Direct and Indirect Utilitarianism British philosopher‚ John Stuart Mill‚ served many years as a member of parliament and worked diligently to bring forth liberal ideas. Amongst these ideas was the distinction of utilitarianism‚ or the act of doing what is right for the greatest number of people. Yet‚ just discussing the idea of right versus wrong for the masses was not enough‚ Mill’s determined there were two forms of utilitarianism; act‚ the direct form‚ or sanction‚ the indirect form. Much like
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Part I: Pulse Rate Take your pulse at the wrist‚ as described on the Work Out tab of 4.02‚ and record it below. Your count for 30 seconds ___ x 2 = ___ bpmDay 1 _____Day 2 _____Day 3 _____Total _____ divide by 3 = _____ This is your Resting Heart RateObtain your Maximum Heart Rate (MHR) by subtracting your age from 220. Example 220 – 21 = 199 1. Subtract your resting heart rate (RHR) that you calculated in Part II above from the maximum heart rate (MHR) that you just determined in Step
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DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STATEMENT OF INTENT This document outlines our policies and procedures for technology disaster recovery‚ as well as our process-level plans for recovering critical technology platforms and the telecommunications infrastructure. This document summarizes our recommended procedures. In the event of an actual emergency situation‚ modifications to this document may be made to ensure physical safety of our people‚ our systems‚ and our data. Our mission
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statistics it would appear that the community is overwhelmingly focused on graduation and higher education and are career/job minded. In order to prepare future graduates for college and the workforce‚ I feel as though Indirect Instruction would be an appropriate choice. Indirect Instruction makes the student an active learner getting them involved in hands-on type activities and builds on their natural curiosity. This type of approach will foster creativity and build problem solving skills which
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announced that economic recovery in the United States “Will be measured in years‚ not months” (Spillius). Three days later the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed in Denver‚ Colorado signaling the largest economic undertaking in US history. Whether aid comes in the form of tax cuts or governmental spending programs‚ the urgency of the situation is now more evident than ever because of the recession and its effects on Americans. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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have done above is a “full-cost” analysis. This is in contrast to a “direct-cost” analysis that ignores overhead costs. Is full cost the right metric for job profitability and customer profitability? What assumptions are we making about the variability of overhead costs when we do a “full-cost” analysis? By allocating the overhead costs to jobs and customers there is an implicit assumption that these are variable with the cost driver. In reality‚ some of the overhead costs are fixed‚ at least in the
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Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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CHAPTER 6 PRODUCTION EXERCISES 4. A political campaign manager must decide whether to emphasize television advertisements or letters to potential voters in a reelection campaign. Describe the production function for campaign votes. How might information about this function (such as the shape of the isoquants) help the campaign manager to plan strategy? The output of concern to the campaign manager is the number of votes. The production function has two inputs‚ television advertising and
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In “The Scarlet Ibis”‚ James Hurst uses indirect characterization to display the idea that pride is wonderful feeling‚ but too much of it can control someone and hurt them and others by having Doodle be the older brother’s pride‚ than by having his pride overcome him and end up hurting him. Towards the middle of the story‚ Doodle‚ the protagonist‚ is taught how to walk by his older brother. When they decide to show their family the surprise‚ everyone walks over to Doodle’s older brother to give him
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Andrew McClarren 12/1/12 Stanford Prison Study Paper The Stanford Prison Study was a very eye opening experiment because it was performed in 1971‚ before modern American Psychological Association guidelines were implemented. As young adults we’ve never seen anything like this experiment before. The power of this situation was exceptionally strong‚ especially to us. In the study‚ how easily normal students could be transformed into either a satanic guard or a submissive prisoner was astonishing
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