Estella Wright Dennis Gioia “The Ford Pinto Fire” Week Six (7/1/14) Written Assignment SYNOPSIS OF THE ARTICLE In 1968‚ Ford Motor Company made plans for a car that would be inexpensive‚ small‚ and appeal to all car buyers. The planned project was to meet the 2000/2000 rule‚ meaning that the Pinto could weigh no more than 2‚000 pounds‚ and cost no more than $2‚000. This rule was instituted because of the extreme competition from foreign car makers such as Toyota and all of the
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Hollywood’s first movies to include rape‚ let alone gang-rape‚ in a direct manner. The occurrence happened in Big Dan’s Bar‚ while the sexual assault was occurring the crowd within the bar was cheering the rapists on. This movie shows that a lot of legal cases are handled due to stereotyping people and the abuse and inequality within our legal system. With that being said under our Fourteenth Amendment it states: “All people are entitled to equal protection of
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(a) In what sense is taxing food is a ‘good’ way to raise revenue? Food being inelastic meaning people will always have the need to buy food consumables. Governments would benefit greatly by taxing food as it would be a fast way to raise money. Inelastic: Suppliers are unable to react quickly to a change in price. Firms also find it harder to implement change in production within certain time parameters. (b) In what sense is it not a ‘good’ way to raise revenue? Usually any
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Instructions- This is a research conducted by a final year undergraduate in Faculty of Law‚ University of Colombo in order to gather information in preparing an individual report. This reviews the public opinion as to the political‚ social and cultural issues faced by the Tamils in post-war areas and the political prisoners kept in detention camps. Please highlight/ underline/ bold the answer of your choice. Do not select multiple answers. Select only one. If you think you have more than one answer to
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citizens have met their bare necessities. What does Aristotle mean by ‘good’? Does it mean happiness? Stability? I found this idea particularly intriguing because Aristotle points out that this goodness is best achieved collectively rather than individually. Is this possible? As Aristotle himself points out‚ people typically act in their own self-interest “in order to obtain that which they think good”. (1252a3) If the state aims at the “highest good” (1252a6)‚ does this necessarily benefit
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What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World Martin Heidegger’s main interest was to raise the issue of Being‚ that is‚ to make sense of our capacity to make sense of things. Additionally he wished to rekindle the notion that although difficult to understand‚ this issue was of utmost importance (Dreyfus 1991). Heidegger’s study‚ however‚ was of a specific type of Being‚ the human being‚ referred to by Heidegger as Dasein’‚ which literally means Being-there’ (Solomon 1972). By using the expression
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An example of this is when Armande‚ the landlady‚ is upset because her daughter‚ Caroline‚ will not let her see her grandson‚ Luc. Caroline has her reasons though‚ she feels that her mother will have a bad influence on her son. Vienna does what she can to help by arranging Armande and Luc to meet in her chocolate store. Violence was definitely a problem in the movie. Specifically when Vienna becomes friends with a troubled woman named‚ Josephine‚ who is constantly being beat up and abused
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countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With net sales of $482.2 billion annually‚ Walmart employs 2.2 million employees worldwide. As consumers we relate to the bright yellow smiley faces‚ store front greeters and discount pricing signs. It is what we have come to expect for those of us that shop there. Walmart is a place to get more for your hard earned money. Making the consumer a Walmart stakeholder. For years consumers have
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What does ethical mean? Ethical can be defined as‚ ‘relating to principles of what is right and wrong’ (Longman dictionary) or‚ ‘relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these’ (Oxford dictionary) another definition is “Ethics can be viewed from two angles‚ normative and prescriptive. First‚ ethics refers to well-based standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do‚ usually in terms of rights‚ obligations‚ benefits to society‚ fairness‚ and specific
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Case Study #2 The “White Coffin” Dilemma GSM 5131 BUSINESS LAW & ETHICS 1 Story Outline • Aminah‚ quality senior manager of Good Food Packaging S/B (“the Company”) which manufacture polystyrene‚ plastic & foam food container in SK. • Recently‚ she been told & found that her company‟s product will cause adverse effect to human health. • She now very much concern with this issue‚ and management of the Company also been notified. They want Aminah to just „close one eye‟ and not reveal to
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