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    Secondly the compensatory mechanism triggers renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) which rises catecholamine production. This action escalates antidiuretic hormone (ADH) release, which increases cardiac afterload by vasoconstriction (Wagner & Hardin-Pierce, 2014). This increases pressure on walls of the ventricle and thus affects the contractibility. The contractibility will decrease so will CO and BP, this assessment is considered a high priority in the primary assessment. The best…

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    a large portion of the world living in abject poverty, questions have been raised about the duty of those who are more well off to those in need.The most compelling and sensible of the pieces responding to this issue would be the one from Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics due to its realistic approach to the ethics involved in the distribution of resources. Garrett Hardin’s Lifeboat Ethics provides the best response to the question on what is an individual's responsibility to the community due to…

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    inescapable course of destruction taken up by humans. Inevitably, the workings of the universe overpower the fleeting decisions of mankind. One of the most controversial writings was composed by an ecologist known as Garrett Hardin in 1968. In “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Hardin urges the idea that if men don’t prioritize the rationing of the world, it will deteriorate in short time. As observable in recent times, the life expectancy of the Earth is not as promising as it once was. Although…

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    neoliberal economy, a capitalist civilization which fails to maximize the ‘good’ of all citizens, and a national ideology that is built upon a rigid, outdated set of values. The large-scale failure of the commons coincides with the theory proposed by Hardin about what makes an unsuccessful or successful commons. Butler takes their theory a step further in her novel by showing how these large-scale elements lead to small-scale community effects such as isolation and willful ignorance. This…

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    the strong survive,” quoted by Jack London in the story ‘The Call of the Wild.’ Garrett Hardin was an ecologist who alerted the risks of overpopulation and was so passionate about the topic that he wrote several essays and books on it. In the essay, “Lifeboat Ethics,” he discusses that people in rich countries should not help the people of poor countries, and we should not assist them with our resources. Hardin uses two metaphors to illustrate two ways of either helping the poor countries or…

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    Dilemmas in the Classroom” by Rushworth M. Kidder and Patricia L. Born is a prime example of how ethical dilemmas are faced in real world situations. One connection I noticed between “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor” by Garrett Hardin, and “The Nature of Moral Compromise: Principles, Values, and Reason” by Barry Hoffmaster, and Cliff Hooker is that they both develop the idea of how monetary…

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    from the Texas Teacher Effectiveness Project was used to explore the results from a process-product research and test the validity of successful teachers versus unsuccessful teachers using specific research with correlation to student improvements. Hardin states that process-product research has transitioned classroom management to a science through compositing reliable data (2012). There were 165 teachers of 2nd and 3rd-grade students chosen to participate based on their consistent increases…

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    content life at the same time because there will always be more children to save and more ways that you feel obligated to help. On the other end, is extreme selfishness shown by Hardin who argues that because equality is impossible, we must preserve resources for ourselves to save the world from “environmental ruin” (Hardin 368) This flaw in this is acknowledged the fact that there are other people's out in the community suffering but we shouldn’t attempt to help because it is for our own…

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    Life Boat Ethics Analysis

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    keep helping the poor countries, the population of those in poverty will continue to rise at an even quicker rate. It is a proven fact that the lower income countries are doubling their population before the larger and more fortunate ones. Garrett Hardin, the author of this essay, is trying to explain this topic as survival of the fittest by saying that the wealthier countries and the people that…

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    Essay On Lifeboat Ethics

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    There are 7 billion 58 billion people on the planet and that number grows every day. The overpopulation is something that worries many people and many have different views on how we should combat it. Garrett Hardin writes about what he thinks we should do about this problem as well as the dwindling resources, and the ever so controversial topic of immigration in his essay, “Lifeboat ethics” Hardin's thesis is that the wealthy countries should not help the poor ones. Well, I think that he makes…

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