...Jan Narveson, following the utilitarian reasoning she uses in Morality of Marilyn, believes the focus of moral action should be to cause the least amount of pain and greatest amount of pleasure for the most amount of people. When applied to Earle Birney's, David, we cannot directly compare a masses sentiment against that of an individual. Jan Narveson might approach this from a different angle, attempting to quantify the pain of David against one’s moral obligation to preserve life. When David falls from the peak of the mountain we can be almost certain of two things, that there is little time to save him and that if saved he will live as a paraplegic. The probable consequences to be expected result in David leading an unsatisfactory life by...
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...Do not use word for word, put it in your own words. Abstract Life span development is a study into a person’s life. The type of person, the person’s traits and what makes him or her different is the building blocks of a person’s personality. This paper will introduce the study of the life span and personality of shock rocker Marilyn Manson. It will be discussing Manson’s environmental development. It will discuss the moral psychological development, social support, and family support of Marilyn Manson. Each area helped in molding Manson and gave Manson adjustment to his life. It will show how his morals differ from societies morals, and how he was and still is perceived in society as a “Shock Rocker.” Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner, January 5, 1969 in the town of Canton which is in the state of Ohio, to Hugh, and Barb Warner. At a tender age of five Manson entered in the Heritage Christian School. At this time Manson became instilled with fear, and became terrorized by the Christian school. The Coughlin (n.d.) website states he believed he was cheated and abused due to the teachings of the arrival of Christ and the apocalyptic conspiracy theories preached at his school. To complicate Manson’s childhood Manson suffered molestation from a neighbor and did not inform his mother for a long time of the molestation. Manson’s environment was at first church and family. Going to a faith-oriented school Manson was educated about how he would be damn for his...
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...Life Span Development and Personality Paper PSY/300 Life span development is a study into a person’s life. The type of person, the person’s traits and what makes him or her different is the building blocks of a person’s personality. This paper will introduce the study of the life span and personality of shock rocker Marilyn Manson. It will be discussing Manson’s environmental development. It will discuss the moral psychological development, social support, and family support of Marilyn Manson. Each area helped in molding Manson and gave Manson adjustment to his life. It will show how his morals differ from societies morals, and how he was and still is perceived in society as a “Shock Rocker.” Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner, January 5, 1969 in the town of Canton which is in the state of Ohio, to Hugh, and Barb Warner. At a tender age of five Manson entered in the Heritage Christian School. At this time Manson became instilled with fear, and became terrorized by the Christian school. The Coughlin (n.d.) website states he believed he was cheated and abused due to the teachings of the arrival of Christ and the apocalyptic conspiracy theories preached at his school. To complicate Manson’s childhood Manson suffered molestation from a neighbor and did not inform his mother for a long time of the molestation. Manson’s environment was at first church and family. Going to a faith-oriented school Manson was educated about how he would be damn for his sins, which made...
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...pilot did to Marilyn was what he ought to have done? Can you justify your position? What principles might you use to do so? What does Jan Narveson think about cases like Marilyn’s? Why does he think as he does? How many changes, and to what extent, would be the very minimum that would have to be made in Godwin’s story “Cold Equations” before you would think that Marilyn ought to be spared by the EDS pilot? Stephanie Mann 4778759 Phil 1F90 Maya Snrdic In the short story The Cold Equations, it depicts life’s real challenges, and how we must face them when in a decision of where we are obligated to figure out for ourselves what is right and wrong. Although this is a science-fictional story, it shows us how real life decisions are made, in which this case, the decision is threatening to one’s life. The choices made in this story are done through morality, utilitarianism, and assumption, clearly shown throughout the obstacles that are thrown at the main character and subject. In this short story, Marilyn made a choice, and clearly the last choice she could have made as a young 18 year old, to sneak onto a ship that was clearly marked “unauthorized personnel, keep out!” Little did she know was that her decision to sneak onto this ship would not be to pay a small fine, but would be to pay the price of her life. The EDS pilot now has to face decisions that he would rather not, since he is the one who has to choose who dies or not. He knows in his heart that Marilyn doesn’t deserve...
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...Natural Law Theory: Natural law theory is the concept that regardless the situation or time your morals would determine the right and good action. The theory is considered a foundation of moral principle. An example of this could be in a life or death scenario the decisions you make. Do you try to help others or save yourself? Natural law theory states that you would think in an emotional, intellectual, and rational mindset and ultimately your morals would decipher what your next action is. 4. Oppression, according to Marilyn Frye: Oppression is defined as unjust treatment or no control. Marilyn Frye describes oppression as “a system of interrelated barriers and forces which reduce, immobilize, and mold people who belong to a certain group and effect their subordination to another group”. Frye believed people were limited and many times less than free. There have been many examples in history of oppression. A clear example would be when certain societies look at women as property. There, the women are...
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...Monroe, Marilyn (1 June 1926-5 Aug. 1962), film actress and sex symbol, was born Norma Jeane Mortensen (and was also known as Norma Jeane Baker in her youth) in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Gladys Monroe Baker Mortensen, a film cutter, who was unmarried when she gave birth to Monroe (her father has never been positively identified). Gladys Mortensen was an avid movie fan, but Monroe spent very little time with her often unstable mother. Within two weeks of her birth, Monroe was placed in the first of what would be a succession of foster homes, guardianships, and orphanages. This experience convinced her that she was a "mistake," a person easily abandoned. Given an insecure childhood that included the trauma of sexual molestation and an early marriage (to James Dougherty in 1942; they were divorced in 1946) arranged in part to prevent her return to an orphanage, it is a testament to Monroe's tenacity, personal strength, and resilience that she managed to achieve the heights in her career that she did. Her marriage to Dougherty compelled Monroe to quit high school, and her lack of formal education furthered her sense of inadequacy. While her husband served in the merchant marine during World War II, Monroe found a job inspecting parachutes at the Radioplane Company (1944-1945). Army photographers who had arrived at the plant to take commercial and military pictures of female war workers discovered her. From this first successful posing arose Monroe's fabled "love affair"...
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...Running head: ETHICS ESSAY Ethics Essay Marilyn Alamo University of Phoenix Ethics and Social Responsibility ETH/316 Christopher Whetstine Mar 24, 2014 Ethics Essay Ethics is a philosophy in determining what is good or bad and what is right from wrong. In everyday life ethics is used to decide what moral direction to take. This essay will be comparing the similarities and differences between virtue theory, utilitarian, and deontological ethics. The concept of Virtue theory is that a person chooses his or her own personal character than to rely on what is custom or the law by society to determine behavior. If a person builds good character traits such as kindness, patience and generosity these traits will allow the person to make the right decisions in life. Utilitarianism is a principle and a form of consequentialism which basically advocates that the action taken is the right one when the outcome benefits the majority overall. This ethical theory focuses more on the consequences of the action taken versus the motive behind the action so lying, cheating or stealing doesn’t matter as long as the outcome is beneficial to most. Deontological ethics is duty based morality. The theory basically means that the actions are not justified by the consequences of the action and that the means is what is important. Immanuel Kant the German philosopher developed the “Categorical Imperative” which is similar to the “Golden Rule” in Christianity. In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics...
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...Williams and Marilyn D. McShane, analyzed and explained the various group of perspectives that define why delinquents commit crime. As discussed in a pervious reading and summary tilted “ Gender, Feminist Theory, and Crime” it was made clear that some researchers suggested that more males commit more serious crimes than females. Life experiences have an major effect in determining the motivation and outcome of a woman’s behavior, espically when those experiences have been negative. Women being the ones who commit fewer and less serious crimes than men a gender gap starts to occur. There are several reasons for broken social bonds in society. Durkheim said, “ a society will always have a certain number of deviant s and deviance is really a normal phenomenon”...
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...Cultural Perceptions of Intelligence Marilyn Raleigh Dr. Castleberry March 20, 2015 The two cultures I selected to compare how each receives intelligence are the United States and Ghana. The American culture is more of an individualistic culture. There are many different cultures within the American culture. American culture holds values of religion, family, and morality; however these beliefs aren’t collective where each individual in America may hold a different view of these specific values (Verdem, 2013). The advancement in an individualistic society is placed on the individual goals and desires as opposed to what might be best for one’s society .Individuals in a collectivist .culture such as Ghana focus on the well -being and what will benefit the greater need of society. America Individualistic Culture There are many different cultures within the American culture. American culture holds values of religion, family, and morality; however these beliefs aren’t collective where each individual in America may hold a different view of these specific values (Verdem, 2013). .Americans has been exposed to many types of intelligent tests. Basic skills are given yearly to determine how much children are learning through the school system or if home schooled. College students must take SAT and ACT tests and obtain a certain percentage score for admission. Technology has impacted America; through computers, cell phone...
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...Religious Traditions Rebecca Scales World Religions II Marilyn Flege May 9, 2013 Religion is the foundation of morality. Without religion, we would be living in a lawless society with no consequences. Organized religion has helped shape the society we live in today. Religion gives people something to believe in. The definition of religion is re·li·gion [ri-lij-uhn] noun 1.a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. 2. A specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion. 3. The body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions. 4. The life or state of a monk, nun, etc.: to enter religion. 5. The practice of religious beliefs; ritual observance of faith. Religion is practicing your own set of beliefs and traditions. Having a belief in something gives people hope and faith that there will be better days in the future; that everything happens for a reason. Religion is something that you may very much practice, and it may be something that one doesn't even care for. Every religion has their own set of traditions that they practice. When it comes to Christianity, traditions that they...
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...Melissa English 100 October 21, 2013 Argument Essay Who are we to say there is no God? Werner Heisenberg once said "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you." Even a man whose life focus was science and explaining how things worked believed in a Power greater than himself. Heisenberg was a genius and his theories couldn't explain away God. Although some say that the wonders of mother nature can be explained by scientific facts I believe the presence of God is all around us. Atheists argue that suffering and war come from religion but God is loving and all-inclusive; it is people in the religions that cause the suffering not God. Even though Austin Cline believes there are too many religions and different God's to go with them all (page 71) ; I believe the other gods are pleasing to mans desire. A true God would be contrary to flesh and be on a much holier level thus proving man made to please themselves. These man made gods are made of wood stone and iron made by mans hands. God has never had a graven image or a name like they do. "There Is No God" by Sam Harris gives the example of hurricane Katrina as proof there is no God (page 72). Harris uses the point that if there is a God "what was he doing while a hurricane wasted their city?" For one thing, such events shake our confidence in this life and force us to think about eternity. Churches are usually filled after disasters...
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...1. Definition: The word “prostitution” can also be used metaphorically to mean debasing oneself or working towards an unworthy cause or “selling out” In this sense, “prostituting oneself” or “whoring oneself” the services or acts performed are typically not sexual. A person who works in this field is called a prostitute, and is a kind of sex worker. Prostitution is one of the branches of the sex industry. A person who works in this field is called a prostitute, and is a kind of sex worker. Prostitution is one of the branches of the sex industry. The legal status of prostitution varies from country to country, from being permissible but unregulated, to an enforced or unenforced crime or to a regulated profession. Prostitution is sometimes also referred to as “the world’s oldest profession”. Estimates place the annual revenue generated by prostitution worldwide to be over $100 billion. Both women and boys engaged in prostitution. Female prostitutes could be independent and sometimes influential women. They were required to wear distinctive dresses and had to pay taxes. 2. Origin: In ancient days, prostitutes were often foreign slaves, captured, purchased, or raised for that purpose, sometimes by large-scale “prostitute farmers” who took abandoned children. Indeed, abandoned children were almost always raised as prostitutes. In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka, Japan. To entertain their...
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...“All My Sons”. “The Crucible” was historically influenced by those trying to cleanse American culture of anyone who persisted in seeing the Soviet Union as a source of good in the world. This disgusted Miller so much that he based “The Crucible” on the anti-communist hysteria that pervaded the 1950s America, and the witch-hunts of the late 17th century He hated the idea of tragedy in ordinary lives and had much concern for the physical wellbeing of the working class. The outburst of these ideas caused him to be called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and was convicted of contempt of Congress for not cooperating (this conviction however was later appealed). The unraveling of his troubled and turbulent marriage with Marilyn Monroe was the main personal event that influenced Miller’s writing of this play. Miller reflected that the meaning of “The Crucible” was somewhat different in different places and moments....
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...Americans still suffer inequalities. As has been noted, the Native American culture, was decimated with disease, violence, imprisonment on Government land grants, and imposed ideas of what is civilized, and still live in third world conditions. How is that fair? The government poisons share croppers, with syphilis, in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1932, because they were poor African Americans, and they believed they would never know (Gray). Does this show a government supporting fair an equality for legitimate complaints of oppression, not a preference in lustful hobbies? They support the LGBT movement, which spread the most sexually transmitted disease, have highest suicide rates/depression, and promote freedom to follow your own human lust, no morality. No equality for real problems facing our government, but like the ostrich with their head in the dirt, we look around and see a whole new system of...
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...The French Revolution: The French Revolution was a time for spreading out and finding freedom for the French. It was a way for the French to recreate their government to give some kind of equality for their people. Though for woman in that time period it was still a struggle for equal rights during the rest of country’s upheaval. The French Revolution was caused by a downfall in the royal family, having to do with serious financial issues. King Louis XVI call in the French Estates General in 1788, to help with the financial crisis the country was going through (Doyle). The Estate General was divided into three estates: First Estate representing the upper class, the Second Estate representing middle class, and the Third Estate representing the lower class. There was one vote for each estate, and in the past the Second Estate and the First Estate had joined together to defeat any proposals for reform from the Third Estate. The Third Estate was determined that would not be so in the current assembly and pushed for the vote of each representative to be counted as a separate vote. They were not able to agree on a voting method. Leading the Third Estate and the lower half Second Estate to break away from the Estates General, forming the National Assembly on June 17, 1789 (Doyle). King Louis XVI admitted defeat on June 27, first appeasing then confrontational ordered his nobles, and the upper half Second Estate to join the National Assembly effectively ending the Estates General...
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