...into Christianity by means of baptism. Yes, I was born into Christianity and being born into Christianity; I go to church because my parents and family go to church. I say my prayers because my parents and family would say their prayers. I took the catechism class because my family said it is part of being a Christian. What I’m implying is that, as a child my worldview began developing through family influences and then from community surroundings like school, church, companions and so forth. It was not until I transferred to Grand Canyon University (GCU) and engaged into the Christian Worldview class that made my Christian worldview extremely clear and solid. In week one, Professor Todd, challenged each and one of us in his class by using series of questions to help us evaluate our worldviews. This question speaks of belief in God, human nature, metaphysical reality, knowledge, ethics, human purpose and consistency in daily life. The questions were: Who is God and what are His characteristics? What is a human being and what happens when one dies? What is the nature of the universe? How do you know what you know and how do you know what is true? What is right and wrong or how can we know that there is a right and wrong? Is life pointless or is there purpose? What core commitments are consistent with my worldview and how do they make an impact on my life? Who is God and what are His characteristics? We have one God who lives as our Heavenly Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew...
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...Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy is a book by Bryan W. Van Norden that presents an encompassing view of Confucianism in light of virtue ethics and of Mohism in light of consequentialism. Throughout the book, Van Norden makes excellent and understandable bridges to compare the philosophies of the East and the West. He takes the perspectives presented by Aristotle’s virtue ethics and other western philosophers and contrasts them with the conceptions that Confucianism offers towards leading a virtuous life and the process of the ethical cultivation of one's self, as well as drawing analogues between Mohism and consequentialism through obviously thorough archaeological and philosophical research into Chinese history....
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...As every generation comes they bring with them a new invention from cars to television to the telephone the basic existence of man, in my eyes, is to advance both technologically, thus making life better for us all and also scientifically. Man wants to know all we want to be able to answer all the questions out there as every day goes by we get closer and closer to answering some of our questions. Everyday new cures for diseases are found and also new diseases are discovered, new discoveries are made in various fields, at the same time however new problems are arising. Man in every era has depended on some form of tool to help him to his tasks whatever they may be, a tool to make things easier. This tool is technology; technology does not have to be the modern thoughts of computers. Technology is "the science of technical processes in a wide, though related field of knowledge." That is the definition given by The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language. So technology can be anything as long as it helps us advance. It can be anything like a plough to help a farmer, a television to help the media and the telephone to help us communicate. The latest technology of the 20th Century is the Internet and it has placed a great mark on our society. It is the new "place to be" where business can advance, people can interact worldwide at the click of a mouse and this has revolutionarily changed the world. In the world of the Internet there are millions of members worldwide...
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...The Case of Tracy Latimer Applied Ethics Paper Summer 2013 Murder, the word sounds very ominous. When one thinks of murder they tend to be morally outraged. Morality, now that word sounds like a very simple concept. Unfortunately it is not simple when dealing with the concept of right and wrong because there are many separate and different ways to view morality. And as such murder at times is not always murder but could be defined as mercy. In the case of a 12 year old child name Tracy Latimer the concept of morality and murder become even murkier. Within this essay I am going to attempt to describe, evaluate and critically lay out both sides of morality in reference to this action of depraved murder verse mercy killing, of a handicapped child. Tracy Latimer was a 12 year old child who unfortunately was born with cerebral palsy. Because of her condition Tracy weighed just under 40 pounds, had the mentality of a three month old infant, and was subjected to countless surgeries. In 1993 Tracy’s father, Robert Latimer carried his daughter out of their house and placed her in the cab of his truck where he then proceeded to intentionally fill the cab of the truck with exhaust fumes until his daughter was dead. In lemans terms he poisoned his child with exposure to carbon monoxide. Viewing this from an ethical standpoint of morals, we now have to question if Mr. Latimer was morally justified for his actions or not. Was this a condonable mercy killing or was it cold blooded murder...
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...the Devil. “'My Faith is gone!' cried he, after one stupefied moment.There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given” (Hawthorne 615). Goodman Brown is speaking about his wife but in this sentence one can interpret that he is talking about his own faith within the church. He witnessed how the congregation was behaving at the fire and believed they were speaking with the devil and not God. By saying his faith was gone was a clue into how Goodman Brown’s attitude will change. After these words he loses his faith in his religion. However in “The Tell Tale Heart” religion is not an indication at all. This is evident in the acts the narrator takes. Some of the commandments are ‘you shall not murder’ and ‘you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor’. If the narrator had been a religious man or believed in religion he would have obeyed the commandments and acted righteously like...
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...Running Header: Continued Academic Success Continued Academic Success Angela Brantley GEN/201 October 19, 2015 Portia Jones It’s Okay to be Different Even though our styles are different in learning and writing, we all have the same goal to write a good paper. By having so many resources available, we will be able to achieve academic integrity and success. By knowing how we learn, it will allow us to write a good paper. Being able to focus and use all the resources we have available. Learning Styles “Learning Styles differ but so does the learner.” (Walker & Schutte, 2002) One of the approaches to learning styles that is considered the most powerful and simple is the VAK system. It focuses on these three styles: ▪ Visual Learning • Learning by seeing ▪ Auditory Learning • Learning by hearing ▪ Kinesthetic Learning • Learning by doing Knowing the style by which someone learns helps both the learner and the instructor. It allows the student to comprehend the subject and learn the style that works for them. In addition to personality, learning styles are an individual difference factor that represents enduring and stable approaches to processing information (Snyder, 2000). If you are a visual learner, you are more likely to get bored with auditory learning and losing focus with the...
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...ADVERTISING POLICY REGULATION AMENDMENT: THE CODE OF ETHICS, ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6, LETTER C Sionna Rose C. Avellaneda COM31 Mr. Juan Luis Z. Perlas July 26, 2014 I. INTRODUCTION If we are to think about it, advertising has been going on for a very long time. Even if there weren’t any technology used for printing and recording or shooting advertisements we usually see today, during the olden times, isn’t a merchant standing beside his cart beckoning the passersby to buy his goods or traders hanging pictures of their wares considered as “advertising”? Looking at the dictionary definition of the term, advertising is the action of calling something to the public especially by paid announcements. Yes, it has to be paid to be technically considered as advertising, but what’s important is calling the attention of the public to purchase a certain product. What advertisements present to the public is what the company/product can offer to the consumers. So if an advertisement has to show something, it has to show it completely. This is why if I were to change an advertising regulation, I would choose the third provision of Section 6 under Article VII of the Advertising Board Code of Ethics which states that, “Advertisements for alcoholic beverages should not depict the act of drinking such as the liquid entering the mouth and/or being swallowed.” This term paper aims to inform the reader about why I think this regulation should be amended; it aims to present an idea that these...
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... marking a point of interest that I would like to thoroughly investigate in this research assignment. Bearing that in mind, I have centered the aim of my research on the pink innuendos flaring from the very similar roles of the helpless princesses of Disney – the same innuendos that are now mostly looked as the societal norms of the Disney world. Some particular films that I have studied include ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Beauty and The Beast’, ‘Tangled’, and ‘Mulan’. Through the utilization of those films, I have carried my study in an order that would allow me to scrutinize the similarities assigned to the ‘pink’ customs fitted to Disney princesses, and any other differences that could break the code followed through years on the films – hence an investigation in the representation of conventional Disney princesses. Disney films have allowed children to compose a preconceived idea of women or female roles in the films or even in life altogether, as helpless, and in need of an external party (usually male – or the Prince Charming) to come in and switch their lives into the better. These stereotypical roles assigned to the princesses are usually coloured with the hue of certain behaviours, physical appearances and characteristic traits, which I will be looking into radically through the essay. For example, one factor that is most recurrent in Disney films is the value of physical appearance over wit or intellect. Secondly, the defenselessness...
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...holds a differing opinion? There is one Truth, but do any of us know what that truth truly is? Albert Carr (1968) would find that Mr. Frey pursued a brilliant marketing strategy to get his book published, after all business is business, marketing is marketing, and it’s all in how the game is played. While attempting to market his book as fiction more than a dozen publishers rejected Frey’s manuscript. His agent, whose job it is to get the book published, suggested a viable alternative, suggesting that he label it a memoir. Frey had a great product – this is supported by the fact that more than 3.5 million readers purchased the book, and read it. Oprah apparently couldn’t put it down. My bride found it to be riveting. How does one market this product so that it can positively receive a viewing by a publisher, in order to get it into the hands of its audience? Is this any different from the “new and breaking news” that is touted on television stations, even though the reported event is neither news, or new, and has been breaking for several hours? If a book attracts our attention sufficiently to compel us to buy it, and then read it, is that not an indictment that it is worthy of our attention? On the other hand, there is no question that Frey intended to deceive his audience, perhaps not in labeling his story as a memoir,...
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...One day I was driving with my eight-year-old brother to the store and he began to talk to me about Christopher Columbus and how they are learning that he discovered America in school. He looked at me straight in the eye with a confused face and said “that's not what he did Esme he was a murderer,” he knew this because when my sisters and I would talk about certain aspects of history he was there listening to everything. This was around the same time that we were discussing censorship through school curriculum so I felt that if my little brother understood it then other children could too. When he was talking about this it sounded a lot like the class was learning from a hegemonic device. School is where kids are being taught the “history” of how America came to be a diverse country. Through the course Culture Power and School Knowledge, one can see that the “history” being taught through the Master Narrative is one-sided. The Master Narrative focuses on “history” that comes from the people who hold power therefore excluding the actual experiences of the people of color meaning that it is a hegemonic device. Being a...
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...In this category, my CT and I had pretty similar results. The easiest to track was that I was consistently on time and focusing on my observation. Both myself and my CT could easily track that. We also both said I was proficient in maintaining a positive attitude when dealing with her and her students. I tend to be a naturally positive person, at least on the outside, so this was not much of a struggle for me. My CT probably noticed me smiling or laughing with some of the students. Even on days where there was not much to observe, I was just happy to be in the classroom. The one place we differed was self-starting. She scored me as proficient whereas I placed myself in basic. I have always been self-conscience about my level of involvement,...
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...Ethical Pornography SOC 120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Professor May 2, 2015 As a child you are told at a very young age that you can be anything and do anything that you want to do. Normal answers we would expect to hear from our children are I want to become a doctor, lawyer, veterinarian, football star, or maybe even a soldier. What we do not expect to come out any child’s mouth is that I want to be in the pornography business. It is not the norm of what a child wants to be when they grow up, nor is it something you dream about becoming as a child. Some people are forced into this business and yes while some choose to be in this business, you might want to question what made this your only choice? There are so many opinions on what pornography actually is and what it has become. Some people look at it as the most repulsive thing on the face of this earth while others view it as an art form, a simply way to express oneself. The question I pose is taking away legalities, religious points of views, and perceptions what do we have, I ask what moral issues does this cause? Many ethical arguments have been conducted over the years as to whether or not pornography in anyway is a moral boundary that has been crossed. Going into the different views of pornography poses both a debate within the communities dealing with Ethical relativism as well as Deontological Ethics. In regards to ethical relativism the simple definition of the term is that there are...
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...World Religion 1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, One of the Worlds Religions Jamila Clay Axia College University of Phoenix World Religion 2 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is a church that finds its origins with a man named Joseph Smith in the early 1800 in the state of New York. The members of the church believe that they are following the original teachings of God and Jesus Christ original church reviled to Joseph Smith and documented through the Book of Mormon. The people who follow the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are generally referred to as LDS, a shorten version of their name, or Mormons, which is a reference to the Book of Mormon which they hold as scriptural text. This religion has many teachings and also many misconceptions about their beliefs. The LDS teachings emphasis prayer, order, obedience, love they neighbor and good works. One the LDS.org web site they have a chronological list of events in the church history. Below is a listing of some of the early events that help to set the stage of the faith that is followed today world wide. 1820 – The Prophet Joseph Smith received First Vision in a grove of trees in Palmyra and Manchester Townships, New York, near his home. 1823 – Joseph Smith visited by angel Moroni and told of the Book of Mormon record. Joseph viewed...
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...Office Depot, Inc. © 2006, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics www.corporate-ethics.org Distribution Policy: Bridge Papers™ may only be displayed or distributed in electronic or print format for non-commercial educational use on a royaltyfree basis. Any royalty-free use of Bridge Papers™ must use the complete document. No partial use or derivative works of Bridge Papers™ may be made without the prior written consent of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. A PDF version of this document can be found on the Institute Web site at: http://www.corporate-ethics.org/pdf/ethical_leadership.pdf Bridge PaPers™ Uniting best thinking with leading business practice. ContEnts Foreword .................................................................................................... 2 What is ethical Leadership ...................................................................... 2 Becoming an ethical Leader ..................................................................... 8 developing ethical Leaders ...................................................................... 9 Thought Leader Commentary™ with steve Odland ............................. 10 about the authors ................................................................................... 13 ForEworD what Is EthICaL LEaDErshIp? The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics is an independent entity established in partnership with Business Roundtable—an...
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...Steve Odland, Chairman and CEO, Office Depot, Inc. © 2006, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics www.corporate-ethics.org Distribution Policy: Bridge Papers™ may only be displayed or distributed in electronic or print format for non-commercial educational use on a royaltyfree basis. Any royalty-free use of Bridge Papers™ must use the complete document. No partial use or derivative works of Bridge Papers™ may be made without the prior written consent of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. A PDF version of this document can be found on the Institute Web site at: http://www.corporate-ethics.org/pdf/ethical_leadership.pdf Bridge PaPers™ Uniting best thinking with leading business practice. ContEnts Foreword ....................................................................................................2 What is ethical Leadership ......................................................................2 Becoming an ethical Leader .....................................................................8 developing ethical Leaders ......................................................................9 Thought Leader Commentary™ with steve Odland .............................10 about the authors ...................................................................................13 ForEworD The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics is an independent entity established in partnership with Business Roundtable—an association of chief executive...
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