Dana Smith PHIL135 CH. 2 CRITICAL READING QUESTIONS What does Mill mean by “happiness” and how is that relevant to utilitarianism? Mill defines happiness as the ultimate good pleasure. The relevance to utilitarianism is the actions right or wrong which maximize the greatest balance of happiness over unhappiness. How does Mill respond to critics who denigrate utilitarianism as “worthy of swine”? That utilitarianism place the superiority of mental over bodily pleasures
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In his essay‚ “The Importance of Writing Badly‚” Bruce Ballenger encourages students to write freely and to not worry about finding the “perfect way of saying it.” I feel by saying this he means to not worry about what you’re writing and it may not necessarily be perfect‚ but that you write what you are thinking and continue writing even if it’s bad or may not make sense. He means to put all your thoughts down on paper and start from there. Ballenger gives his students permission to write badly.
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CLASS XII Supplementary Reading Material in Business Studies EFFECTIVE FOR BOARD EXAMINATION – 2013 CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION Preet Vihar‚ Delhi - 110092 UNIT: PLANNING PLAN A plan is a specific action proposed to help the organization achieve its objectives. It is a document that outlines how goals are going to be met. The importance of developing Plans is evident from the fact that there may be more than one means of reaching a particular goal. So with the help of
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. It has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people‚ being able to stand things. In Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness the theme of tolerance is well presented by literary techniques and by the characters as well. Nomi Nickle‚ the protagonist‚ who goes through tolerance in her everyday life. Nomi has to tolerate with the ridiculous rules they have in East Village. “Before the purges occurred and the Mouth took over
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In the mid-12th century‚ the tide began to turn in the Crusades. The Muslim world had become more united under effective leaders such as Saladin‚ and dissension arose among Christian factions in and concerning the Holy Land. The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders‚ the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights‚ and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions‚ politically and militarily. After the Templars were involved in several
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Case Study: A Degree for Meter Readers Name: Jacqueline Gonzalez Our Lady of the Lake University Human Resource Management Dr. Hamid Khan‚ BSME‚ MSIE‚ MBA‚ EDD‚ PE February 2‚ 2014 Reaction My reaction for this case was between shock and some anger. I was shocked due to the fact that the human resource director would even think that a college graduate would want to do such a demeaning job. As a soon to be college graduate I would not even consider a job like this. I would want a job that
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Accelerated reader is a computer program that helps teachers control and monitor a child’s reading skills. The child will take test to find out his reading level.The child picks books at his own level and reads at his own pace. When finished‚ the child will take a short quiz on the computer. If the child passes the quiz this is a sign that the child understood what he was reading. Accelerated reader gives both the student and the teacher information based on the quiz results.The teacher then uses
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Abstract The general objective of this study is proposed a systematized way of keeping and filling of all the books information in the library of University of Makati. We the researchers proposed a system entitled “A Proposed Library System with Barcode Reader for University of Makati” that will computerize the library activity of
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This short story written by Hemingway is titled Cat in the Rain. The title suggests that something weak (‘cat’) is trapped in a difficult situation (‘rain’). Since cats are generally very afraid of water‚ being in the rain can be such a torture to them. From the title‚ it is hinted that the story may be related to some characters having to go through difficulties and struggles. In the story‚ the American wife cannot find the poor little cat when she goes outside of the Italian hotel to try to
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"Review: I wants to go to Prose (Suzanne B. Jordan)" In "I wants to go to the prose" (1995)‚ Suzanne B. Jordan emphasizes that a teacher’s duty is to help the students in their studies but whether teachers should help students with their personal problems is controversial. In other words‚ students should not come up to the teachers telling their personal problems so that the teacher‚ being merciful‚ excuses them or be a little more considerate when grading their papers. This is like using emotional
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