| | |Diversity, Values and Ethics in Public Safety | | Section I: Administrative Information |Course Name (Short): Diversity, Values and Ethics |Credit Value: 3.0 | |Program(s): Police Foundations
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a society, and individually, persons attempt to live their lives in accordance with codes of morality and ethicality. Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong. Ethics also relates to right and wrong conduct. There is a strong connection between religion and morality and ethics. Although these are distinct concepts, and morality can exist without a person being religious, the three are intertwined as religious creed imparts knowledge about what is seen as good and bad
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Description of the Essay Process I chose to respond to Peter Singer’s arguments from Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers (Taylor, (ed.) 2009), regarding ethics and consumerism. I found his argument to be thought-provoking and relevant in America’s generally consumeristic standard of living. I can relate to his idea that a certain degree of our morality is tied to our choices in spending, and how if we are conscious of others who need aid, we should use the means we have available
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ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE ‘Good’ is difficult to define. The dictionary defines good in a great many different ways: 'having the right or desired qualities; satisfactory, adequate. (of a person) efficient, competent. (of a thing) reliable, efficient. (of health etc) strong. kind, benevolent. morally excellent; virtuous. charitable. well-behaved. enjoyable, agreeable. thorough, considerable.' Moral philosophy also uses the word 'good' in a variety of ways, sometimes as a noun, sometimes
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Based on your reading of the documents what was the nature and characters of these colonies? According to what is presented in the documents how might the colonies be distinguished from one another. (Compare/contrast) The beginnings of the American colonies started in the 17th century with settlers from different European countries such as Spain, France, England, Holland and Sweden. The colony Jamestown, was the first to establish in the Eastern Coast in the year 1607, in what is today known
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Grant (2012), has presented in Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, a guide in which persons engaged in leadership functions could use as tool analyze in-depth various perspective as to how incentives and rewards are to be utilized to motivate a behavior that a person would not normally do under normal circumstances. A triad of basic standards of measurement has been developed to determine how an incentive measures up against ethical and moral standards. Further, incentives should
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comprise of 2.1 billion people and Islam has 1.5 billion followers and are the top two religions in the world, about half of the population. (www.adherents.com) Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. (Fisher, 2008, p.419) In looking to compare these two powerful men and the religions they helped form one can see some similarities as well as some major differences. When we look at Muhammad’s upbringing we see a boy born in 570AD, orphaned at six years old, and raised by his uncle in poverty
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to reach a state of Nirvana. Buddhist also feels life is a cycle of birth, dying and rebirth. Reincarnation is also a huge factor in the Buddhist belief. They feel the body dies but the spirit continues to live on. PART II---Compare and Contrast 1. Origin- for Christians, these questions are
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Using Relevant Theories and Examples outline the arguments for and against an organization adopting an ethical approach to management. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the case for and against an organization adopting an ethical approach. This essay will look into the two sides of the argument in depth using relevant theories, examples and case studies. The first part of this essay will look into why an organization adopting an ethical approach to management could ultimately
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