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  • Morality in Oedipus Tyrannus

    Morality in Oedipus Tyrannus

    People often confuse the terms “guilt” and “responsibility” for one another. Can these terms be freely intertwined with one another or are they separate entities altogether? However, in this case these terms, regardless of how closely related they are to each other, have different meanings. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus is a tragic play that revolves around the issues of morality. The question that thus stands is whether Oedipus was guilty and or responsible for patricide and

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    Essay Length: 1,612 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Moral Issues - Our Behavior as the Example

    Moral Issues - Our Behavior as the Example

    Our Behavior as the Example Everyone has their own morals that affect the way they behave. For some it is the law, and for others it is a religious set of morals, such as the Ten Commandments. No matter what people's morals are they must always be careful of how it affects their behavior, because every person is responsible for the example he or she sets for the behavior of others. In today's society, this

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    Essay Length: 920 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Assays on David Hume's an Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

    Assays on David Hume's an Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

    Assays On David Hume's an Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Hume was the first thinker to point out the implications of the "representative theory of perception." He had inherited this theory from both his rationalist and empiricist predecessors. According to this view, when one says that he/she perceives something such as an apple, what it actually means is that the one has in the mind a mental idea or image or impression. Such a

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    Essay Length: 659 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Anna
  • Fighting for a Higher Self

    Fighting for a Higher Self

    Fighting For A Higher Self Books, magazines, news articles and programs, talk shows, infotainment, and infomercials, tell us all how to make more money, live longer and healthier, be more physically fit, be more active, and have more fun and excitement. Such self-improvement advice for "success", and the market for it, is pervasive. But with the exception of religious preaching, which is usually quite narrow in its exhortations(1), there is not much in popular culture

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    Essay Length: 9,911 Words / 40 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Morality and Legality of Voluntary Euthanasia

    The Morality and Legality of Voluntary Euthanasia

    The Morality and Legality of Voluntary Euthanasia For most people involved in euthanasia they believe that some conditions are so bad that death is a benefit over living. The motive of the person who commits an act of euthanasia is to benefit the one whose death is brought about. Debate about the morality and legality of voluntary euthanasia has only become an issue in the last half of the twentieth century. The ancient Greeks

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    Essay Length: 1,819 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Morality in the Hunt for Red October

    Morality in the Hunt for Red October

    Morality in The Hunt for Red October While hundreds, even thousands of excellent movies have been made over the years since motion pictures were invented, there are some movies that stand out among the best. There are various reasons for these standouts, sometimes incredible acting, sometimes impeccable story lines, but in many cases, it is the issues addressed by the movie. Most of the greatest movies contain commentaries or analyses of certain issues, be they

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    Essay Length: 1,224 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Monika
  • Grounded Theory Study of Unethical Labour Practices Associated with Global Brands in Developing Countries

    Grounded Theory Study of Unethical Labour Practices Associated with Global Brands in Developing Countries

    (2006, 2845 words, 80%) Abstract This is a grounded theory study about unethical labour practices associated with global brands’ operations in developing countries. The research paper develops a substantive theory or at least a set of propositions explaining the wider contextual underpinnings of unethical labour practices deriving from the operations of global brand companies. The grounded theory method chosen to undertake the research necessitates theoretical sampling of global brand companies that can substantiate the phenomenon

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Vika
  • Godfather Moral Downfall

    Godfather Moral Downfall

    Critics agree that in The Godfather, the protagonist, Michael Corleone (Mikey) changes from a person with moral principles and a legitimate role in society to a cold-blooded mobster. In the beginning of the movie, Mikey shows his reluctance to involve himself in the Mafia when he tells his girlfriend, Kaye, about his father’s (Vito Corleone) business methods of coercion and says he will never be like his family. However, as Mikey’s involvement with the family

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    Essay Length: 1,213 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Max
  • The Future of Higher Education

    The Future of Higher Education

    The Future of Higher Education 1 Running head: THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION The Future of Higher Education in a Global Economy Tamara L. Marlar #0905 Bethel College SUCCESS Program February 5, 2007 Business, Government & the International Economy MOD 430 Bob Owens The Future of Higher Education 2 Introduction Achieving and sustaining quality in higher education is a tough challenge. A new stakeholder contract may be needed, and better performance measures would help light

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    Essay Length: 392 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Vika
  • Moral Risk and Nuclear Weapons

    Moral Risk and Nuclear Weapons

    Moral Risk and Nuclear Weapons See the Cat? See the Cradle? "'See the cat?' asked Newt. 'See the cradle?'" (Vonnegut- 183). The day the atomic bomb dropped, August 6, 1945, was the day in which Newt Hoenikker's father tried to play a game with him. Felix, one of the scientists who had helped create the weapon, wanted to play cat's cradle. It is a game played with string looped over the fingers. After a series

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    Essay Length: 1,288 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Battle Royal - Morality Vs. Reality

    Battle Royal - Morality Vs. Reality

    Morality vs. Reality The story "Battle Royal" is the key in understanding and seeing the relationship between morality and reality. The characters in this story, namely the grandfather and his grandson, reveal to us their individuality, principles, morals, and ethics doing so they unfold a map that reveals their mental reality. Because their principals, morals and ethics reveal to us their mental reality, then their mental reality discloses the reality of the society in which

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    Essay Length: 704 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Effects Television Has on Children's Moral Reasoning

    The Effects Television Has on Children's Moral Reasoning

    When children watch violence on television, what do they see? Many cartoons and video games in today’s society produce many violent products to sell to children. What exactly do these children perceive from these violent acts, and how can these acts of violence affect these children in the long run? A recent study conducted by Krcmar and Vieire was put into place to test whether violence on television had an effect on the moral reasoning

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    Essay Length: 536 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Steve
  • Free Will, Moral Growth, and Evil by John Hick

    Free Will, Moral Growth, and Evil by John Hick

    John Hick argues in this writing that the all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good Christian god is compatible with an abundance of suffering. He offers solutions to the problem of suffering which relies heavily upon a tripartite foundation. Hick divides evil into two: Moral Evil = the evil that human being cause - either to themselves or to each other. And Non-Moral Evil = the evil that is not caused by human activity - natural disasters, etc.

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    Essay Length: 998 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Victor
  • Lewis - Moral Law

    Lewis - Moral Law

    CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS The Moral Law Is from God C. S. Lewis, a British scholar and novelist who lived from 1898 to 1963, was one of the most popular and influential religious writers of the last hundred years. He wrote much in defense of Christianity. Here he argues that there is an objective moral law, that this moral law must have a source, and that this source must be God. As you read the selection,

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Moralities for Profits: The Corporation

    Moralities for Profits: The Corporation

    A corporation is a large business that has the many of the same legal rights of a person. There are many corporations all over the world, but most of them are run in the United States. Although these corporations have positive contributions to the world, they also create a lot of negative implications. The rise of corporate America is directly responsible for wreaking havoc on the social, environmental, and political spectrums of the world.

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Moral Code: Ethics in the Workplace

    The Moral Code: Ethics in the Workplace

    The Moral Code: Ethics in the Workplace Self expression is one of the countries founding principles as set forth in the Constitution of the United States. Amendment One of the Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Jon
  • I’m Not Scared -This Is a Profoundly Moral Tale of Lost Innocence and Adult Cruelty.Do You Agree?

    I’m Not Scared -This Is a Profoundly Moral Tale of Lost Innocence and Adult Cruelty.Do You Agree?

    This is a profoundly moral tale of lost innocence and adult cruelty. Do you agree? Ammaniti’s novel I’m Not Scared set in Acqua Traverse, Italy 1978 is a powerful text, which explores relevant social themes and issues. Besides being a tale of adult cruelty and lost innocence we cannot ignore the role in which loyalty and betrayal play in the novel. These central themes make this novel a compelling text. In the novel Michelle journeys

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    Essay Length: 658 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Science of Doing Good; Creating Crucibles of Moral Character

    The Science of Doing Good; Creating Crucibles of Moral Character

    “The Science of Doing Good; Creating Crucibles of Moral Character” Theme: Education is one-step in equality for all in the 1800s in promoting a stable, morally conscience and educated society tuition free for all starting in the Northern states. Thesis: In this essay, Mr. Mintz goes through the history of free education and the steps that the Northern states such as New York took in cleaning up the state from the morally corrupt and, to

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    Essay Length: 283 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Steve
  • Higher Learning

    Higher Learning

    The film Higher Learning is a call to action. It is a film that shows people as products of their environment. The film is set on a college campus, a place where most people learn about what they will do in their adult life to try to better the world or simply educate themselves in order to live a better life. However, life on the Columbus campus is not good; it is a battlefield between

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Vika
  • Abortion - the Moral Issue

    Abortion - the Moral Issue

    MY MORAL ISSUE I. Search What is my chosen Moral issue? Abortion is the moral issue that I have chosen to discuss in this paper. Why? Who? When? Where? How? Pre-marital sex (or PMS) is very common nowadays, I have a few friends who have encountered already pre-marital sex, and I have heard a lot of issues regarding pre-marital sex. Of course, Pre-Marital Sex ends up having the woman pregnant, and if this child

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: regina
  • The Higher Price of Higher Education

    The Higher Price of Higher Education

    The High Price of Higher Education In America’s society today, students are expected to follow the path of day care, grade school, middle school, high school and hopefully college. Growing up in America today, the importance of education is stressed starting at the earliest stages of development. In a world with a competitive job market and with citizens who want to make the most money that they can, a college education is key in success.

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    Essay Length: 2,170 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Artur
  • Moral Relativism in Crime and Punishment

    Moral Relativism in Crime and Punishment

    At the close of Crime and Punishment, Raskolinkov is convicted of Murder and sentenced to seven years in Siberian prison. Yet even before the character was conceived, Fyodor Dostoevsky had already convicted Raskolinkov in his mind (Frank, Dostoevsky 101). Crime and Punishment is the final chapter in Dostoevsky's journey toward understanding the forces that drive man to sin, suffering, and grace. Using ideas developed in Notes from Underground and episodes of his life recorded in

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jon
  • Famine, Affluence, and Morality

    Famine, Affluence, and Morality

    Peter Singer's article, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, presents a strong view on the moral values which people all around the world today are giving to the global famine taking place these days. Singer tries to influence who ever reads this article to take action and provide relief for the increased suffering going on due to famine. In his article, he incorporates arguments to illustrate the moral importance that should be given to the suffering of

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    Essay Length: 453 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Fred Cuny Moral Saint

    Fred Cuny Moral Saint

    Through all the readings and discussions that we have done in class, I have decided upon the definition of what I believe a moral saint to be. However, unlike others, I also know that I may not be correct in my definition. That having been said, to me a moral saint is somewhere in between what the Wolf piece said and my own thoughts that I have derived both from the discussions in class as

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: July
  • Abortion - Moral or Immoral?

    Abortion - Moral or Immoral?

    Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in our world today. Many women have to face a decision that may change their lives forever. The idea of killing a baby in the mother’s womb is said to be “immoral,” but is morality more important than the life of the mother and the future child? At the onset, I supported pro-life because I believed that it is murderous to kill a baby. The mother should

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    Essay Length: 710 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: July

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