilitarian would do when placed in a situation of euthanasia is going to be discussed. With the general belief being each person has the same weight in creating happiness towards the situation what is best. Utilitarians often have to analyze many aspects to ensure they are
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MTN: Investing in Africa Around the 1980’s mobile telephones started showing up for commercial use. They were analog style‚ cumbersome and expensive to purchase. In the 1990’s digital technology was born and mobile phones became readily available to everyone and less expensive than the previous ten years. By 1998 over 30% of the world population within the areas of Europe‚ Asia‚ and North America had mobile telephones. With this type of usage of mobile telephones‚ Mobile Telephone Network
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most of Sub-Saharan Africa including West Africa where in Senegal it has been used as a malarial drug and Tanzania and other Indian Ocean states where in Kiswahili it is known as ’the panacea’‚ literally ’the tree that cures forty [diseases]’‚ where Ayurvedic uses are practiced. Ecologically‚ it survives well in similar environments to its own‚ for example replacing the babul acacia tree from India with Africanacacia species. USES Traditional medicinal use In India‚ the plant is variously known
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as a way of working out how good or bad the consequences of an action would be. Bentham was very concerned with social and legal reform and he wanted to develop an ethical theory which established whether something was good or bad according to its benefit for the majority of people. Bentham called this the principle of utility. The principle of utility is often expressed as ‘the greatest good of the greatest number’. ‘Good’ is defined in terms of pleasure or happiness – so an act is right or wrong
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