...A king named Hammurabi made 282 laws 4,000 years ago. Those laws were called Hammurabi’s Code. They were made to protect the weak. But did they really? In my opinion, Hammurabi’s Code wasn’t just. First of all, Hammurabi’s Code hurt family members. For example, in Document C, Law 129, a lady has to be thrown in a lake for cheating on her unharmed husband. Also, in Law 195, he threatened to cut a child’s hand off. He may have struck his father, but cutting a someone’s hand off is way too much. Based on what I read, Hammurabi would throw someone into water. This shows that Hammurabi isn’t afraid to hurt anyone, even children. As you can see, Hammurabi would harm family members no matter who it is. Additionally, Hammurabi’s Code didn’t make sense...
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...Did you know Hammurabi ruled about 42 year’s ?, Hammurabi was a great ruler and wrote 282 law’s carved on a large stone but some of Hammurabi’s Laws are just not. Hammurabi’s code therathed the family. For examples, in Document C Law 148 if a man wife is weak the man shall marry another women and take care his weak wife. Also in law 129 if a wife is caught cheating with another man they both get throwend in the water bindfloed and tied up This show’s how Hammarbi’s Laws never help the family. Based on what i learned about Hammurabi’s Laws i think this laws are sad because why do they have to drown the women and the men can’t they just give them a differnt punisment also why do they have to marry another women and let the other die can’t...
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...Don’t you hate it when you are not treated equal or mislead? Hammurabi had biased and unequal rulings that involved landowners, free people, and slaves. He had 282 laws and he was not open to changing even though some of them were not fair. Hammurabi was alive in the 18th century B.C., this is when he established his code. He ruled Babylonia for 40 years. Was Hammurabi’s laws fair? Hammurabi's laws were unfair because he manipulated his people, he wasn’t open to any change in his laws, and lastly he treated his people unjustly. Hammurabi manipulated his people into think that his laws came directly from Shamash. For example Doc A says, Shamash is a god. Hammurabi says that Shamash advised him in a meeting with the laws. But there is no evidence to prove this meeting really happened. So he could’ve lied to his people by convincing him the god Shamash told him these laws so that his people would follow these rules. From Doc B, it quotes Hammurabi taking props of the rules that he said the god Shamash came up with. Which this shows that he lied to his people. He lied because before he said it was the god's rules...
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...in the middle a person comes in and confesses to the crime. Suddenly, the current trial ends and a new trial begins: against you. The judge decides to cut your hands off for falsely accusing someone while the thief gets away scot-free. I bet you’re thinking that it would be totally unfair to get your hands cut off while a thief gets away with stealing your wallet, just because you thought someone else stole it, then you are completely correct. However, if you lived during Hammurabi’s rule, then this situation might have actually happened. Hammurabi was an ancient king who ruled a small city-state in Mesopotamia, called Babylonia. Hammurabi ruled for 42 years from 1834 BCE (Before Common Era) - 1792BCE. Near the end of Hammurabi's of rule, he created a law code which he carved on a large stone column called a stele. Now you know a little background, we can start answering our main question: Was Hammurabi’s Code just? I don’t think so and here are three reasons why. Hammurabi’s Family Law was unjust; this is shown in Law 129 where if a man wants to marry a second wife because his first wife is sick, he could become sick infecting who know how many other people! (Doc C) Or in Law 195 is unfair because the punishment for striking your father is cutting your hands off!(Doc C) What if your father was being really mean and hits you because he was angry at someone else? Sometimes you have to defend...
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...Hammurabi’s code was it just or unjust? Hammurabi’s code was a set of 282 laws that were written by the king of Babylon Hammurabi in 1792 BCE. He said that he was told to write and enforce those laws by the god Shamash. Hammurabi was the only person who could change the laws. There are three areas of law where Hammurabi’s Code can be shown to be unjust. These are family laws property laws, and personal injury laws. Examples of injustice can first be found in the area of family law. First, law number 129 states that if a woman is caught cheating that she and the person whom she cheated with will be tied up and drowned. Second, law number 195 states that id a son hits his father that the consequence to his actions is that he will have his hands cut off. These examples show tat Hammurabi’s Code was unjust because the laws that Hammurabi created for families were too harsh. Hitting your father should not result in your hands being cut off, although it does deserve a punishment the one in place was too strict. Also cheating on you significant other does not need to be punished by death....
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...King Hammurabi wrote 282 laws thousands of years ago to protect those who suffered.Thousands of years ago these laws were laid out.These laws still exist today as a starting point for laws,and while some people think the 282 laws were unfair, I have a different outlook on this subject. First of all,Hammurabi laid out laws concerning property.For example Law 23 reimburse a victim of robbery,who tells a god what he has lost and the local ruler replaces it.Also, Law 48 states if a man borrows money and loses it due to an accident he does not have to pay his creditor.Based on what I read Hammurabi wrote Law 23 to help people who got robbed.As you can see Hammurabi was paying attention to property,and what he did to counter it. In addition,family...
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...Question 1: Why is the Hammurabi Code considered to be so important? The Law Stele of Hammurabi or the Hammurabi code is perhaps one of the oldest, most comprehensive and influential codification of laws ever created in ancient times. The intricately chiselled basalt pillar (or Stele) upon which the codes are written is considered an historical work of art, history and literature which is now housed in the Louvre in Paris, France (André-Salvini, 2003). It towers over 7.5 feet tall and the text is chiselled into solid stone. King Hammurabi (c. 1792 – 1750 B.C.E.) commissioned its construction to create a sovereign authority of universal laws throughout the Babylonian empire and as a demonstration of his duty to the gods and the citizens (Roth, 1995). It is a collaboration of pre-existing laws gathered from around the Babylonian Empire. The Hammurabi code served as not only an educational tool to “enlighten the land [but also created legal precedent] to further the well-being of mankind” (Hammurabi, 1752 B.C.E). The sheer height and shape of the structure alone is a testament to his...
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...Those against the idea of Capital Punishment often argue that a human beings life is so precious, so valued that it should not ever be abruptly ended even despite the individuals past and even despite how animalistic the crimes they committed were. An example of unfair trials and wrongly charged sentences despite being a fictional novel is, To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel that follows a black man living in Southern America in the early 1930’s wrongly accused and sentenced for raping a white woman. Not only does this show how people can be wrongly sentenced but also shows examples of racial discrimination and how their trials were more than usually unfairly judged simply due to the colour of their skin and ethnicity. I link this source to a more present and recent court case that has slowly but surely attracted attention...
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...the kings at the very top and workers being under the rulings of the king. There were the elites at the top, dependent commoners as the elite's assistants , free commoners as the farmers and fisherman, and the slaves who built palaces and did as officials asked them to do. How did Hammurabi’s empire maintain in order and how did Hammurabi gain power from other city states? Describe Hammurabi's code and if the laws were fair or unjust. Hammurabi’s empire gained control of other city-states using military power. Hammurabi established a new capital at Babylon and called himself “The Sun of Babylon”. Although he may be named the man of war, he was also called the man of peace. After Hammurabi’s death weak kings were unable to keep his empire united and fell to invaders. Hammurabi is known for his law code and revealed a society with a strict justice. There were some flaws like if a lower classman offended someone they were punished more severely than if an upper classman offended someone. Another downside to Hammurabi’s code was the husband could divorce the woman if she was unable to bear any children. Hammurabi’s code and rule were strict and unfair yet his Empire flourished and was unable to be maintained by other kings. Describe the cultivation of writing and sciences in Mesopotamian culture. The oldest Mesopotamian texts date back to 3000 B.C.E written by the Sumerians. The Sumerians used a reed stylus and made wedge-shaped impressions on clay tablets and left the outside...
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...IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper Business Ethics Section-A Part One: Multiple Choices: 1. (a) Information Technology 2. (a) Equal distribution of all benefits & burdens on peoples 3. (c) Retributive Justice 4. (b) Free Markets 5. (d) Historical Materialism 6. (a) Pure Monopoly 7. (a) Highly concentrated Markets 8. (b) Chlorofluorocarbons 9. (b) Market Cost 10. (c) Both (a) and (b) Part Two: 1. Definition: Mineral depletion is the ratio of the value of the stock of mineral resources to the remaining reserve lifetime (capped at 25 years). It covers tin, gold, lead, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, silver, bauxite, and phosphate. At first glance, sustainability and mineral resource development appear to be in conflict. Mining depletes finite resources and in a strict sense, therefore, is inherently unsustainable. For instance, there is only a finite amount of copper in the earth’s crust, and each unit of copper extracted increases the fraction of the total copper resource base that is in use. Thus, it can be argued that if we continue to mine we will eventually exhaust the available supply of minerals. This perspective, however, ignores the dynamics of mineral supplies. In practice the non-renewable character of minerals may be less constraining than it might seem. Five factors make the benefits from mining much more sustainable than they initially appear to be. First, through the process of exploration and development...
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...Project submitted by: Syed Saquran Ali Kazmi Karar Abbas Riffat Batool Aisha Nadeem Quaid-i-Azam School of Management Science Table of Contents 1 Ethics…………………………………………………………………………. 3 2 Business Ethics………………………………………………………………. 3 3 History……………………………………………………………………….. 4 4 Business ethic policy………………………………………………………… 5 5 Corporation in Business ethics……………………………………………... 5 6 Corporation a Moral agent………………………………………………… 6 7 Corporation to be governed………………………………………………… 6 8 The Employment relation in Business Ethics……………………………… 7 9 International Business Ethics………………………………………………. 9 10 Problems in Business Ethics………………………………………………… 10 11 Challenges in business Ethics……………………………………………….. 11 12 CASE: Business Ethics in Islam…………………………………………….. 12 13 Ethics in Islam……………………………………………………….. 13 14 Freedom in Enterprises……………………………………………… 13 15 Islam Tenets Concerning Business Transactions………………….. 14 16 Keenness to Earn Legitimate (Halal) Earnings…………………….. 14 17 Trade through Mutual Consent…………………………………….. 15 18 Truthfulness in Business Transactions……………………………... 16 19 Trustworthiness in Business Transactions…………………………. 16 20 Generosity and Leniency in Business Transactions………………... 17 21 Honoring and fulfilling Business Obligations………………………. 17 22 Fair Treatment of Workers…………………………………………. 18 23 Prohibited matters in Business Transactions……………………….. 18 24 Dealing in Prohibited (Haram) Items……………………………….. 18 25 Sale of Al-Gharar...
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...GE 1301- PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND HUMAN VALUES UNIT I & II – HUMAN VALUES The Story of a Carpenter An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house- building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss his paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career. When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed over the house key to the carpenter. “This is your house,” he said, “it is my parting gift to you.” What a shock! What a Shame! If only he had known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he built none too well. (Modified from LIVING WITH HONOUR by SHIV KHERA) Do we find ourselves in similar situations as the carpenter? Moving through our work hours fast paced, driven to “get the job done”, without much thought to moral values. How do we regain our focus as individuals and organizations? This is the challenge for the employee and the employer. Ethics are fundamental standards of conduct by which we work as a professional. VALUES Values...
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...Apartment • Apartment: a relatively self-contained housing unit in a building which is often rented out to one person or a family, or two or more people sharing a lease in a partnership, for their exclusive use. Sometimes called a flat or digs (slang). Some locales have legal definitions of what constitutes an apartment. In some locations, "apartment" denotes a building that was built specifically for such units, whereas "flat" denotes a unit in a building that had been originally built as a single-family house, but later on subdivided into some multi-unit house type.[5] • Apartment building, Block of flats: a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments. Contrast this with the two-family house and the three-family dwelling. An apartment (in US English) or flat (in British English and often associated with or miscontrued as social housing) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure). The term apartment is favored in North America, whereas the term flat is commonly, but not exclusively, used in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and most Commonwealth countries. In Malaysian English, flat often denotes a housing block of lesser quality meant for lower-income groups, while apartment...
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...generously made resources available to hire graphic artist Donna Loper to produce this electronic version. WSUV currently houses and maintains the site. Correspondence regarding this site should be addressed to Prof. Sue Peabody, Department of History, Washington State University Vancouver, peabody@vancouver.wsu.edu. If you are interested in more recent writings by Chris Crawford, see the Reflections interview at the end of The Art of Computer Game Design; the Virtools Swap-meet interview with Chris Crawford; and Chris Crawford's webpage, Erasmatazz. A PDF version of this text is available HERE. To download Adobe Reader, follow THIS link. Table of Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • Acknowledgement Preface Chapter 1 - What is a Game? Chapter 2 - Why Do People Play Games? Chapter 3 - A Taxonomy of Computer Games Chapter 4 - The Computer as a Game Technology Chapter 5 - The Game Design Sequence Chapter 6 - Design Techniques and Ideals Chapter 7 - The Future of Computer Games Chapter 8 - Development of Excalibur Reflections - Interview with Chris The Education of a Game Designer, November 2003 ACKNOWLEDGMENT I am deeply indebted to Madeleine M. Gross for her painstaking and thorough criticisms of this book. In many cases she invested greater efforts into her criticisms...
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...UNIT ONE INTRODUCTION TO CIVIC AND ETHICAL EDUCATION 1. INTRODUCTION 2. MEANINGS OF CIVICS AND ETHICAL EDUCATION The Notion of Civics The subject field of civics originates from the nature of human being itself i.e. from the natural behavior and level of interaction of human beings it self. One basic nature of human beings related with this statement is the fact that “man is a social animal” whose life is closely related to each other. Almost all instincts, demands and progresses of human beings are fulfilled in society. The superiority that human beings try to achieve over nature and other living things is the result of the social bond among human beings. If such bond is a requirement for the survival of human beings, then what should be the pattern of social interaction that exist among human beings is closely related with the subject matter of civics. In this regard civics is considered as a subject field which is mainly concerned with teaching citizens as to how they can live harmonious and peaceful life with other citizens and as to how they can resolve conflicts peacefully among them selves. The other basic nature of human being is the political view of philosophy by Plato that, “Man is a political animal”, which means no human being can escape from the deeds of politics and its dayto-day life is either directly or indirectly affected by it. For this reason human beings have to know the workings of politics, institutions that affect their day to day life, norms, principles...
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