...Answer the following four questions in your assignment response. Please read all four questions before beginning. After you have finished answering the four questions, read the new development and answer question 5. 1. Discuss the following case in terms of virtue, non-malfeasance, and honesty. Can you identify examples of each (or their opposites) in the case study as written? Where and by whom? Explain your answers. Please do not get emotionally or personally involved with "finger pointing." Stay focused on virtue, non-malfeasance, and honesty. Answer: Aristotle capitalized on virtue having to be a practicing and ongoing trait individuals must strive to achieve to be in good character. “For individuals to be fully ethical, they must constantly practice being good in a way that they form the habits and traits of a person of good moral character.” (University, 2016) For an individual to have good virtue one must practice the personality trait which would make him have goodness. For example; in our scenario the brother who has contracted herpes from past vice of excess of sexual self-indulgence he is now faced with meeting a woman he believes may be the one he will marry. Instead of not practicing within the golden mean and having the virtue of temperance he may have been able to of avoided contracting the sexually transmitted disease. Sexuality was the example used in the text book as being the most powerful human weakness one must control. Another example...
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...the past continues to claw its way out. Try as he might to bury it, he was unable to because his feelings of guilt kept arising. As a result, he figuratively continues peeking into the alley where Assef raped Hassan, literally meaning that he keeps going over the event in his mind. 2. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.” Baba says these words to Rahim Khan while he is talking about Amir at the end of Chapter 3, and the quotation reveals important traits in both Amir and Baba. With these words, Baba sums up one of Amir’s major character flaws—his cowardice—and Baba shows how much value he places in standing up for what is right. Baba is reluctant to praise Amir, largely because he feels Amir lacks the courage to even stand up for himself, leaving Amir constantly craving Baba’s approval. Amir’s desire for this approval as well as his cowardice later cause him to let Assef rape Hassan. The quotation also foreshadows the major test of Amir’s character that occurs when he must decide whether to return to Kabul to save Sohrab. As Amir searches for redemption, the question he struggles with is precisely what concerned Baba: does he have the courage and strength to stand up for what is right? 3....
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...Unruly Society For this essay, I chose to look at the end of chapter 21 and beginning of chapter 22 at which point the scene where Huckleberry Finn watches as Sherburn shoots down Boggs in the street for cursing his name. After which the mob forms to lynch Sherburn and he gives his speech on cowardice. I believe this plays a very important role in the Authors main theme of the moral pubescence of the time. Generally speaking during this period in American history there was no law and order, for the most part crime was handled by the general public and it was usually handled by masked man lynching someone at night mainly out of fear for themselves because if they were to do it during the day everyone would see them and they could be killed for doing it, I think Twain is trying to convey to the reader that most people were scared. During this time there was no organized police force to help people; hence a lot of crimes went unpunished. In this passage Sherburn states, “Why don't your juries hang murderers? Because they're afraid the man's friends will shoot them in the back, in the dark” (Twain, 165). Sherburn refers to the lack of law and to the crowds own cowardice. This time of lawless society was accurately depicted in An Introduction to Policing, by J.S.Dempsey in his first chapter on early policing. “An 1840 New York newspaper reported: Destructive rascality stalks at large in our streets and public places, at all times of day and night, with none to make it afraid;...
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...forgive him for his mother’s death and truly accept him. In his search for redemption Amir commits a terrible crime when he watches his friend Hassan get raped but does nothing about it. Instead of standing up to his friend and try to stop Assef from raping Hassan he hides and after pretends he never saw anything. He tries to justify his actions by saying that if he had intervened he would have gotten hurt, but he knows that the real reason why he did not defend Hassan is that he would have lost the kite and with it Baba’s love, so he sacrifices his friend for the approval of his father. “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba.” This shows Amir’s most notable flaws, his cowardice and his selfishness, as he deserts his most loyal friend for the approval of his father and has no regard over the wellbeing or the consequences his decision may have on Hassan. Amir...
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...Curtain Call: The Glass Menagerie Throughout Tennessee Williams’ play, The Glass Menagerie, certain symbols and themes are portrayed; among them the fragility of glass in the form of Laura’s glass menagerie and cowardice symbolized by the portrait of Laura and Tom’s father. The thread that runs through both the symbols of glass and the theme of cowardice, is self- image. The way these characters view themselves, and each other, bind them together and tear them apart simultaneously. In fact, the symbol of glass and the theme of self- consciousness are tied together in the mirror that hangs in their apartment. Eric P. Levy writes, the mirror “becomes a vital symbol of the act of self-consciousness by which a character apprehends his or her self-image” (529). We see these themes throughout the play and they are stressed upon the most at the end of the play. One of the most significant symbols, is the fire escape. As Williams writes, the “fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation” (345). This desperation burned in earnest for the entire Wingfield family- Amanda, Laura and Tom- enclosed by their own limitations and views on themselves and each other. Amanda is trapped in her views of her former self, a lovely lady entertaining seventeen gentlemen callers; Tom is wracked with guilt and fury whenever...
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...that are intensified during a war. Early in the novel we are confronted with Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his love for Martha, a girl from back home who isn’t even his girlfriend, yet he carries her letters with him and re-reads them every chance he gets. This proves costly when Ted Lavender, was killed during a patrol, and Lt. Cross blames himself. He feels the pain of the loss and the embarrassment of keeping his mind on Martha (his love interest) and not on his job which resulted in this death. “Lieutenant Cross kept to himself. He pictured Martha’s smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her.”(O’Brien p.7). Jimmy Cross would agree with Tolkien because he was not focused on the task at hand and he missed cues which lead his men into an ambush, this would not be the only time. Bob “Rat” Kiley is a guy everyone knows, he is funny, he tells stories (often adding facts), to make you laugh and he is...
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...It became totally normal under all these “[r]ules and formulas, those mechanical aids to the rational use’’ (p.1) to not think which is at the origin self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to think by itself and use its intelligence without being guided by anyone. Immanuel Kant considers that the immaturity is self-imposed not because of the lack of intelligence, but rather because of the absence of resolution and courage to use its reason without being guided. Cowardice and laziness are the causes which pushes men to be guided by others. It is easier to be immature than use its reason. Immatures think in the following way “I have book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on” (p.1) so they do not see the interest to begin to think by themselves. They only have to pay somebody else to take care of this boring occupation. Also, the majority of the men think that it is difficult and dangerous to become mature. The fear to not succeed is present in each of them which stop them from trying or daring to go farther. Then that becomes difficult for them to try to go out of their immaturity which became their second nature. All these reasons are the cause for why a big part of the men remain gladly immature all their life long. According to Kant the only way to reach enlightenment is by using one's understanding without any...
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...Euthanasia and Ethics Margaret P. Battin’s “Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It” discusses the occurrence and practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide in three first-world, industrialized, developed nations: The Netherlands, Germany, and the United States. All three of these countries have one important factor in common that makes them ideal for studying euthanasia: aging populations who primarily die of degenerative diseases, rather than parasitic or infectious diseases (Battin 579). In the United States, outright euthanasia is illegal. Rather, the accepted form of ending a patient’s life is withholding or withdrawing any forms of treatment which were previously keeping said patient alive (Battin 580). In the Netherlands,...
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...In the article “Elders Adapting to a Chronic Diagnosis within a Nursing Refuge”, Hegge and Dinndorf-Hogenson discusses factors that newly diagnosed elderly patients experience and the significance of the role nurses play. The purpose of this article is to “distill the moral of imperative nursing: to enter into a healing partnership with a newly diagnosed elderly patients to explore the meaning of this life disruption and find healthy ways to move forward” (Hegge & Dinndorf-Hogenson, 2012, p. 131). The authors begin the article with some background information. The author states that “waves of chronically ill elders are seeking access to health care, placing unparalleled demands on nurses to care for them” (Hegge & Dinndorf-Hogenson, 2012, p.131)....
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...e Runner begins with our thus-far nameless protagonist explaining that the past cannot be forgotten. A single moment in time defined him and has been affecting him for the last twenty-six years. This moment was in 1975 when he was twelve years old and hid near a crumbling alleyway in his hometown of Kabul, Afghanistan. When the protagonist's friend, Rahim Khan, calls him out of the blue, he knows that his past sins are coming back to haunt him even in the new life he has built in San Francisco. He remembers Hassan, whom he calls "the harelipped kite runner," saying "For you, a thousand times over." Rahim's words also echo in his head, "There is a way to be good again." These two phrases will become focal points for the rest of the novel and our protagonist's story. Chapter Two The protagonist remembers sitting in trees with Hassan when they were boys and annoying the neighbors. Any mischief they perpetrated was the protagonist's idea, but even when Hassan's father, Ali, scolded Hassan, he never told on the protagonist. Hassan's father was a servant to the protagonist's father, Baba and lived in a small servant's house on his property. Baba's house was widely considered the most beautiful one in Kabul. There Baba held large dinner parties and entertained friends, including Rahim Khan, in his smoking room. Though the protagonist was often surrounded by adults, he never knew his mother because she died in childbirth. Hassan never knew his mother, either, because she eloped with...
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...KALU ANYA TECH 4850-SEMINAR IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT DR. CHRISTIE BURTON 9/16/2013 CASE STUDIES: MOUNT EVEREST BY MICHAEL A. ROBERTO AND GINA M. CARIOGGIA Indeed it was an awesome tragedy that the world saw in the curvaceous terrain of Mount Everest in May of 1996. This tragedy claimed the lives of 15 mountaineering adventurers, while ninety-eight men and women who embarked on this venture achieved a remarkable fit of reaching the summit. Among these incredible men and women were Rob Hall and Scott Fischer known to be the world’s renowned high-altitude climbers. Unfortunately, Hall and Fischer with three others were among the dead. Putting Mount Everest in historical, it should be noted that it is the tallest mountain in the world. Mount Everest is stands at 29,035.4 feet above the sea level. This claim was made by Radhanath Sikhdar in 1852. The range of the mountain is bordered between Nepal and Tibet. The Nepali people call the mountain Sagarmatha, meaning the goddess of the sky, and the Tibetans call it Chomolungma, signifying the mother goddess of the universe. It was Sir Andrew Waugh who renamed the mountain; Mount Everest in recognition of his predecessor, Sir George Everest was the first British Surveyor General of India. In 1922, George Mallory and his British team were the first to venture out on expedition of the mountain. Mallory and his team’s effort to reach the summit proved abortive. In 1924, in a desperate attempt for the summit again...
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...human existential dilemma and the effect of man’s lack of control over everyday life. Despite these bleak undertones, both Hamlet and Endgame yield situational comedy to lighten their audiences’ moods, manifested in Hamlet’s interaction with Polonius and the many comical instances involving Nagg. In order for the audience to fully appreciate the slight wit of comedy, both Shakespeare and Beckett develop their tragedies’ pessimistic themes to an excessive degree. Discussion: Tragedy as Unwaveringly Pessimistic Shakespeare, for example, employs some of the darkest themes in his classical revenge tragedy Hamlet. The namesake protagonist has been perceived by some as a procrastinator, unable to capitalize on opportunity because of speculated cowardice and indecision. Others have gone as far as to suggest that Hamlet is the harbinger of death and the villain of the play. Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as a man who cannot escape his duty. The prince of Denmark is coerced by what he believes is his father’s ghost, forced to avenge an incestuous marriage and a cold-blooded murder. The pervading pessimism is not the young Hamlet’s coercion, but rather the innocent lives that are...
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...While Fanon believed that it is violence that leads to metamorphose, Gandhi believed that it was through Satyagraha (civil disobedience or non-violent resistance) and Ahimsa that metamorphoses will occur. Gandhi suggested that in order to be non-violent one would have to self-sacrifice (Srivastava, p.315). In order to be true to oneself and become whole with Satyagraha one must have no fear, including the fear of death or harm. Through the process of self-sacrifice one can metamorphose and become self-actualized. One of the benefits of non-violence is that it can be used equally among all, and when it is accepted it takes over your whole self. Ahimsa represents non-violence, the action of refusing to do harm (Nojem, 2004, p.98). In the 1930’s the Britain Government had a law stating that only the government could harvest salt in India. Gandhi led crowds of people to the Indian Ocean where he picked up a chunk of salt effectively breaking the law (Haire, & Blumberg, 1977, p.28). That act of civil disobedience, was repeated by followers all over India and continued for over a year. Even though the police arrested protestors including Gandhi himself, and violently tried to stop the protestors there was nothing they could do except agree to the public’s demands. It was through the principles of Satyagraha and Ahimsa that the people of India were able to get through to Britain...
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... In fact, Penelope is a woman with argumentative and complex characteristics – her wisdom and cowardliness. Her wisdom is illustrated when she delays those traitors while her husband is presumed death “It’s been three year no, almost four, since she’s been toying with our affections. She encourages each man, leading us on, sending messages. But her mind is set elsewhere” (Odyssey, p.345). Even though Penelope’ wisdom confirms her as a strong character, but her instinctive cowardliness has nevertheless compromised her wisdom. Since Odysseus has not returned from the war for so long time and presumed death, those suitors want to get her remarried and occupy Odysseus’s property. Penelope lacks the power and familial protections to help her driving those suitors away from her house, where her weakness was gradually shown out. The scene that Penelope feels very bad about the content of a song that Phemius, a bard, is singing "you know many other songs to soothe human…but stop singing this one, this painful song that always tears at my heart…a man renowned in Argos and throughout all Hellas" (Book I, p. 340). Penelope just want the singer, Phemius, to keep silence and drinks. The other scene that Penelope becomes desperate when her son leaves her, she throws a bunch of questions to Medon "why is my son gone? There...
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...A Man of Justice Eng/147 December 15 2014 Ms. Shelagh Smith Martin Luther King Jr was a person with dignity and courage, and he was a powerful black leader that showed an took a positive stand for what he believed in without the act of violence. He began his life as a preacher who led the community and started the Montgomery boycott. He did everything he could to bring equality to America and to ensure civil rights for all people regardless of race. Martin Luther King states "Justice is check (by force, if neces sary) upon ambitions of individuals seeking to overcome their own insecurity at the expense of others" (Mattson, K., 2002). Even though, he bought equality to America, Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most inspirational leaders in history of our nation. He led by example, and used non-violent protest for change. Martin Luther King Jr was a true leader that many people looked up to for so many reasons. He wanted equality among African Americans. He led the Montgomery Boycott to gain justice on city buses days after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat. She was the secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Montgomery Boycott lasted 381 days, and during this time he had many telephone threats and his house was bombed. Many blacks were able to get to and from work and they were no longer...
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