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In the reading Foot says “Virtues, which I might express by saying they are corrective” (Foot 1978, 8). Then a few lines later she also says “there is a temptation to be resisted” (Foot 1978, 8). This very clearly shows that for Foot, for an act to be virtuous it must be done so that our own human temptations are resisted. She believes that’s they are corrective, meaning that they are there…

murders around the U.S., Washington, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Florida, Idaho, and Vermont. His method of murdering his victims after raping them, would be by beating them with a metal bar or by strangling them. These murders occurred throughout 1973 - 1978. His first murder was Lonnie Trumbull, on June 23, 1966, the roommates Lisa Wick and Lonnie Trumbull laid sleeping in their apartment. Bundy came in and brutally killed Trumbull with a piece of wood. Wick the roommate barely survived a similar…

In September 1978, the strikers canceled their requests and offered to come back to work without a contract, despite the fact that the bank had filled their employments and told the ladies they could return just as openings ended up plainly accessible. Boshart was the…

industry and will not be involved in any corporate strategic decisions. Since the company had good pay scale, benefit packages, and bonus structure for their employees, their relationship, prior to 1978, with the Local 190 union was really good. The dynamics of this relationship changed radically in 1978 when company had few issues and had to cut costs to survive in the industry. This is where the challenges for traditional union systems came into picture for them. The article ‘Why the labor…

In the 1970s, an innovative device was being developed by small team of engineers led by Paul Breedlove, an engineer, with Texas Instruments that ended up being introduced to the public at the 1978 Summer Consumer Electronic Show as The Speak and Spell. It was a handheld electronic device and educational toy that consisted of a speech synthesizer, a fluorescent display, a keyboard, and a receptor slot for a collection of game cartridges. Additionally, its main function was a tool for helping…

When most people think of Law enforcement there are a lot of issues that come soaring in to the mind. Conflicts with why some law breaking motions are considered to receive more time than someone who may kill an individual. Police officers are being dirty cops and working with the offender breaking havoc upon the officer and citizen’s trust. Multiple killings of young African American males. Issues with law enforcement can even be in prison facilities no matter where you are at in the United…

Dark matter. One of the greatest, most mysterious discoveries in the history of science was unearthed by Vera Rubin in 1978. The galactic spearhead of the 50’s, Vera Rubin is a marvelous American woman because of her discoveries in the area of dark matter, galactic rotation curves, and her work in gender equality. Vera Cooper Rubin was born on July 23, 1928 in Philadelphia. Vera’s father, Philip Cooper, was an electrical engineer. Her mother, Rose Applebaum, worked for Bell Telephone Company…

Social Attitudes and Health Care Throughout history, there have been countless cases demonstrating the social injustice in health care. Cases such as, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment validates how unethical and unscrupulous physicians can become, all in the name of science. Furthermore, social injustice in health care exists if there is a preventable difference in health states among a population of people; and in Macon, Alabama, syphilis marked that difference. As I learned about the Tuskegee…

experience in a technological age” (Wopereis, Sloep, & Poortman, 2010). In 1978, Louise Rosenblatt published The Reader, The Text, The Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work, in which she explored the unique transaction between the reader and the text. Rosenblatt said, “No one else, no matter how much more competent, more informed, nearer the ideal (whatever that might be), can read the poem or the story for us” (1978, p. 141). Her work emphasized the unique relationship a reader…

discovered he was homosexual. Later his grades began to fail and his parents began to argue more and more and therefore, decided to divorce. He moved out of his house prior to graduating from high school. He committed his first murder the summer of 1978, at the age of 18. He picked up an 18 year old hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks, brought him back to his house for drinks. When he tried to leave, Jeffrey hit him in the head twice with a dumbbell, than strangling him with the dumbbell.…