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    Citizenship Citizenship denotes the link between a person and a state or an association of states. It is normally synonymous with the term nationality although the latter term may also refer to ethnic connotations. Possession of citizenship is normally associated with the right to work and live in a country and to participate in political life. A person who does not have citizenship in any state is said to be stateless. Nationality is often used as a synonym for citizenship in English[1] – notably

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    Psychological Bulletin 1998‚ Vol. 124‚ No. 2‚ 262-274 Copyright 1998 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc. 0033-2909/98/S3.00 The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 85 Years of Research Findings Frank L. Schmidt University of Iowa John E. Hunter Michigan State University This article summarizes the practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research in personnel selection. On the basis of meta-analytic

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    Ethics explores the principles guiding moral behavior‚ encompassing various perspectives for reasoning through moral issues. Among these paradigms‚ consequentialism and nonconsequentialism stand in stark contrast‚ while virtue ethics and care ethics offer alternative viewpoints on character and interpersonal relationships. Consequentialism focuses on the outcomes of actions to determine their morality. Utilitarianism‚ a prominent form of consequentialism‚ asserts that an action is ethical if it

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    noticed she would sit alone during lunch time so I asked her if she wanted to join my friends and I for lunch‚ ever since we have been best of friends. According to my reading in my Positive Psychology books in Ch. 10 Table 10.2 Classification of virtues and character strengths wisdom and knowledge is cognitive strengths that entail the acquisition and use of knowledge. The defining strengths describe her or what she possesses: creativity‚ curiosity‚ open-mindedness‚ love of learning‚ and perspective

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    gun‚ a canteen‚ a cartridge box‚ knife‚ and a knapsack. They may have gotten some other weapons of some sort but that was mostly it. They didn’t have many weapons to use because even the guns they used were fairly new to them. In a book called Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War the author writes‚ “It voted to give each private $7 a month in state pay‚ in addition to the $13 offered by the federal government” (Coffin). In today’s currency he earned about $192.35 a month with the addition of about

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    Lewis certain characters demonstrate vices and virtues. The definition of a virtue is “positive trait or quality deemed to be morally good thus is valued as a foundation and good moral being” (Wikipedia). According to Wikipedia‚ a vice is immoral or wicked behaviour. Aslan exemplifies the virtues of bravery and forgiveness. The White Witch exemplifies the vices of wrath and greed. In The Lion‚ the White and the Wardrobe Aslan exemplifies the virtue of bravery and forgiveness. According to Wikipedia

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    hidden motive or for personal gain it is label immoral duty even if it is otherwise appears morally good. Cruelty to animals reduces the feeling of compassion in man‚ an immoral duty. Therefore‚ researching animal to gain cure for diseases is wrong‚ because it is immoral action to sacrifice another living being for the personal gain of humans‚ although the end results appear morally good. Kant’s theory is a strict morality. Universalize moral duty is good but some situations are exceptional. The outcome

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    Virtue Ethics Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived between 384 and 322 BCE. He was deeply interested in the idea of cause and purpose. On the Foundation Paper‚ you will have explored the ideas of the Four Causes and the Prime Mover. Both of these theories look at the idea of how things are caused and how they move towards their purpose. In ethics‚ any theory that looks at how we become better people over time‚ or that looks at how we move towards our purpose is called a teleological

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    assumed to be rational meaning that he/she earns at utility maximization‚ giving his/her income and commodity prices. There several theories that have been developed to try and explain the behavior of a consumer‚ however they can be categorized in to two:  Cardinal utility theory:- it argues that a consumer has the capacity to measure the level of satisfaction that she derives from consumption of a given quantity of a commodity.  Ordinal utility theory:- it argues that a consumer cannot measure

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    differences between Hume’s ’natural’ and ’artificial’ virtues. I will first give Hume’s explanation of why there is a need for a distinction or classification of virtues‚ and the basis on which he makes the distinction‚ before describing the two categories and their criteria. I will look at the problems with Hume’s account of the distinction‚ particularly justice. Finally I will describe how the various problems cast doubt on Hume’s distinction. Hume’s Virtues and the need to distinguish In discussing the

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