billions in royalties and taxes (anwr.com). Three different environmental ethic views will be addressed‚ Utilitarian‚ Deontology‚ and Lockean. The Utilitarian argument is that the greatest function of ANWR will be reached through drilling. It implies that the intrinsic qualities of the land are of lesser value‚ and that ANWR serves the people better by being given over to the purpose of oil production. Deontology views ANWR rationally. The question is asked: what would a rational person do when developers
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spits on Shylock‚ show the ways in which the Jews in that time period were actually discriminated against. The same intolerant behaviour is evident in today’s society‚ as people still have stereotypical views to Jews as "cheap" and "greedy" ‚and as we view Jews to contain a certain look. Just as we view Jews to contain a certain
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View of marriage In this novel Jane Austen explains that during early 1800’s marriage is considered to be the only way‚ for women in particular‚ to live a comfortable life and free from financial worries. However‚ if women fail to marry‚ one of their only other options would be to become a governess‚ completely under control of their employer for the rest of their lives. This is why marriage is so significant for people of a lower social or economic status. Despite whether they love their marriage
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My personal ethics are very strong‚ while I often try to see and understand each side of a situation I know that my ethical/moral compass will not sway from doing the right thing. Ethics to me are a combination of both Kant’s theory on utilitarian ethics and deontological models. In Kant’s theory‚ using your decision to limit the number of people that are hurt by the decision cannot truly allow for proper ethics. At the same time‚ the deontological theory‚ we need to pay attention to all facts
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Student and Youth Perspectives on Politics Gary Taylor and Liam Mellor Since the 1960s‚ students have had a reputation for being political. Student politics of that era challenged the old order and cast doubt upon the cold-war mentality dominant in mainstream political circles. Student radicals in Europe and in the United States were at the forefront of the peace movement and were generally regarded as left-of-centre on the conventional political spectrum. In Eastern Europe likewise‚
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are two kinds of points of view: the first-person point of view‚ and the third-person point of view. In the first-person point of view a fictitious observer tells us what he or she saw‚ heard‚ concluded‚ and thought and is usually characterized by the use of the pronoun “I”. The speaker or narrator may sometimes seem to be the author speaking directly using an authorial voice. For example‚ Nick Carraway in “The Great Gatsby” tells the story in a first-person point of view‚ sharing with the reader
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joined hands with Visa‚ MasterCard‚ and PayPal to disallow payment transactions to WikiLeakes. After reading the case‚ I concluded each organization fell into separate categorical views‚ and WikiLeaks using Utilitarian reasoning and Bank of America using Deontological theories. Let’s further explore the two types of views that could be debated. First‚ the Utilitarianism or known as the Consequentialist theory is an approach to moral decision making that is based off the consequences of an action.
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Using the concept of a ’world view’‚ identify some of the beliefs and attitudes‚ particularly to education and learning that you bring to your learning now. Reflect critically on how your worldview has been shaped by factors such as your gender‚ age or community. In your answer refer to Hobson (1996) and Samovar and Porter (2004) from the SSK12 Reader‚ and Chapter 1 in A Guide to Learning Independently (Marshall and Rowland‚ 2006‚ 1-18). Through our world view we hold a “set of beliefs through
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INTRODUCTION Bank of America‚ one of the top financial institutions in the United States of America and Wikileaks‚ described by many as the probably the biggest whistleblower in recent history are in for a colossal battle. Bank of America is on the defensive end as to whether one of its executives lost a hard drive containing information that if and when released could cause the bank to crumble to the ground. On the other hand‚ Wikileaks allegedly has this hard drive in its possession and has
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indifferent shore” (paragraph 206). The story’s final sentence‚ about the fact that the three surviving men can be “interpreters‚” is suggestive of a good deal of thought and observation that could lead beyond the content of the story. Though the point of view is third-person limited-omniscient‚ Crane’s merging of his thoughts with the narrator’s would not be as effective‚ not as dramatic‚ or objective‚ for it is this
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