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  • Morality: An Essential to Life

    Morality: An Essential to Life

    Morality: An essential to life A Russian born American science-fiction writer and biochemist once quoted, "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." This statement generates a series of controversial questions. What is right? How do morals affect people and society in which we live? Does everyone have specific morals by which they try to live their life? How does someone realize what their morals are? What are morals?

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    Essay Length: 942 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Bring Me a Higher Love

    Bring Me a Higher Love

    BRING ME A HIGHER LOVE On Valentines’ day My friend resolved herself in believing that she is in love with the guy who she has been dating for couple of months, this poured in significance in that moment. Many people express their feelings of Love, unity and Trust towards one another through intimacy. Later, they may conceal that this bond what they called ‘Love’ was nothing but Lust that broke apart leaving behind nothing

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    Essay Length: 1,294 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: July
  • Morally Responsible for Hoeman’s Death

    Morally Responsible for Hoeman’s Death

    Hubris: (as defined by the Greeks) “excessive pride or arrogance, wanton (or merciless) violence.” In the Greek drama Antigone it is clear that Creon is morally responsible for the death of his son, Haemon. However, no matter what your opinion is at this point it does not matter, because just like every single character in Antigone, you too, by the end, will be in agreement with them and myself in knowing that Antigone was

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    Essay Length: 411 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Moral Education of Children

    Moral Education of Children

    Moral education has always been an issue in schools. Although the methodology and the content have changed over the past years, ways to implement and bring these theories into the classroom and internalize them within children is still one of the important research topics. Moral education is most successful when it is passive and indirect. We all know that our best and deepest moments of learning were when we actually didn’t know that we are

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    Essay Length: 337 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Black Death and English Higher Education

    The Black Death and English Higher Education

    The Effect of the Black Death on English Higher Education by: William J. Courtenay is a piece that was easily broken down and ciphered into a well written piece that discredits previous historians’ thoughts. Courtenay is a well known scholar on medieval history, and is C.S. Haskins Professor of Medieval history. His article is a predeceasing article to the book he wrote Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England. Courtenay’s thesis in the article is that

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    Essay Length: 676 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: July
  • Atomic Bomb Morality

    Atomic Bomb Morality

    The development of the atomic bomb and chemical warfare forever changed the way people saw the world. It was a landmark in time for which there was no turning back. The constant balancing of the nuclear super powers kept the whole of humankind on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Fear of nuclear winter and the uncertainty of radiation created its own form of a cultural epidemic in the United States. During these tense times in

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    Essay Length: 1,786 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Affirmative on Resolved: The Actions of Corporations Ought to Be Held to The Same Moral Standard as The Actions of Individuals.

    Affirmative on Resolved: The Actions of Corporations Ought to Be Held to The Same Moral Standard as The Actions of Individuals.

    Noble motives cannot justify a policy that consistently fails to deliver what it promises or that creates greater long-term problems than it solves Walter A. McDougall Currently it is to easy for corporations to find loopholes in corporate laws that are Set in place to try and protect people and other companys from the immoral actions of these corporations Solution! Affirm now before we continue I must provide the following resolution all analysis of this

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    Essay Length: 1,086 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Higher Immediacy Contrasted with Ethical and Aesthetic

    Higher Immediacy Contrasted with Ethical and Aesthetic

    Question: Explain higher immediacy by contrasting it with the ethical and the aesthetic. Higher immediacy or religious faith is the most important achievement made by a person because only faith offers an individual to have a chance to become a "true self". Self is what is done throughout life which God judges for infinity. Consequently, humans have a huge responsibility because those decided choices in life constitute the eternal salvation or damnation. With the religious

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Jon
  • Teens’ Decreasing Morality

    Teens’ Decreasing Morality

    Nowadays everything is changing and developing in an incredible speed.More and more scientific achievements are made. More and more modern technologies are used,…That certainly affects our life so much. The more modern technologies are, the more easily people get information all over the world. However, people, especially the teens they tend to make friends with bad information rather than good and useful ones. That leads to the fact that there are more teens that are

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    Essay Length: 1,224 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible?

    The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible?

    The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible? The death penalty has faced much opposition as of late. Can the death penalty possibly be a morally acceptable punishment? A popular bumper sticker says, "We kill people to show people that killing people is wrong." The slogan is short, simple, and to the point. But is there really such irony in capital punishment as the slogan implies? WORD GAMES First of all, the slogan misses an important point. The

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    Essay Length: 2,174 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Moral Development

    Moral Development

    Moral Development According to Life Span (2006), moral development requires a complex interweaving of emotions, cognitions, and behaviors (Broderick & Blewitt, 2006, p. 221). There are two major theories of moral development: Piaget's and Kohlberg's. These two are similar in that they are both stage theories related to cognitive development, but Kohlberg sees moral development as a more complex and longer process than Piaget’s theory. Piaget's two-stage model proposes a premoral period where preschool children

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    Essay Length: 1,489 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Kantian Morality

    Kantian Morality

    Kantian Morality Kant's theory of morality seems to function as the most feasible in determining one's duty in a moral situation. The basis for his theory is perhaps the most noble of any-- acting morally because doing so is morally right. His ideas, no matter how occasionally vague or overly rigid, work easily and efficiently in most situations. Some exceptions do exist, but the strength of those exceptions may be somewhat diminished by looking at

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Book of Wisdom and Moral Values

    Book of Wisdom and Moral Values

    God teaches us many valuable moral lessons in the book of Wisdom, and the book of Sirach. We learn in the teachings many moral values that are still a part of society today, including giving to the poor, and worshipping false idols. These issues were very relevant in the early society as God warned of them in the bible, and in today's world, despite the changing physical nature, essentially the same problems exist. The problems

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Internet Crime and Moral Responsibility

    Internet Crime and Moral Responsibility

    Internet Crime and Moral Responsibility Internet Crime and Moral Responsibility 3 Introduction 3 What is Internet Crime? 3 Types of Crimes 3 Phishing 3 Child Pornography 4 Cyber Stalking 5 Computer Intrusion 5 Denial of Service Attacks and Cyber War 5 Identity Theft 6 Whose responsibility is it to report these crimes? 7 Reporting agencies 8 Conclusion 8 References 9 Internet Crime and Moral Responsibility Introduction The Internet is the technological genius of the computer

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    Essay Length: 1,667 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Higher Education Act: Increasing Affordability?

    Higher Education Act: Increasing Affordability?

    Higher Education Act: INCREASING AFFORDABILITY? Lawmakers have recently reauthorized the Higher Education Act, is an attempt to increase enrollment rates by improving the affordability of a college education through raising financial aid eligibility to in need students. Over the last four years this rise in the federal budget for student financial aid has inflated the cost of a college education to an all time high. Due to these increases in student loan availability, not only

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Top
  • Dorian Gray : Moral Responsibility

    Dorian Gray : Moral Responsibility

    In The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, it tells of a man’s gradual downfall from innocence to corruption. Even the name of the main character in Oscar Wilde’s tale, Dorian Gray, is very symbolic because ‘gray’ is the combination of black and white, of good and evil. In many ways, Dorian Gray is the epitome of mankind. Dorian Gray, an innocent and naпve man, becomes corrupted after having one conversation with Lord Henry

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Censorship of Music - How Might We Stop Censorship of Today Music Without Compromising Morals?

    Censorship of Music - How Might We Stop Censorship of Today Music Without Compromising Morals?

    Censorship of Music How might we stop censorship of today music without compromising morals? Music has always been a basic form of expression. From hip hop, to country, to even ancient, tribal music, it has been a medium through which individuals convey their thoughts and expressions. Today this medium is under attack. Everywhere we turn, everything we do and say is being scrutinized. We are being told what to say. We are being spoon-fed our

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The Abortion Morality Ethics Dilemma

    The Abortion Morality Ethics Dilemma

    The Abortion Morality Ethics Dilemma Case for discussion: “A 29-year-old married woman is a candidate for a vice presidential position at a large public relations firm. Although she has been taking birth control pills for some time, she now learns that she is pregnant. After considering all of her options, she concludes that a maternity leave to have the baby would cost her the promotion. She also thinks that she might want to have a

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Stenly
  • A Clockwork Orange : Chosen Evil Vs. Forced Morality

    A Clockwork Orange : Chosen Evil Vs. Forced Morality

    A Clockwork Orange : Chosen Evil vs. Forced Morality What becomes of a man stripped of his free will? Does he continue to be a man, or does he cease? These are questions that Anthony Burgess tries to answer. Written in the middle of Burgess’ writing career, A Clockwork Orange was a reflection of a youth subculture of violence and terrorization that was beginning to emerge in the early 1960s. The novel follows Alex, a

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Morality

    Morality

    Tim Fowler English 101 Cameron Dodworth Final Writing Project 11-20-2006 In today’s society morality is looked for in everything. When somebody goes to see a movie it could have no plot, bad acting, and bad special effects but one could walk out of that movie saying how it at least had a good moral. Politics go around in circles debating how immoral their opponents are everyday. The world has to deal with what is wrong

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • Morals

    Morals

    Summary of Event On Friday, October 28th, in Mohawk College’s Brantford campus, a town hall “One Big Idea” event took place. The students of the Brantford campus attended the event to voice their opinions to a panel of Mohawk College staff on various issues regarding the school. Representatives of some of the classes presented their “Big Idea” to the panel, and the panel responded with solutions or compromises. Background The students got together in their

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Edward
  • Ethics and Morality

    Ethics and Morality

    Abstract The paper delves into the topic of ethics and morality. It would try to understand the concept of ethics and morality and the difference between the two concepts. In the paper I would analyse what motivates human behaviour and choices and why those choices can never always be moral and ethical. I will analyse some ethical and moral theories that provide guidelines for ethical human behaviour and critically assess them with the aid of

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Fonta
  • How Employees Can Be Motivated to Higher Levels of Performance by Better Compensation Packages

    How Employees Can Be Motivated to Higher Levels of Performance by Better Compensation Packages

    According to history, the notion of compensation for work pre-dates to sometime between 10,000 BC and 1,000 BC during the Neolithic Revolution (Wikipedia). Back then, salt was used as payment till around 560 BC when coins came into circulation and money was invented (Wikipeida). Money became widely used as the payment for labour. To date, money is still the main medium of exchange between employer and employee. In today’s highly competitive market, organisations are often

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: regina
  • The Moral Minimum: A Complex Standard

    The Moral Minimum: A Complex Standard

    The Moral Minimum: A Complex Standard Each person has a set of personal values and morals that they hold themselves accountable to, whether for religious reasons or the result of years of environmental conditioning. These standards of behavior often go above and beyond the laws set in place by government. Just like individuals, a business entity chooses a standard of moral behavior to uphold. A difficult task to undertake, considering businesses are comprised of people

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Vika
  • Relation Between Law and Morality

    Relation Between Law and Morality

    Intro to European History 1-11-98 Factors Affecting Life In The Fourteenth Century By all accounts, humanity was faring pretty well in the period from the eleventh century to the thirteenth. The population was steadily increasing due to better farming methods that better feed the people in Europe at this time. Significant social and political changes proved to be making life more stable, and there were many advances being made in the intellectual community. This stability,

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Artur

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