All actions have consequences. In the story “The Lady or the Tiger” written by Frank R. Stockton‚ the princess is left with the decision to either feed her lover to a tiger or watch her lover be happily married to another beautiful woman. The reader is led to believe that the princess persuaded her lover to pick the door with the tiger behind it. The princess had concluded that the consequence of killing her lover was better than having to deal with the jealousy of watching him live happily with
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Utilitarianism: Bentham and Mill Utilitarianism begins with the work of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)‚ an English political and social reformer. Educated at Oxford‚ Bentham eventually headed up a small group of thinkers called the “Philosophical Radicals.” This group‚ which included James Mill (father of John Stuart Mill‚ more on him later)‚ was dedicated to social reform and the promulgation of Bentham’s ideas. Bentham based utilitarian ethics on the so-called “greatest happiness principle
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Utilitarianism is the idea that an action is morally right if the consequences of the action benefit everyone. In the case where a young man who cheated on his college entrance exam Utilitarianism says that this is not a morally right decision‚ because while the person who committed the action‚ the young man in this case‚ may benefit from the knowledge they gain from that education they got from that school‚ the action does not benefit the other young man or woman who did not cheat on the test and
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which of the two rooms that lay behind those doors stood the cage of the tiger‚ with its open front‚ and in which waived the tiger.” Which was her choice? In Frank Stockton’s short story “The Lady or the Tiger?” the princess holds the fate of her lover in her hands. She was forbidden by her father‚ the king‚ to love a man beneath her station. He must face his destiny in the king’s arena-either opening the door to the fearsome tiger to await death or the beautiful lady that he will immediately marry.
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LTTE is a terrorist nationalistic organization that tries to take over a part of Sri Lanka and declare it an independent Tamil state. LTTE‚ most commonly known as the Tamil Tigers‚ rose a violent campaign over the Sri Lankan government and after the civilians from the 1970s. The Tamil Tigers are currently concerned as a terrorist organization by thirty two countries. Tamils are a group of people who were moved from the Indian subcontinent to other countries by the British colonial authorities. As
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Siberian Tiger Panthera Tigris Altaica Alejandra Benavides Biology Class Period 7 • September 26‚ 2012 1 Introduction The Siberian tiger‚ also known as the Amur tiger‚ is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly in the mountain region of Primorski Krai in eastern Russia. The population has been stable more more than a decade due to intensive conservation efforts. Surveys from 2005 indicate that the tiger population is declining‚ showing the species is still endangered. Unlike the Bengal
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Endangered Tigers Today wild tigers exist in Eastern Russia‚ China‚ Vietnam‚ Cambodia‚ North Korea‚ Thailand‚ Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ Bhutan‚ India and Nepal. In order to live in the wild‚ tigers need water to drink‚ animals to hunt‚ and vegetation in which to hide. As the mountains‚ jungles‚ forests‚ and long grasses that have long been home to tigers disappear‚ so too‚ do tigers. Agricultural expansion‚ timber cutting‚ new roads‚ human settlement‚ industrial expansion and hydroelectric dams push
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Endangered Bengal Tigers in India The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the oldest and largest global environmental organization‚ working to help save endangered species. This organization’s main purpose is to provide worldwide alertness about any species or plant facing high global extension. The IUCN red list contains information on plants and animals that have been categorized as extinct or extinct in the wild‚ due to insufficient data. Once the species is placed on
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Tiger Subspecies I am here writing a report on the sub species of tigers. Many of these tigers will not survive in the next forty years due to the killing that us humans have caused. Tiger sub species have not been as important to us humans as whether or not the species Tiger Panthera tigris can survive either in the wild or in captivity for the next forty years. Nevertheless a great deal of information on the future of the tiger can be learned from a study of subspecies. Which is what my report
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The Siberian tiger is one of the rarest species in the world and it holds many characteristics that makes it unique and presentable as the true beauty of nature. These animals are critically endangered‚ facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. There are currently less than 600 tigers living in the wild‚ and they are ranked among the most valuable animals in the wild. These tigers are currently confined to the Eastern region of Asia and are also known as the Amur‚ Manchurian‚ Korean
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