...type of security plans we impose because terrorists will find a way around them. This can be seen when Carr writes “When one target is shored up, nimble transnational cells that can turn on a dime simply find a new bull’s-eyes”. He is describing how once America clears up one potential threat the terrorists will just turn around and find a different way to attack. With this Carr says that it is futile and that there is no point in putting more effort into further protecting America’s borders because terrorists are extremely driven and will find a different way. I, however, do not agree with Carr’s argument. Although I do agree with the fact that it doesn’t matter what we do, terrorist will continue...
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...Pacemaker company, they will have no other source of transistor inventory. Given these details, moral issues arise with your company being the origin of the involuntary shutdown of pacemaker manufacturing, depriving heart patients of their sole option of heart rate normalcy. Essentially, if you terminate your contract with the Pacemaker company, heart patients in need of the pacemaker will die. While business interests simply commend individuals to think economically efficient, morality often comes into play under circumstances as such, validating the disparities between a company’s principles as an object and staff virtues as human beings. With the combination of performance and righteousness, thinking ethically becomes a significant tactic in drawing a decision. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics provides a framework of five approaches that can be utilized in ethical decision making. There is the Utilitarian, Rights, Fairness/Justice, Common-Good, and Virtue Approach, all of which provide different moral perspectives and alternatives to...
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...English 1103 November 3, 2011 Analyzing Arguments: Is Vegan/Vegetarianism Diets Healthy? Eating is a necessary task humans undertake every day to survive and thrive. Food has become a huge part of society’s everyday culture and an essential aspect in our economy. As humans, we are capable of choosing the types of food we put in our bodies and these choices define in part what we look like and what we stand for. People choose whether they would like to be carnivores, vegetarians, vegans, or a combination. Author Ben Kim, a chiropractor and acupuncturist in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, states his thoughts on these choices in his article “A Strict Vegetarian Diet Is Unhealthy for Most People.” His article was written in 2010 to discourage people from adopting 100% vegan diets because in his opinion these diets are dangerous to the long term health of humans. Kim addresses his article to people who have adopted or are thinking of adopting 100% vegan lifestyles. He is trying to convince these groups that it is unhealthy long-term to limit yourself to a 100% plant-based diet. The main ideas Kim states in order to dissuade his audience from adopting vegan diets are that 100% vegan diets lead long term to the development of nutritional deficiencies and significant health problems, that the morality of vegan lifestyles are questionable, and that the organizations that promote vegan lifestyles have ulterior motives. While Kim makes a weak argument against 100% vegan diets, his assertion...
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...Many have argued over the years that affirmative action in schools or the workforce is necessary for the fusion and equality of our culture. In the book, Taking Sides, two different authors discuss each view of either side of the issue. Affirmative Action began as a government policy to aid in ending racial discrimination and promote equal opportunities to minorities. Both Robert Staples and Roger Clegg have a solid view of where they stand on the issue of affirmative action. Staples agrees that affirmative action is necessary to achieve racial equality. He does not believe that the United States has reached the point of being a color-blind society. Staples sees racism still being present in our modern society. Staples argues that the argument against affirmative action is only a plot to keep the white men at their privileged status at the expense of the minorities. Staples points out affirmative action is not a program used exclusively by blacks. White women are often the primary beneficiaries. Also, he recognizes that minorities, specifically blacks, are still being treated unfairly and unequally. Staples argues that there is no clear definition for Affirmative Action. It tends to be interpreted differently by many people. It has been estimated that five million people of color have gotten their jobs due to affirmative action. His stance on the issue of affirmative action is that it is the fairest way to include everyone to an equal opportunity, whether it is in the schools...
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...Psychological Egoism All forms of egoism require explication of “self-interest” (or “welfare” or “well-being”). There are two main theories. Preference or desire accounts identify self-interest with the satisfaction of one's desires. Often, and most plausibly, these desires are restricted to self-regarding desires. What makes a desire self-regarding is controversial, but there are clear cases and counter-cases: a desire for my own pleasure is self-regarding; a desire for the welfare of others is not. Objective accounts identify self-interest with the possession of states (such as virtue or knowledge) that are valued independently of whether they are desired. Hedonism, which identifies self-interest with pleasure, is either a preference or an objective account, according to whether what counts as pleasure is determined by one's desires. Psychological egoism claims that each person has but one ultimate aim: her own welfare. This allows for action that fails to maximize perceived self-interest, but rules out the sort of behavior psychological egoists like to target — such as altruistic behavior or motivation by thoughts of duty alone. It allows for weakness of will, since in weakness of will cases I am still aiming at my own welfare; I am weak in that I do not act as I aim. And it allows for aiming at things other than one's welfare, such as helping others, where these things are a means to one's welfare. Psychological egoism is supported by our frequent observation of self-interested...
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...------------------------------------------------- Clarence Williams ------------------------------------------------- EN102 Outline for argument analysis: Arrested Development I. ------------------------------------------------- Introduction: * ------------------------------------------------- James Forman Jr. targets this article towards conservatives who oppose racial profiling * ------------------------------------------------- Claim: Forman claims that racial profiling is an ineffective way to enforce the law and should be stopped. ------------------------------------------------- II. Summary: "Arrested Development" by James Forman Jr. , is an article that looks at the issue of racial profiling. III. ------------------------------------------------- James Forman Jr. is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is a graduate of Brown University and Yale law school * ------------------------------------------------- Yale faculty biographies ------------------------------------------------- IV. ------------------------------------------------- Forman aims this article towards conservatives which is a good choice because conservatives are color blind meaning they see people as equal. ------------------------------------------------- -Quote ------------------------------------------------- V. ------------------------------------------------- Forman appeals to the reader’s emotions by telling stories about the students of Maya...
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... |Management | | | | | Course Description This course applies the tools available to University of Phoenix graduate students and the competencies of successful managers to understand the functions of business. Students develop an increased awareness of their own perceptions and values in order to manage and communicate with others more effectively. Other topics include MBA program goals, argument construction, decision making, collaboration, and academic research. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the...
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...Price Discrimination | | Most businesses charge different prices to different groups of consumers for what is more or less the same good or service! This is price discrimination and it has become widespread in nearly every market. This note looks at variations of price discrimination and evaluates who gains and who loses?What is price discrimination?Price discrimination or yield management occurs when a firm charges a different price to different groups of consumers for an identical good or service, for reasons not associated with costs. It is important to stress that charging different prices for similar goods is not pure price discrimination. We must be careful to distinguish between price discrimination and product differentiation – differentiation of the product gives the supplier greater control over price and the potential to charge consumers a premium price because of actual or perceived differences in the quality / performance of a good or service.Conditions necessary for price discrimination to workEssentially there are two main conditions required for discriminatory pricing * Differences in price elasticity of demand between markets: There must be a different price elasticity of demand from each group of consumers. The firm is then able to charge a higher price to the group with a more price inelastic demand and a relatively lower price to the group with a more elastic demand. By adopting such a strategy, the firm can increase its total revenue and profits (i...
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...effectively. Other topics include MBA program goals, argument construction, decision making, collaboration, and academic research. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Hoch, S. J., Kunreuther, H. C., & Gunther, R. E. (Eds.). (2001). Wharton on making decisions. New York, NY: Wiley. Nickels, W. G., McHugh, J. M., & McHugh, S. M. (2010). Understanding business (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Robbins, S. P. & Judge, T. A. (2011). Organizational behavior (14th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. Spatt, B. (2011). Writing from Sources (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Bedford/ St. Martin‘s. Yukl, G. (2010). Leadership in organizations (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. All electronic materials are available on the student website. Week One: Constructing and Supporting an Argument Details Due Points Objectives 1.1 Identify channels...
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...CORE NEGOTIATION CONCEPTS Rex Mitchell Opportunities and requirements for negotiation (and persuasion) are everywhere, everyday Negotiation: * Conferring with another so as to arrive at the settlement of some matter (dictionary) * Negotiation is a basic means of getting what you want from others. It is back-and-forth communication designed to reach an agreement when you and the other side have some interests that are ...opposed. (Fisher & Ury) Negotiation myths (first four from Thompson 1998): 1. Good negotiators are born - they are self-made, requires study and practice 2. Experience is a great teacher - experience can improve negotiation skills to some extent, but have to learn from the experience - not unaided, unreflected, without feedback. Experience tends to improve our confidence, but not our accuracy/effectiveness 3. Good negotiators take lots of risks - while this may work in the movies, it isn’t in the script for real negotiations. Some negotiators may do this occasionally, but after carefully considering risks & potential benefits. They know how to evaluate a situation and make an optimal choice given the information available. 4. Good negotiators rely on intuition - Effective negotiators are self-aware and very conscious of what they are doing and why. Most of the important work of negotiation takes place before meeting (preparation). 5. Negotiations are always win-lose - a vast majority can be win-win. 6. The only negotiations are formal...
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...rights has always been a extensively challenged and debated topic, especially in the recent decades. In recent decades, a widely contested debate over the universality of human rights has emerged. Rights are certainly not universally-applied today, with oppression, torture and various atrocities committed in many parts of the world. This paper will focus on the notion that both in the Third-World and the West, states have used human rights discussion as a political tool, which has weakened arguments for its universality. This perspective will be utilised to break down arguments made against universal human rights before presenting alternative conceptions of universal human rights and identifying developments which may ensure they can be universally applied and respected. It is important to first define the theoretical basis of ‘universal’ human rights. Universal conceptions argue human rights are inalienable, self-evident and applicable to all human beings (Donnelly, 2003, 10). These arguments are often linked to origins in Western philosophy and natural law, developed from philosophers such as John Locke (Langlois, 2009, 12). Many scholars maintain that human rights are ‘pre-political’, thus unchangeable and unaffected by cultural or political variation. Donnelly identifies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the basis in establishing the “contemporary consensus on internationally recognised human rights” (2003, 22). Human rights hold universal values which should be...
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...because of the gruesome facts and because of the many lies Casey told investigators and police authorities. The in-depth search by numerous agencies and private citizens to find clues kept the case in the media spotlight. In fact, I wondered how “fair” the trial would be due to the amount of national coverage the case actually received. I found myself going into the trial with already formed opinions about Casey’s culpability. As such, I was very anxious to actually watch the proceedings and see the facts as presented in the courtroom versus the national media. The opening arguments by the prosecutor set the stage for what was to come. The prosecutor stated: “It’s time to tell the story of a little girl named Caylee Anthony.” From there she went on to describe in detail this 2-year old’s life with her grandparents, who adored her, and her mother who seemed more concerned with her own “made-up” life than the welfare of her own daughter. As the prosecutor explained the details of Caylee’s life, the defendant, Casey Anthony, had an array of facial expressions including shaking her head when she disagreed with something and some occasional crying moments. Other than that she had a straight face during most of the 2-hour opening statement seemingly un-phased by the...
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...distributive bargaining situations where debaters utilize selective presentation to try and win their arguments. This paper will define what a distributive bargaining situation is and secondly, this written discourse will define the technique of selective presentation. Furthermore, this paper will also discuss the definition of power, and the role power plays in negotiation. To elaborate on distributive bargaining situations and the use of selective presentation, I will use two arguments from a debate between James Carville, Jr., a liberal political commentator and professor at Tulane University, and S.E. Cupp, a republican political commentator, writer, and Ivey League socialite. The arguments originally specified by the republican commentator S.E. Cupp, stated “President Obama did not received the same microscope treatment that President Bush received from the media, congress, and the Senate;” and “raising taxes will not create more jobs, cutting taxes will create more jobs because businesses are job creators.” These two arguments will be used to show how selective presentation is applied in intellectual distributive bargaining situations. Before I jump into the overall essence of this paper I would like to emphasize the race factors that come with the first argument that will be analyzed. Secondly, I will also touch on the problematic and complex intricacies that the second argument relates to concerning the gap between the wealthiest one percent of Americans and the rest of...
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...Therefore, both states contain boundary lines that are biased toward voting pools and thus corrupt the idea of democracy. The two primary arguments in conjunction with permitting Gerrymandering are first, that Gerrymandering permits officials to effectively embody the welfares of their constituency and second, to allow legislatures to become more accurate of how the citizens feel. Despite these theoretical benefits, regarding the representation of the official’s constituency, this is only plausible when considering the category of Gerrymandering that involves the packing of votes. If cracking, the form of Gerrymandering in which votes of a particular type are spread immensely throughout many districts in order to deny them a sufficient voting coalition in any district, is conducted rather than packing, largely proportional constituencies of voters will appear in which the dominant party meticulously analyzes their advantage to create a mirage of a close vote, but will still maintain supremacy. Looking at the argument of allowing legislature to be more accurate in regards to how the citizens feel, this is blatantly incorrect. Gerrymandering is inherently biased in the sense that it is designed to disturb the balance of...
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...Merck & Co. marketed a drug called Vioxx. The drug was said to have less gastrointestinal problems than its counterpart competition – naproxen. However, Vioxx had considerably more side effects including; heart attacks and strokes (Vershoor,C.C., 2006). The drugs were pulled from the market in September, 2004, but not before over 100 million prescriptions were filled. Merck & Co. (Gardinar, H. 2009). Was also accused of misrepresentation or concealing of study results to doctors. The New England Journal of Medicine reported that previous studies of three patients had been withheld. In these three particular studies the patients all suffered heart attacks when taking Vioxx. Sales reps for Merck & Co. were trained to use subliminal selling tactics. Additionally, Merck & Co. only chose...
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