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The American Singer-Songwriter, Taylor Swift co-produced the one hit wonder ‘You belong with me’. The song released in 2009 became one of the most influential songs to join the genre of country pop; it appears on the album ‘Fearless.’ The American Rap artist, 50 Cent sung the hit ‘Candy Shop.’ ‘Scott Storch’ originally wrote the song; released in 2005 on the album ‘The Massacre.’ It hit number one in the hip-hop chart. “You Belong with me” is aimed at young females aged 11-18 and in any…

term, it is clearly a term of endearment in context and merely reflects the self-deprecating, facetious sense of humor that is not only common with, but valued by American youth today. A term that once meant “any guy who wears girl's jeans, eyeliner, other forms of makeup, crys [sic], admits his…

towards women, all of which succumb females to continuously live in a culture that subjugates and oppresses women (KBrady, 2012). “Kill You”, released in 2000 by popular American rapper Eminem, evidently encompasses misogyny by using derogatory and offensive lyrics…

Utilitarianism is the concept illustrated by John Stuart Mill as the maximization of human happiness. (He relates utility to the “greatest happiness principle,” a concept by philosopher Jeremy Bentham.) Mill describes happiness as “pleasure and the absence of pain.” Something of extrinsic value has worth only because of the value or benefits it brings to something else; something of intrinsic value has worth because of the value it possesses even while alone. According to Utilitarianism,…

The purpose of this essay will be to examine a complex moral case through the lens of the theories of Classical Act Utilitarianism and Rule Consequentialism. The theories will be compared and evaluated based on how they apply to the moral case. The situation that will ultimately be the basis to compare Classical Act Utilitarianism (AU) and Rule Consequentialism (RC), is the story of Jim. During a trip to South Africa, Jim finds himself to be a little lost and disoriented and in the wrong small…

You could say parsimony refers to the concept of KISS (Keep it simple stupid). It is the idea that we should keep theories as simple and pragmatic as possible and it is an important cornerstone of the discipline of psychology and science in general. Parsimony means that if we have two competing theories we will use the simplest one. The canon of parsimony says that we should be frugal in developing theories by avoiding unnecessary concepts, again going back to the pragmatic. The idea…

John Stuart Mill's teleological perspective of Utilitarianism, guarantees that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure.” (Mill, p.54) This ethical theory emphasizes that as reasonable beings that naturally interact and are compelled to settle on choices every day, how those choices are established—our…

UTILITARIANISM: According to John Stuart Mill, the doctrine of Utilitarianism is that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being desirable as means to that end. In applying Utilitarianism to ethical dilemmas, it is important to assess the issue by discerning it as right or wrong based on the virtue of the dilemma’s consequences. With the consequences assessed, the amount of happiness and unhappiness is the only thing relevant to the consequences. It…

Utilitarianism comes from the word utility, which means the state of being beneficial to those affected. The Theory of Utilitarianism is the idea that a person must make decisions that create the greatest amount of utility for the greatest amount of people. Utilitarianism is a Consequentialist theory because it claims that actions are morally right if they produce the desired consequences, which according to Mill, are pleasures. There are two types of Utilitarianism: Act Utilitarianism and Rule…

Consequentialism is a theory suggesting that the morality of an action is judged solely by its consequences. This is what is defined as the greater good; a decision made that would lead to further progression and would positively impact the majority of a community, from which personal satisfaction is gained. It is argued that to achieve the greater good, one must do a little wrong. Wrong is etymologically a negative of right. For an act to be deemed as wrong, it has to physically or mentally…