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True Or False Moral Judgements
4,317 words... ons of deaths, that it impoverishes the country in which it is adopted, and that it greatly restricts people's freedom. I think that is a good argument. It certainly is not some kind of simple logical fallacy, as the concept of 'the naturalistic fallacy' would presumably imply, since I am deriving a moral judgement from other, non-moral judgements. It might be, and standard is, replied that the argument presupposes certain implicit moral judgements, that life, prosperity, and freedom are goo...
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Obscenity Blasphemy And Freedom Of Expression
1,949 words... Therefore this provision offers justification for the publication of articles that are obscene and thus allows more scope for expression. There has consequently been a fall in prosecutions, with pornographic production becoming increasingly productive and their products ever more odious. Similarly, by contrast to the prosecution initiated against the novel Last exit to Brooklyn, now books such as American Psycho, which depicts explicit sexual violence, are being published without risk of leg...
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Foundational Ism Basic Beliefs
1,507 wordsHowever, Craigs methods of objection to Nozick's theory are fruitful at least in three ways. First, on the proposed generalization of Craigs hypothesis, Ss belief that p has some positive epistemic status just in case S is a creditable informant with respect to the issue whether p. But if S is a creditable informant, then there is something about her that makes her so. This helps to account for the widespread intuition that to possess an epistemic status with respect to a particular proposition ...
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Gross National Product Sugar Cane
2,953 wordsHilda Beemer was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), into a family of Viennese Jewish immigrants. She grew up in Johannesburg and went to Witwatersrand University for her undergraduate studies. She received there the B. A. degree in anthropology. In 1932, she came to London, where she studied under the charismatic teacher Bronislaw Malinowski at the London School of Economics, where she obtained the M. A. and Ph. D. degrees in social anthropology. In 1934, she was awarded a grant by the ...
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Case Study Of Ontario Government Employment
2,440 wordsCase Study of Ontario Government Employment Nowadays many governments and trade unions in different countries draw attention to the problems of sexual minorities. Among them are Ontario government and the Ontario Public service Employees Union (OPSEU). Since 1969 many changes have been taken in the state of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality rights across Canada. Many provinces and territories including Quebec and Ontario in Canada added sexual orientation to their Human Righ...
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Foundational Ism True Belief
2,974 wordsIn Knowledge and Skepticism, Nozick provides an explanation of knowledge as tracking, of how belief should and should not vary with the truth of what is believed. Nozick pursues this explanation to reveal that global skeptical arguments do not follow from particular skeptical possibilities. Nozick offers an account of propositional knowledge based on tracking, interestingly without inclusion of the traditional justification condition. Noting that a subject S may arrive at the belief that p via m...
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Blacks History In Education Part 2
1,979 words... white student, while only $ 17. 04 was spent on black students. The history of black education after the civil war has many different histories. The three main groups that make up this history are southern blacks, southern whites, and northern whites. Whose history it is to tell is a tough question, considering that all groups have a firm stake in the development of black education. All of their ideologies and attitudes toward black education shaped the place of education in the South. (Leve...
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Capital Punishment Moral Grounds
2,579 wordsThesis One: In principle a case can be made on moral grounds both supporting and opposing capital punishment. Thesis two: Concretely and in practice, compelling arguments against capital punishment can be made on the basis of its actual administration in our society. Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a moral community. This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. This leads to a...
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Commercial Fishing Million Pounds
616 wordsEnvironmental Chinook Salmon Chinook Salmon Environmental Science Wednesday, February 26, 1997 Among the many kinds of fish harvested each year by commercial fisheries is the Oncorhynchus tshawytscha or Chinook salmon. The United States catches an averages of about three hundred million pounds of salmon each year. However some Chinook salmon have been recently listed as threatened. Man has been the main cause for the decline in Chinook salmon populations. The populations of Chinook salmon have d...
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Cannabis Sativa Boca Raton
1,778 wordsOpponent s Factual Brief OPPONENT S BRIEF Factual Proposition: Consuming marijuana is detrimental to one s health. Definition of key terms: 1. Consumption = Smoking or eating marijuana. 2. Marijuana = Psychoactive mind altering substance, also known as cannabis. 3. Detrimental = Serious harm. Primary Inference: Smoking or eating marijuana is likely to create serious health problems for most individual users or society. Overview: Since the 1920 s supporters of marijuana prohibition have exaggerat...
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Million Metric Tons Gulf Of Mexico
2,560 wordsCommercial Commercial Fishing COMMERCIAL FISHING Commercial fishing is a worldwide enterprise that involves the capture of marine and freshwater fish and shellfish and their preparation for market. Fishing equipment ranges from small boats whose nets are cast and hauled in by hand to factory ships equipped with the most advanced technologies for finding, harvesting, and preparing huge amounts of fish. These large catches are very costly, however, not only in the price of their equipment and fuel...
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Complex Academic Argument Pro Or Con Claim
323 wordsFeatures of Argumentation The logic of everyday argumentation should be based upon common data or information that is accepted by everyone. A warrant need to be used in order to relate the evidence that is presented in an argument to the claim that is being made. When creating an argument, one usually uses grounds that are well known by their peers of the same field of study. In this way, most arguments are specific to a certain area of study; however, information that is considered common knowl...
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1 000 Population Marital Relationship
1,415 wordsDivorce in the United States Divorce involves the recognition that a marriage has hopelessly failed and that at least one of the partners has no desire to continue the marital relationship. Divorce legally dissolves a marriage, and permits the partners to remarry if they choose. Divorce differs from an annulment, which declares a marriage invalid because of some flaw in the contract. The early American settlers brought with them three different views on divorce: 1) the Roman Catholic view that m...
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Secretary Of State Illegal Activities
755 wordsHaig v. Agee: Power to Revoke Passports Whether a passport can be revoked or not has been a major question since the mid- 1800 s. Haig v. Agee is a landmark Supreme Court case charging that the Secretary of State can not revoke a passport on the grounds that the power has never been granted by the Congress to the Secretary, and that revoking a passport violates the first and fifth amendments of the Constitution of the United States. Not only does the Secretary of State have implied powers, but r...
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Preventive Measures Sociological Perspective
4,190 wordsHundreds of English Hooliganism Introduction Hundreds of English fans have been departed from Belgium after scenes of mass violence in Belgian cities and football authorities have threatened to expel the English team from the competition if there is another outbreak of the English Disease This was an article dated 20 June 2000 written by an English journalist. It is obvious from this article that world is facing a great problem nowadays. Actually it would be wrong to use the term nowadays becaus...
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U S Constitution Monica Lewinsky
1,038 wordsImpeachment: A long process It is the ultimate punishment for a president: impeachment. But it is a long and complicated route to removing a political official from office and never in more than 200 years of U. S. history has it happened to a president for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, as spelled out in the U. S. Constitution as reasons for impeachment. The Constitutional process Article II, Section 4, of the U. S. Constitution specifies the procedures to be used to rem...
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Equality Of Opportunity Equal Treatment
3,136 wordsIn What Sense Should We Be Egalitarian In What Sense Should We Be Egalitarian? What Should We Try To Equality? Egalitarianism has been rightly identified as an essentially contested concept, that is, there is not, and it is doubtful whether there ever can be, any agreement as to its meaning (HURLEY, 1993, p 179). The value of equality is disputed by different thinkers. Some believe that equality is only to be valued as a means of attaining some broader aim, for example the maximization of utilit...
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Crimes Against Humanity United States Supreme Court
2,769 wordsThe Nuremburg Precedence History will judge these trials wholly by whether the victors themselves adhere to the standards and the law they impose on the vanquished. In judging the vanquished, the victors also judge themselves. (New York Times editorial, May 14, 1946, quoted in Piccigallo, 1979, p. 18). Although they were not without precedent, the Allied trials of war criminals at Nuremberg and elsewhere represented new legal principles and extensions of existing legal principles in an attempt t...
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19 Th Century Love And Respect
2,926 wordsEvery common working citizen in our nation has a set routine they go through every day, Monday through Friday. Usually in involves getting up around 5: 00 - 8: 00 a. m. every morning, fighting the same traffic every morning on the way to work, working for eight hours on basically the same job over and over again, gaining more and more stress as the day goes on, injury building our stress levels. Then we clock out, go home and try not to let the miserable day we had at work get us down. We need a...
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Make The Story Stephen King
958 wordsThe novel Pet Semetary by Stephen King is definitely a well researched novel. A lot of research must have had been done on the Micmac Indians because King describes and uses them frequently in his novel. He uses facts which can be proved and make the story more interesting. He uses real life facts about cemeteries which make the book a little more scary. Since the novel is a honor story, if the facts were to be fictional, it would make the story unbelievable and not as scary. The soil in cemeter...
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