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    individual’s interests should be considered equally when making the decision and that it produces the best balance of benefits over harm for the most stakeholders. Outcomes may be quantified in such terms as satisfaction and distress, the comparative value of individual preferences, monetary gain or loss, or the short-term and long-term effects of an…

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    Walmart is a corporation that is known not only in the United States but worldwide. The decision point covers the company’s ethics and how it handled a situation that occurred in their Mexico location. This paper will use the ethical decision-making model to identify the facts, ethical issues and the stakeholders. It will also cover the available alternatives, how decisions affect the stakeholders and offer guidance. Determine the facts The New York Times reported that an internal…

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    subject of life is an individual that cares about his or her life, therefore that life has inherent value. This inherent value is equal among all who have it, and one cannot have more inherent value than another. We should treat these subjects with respect and justice equally therefore producing animals for food is morally wrong because they have inherent value. When the point of higher inherent value between animals and humans are brought up, Regan uses children…

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    Goals For Student Success

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    Goals are important when someone wants to be successful in life. Whether it be getting good grades so as to accomplish the goal of getting a scholarship, or even just finishing a book by the end of a week, goals help set us up for success. Freshman year of college is said to come with its fair share of challenges. With the help of goal setting, I hope to make some of the challenges less daunting. My goals for my freshman year are getting into the habit of studying more during first semester,…

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    Daodejing Themes

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    its own lesson and contains a meaning separate and independent from the other chapters. The first book has some themes that each of these chapters fall under: the Dao, nothingness, non-desiring, nature as a model, wuwei-nonaction, and knowledge and value. The Daodejing has three parts to this word; Dao means Way, de means power, virtue, and jing means classic, so the entire word means “The classic of the way and its power.” The Dao is one of the themes the first book focuses on and it hits this…

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    Kant VS Mill: The Trolley Problem The Trolley problem involves a runaway train that you are driving, but the train has breaks that don’t work. You can either chose to drive straight and kill five men working on the track or hit a switch that will divert the trolley onto a side track and only kill one worker, which would you chose? There is also a second scenario to this problem; the train can either go straight and hit the five people or a fat man can be pushed in front of the…

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    Kantianism is the opposite of utilitarianism in the sense that consequences of the actions are not the base on decision, rather one chooses to do the right thing, solely in the sake of doing good. Kantianism states that everyone has value and the value of every individual is equal. Kantianism uses The Categorical Imperative to clarify the principle of morality. The first formulation of the Categorical Imperative states one’s actions should be acceptable universally. The second formulation…

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    Chapter Three The symbolism of animal farm The word “symbolism” is derived from the word “symbol”, which refers to the use of symbols, or a set of related symbols (Baldick 2000: 219). Symbolism can therefore be defined as the art of expressing ideas and emotions not by describing them directly, nor by defining them through overt comparisons with concrete images, but re-creating them in the mind of the reader through the use of unexplained symbols. (Chadwick 1971: 6) Symbolism is a kind of…

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    greater good. Once Heracles comes to after his unconcious slaughter of his family, he plans to take his own life for his malevolent transgressions. However, Theseus, a friend and fellow hero stops Heracles. Theseus does this by appealing towards the value of his life, “Greece would not endure your dying through ignorance” (Hera. 1254), he is trying to outline the utility Heracles as an…

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    Animal liberation nowadays are one of the most contentious issues. There has been numerous arguments about whether or not if animals do have rights. Many philosophers have argued and came up with several conclusions by considering a variety of standpoints and presenting their arguments. In Peter Singer’s article “The Case for Animal Liberation”, has several good points which show us that everyone have the responsibilities to protect animal rights. Singer’s argument in his essay gives us a great…

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