...Pro Death Penalty Arguement BCM/275 Pro Death Penalty Arguement In the case against the death penalty by the American Civil Liberties Unions I wholeheartedly disagree with their judgment. “The American Civil Liberties Union believes the death penalty inherently violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment and the guarantees of due process of law and of equal protection under the law. Furthermore, we believe that the state should not give itself the right to kill human beings – especially when it kills with premeditation and ceremony, in the name of the law or in the name of its people, or when it does so in an arbitrary and discriminatory fashion.”(ACLU.org). How can anyone in their right mind support this fact. When someone breaks the law they pay for it in a system of checks and balances. The United Stated judicial system is perfect its far from being perfect but it is in place to make sure rights of persons are treated fair and equally. All states and the federal government need to have a mindset that if a person’s life in taken by a criminal act then the bearer of the crime should pay the ultimate price. For me I do not see the death penalty as a waste of taxpayer money but as a deterrent to the next generation that if you commit such heinous acts you pay the price. What is wasting the taxpayer money is the process of appeals due to our outdated justice system. How much does it cost for a bullet? How much for a lethal injection? How much does...
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...Free from Error Abstract The type of Moral Error theory I shall defend in the following essay is the kind proposed by J. L. Mackie and later by Richard Joyce. Mackie first advances “error theory” by stating that when most people speak of their moral judgements they are implicitly claiming “ to be pointing to something objectively prescriptive,” but “these claims are false” (1977, p.35). In the first section of this essay i shall introduce and clarify the constituent of error theory I aim to defend. In the next section I consider and rebut stephen finlays recent attack on moral error theory. Finlay takes aim at Mackies conceptual claim that many moral judgements entail categorical reasons, but I find his shots misguided. Consequently I shall consider finlays most powerful rejoinders with the view of again refuting them and arriving at the conclusion that Mackies conceptual and ontological claims hold and moral error theory stands. Mackie endorses a second order moral theory regarding the essence of moral valuing and the character of moral values. Mackie believes that many of the moral judgements we make contain a catergorical imperative element and his thesis that “ there are no objective values” (1977, pg 58) is an explicit rebuttal denying that “ any such categorically imperative element is objectively valid” (1977, pg 69).[1] The objective values that Mackie wishes to refute would be action-guiding unconditionally, not contingently upon any particular agents desired...
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...Judicial Politics And Behavior YourFirstName YourLastName University title Q.1 Firing or sacking is an informal word for dismissal which is termination of employment by employer against the employees will. Firing is a common term particularly in US and it is also known as as sacked, boned, axed, canned or given walking papers. Being fired as oppesed to qutting the job voluntarily (being laid off), is perceived being the employee’s fault thus considered a sign of failure and disgraceful. Since finding a new or another job is is difficult after firing and especially if the employee had not held the job or the position for a long period (Hugh, 2005). Mostly probationary employees are dismissed when an employer finds better equiped, skilled and experienced employees than the incumbent even though the employee has ot broken either of the rules. Many times firing is viewed as employees are very negative and m ostly with gross misconduct which is a serious action. Firing is done on basis of poor work performance, off job- site conduct, attendance problem and problematic conduct. Attendance problems are employees not turning up for work, tardiness or frequent absenteeism. Work performance problems leads to termination even when one has good attendance at a job. If the employees perfoormance does not satisfy the employers standards, the employee is finally fired. It can be on the basis of incompetence, neglect of maintenance, refusal to perform duties, negligence or...
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...losses reported, there is a need for some drastic steps for both image building and strategy correction in regard with compensation practices. JP Morgan issue: JP Morgan’s decisions in this case are especially significant because the causes are not the usual ones — fraud, rogue trading etc. The problem is the loss of capital and reputation. At firms like JP the approach to risk management revolves around holding people accountable for their decisions. In fact there are rules governing “recoveries” for such undesirable acts in JP Morgan proxy statement. It stated that a clawback review could be conducted "as a result of a material restatement of earnings or by acts or omissions of employees." Even in the 2011 annual report, they said the stock-based compensation awards were subject to such clawback provisions. One question that can be asked is if this is a “material loss” of this magnitude material? This is answered by the fact that JPMorgan felt that they needed to disclose the problem trade. This points to the fact that the bank realized that “materiality” threshold was reached. Another issue addressed in the proxy is that a payback can be demanded if the employees act“improperly or with gross negligence fail to identify, raise, or assess, in a timely manner and as reasonably expected, risks and/or concerns with respect to risks material to the firm or its business activities.” And a trade that can result in $3-billion in losses might fall under this clause, is substaintiated...
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...patients their own fee for services/medical consultations etc. Medicare will pay 75% which is known as the “schedule fee” , private health insurance will cover the 25% gap. However the AMA actually encourage doctors to charge more then schedule fee, allowing the doctors to make profit by those who can afford to pay for these consultations. Until recently private health insurance companies were restricted by law to cover the “gap” fee making the patient having to pay the 25% out of pocket. Now every health fund must offer at least one “no gap” or “known gap” policy. Gap cover is only available to claim if your doctor has agreed to be in this arrangement with the private health fund. This limits the choice of doctor you wish to see which in fact was a particular selling point of private health insurance. The client is still able to choose their choice of doctor however it must be from the pool of doctors who choose to cap their fees, making the choices limited. According to...
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...We’re forever being told that beauty is “only” skin deep. Well, for many black women and a few black men, that’s disturbingly deep. it looks like the politics of black beauty gets more complicated by the day. The era when skin-lightening was frowned upon as a self-hating practice is slipping away and many black people are being vocal about their desire to be lighter. Their arguements being that it's a personal choice, just like the one white people make when they darken their skin by sunbathing. So what’s the problem here? And why does this issue make people (of all races) so nervous? Skin whitening is the lightening of the skin by cosmetic means. This is achieved in multiple by using various products such as skin whitening cream. Some people will go to great lengths to have lighter skin, the same also applies to people who want to have darker skin. This is actually a touchy and controversial topic but it is about preference. Being Lighter in color is deemed by many cultures and societies as a representation of true beauty. Whether it is natural or chemical, safe or dangerous (and honestly, I don’t think those who use it care), why does skin-lightening in all its forms still have so many black women under its spell, willing to risk the health of the body’s biggest organ? What is behind the “colour complex”? In my opinion, variety is the spice of life, such as variety in food, clothes, hairstyles, etc and it also abounds in nature. That is why all people on Earth belong to...
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...the United States. Because of this fact, he could get deported to Mexico. 4. Pérez attempts to preven the van driver from summoning the police by saying that he will pay for the damage. 5. Pérez answering the Chicano patrolman in Spanish is not an accident because he knows that the policeman is of Mexican descent. Since he knows this, he feels as though his Spanish will be understood by the officer....
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...pattern; it is a code… and an information storage mechanism. All codes are created by a conscious mind; there is no natural process known to science that creates coded information. Therefore, DNA is designed by a mind.” (Perry, 2014) Ad Hominem – The attack on a person’s character distracting you from the real issue. Example: Don’t believe what Larry says about raising children. He is the head of pro-abortion campaign. Red Herring – During a disagreement, one person goes on a tangent, bring up a different side of the disagreement that distracts everyone from what is really going on, usually not going back to the original disagreement. Example: A person is reading a book and is lead to believe a specific character is guilty, when in fact the person is innocent. Pseudo-questions – A question that has no real answer because it makes no sense. Example: “Do you support the right to possess a hand gun as set forth by our constitution?” (Gracyk, 2012) False Cause – It is assumed that there is a relationship between two things where one thing cause where one thing causes the other to happen. Example: Because the Native Americans did a rain dance, it began to rain. (Hagin, 2002) Sweeping Generalization – Where a person assumes things where they don’t apply. Example: Nothing is true because a person says so. Therefore, we should not believe the things God said. This is fallicious....
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... At birth we are known as a ‘tabula rasa’ meaning a blank slate; in which nurture influences our mental content (J. Locke, 1895). The famous empiricist Locke also theorised simple ideas gained through our senses were developed into complex mechanisms. Thinking alone, cannot supply us with the ability to interact with the environment therefore we perceive and make predictions about the world through internal cognitive representations regardless of it being a scientific fact or a self believed fact. Consequently we built up knowledge from prior events, memories, perception, culture and socialisation. These cognitions convey knowledge to be represented as a mind state. Knowledge is the familiarity one has with worldly information. The theoretical accounts of knowledge processes must be carefully analysed and critiqued. The fundamental base of this arguement relies on cognitive understanding, in which the mind plays a key role in knowledge acquisition, contemplation and retention. The arguement will be to explore the most valid line of reasoning in how knowledge of the representing world is conceptualised into abstract cognitive ideas. References made to key research with in-depth analysis will create understanding into how the cognitive paradigm views knowledge representation. Analogical and propositional representations of knowledge have been derived from many theoretical viewpoints. Analogical representations of knowledge are physical and geometric...
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...Annotated Bibliography Mccoy, Blake. "Lawmakers Tackle Privacy Concerns with New Technology." Lawmakers Tackle Privacy Concerns with New Technology. National BroadcastingCompany, 28 Jan. 2014. Web. 05 Mar. 2014. This article is helpful because it outlines some of the problems the new technology will face with privacy. Minnesota state law makers discuss the privacy problems with new law enforcement technology, such as license plate readers and cellular exploitation devices. Also in this article it brings up the fact of how long will these records of innocent people be kept. Law enforcement officials admit that laws governing these new technologies is very murky. Signorelli, Paul. "Sparking Innovation, Learning and Creativity." Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology. New Media Consortium, 11 Nov. 2013. Web. 19 Feb. 2014. This article is helpful because is reveals a lot of privacy problems with ubiquitous technologies. Ubiquitous technologies are device like smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices; using these devices can destroy privacy barriers and may lead to unfortunate events. The article refers to the privacy problem as a novel challenge, a solution that can be proposed but it is already outdated by the time becomes in affect. Watts, Steve. "More Xbox One Kinect Privacy Details Outlined." - Video Game News, Videos and File Downloads for PC and Console Games at Shacknews.com. Shacknews LTD, 01 Nov. 2013. Web. 6 Mar. 2014. This article is helpful because...
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...another 9/11, i fear that 99 percent of Americans would tell their members of congress: “Do whatever you need to do , privacy be damned, just make sure this does not happen again.”) Purpose and intent The purpose of author is to inform us to be on guard for abuses and accessing private data from the government. The article is suitable to those working adult audience because most of them consist a lot of private data . Beside that, most of the adult owns high tech gadget for example smartphone , ipad and so on so they shall be more interested in this article because most of their private data is stored in their gadget. Furthermore they should be aware of where they stored their private data. The author use a lot example in his arguement from...
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...the oppisite sex. Women fought for their right to vote, obtain a college education and employment opportunities. Although women have won this right for their rights, today they have yet to gain the same respect and equal pay as men in the workplace. In the book, "Taking Sides, Clashing Views on Controversial Economic Issues" by Thomas R. Swartz and Frank J. Bonello, this issue is discussed between Randall K. Filer, Jerry A. Jacobs and Ronnie J. Steinberg. In my brief, I will discuss the salary inequality between genders and the reasons supporting their arguement. Associate professor of economics, Randall K. Filer suggests that "women are attracted to occuptions that have more pleasant job charactertics than those jobs that are dominated by men" (page 78) He believes in having a more pleasant occupation would have a lower compensation. He conducts a survey of men and women in relative positions in the labor market. He states facts are prominent, "Median weekly earnings of full-time female workers over age 16 have risen from 61 percent of those for men in 1978 to 71 percent of male earnings in the second quarter of 1987" (page 58) The possible causes in sex differences is the difference in productivity and utility functions. Randall believes one gender has different amount of productivity levels. Physical differences plays a huge part because it shows the advantages of men, preventing women to perform at the same level. Men and woman make prudent choices in the job market due to...
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...(and orthodoxy) should be re-interpreted and still be revealed with the help of the Spirit of Truth because divine truth is disclosed in human history. He also characterizes orthodoxy as a future-oriented dialogue between question and answer with the quotation from Williams since only future generation can evaluate our re-interpretation. Summarizing the above, Rush concludes that the search for orthodoxy is a process of reception in the church. There are two ways for that; one is diachronic way, and another is synchronic. These are corresponding to ressourcement of the past and aggiornamento in the present, respectively. Here, the author regards the Holy Spirit as Dialogue between the Father and the Son in order to underscore his main arguement; determination of orthodoxy should be done in dialogue, with help of the Spirit. Citing passage from St Ireneus and the letter of St Paul to Corinthians, the author finally elucidates the nature of Christian truth; eschatological. Evaluation First of all, the passage is systematic enough for the reader to understand orthodoxy appropriately. Firstly, the last paragraph of each section works well as an introduction to the subsequent section, enabling the reader to follow his arguments with fewer difficulties. Secondly, he uses a juxtaposition and comparison in order for the reader to facilitate the reader’s understanding. For example, he explains the difference in perception of orthodoxy between before Vatican II and after it with juxtaposing...
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...Academic writing is an assignment that entails you having to explore something that you as a student is most interested in, especially from your courses. You have the ability to freely express your thoughts, opinions and ideas from whatever topic you choose and have an audience that is interested in reading and is open to reading how you as a student feel about the topic. An academic essay involves to first choose a topic, research on the topic by finding different books, articles and blogs online. So that you can gather information from different sources, so you would be able to fully grasp the topic and put it into your own words and then give your best idea by writing a thesis statement. Which requires you to write the main point to your arguement, an academic essay also involves analysis where you would have to examine and study different arguments of the essay to make claims understandable, to give reasons to back up claims and to provide evidence, pros and cons. It also involves a lot of brainstorming where you would be giving your insight to make the essay genuine. Once you have followed these steps effectively, you can now start by planning out your essay. According to the Academic...
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... February 24th, 2013 Differences in Competencies between Nurses Prepаred аt the Associаte-Degree Level versus the Bаccаlаureаte-Degree Level in Nursing There is this arguement going on in the nursing profession — it’s аmongst аssociаte degrees аnd diplomаs аgаinst Bаccаlаureаte-Degree. With the nаtion аlreаdy suffering from а mаjor nursing shortаge it seems the lаst thing the nursing profession would need is in-fighting. The two sides differ in opinion on the quаlity of cаre provided by аssociаte degrees versus Bаccаlаureаte-Degree (Benner, 2009). Spreading the misunderstanding wаs а recent study published in the Journаl of the Americаn Medicаl Associаtion thаt links nurses’ educаtion levels with hospitаl deаth rаtes. The findings suggest thаt recruiting nurses with four-yeаr bаchelor degrees insteаd of just two-yeаr аssociаte degrees or three-yeаr hospitаl diplomаs “mаy leаd to substаntiаl improvement in the quаlity of cаre.” The study performed by the University of Pennsylvаniа’s Center for Heаlth Outcomes аnd Policy Reseаrch found thаt pаtients experienced significаntly lower mortаlity аnd fаilure to rescue rаtes in hospitаls where more highly educаted nurses аre providing cаre. Facts and Data In а review of dаtа from 168 Pennsylvаniа hospitаls, surgery pаtients’ deаth rаtes were neаrly twice аs high when the percentаge of nurses with bаchelor’s degrees wаs low. The Americаn Associаtion of...
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