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    keep us safe and help us make good decisions‚ but what if those laws go against our moral judgements? Decisions are often based on what a person feels is right and what society deems to be correct. Laws help make the world feel safer‚ but they can also stop people from doing what they think is right. Making decisions based on morality can often have adverse effects‚ but making these decisions can help a person identify themselves and their own moral compass. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry

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    Kant¡¯s Moral Theory I think Kant¡¯s Moral theory is one complement to the Utilitarianism because one deficit of Utilitarianism is it is sometimes impossible to foresee the consequences‚ and Kant brought up that ¡°the consequences of our acts are not always in our control and things do not always turn out as we want¡±. However‚ he believed that we can control our motives‚ and the ¡°motive to do what is right¡± gives an act its moral worth. The second belief Kant holds is ¡°people ought not

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    “Animal Farm”‚ a novel by George Orwell‚ is used as a fable to represent the events leading up to the Russian Revolution through animal perspective. A fable is a story with animals as characters that portray a moral. I will prove to the reader that “Animal Farm” proves a moral through its fable structure; power is something that most people can’t handle‚ and when in the wrong hands‚ it can completely ruin and destroy lives. In “Animal Farm”‚ the animals need a leader to lead them out of their laboring

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    cases of insanity. Written in 1930‚ William Faulkner submerges his readers in an ominous tale full of love‚ loss‚ death and ignorance. He delivers the story in a unique manner‚ scrambling the order and recollection of events. Readers are never sure what is past or present‚ or who the narrator is‚ generating a plot full of twists and open ended questions.

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    characterize deviance as the violation of some agreed-on norm that predominates a community or society. Deviance can range from behaviors that violate folkways or mores. Folkways are socially accepted behaviors that don’t have great moral significance‚ meanwhile mores do have great moral significance and violating them can endanger society’s stability. Behaviors that are considered deviant by violating a folkway could be staring at a person in an elevator‚ being vegan‚ or even wearing bizarre clothing out in

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    Analysis of Ethical Theories Deontology Deontologist’s approach focuses on our sense of moral duty and obligation. It also argues that one must obey the rule of right conduct that has been put in place in our society (Ross & Malloy‚ 1999). Deontologists argue one has the duty to protect the rights and autonomy of individuals (Rensburg et al‚ 2013). In Canada‚ there are laws and policies that promote autonomy and freedom of choice therefore a deontologist argues that the mandated choice of organ

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    roads that are traveled during these transformations can be smooth or rocky depending on the choices we make. The story A&P written by John Updike takes place in a grocery store in little town America where the main character Sammy is faced with a moral and complex situation when the store manager Mr Lengel throws out 3 young women who are wearing only bathing suites. This story is in fact a microcosm of growing up for Sammy. All decision making has consequences many of which can have a negative

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    The moral of this story is that if you put all your effort into something then you will succeed over people who don’t but succeeding at one task does not mean you deserve to have everything. Simpleton was rewarded the kingdom when he completed all three tasks

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    Both Hume and Kant made an important break from other logicians in putting forward a morality that does not include a higher being or god‚ for a man to identify his moral duty. Our fine sense does not tell us what something is morally wrong. According to Hume‚ the moral theory was based on his belief only reason can never cause action. What is going on well our five-sense convey sensory information to our mind and we get bad feelings‚ or we may not but in many cases‚ we will get a bad feeling‚ so we

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    out that she actually covered for the Canadians that they hid the Americans in the house. I feel that the film showed too many negative sides of the Iranians and it would have caused more negative impression about the Iranians as people only heard what they did but visualizing them will leave a deeper

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