Earned value management

Previously it has been established by many philosophers that human intrinsic value should not be commodified, and that in some cases they are even resistant to commodification. Non-human intrinsic values do not seem to be allotted the same courtesy or respect. This could be because of the distinction previously discussed by Rolston, where non-human intrinsic values like nature, can not be considered the same way as human intrinsic values, meaning they are more susceptible to commodification.…

representing many different attitudes towards morality. Given these circumstances, I witnessed from a young age a spectrum of moral values. In a single day I could witness my best friend be beaten for lying, my mother sew a coat for our elderly neighbor, and have my bike stolen from the front yard. Basically, I was afforded an opportunity to gather and build moral values from an extensive environment. I also had the luxury to come home and place these experiences within the context of my own…

state should generate personal and any kind of familial relations. However, the idea of abolishing the family could cripple the community and hinder vital personal and emotional connections that come with having one. Upholding traditional family values helps to create a more wholesome and productive environment where all people can prosper. Though families can stir up issues, such as loyalty and responsibility, they expose each other to…

Reflection Essay 3 “Speaking up at work” • The company experienced steady growth over the years including during the meltdown of the global economy. However, we felt we had to anticipate a possible future financial impact and looked at ways to reduce cost significantly. One of the projects was to outsource the manufacturing operations located in Canada to Mexico. The project had expected savings of millions of dollars and would help fund R&D to develop new technologies. I was in total support…

Nicomachean Ethics: Why Friendship is Essential and Not Fickle In book VIII of Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle expounds upon the concept of friendship. In order to understand all that Aristotle means by friendship one must first know that there are three categories of friendship: friendship of utility, friendship of pleasure, and the perfect friendship. After analyzing the paradigms of each of these relationships he comes to the conclusion that friendship is crucial to life. He declares: “For…

Mill tells us in his Autobiography that the “little work with the name” Utilitarianism arose from unpublished material, the greater part of which he completed in the final years of his marriage to Harriet Taylor, that is, before 1858. For its publication he brought old manuscripts into form and added some new material. The work first appeared in 1861 as a series of three articles for Fraser’s Magazine, a journal that, though directed at an educated audience, was by no means a philosophical…

Using the ethical theories of utilitarianism and Kant’s categorical imperative, analyze the ethics of Abercrombie & Fitch in restricting hiring of sales personnel primarily to attractive white people. Fr discussion purposes, assume that they actually were practicing racial discrimination. In the video we watched pertaining to Abercrombie & Fitch there is a hiring process and which searchers for an All-American image in a way that can be seen for practicing racial discrimination. While…

In Marge Piercy’s narrative poem, “Barbie Doll”, the story of a young girl is told from the viewpoint of an outside speaker watching her grow up around the norms of society and ultimately ends her life because of it. Throughout each stanza, a new important piece of information is expressed to the readers to contribute to both the theme and tone of the poem. Piercy is able to cultivate the idea that inward beauty is not valued in today’s society, and that artificial perfection can only be…

An Analysis of Cinematography and Sound in the Explosion Scene From ’71 (2015) Dir. Yann Demange ‘‘71’ is a film about a young soldier, Gary Hook, who gets stranded in Belfast in 1971 during the Troubles. He accidentally becomes the target for all parties involved and the complexity of the good and the bad in the Troubles become apparent. In the sequence I’ve chosen, Hook has his first glimpse of safety when he gets picked up by a young Protestant boy and taken a Loyalist pub. After mistakenly…

Going through this survey I did not think that there would be very many cases where I would consider myself unethical, but there was one and I want to discuss it first. It was the one about the car insurance. This has actually happened to me before and I claimed the maximum amount even though I did not even plan to repair my vehicle. It was a small dent on my vehicle and some repair shop estimated it to be around $1000 to fix. I being a college student immediately thought that this could really…