TOK Outline Essay title – “The possession of knowledge carries an ethical responsibility”. Evaluate this claim. What knowledge issues I think are involved • How can you possess knowledge? How do you acquire it and do these ways affect your responsibility of imparting it on others? • How is the knowledge you have affected by your personal ethics? Some people would have no problem giving out certain pieces of knowledge while others would be very trouble giving out exactly the same information
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MOOC: Before MOOC my knowledge of dementia was old because I have nursed for over thirty years and had not gained recent knowledge in this field‚ only through personal experience. Since 2008 I have worked on a private ward which includes a mixture of medical‚ surgical and palliative clients. Last year through Alzheimer’s WA I undertook the Dementia Champion course. The course provided a dementia file and instructed us on how to educate. The file emphasized that my knowledge base was absent across
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Vanitas Knowledge Package Herman Steenwyck ’Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanitas Human Life’ c1640 In seventeenth century Holland‚ still life grew in popularity as a subject due to the Reformation. In the previous centuries artists had found patronage in the creation of religious imagery for the Catholic Church‚ but as this support declined‚ they had to adapt to survive in the new Protestant climate. The artists began to compose still life paintings with symbolic meanings that reflected the
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Hospitality Industry Knowledge 1. List six sources of current industry information: - Media: Such as newspapers‚ television‚ magazines and radio. The media publicises current information‚ trends developing and any government initiatives. - Customers: By doing customer questionnaires this can inform enterprises as to what they need to improve‚ as well as which staff are working well. - Information services: For example the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Tourism NSW (all these services
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1. Knowledge is important in all aspects of life. It is gained through experience and teaching. Throughout Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ knowledge is used and abused. Socrates sums up many events occurring in the book and a certain character with his quote “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance”. 2. Piggy was the bearer of much knowledge. He had much input but got hardly any credit due to his passive and non-confrontational nature. We see the more egotistical characters
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INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE EROSION Jyoti Kumari Jyoti Kumari is a freelance researcher and doctoral candidate researching ‘Environmental History of Colonial Punjab’ at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation in New Delhi. The author can be contacted at jyotikm202@rediffmail.com he indigenous communities in India are the original inhabitants of the natural region and they have been maintaining a historical continuity with pre-industrial societies by following traditional patterns of life. Scattered all over the
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Knowledge and Individual Power There is a certain positive position taken when the words knowledge and individual power are placed together. As my mind flooded with emerging ideas to define my feelings and thoughts on these words I kept coming back to independence‚ healthy self esteem and accepting. Reading through the assigned stories and poems and there analysis by others‚ I found that they too concluded a certain theme of accepting others once they were more informed. My view and the excerpts
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Dangerous Knowledge From the beginning of time until now the limitless pursuit of knowledge reveals man’s weakness. Modern society provides humans with a wide variety of sources on how to gain knowledge‚ both good and evil. The thirst for forbidden knowledge beyond what man can essentially handle‚ causes a tragic life. The protagonist in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley exemplifies the behavior of the ideal man grasping for more knowledge than he can truly bare; in turn this knowledge becomes
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The Importance of Historical Knowledge Learning about our past is vitally important to the present and future of our civilization. We must learn to grow from our past successes and mistakes. It is human nature to make mistakes‚ but the less we make‚ the stronger and smarter we become. The drawback is to go through the process of learning. It is impossible to grow and learn from if we don’t know or analyze our failures and mistakes. I feel the most important thing we can do with our history‚ is
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and Why It’s So Important What is privacy and what would your everyday life look like if you didn’t have it? Privacy is defined as the condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. When it all comes down to privacy and national security‚ I strongly believe that privacy is more significant because it puts a limit on power‚ it gives people the opportunity to change‚ and it gives people the right to not having to justify themselves. To start off with‚ privacy is so important
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