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Essays 511 - 540
not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...
in the past (Goode, 2003). Research reveals pediatricians and child psychiatrists seem to be turning to pharmacological interventi...
also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...
competency and expertise. Thus, the first code of ethics was tentatively drawn up. However, there was very little way to enforce t...
real-life scenario does not produce a fully-grown replica, as one so often sees in the movies, but rather suggests that a human ba...
than simply advise a company about whether or not they are in compliance with federal law (Pray, 2000). With the initiation of la...
laws governing confidentiality in psychological practice vary from state to state (Richmond, 2003). Generally speaking, psychol...
so that he could become a television director at Universal Studios for a salary of $225 per week (Cagle, 2002). After serving an ...
lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...
be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...
Cross, nd). 3. Analytical ethics. This branch of ethics surveys normative ethics for the purpose of clarifying both its problems a...
ethics, or those which are based on moral obligation and duty. Kant argued that "the moral status of an action is not determined b...
It appears that Carr has not even a speaking acquaintance with the concepts of integrity and trust. Neither does he effectively s...
who think that they are worthy of great things, but they are really unworthy of them, and that is pure vanity (PG). He goes on t...
one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...
the truth is that companies will get these lists anyway. Is it good for business? Obviously it is or the lists would not be so imp...
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
instances of ethical breaches (Decoo and Copaert, 2002). Providing an all encompassing definition of plagiarism can be quit...
such as telling someone they look good when asked, even if they dont believe that person looks good. Of course, these are relat...
being responsible for the growing number of deaths and injury resulting from the failures, whatever their cause. The pattern that...
the issue with Synertex isnt few versus many, but rather, butterflies versus man. Expected Utility dictates that the butterflies a...
actually benefited society. This is no longer true. in todays society, corporations use these and other precepts to pass on their ...
Chestnutt skilfully exposes the irony of these attitudes through the interaction between the various family members, where the dis...
important because it changes who has access to test information (Smith, 2003). Prior to these revisions, only those qualified to ...
a perfect world and as such, laws were determined to be needed to protect the rights of the designers and creators of such works. ...
customer tasting panel. Customer satisfaction is a primary goal of Hersheys, and the companys claim that tasting panels have foun...
"produce rational, good and humane people" (Spartacus Educational, 2001). His argument was that people were inherently good "but t...