..." TER 1 Wat Is Morality. I \\·e are discussing nd-sm~ll matter, but how we ought to live. SOCRATES, AS REPORTED BY PLATO IN THE REPUBliC (CA. 390 B.C.) 1.1. The Problem of Definition Moral philosophy is the attempt to achieve a systematic under standing of the nature of morality and what it requires of us in Socrates's words, of "how we ought to live,r and why. :It would be helpful, therefore, if we could begin with a simple, uncon !roversial defiuition of what lIJ,Qrality is. But that tums out to be impossible. There are many rival theories, each expounding a different conception of what it means to live morally, and any definition that goes beyoud Socrates's simple formulation is bound to offend one or another of them. This should make us cautious, but it need not paralyze us. In this chapter I will describe what I call the "minimum con ception" of morality. As the name suggests, the minimum con ception is a core that every moral theory should accept, at least as a starting point. We will begin by examining some recent moral controversies. The features of the minimum conception will emerge from our consideration of these examples. 1.2. An Infant with No Prospects: Baby Theresa Theresa Ann Campo Pearson, an anencephalic infant known to the public as "Baby Theresa," was bom in Florida in 1992. Anen cephaly is amoll'g the worst cong~nital disorders. Anencephalic infants are sometimes referred to as "babies without brains," and . dlls gives...
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...awareness, providing positive experiences, and giving both financial benefits for the local people and for conservation in that area. In South-east Peru located in the Amazon Rainforest is The Posada Amazonas eco-lodge. It’s situated in a national reserve called Tambopata that conserves 275,000 hectares of land. It’s a sustainable eco-lodge in that only small-scale development is allowed here, so all activities helping development for tourism is not going to exploit the natural resources. The land and the lodge are owned by the local indigenous community of Infierno, who are in partnership with Rainforest Expeditions who are a Peruvian company. The 30-roomed lodge allows tourists to view the nature around them, and with doing so this boosts the local economy, yet still protecting the environment as there are only 40-50 visitors arriving by small boats at a time. The construction of the lodge allowed people to have jobs in building and designing the area, furthermore, the lodge was constructed with local natural materials, avoiding the use of non-renewable material and instead using recyclable material where possible. This has created new forms of income to the surrounding communities, but also takes care of the environment. Education is an aspect of sustainable tourism, The Posada Amazonas offers education, conservation and research faculties, and the forest, instead of being cut down for timber, is used for adventure and educational purposes benefitting the protection of the Amazon...
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...Giddy Forwards, Futures and Money-Market Hedging/1 Forwards, Futures and Money Market Hedging Prof. Ian Giddy New York University Hedging Transactions Exposure Types of exposure l One-shot exposure l Hedging approaches: l u Open u Forward u Money market u Futures u Options l Ongoing transactions exposure Forwards, Futures and Money-Market Hedging 7 Copyright ©1997 Ian H. Giddy Giddy Forwards, Futures and Money-Market Hedging/2 Tools for Hedging l Petrobras has to pay for equipment from Japan, in Japanese yen, in 3 months u Borrow and pay now? u Use a forward contract/FX swap? u Pay later at spot? Copyright ©1997 Ian H. Giddy Forwards, Futures and Money-Market Hedging 8 Forward Contracts, Futures and Money Market Hedging Money market hedging: match currency of assets and liabilities l Forwards: OTC agreement to exchange currencies at certain exchange rate in the future l FX swap: simultaneous spot sale and forward purchase of a currency l Futures: Exchange-traded contracts for notional future delivery, minimizing default risk via marking-to-market l Copyright ©1997 Ian H. Giddy Forwards, Futures and Money-Market Hedging 9 Giddy Forwards, Futures and Money-Market Hedging/3 Forward Contracts Agreement to exchange currencies at certain exchange rate in the future l Default risk in forward contracts arises because such a contract is a commitment for future performance, and one or other party may be unwilling or unable...
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...L a plata coloidal es un antibiótico natural compuesto por partículas extremadamente pequeñas de iones de plata cargadas eléctricamente suspendidos en agua destilada. Plata, como mineral, se ha utilizado ampliamente durante miles de años y a lo largo de la historia para una variedad de propósitos médicos, y ahora con la nanotecnología para producir partículas que van desde 0,01 nanómetros a. 0001 micras de diámetro. La plata coloidal es considerada uno de los más poderosos y fácilmente absorbibles antibióticos disponibles en el mercado hoy. Mucho antes que el desarrollo de fármacos modernos, la Plata fue empleada como un germicida y sus facultades médicas, conservadoras y restauradoras pueden rastrearse ya en los antiguos imperios griegos y romanos. Tenga en cuenta estos datos de interés: • Los griegos utilizaron vasos de plata para mantener fresca el agua y otros líquidos • El Imperio Romano almaceno vino en urnas de plata para evitar su deterioro • En la medicina ayurvédica, plata se ha utilizado en pequeñas cantidades como un tónico, elixir o agente rejuvenecedor para pacientes debilitados por la edad o enfermedad • El uso de plata es mencionado en antiguos escritos egipcios • En el medievo, los ricos utilizaban vajillas de plata, vasos y utensilios para comer protegiendolos de las plagas. • Emperadores chinos y su corte comían con palillos de plata • Inclusive los Druidas dejaron evidencia del uso de la plata para evitar el crecimiento de las bacterias ...
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...Introduction Amazon.com is the largest retailing online company with 35 millions customers and nearly $5 billion in sales. In the beginning, the CEO Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in 1995 by selling books because of the unique customer experience the Web could offer for book lovers. Bezos believed that only the Internet could offer customers the convenience of browsing a selection of millions of book titles in a single sitting. The design of the business model is such that technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon.com to offer more types of products at significantly lower prices. Among its many technological innovations for customers, Amazon.com offers a personalized shopping experience for each customer, book discovery through Search InsideThe Book, convenient checkout using 1-Click Shopping, and several community features like Listmania and Wish List that help customers discover new products and make informed buying decisions. Since 1995, Amazon.com has significantly expanded its product offering, international sites, and worldwide network of fulfillment and customer service centers. Today, Amazon.com offers everything, literally, from tennis rackets to live Maine lobsters to diamond jewelry, and operates sites for the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, and China (Joyo.com) In 2000, Amazon.com began to offer its best-of-breed e-commerce platform to other retailers and to individual sellers. Today, hundreds of thousands of world-class retail brands and...
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...his internet service provider turn over his records without a proper search warrant and due cause. However this was ignored because under the Stored Communications Act the evidence was admissible at trial. The court then declared that the Stored Communications Act did violate his fourth amendment rights because the government can get emails without warrants. This court case shows that the fourth amendment applies with the internet as well as in person. Another concern that is now growing is with technology that requires voice commands like Amazon Alexa. This product picks up all voice overs and stores it in a system in Amazon’s headquarters. The question of if the data Alexa collects can legally be used against you in court is now arising. In Arkansas, a murder suspect who has an Amazon Alexa, was told to turn over it’s records to be used as evidence. Amazon’s attorneys argued that they could not give up the information that easily. The police must prove they have a reason to need the information and that the data cannot be found anywhere else. Even though you might not be speaking directly to the product, you may be speaking of someone named “Alexa†and the device is triggered to start recording. Information picked up by these systems may not always be legally used against you, but it's still scary knowing someone may be listening in on your conversations. The government puts its best foot forward in trying to protect us, but sometimes they may be overstepping it. Our...
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...Please note that this essay is missing citations. i. The term “worldview” is used to describe what one might refer to as an individual’s personal point-of-view in life. The word worldview is derived from the German word “Weltanschauung” which means “world” and “view”. A Worldview is involved in a human’s emotions, outlook, ethics, themes and values. This view is created and used on a daily basis by all human beings, whether perceived, or not. Worldview is used to interpret, to discern, and to plan. One’s worldview does not only affect the large decisions in life, such as college, or marriage, but also even the smallest choices of daily life, and word-use. ii. 1. As might be expected, a Christian Worldview differs largely from the worldview, or point-of-view, of the secular trends. A Christian Worldview believes that all questions to do with man, the universe, and creation are found and answered through the inspired Word of God. The Question of Origin is answered in Naturalism through Genesis, which states “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth”. Naturalists even go further to state that all living creatures, animals and organisms, are created by an ultimate Creator (Genesis 1). This view is in complete contrary to an Evolutionistic belief of humans deriving from animals. 2. The next question to which most people relate is The Question of Identity. The question of what man is, yet again, is answered through the Word of God, as stated in Genesis...
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...LEG 100 Business Law 1 Assignment “Marriott International Legal Advice” Gregory Budd Professor John F. Rodgers August 19, 2011 About Marriott International Marriott International Inc. is a leading worldwide hospitality company with hotels and resorts world-wide from USA to their recently opened property in Pune, India. Marriott strives to personalize each person’s stay through new and innovative ways. Marriott International has multiple brands under the Marriott name to include; The Ritz Carlton® Hotel Company, LLC, JW Marriott®, Bulgari Hotel and Resorts®, Edition TM (“Signature”), Renaissance Hotels, Autograph Collection, AC Hotels, Courtyard®, Fairfield Inn & Suites®, Springhill Suites®, Residence Inn®, TownePlace Suites®, Execustay®, and Marriott Executive Apartments. Marriott International also has a timeshare business which is positioned for further growth by the end of 2011. They are Marriott Vacation Club®, The Ritz Carlton Destination Club®, and Grand Residences by Marriott®. In total Marriott International lodging portfolio includes 3,545 properties and timeshare resorts comprising of 618,000 rooms in 70 countries and territories. Marriott International has several initiatives plan within the next 3 to 5 years. Marriott International’s biggest and continuously ongoing initiative is grater exposure in the global community by investing and protecting the world’s natural resources by “addressing environmental challenges through innovative conservation initiatives...
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...“[identifies] how an organization’s activities and supply chain contribute to forest destruction” (Butler, 2009). Through the project, major corporations such as Walmart and Nike have changed where they buy beef, ensuring their purchase does not further harm the Amazon (Butler, 2009). While housing is not as common of a reason for Brazilian Amazonian deforestation as agriculture or cattle ranching, it is a growing issue (Rutledge et al., 2011). According to article by Simon Romero (2012), a writer about economic issues Brazil at the New York Times, populations in Amazonian cities are doubling. The World Atlas (2017) supports Romero’s article with a chart which shows that the Brazilian state Amazonas has the fifteenth highest population out of the twenty-seven Brazilian states. Although Amazonas is the largest state in the country, it also has the highest birth rate and more and more people are interested in inhabiting the frontier (Romero, 2012). Conclusion Because of the large biodiversity in the Amazon Rainforest, and its positive effect on plants and animals on the entire planet, it is important to slow down the extinction rates. Addressing the rapidly changing climate can help prevent the threats that it poses on the Amazon. People should be more conscious about reducing their carbon footprint. Alternatives which can help lower carbon emissions include carpooling, walking, biking, using reusable water bottles, and recycling (Nunez, n.d.). While it is more difficult for individual...
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...Instrucciones: Select the answer that is NOT correct. ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form | 1. El camarero sabe cocinar bien. todos los ingredientes. ese restaurante cubano. cuánto cuesta cada plato en el menú. | 4. Tú quieres conocer el Perú. a mis parientes peruanos. las ruinas de Machu Picchu. hablar español. | | | 2. Nosotros conocemos ese museo de arte moderno. pintar. a la artista Frida Kahlo. el arte contemporáneo de México. | 5. No sabemos adónde vas de vacaciones. si vas a visitar las pirámides de Teotihuacan en México. al guía mexicano. la edad exacta de los pirámides. | | 3. Ella no sabe mi ciudad. dónde vivo. mi dirección. usar un mapa. | 6. Quiero saber el río Amazonas. qué tiempo hace en una selva tropical. identificar plantas raras. el número de pájaros exóticos. | | | | | | | Bottom of Form | B. Instrucciones: Complete the sentence with the correct form of SABER or CONOCER. It is possble to use the infinitive. 1. Mis estudiantes hablar español bien. 2. Ellos quieren España algún día. 3. ¿Quién cuánto cuesta viajar a Chile? 4. Me gustaría a Gabriela Sabatini. 5. A veces mi abuelo no dónde vive. C. Instrucciones: Select the correct form of ser or estar 1. El coche nuevo ( es, está ) de Luis. ( Es, Está ) un BMW, ¿verdad? 2. Mi hermana ( es, está ) hipocondriaca. Siempre ( es , está ) enferma. 3. Mi nuevo ordenador ( es, está ) un iMac. ¡ ( Es...
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...y un profundo compromiso afectivo con todo lo que se iba encontrando, incluso en sí mismo. El símbolo que implicaría una posible respuesta es “cruzar el río”, el río que separa los sanos de los enfermos, los pobres de los ricos, la justicia de la injusticia. Esta unión de todos en el dolor y la esperanza es la fuerza revolucionaria como dicen Alberto y Ernesto. Incluso la experiencia fundamental de los dos amigos ocurre a partir de encuentros con el rostro humano del continente, donde se registra la opresión y la violencia de la historia. Una escena los coloca frente a una pareja de trabajadores migrantes de Chile, que no viajan por la sed de aventuras, sino por una tremenda necesidad económica. Luego una prostituta que navega por el Amazonas vendiendo su cuerpo. Hay que aprender de la experiencia, sabiendo ahora que no es la imposición sino el deseo común lo que nos hace revolucionarios desde abajo, desde lo...
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...Will Bury’s Price Elasticity Scenarios Economics University of Phoenix The results of Will Bury’s investigations into the effect of price-changes on the demand, for unique online products, revealed that an increase in price translated to a large increase in demand. This suggests that products targeted at a niche-market face a price inelastic demand curve; a small change in price results in a high increase in demand. The reverse is true when there is a fall in the price of a product; a price fall leads to a reduction in demand. Bury can increase his income by raising the price of digital books and targeting the affluent sections of society in his advertising campaigns. I In a monopolistic market, a monopolist can restrict supply so as to create a temporary shortage and thus push up the prices of commodities. By closely controlling his innovation, Bury can continue to reap high profits by selling digital book with a realistic synthetic voice. The amount of revenue generated will be dependant on the elasticity of demand as depicted by the demand arc created by the intersection of quantity demanded at different prices. At any two points along the curve, a higher price will intersect the demand arc at a higher quantity demanded. Conversely, a lower price will relate to lower quantities demanded. This situation shall prevail as long as Bury can monopolize the use of his invention and lock out the competition from encroaching into his market...
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...CHILE Chile is a beautiful country located in South America. One of the best attributes of Chile is people. The people are friendly and happy whether they are rich or poor. Among the pleasant people, a diversity of cultures can be found. These people who came from European countries and never wanted to return to their homeland have contributed a great deal of their lifestyle to Chile. This diversity is observed mainly on the coasts of the country. Similar to the diversity of people, the economy also comes from diverse sources like minerals, agriculture, commerce with other countries. Chile is a safe and nice place to visit, the island are exotics they count with diversity of and people always make friends there. A multitude of great aspects can be said about Chile, 1. Topography A. Regions 1. Climate 2. hills 3. valleys B. Rivers 1. Lakes 2. Natural reserves 3. Long rivers C. Religion 1. Catholic 2. Evangelica 3. Christian D. Economy 1. Natural recourses 2. Livestock 3. Commerce 4. Agriculture. E. Food 1. Pacific 2. Caribbean 3. Andina 4. Orinoquia 5. Amazonia. Conclusion: TOPOGRAPHY: Colombia has six main regions, Pacific, Caribbean, Andina, Orinoquia, and Amazonia. Each one is different from the other due to the different climate. The pacific region is flooded by the pacific ocean, located on the border with Ecuador this region is composed by four states ( Choco, Cauca, Valle del cauca, and...
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...“AÑO DE LA PROMOCIÓN DE LA INDUSTRIA RESPONSABLE Y COMPROMISO CLIMÁTICO” FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y EDUCACIÓN ESCUELA DE HISTORIA Y GEOGRAFÍA ÁREAS NATURALES Y PROTEGIDAS DEL PERÚ INTEGRANTES: MÁRQUEZ YOVERA, JENNIFER MARTINEZ ANCAJIMA JESENIA DEL SOCORRO MELENDREZ ALCALDE, ZHEISLA GABRIELA MIRANDA CÓRDOVA, FRANCO SAÚL MOLINA NIMA, JORGE LUIS MORALES OLAYA, SERGIO NIEVES VEINTIMILLA CARONILA SOPHIA NÚÑEZ PANAIFO, SHEILLA RAQUEL OJEDA GUERRERO, SOBEYDA CURSO: BIOLOGÍA GENERAL DOCENTE: BLGA. CLAUDIA DEL PILAR RUÍZ GONZÁLEZ PIURA, JULIO DEL 2014 INTRODUCCIÓN La conservación y protección del patrimonio natural compete a todos aquellos que se benefician directa o indirectamente de los servicios que proveen los ecosistemas y sus procesos ecológicos dentro del estado. La preocupación por el adecuado aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales, los cuales permiten la subsistencia de las sociedades y sustentan su desarrollo, ha generado numerosas acciones en pro de la conservación de la diversidad biológica. Es a través de estrategias y acciones encaminadas a la sustentabilidad bajo enfoques integrales, que puede hacerse posible el cumplimiento de los objetivos de las autoridades y autores involucrados en el cuidado del patrimonio natural, siempre dentro de un marco legal que asegure el desarrollo económico y social unido a un ambiente natural, íntegro y sano. En la actualidad, la integridad de los ecosistemas que conforman...
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...Causes and consequences of reduced biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon basin in South America. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract oftropical rainforest in the world. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations contain "Amazonas" in their names. Besides short term rubber exploitation of the Amazon rainforest in the early 20th century, the Amazon was largerly ignored in terms of economic development and deforestation until the 1960s. In the nine years from 1991 to 2000, the total area of Amazon Rainforest cleared rose from 415,000 to 587,000 km²; comparable to the size of Spain or Madagascar. Most of this lost forest has been replaced with pasture for cattle. Before 1970, the estimated remaining forest cover of the Amazon was around 4,100,000, in 2011 it was around 3,354,711. Even though the level of deforestation in 2011 decreased, the Amazon is still being deforested at a rapid rate. The main causes of deforestation of the Amazon are: * Creating huge cattle ranches * Creating soybean farms * Exploiting mineral deposits * Using wood as a fuel * Using wood for furniture...
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