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Potential Helping Situation Fundamentally Selfish Egoism
599 wordsTo discuss why people help others we must consider whether people are by nature selfless or selfish. The dominant view today in psychology is of universal egoism; that we are fundamentally selfish, and that altruism (helping motivated by the wish to benefit another person) an impossibility. One form of universal egoism is Piliavin et als "arousal: cost-reward" model, whereby faced with a potential helping situation we weigh the probable costs and rewards of alternative courses of action, then ar...
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Ownership Is The Result Lockean Proviso Distribution
1,185 words... basic rights, like the right to be content). It is better to effect an egalitarian distribution of wealth through taxation and welfare payments. These are redistributive mechanisms which reset the "wealth clock" within every time frame (at the end of every month or fiscal year). Still, is there any moral difference between confiscating and expropriating savings outright - and doing it through elaborate state apparatuses like the tax system? Not really. The anti-tax movements do seem to hold ...
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Black Bile Medieval Times
594 wordsMedieval doctors had quite an understanding of the human anatomy, considering their lack of equipment and knowledge. Most doctors in medieval times were philosophers more than actual medical doctors as most people know them today. Much of the knowledge they did acquire may have only been speculation, but quite a bit of it was due to concentrated observation. Many scientists studied wounds and diseases intensely and one scientist in particular, Empedocles, came to the conclusion that that body co...
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Spontaneous Generation Living Organisms
644 wordsFrom the time of the Ancient Romans, through the Middle Ages, and until the late nineteenth century, it was generally accepted that life arose spontaneously from non-living matter. Such "spontaneous generation" appeared to occur primarily in decaying matter. For example, a seventeenth century idea for the spontaneous generation of mice required placing sweaty underwear and husks of wheat in an open-mouthed jar. Then, waiting for about 21 days, during which time it was said that the sweat from th...
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President Of The United States Al Gore
1,075 wordsAs this election 2000 is coming, each candidate is working very hard. They are doing debates, electoral campaigns all over the country in order to get more popular votes and therefore get the electoral votes they need to be the next president of the United States. In all of the inquiries that the media did in most of the states, Al Gore seems to be the favorite one, because he knows what he is doing, he has enough experience to rule our country, and he also has very interesting positions in the ...
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Education Public Morality In Australia
1,057 wordster> The Influence of Education & Public Morality in Australia during 1788 - 1900 While Christianity played a crucial part in all aspects of Australian society throughout the pre-federation years 1788 to 1900, it had a significant impact on education and public morality. Th influence of Christianity in education was evident through the establishment of a separate education system and, in public morality the formation of the temperance movement as well as other actions. Education was gr...
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Wuthering Heights Nature Vs Nurture
1,342 wordsWuthering Heights is a novel that indulges one of the most crucial themes; the theme of nature verses nature. The two households of the novel: Wuthering Heights and Thruscross Grange represents both the contrast between wilderness and civility which dominates the lives of its inhabitants. Being able to suppress your nature nurturing an opposed one would result into a deep conflict within the characters themselves. The best that would exemplifies such conflicts between the code of nature and nurt...
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Beatrice And Benedick Shakespeare Creates
1,219 wordsWhen we discuss the dramatic form of a Shakespearean comedy, we are not only examining the clever or amusing text. Shakespearean comedies are not about drawing laughs from an audience. The form of traditional comedies involve certain aspects that have nothing to do with what is funny, delightful or amusing, including different classes of characters, different settings and different plot structures. Some may be surprised to find such a horrible and unpleasant turn of events within a comic setting...
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Divine Comedy Seven Hundred
980 words... owning them for their opposition to the Emperor. He even sent a letter to Henry, rebuking him for his delay, and urging him to proceed at once against the rebellious city (Gardner 3). Dantes hopes were brought to an abrupt end in 1313 with the death of Henry in Siena. One positive outcome of Dantes exile was that it produced his most enduring work. His epic masterpiece The Divine Comedy was probably begun about 1307, and completed shortly before his death. The work is divided into three sect...
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Moral Judgments Normative Ethics
910 wordsOn the Need for Normative Ethics: A study of Subjectivism thought Foremost is a brief description of Subjectivism, particularly Emotivism. Subjectivism thought rests on the idea that morality is a function of one's individual emotions, and that is all. The strength of Emotivism over other avenues of Subjectivism lies in its awareness of the other purposes of language. Rather than statements designed to convey information, Emotivism relies on utterances that can be deemed neither true nor false. ...
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Mother Or Father Men And Women
1,235 words"It is not a surprise to see that prisoners all have a low education level. I guess a more educated person has enough sense not to be involved with crime... the relationship between crime and education is easy to see when viewing these facts" (Cordes 1). This is the view of most people when asked why people are in prison. People simply say that criminals were ill educated. As hard as we may try, we cannot do a lot about what happens before they enter prison, but there are many programs inside pr...
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Accidents Involving Probable Cause
1,284 wordsThe movement of millions of passengers over distances thought impossible decades ago is symbolic of the modern air transportation era that is characterized by speed, comfort and personal convenience. The commerce of aviation, both the operation of commercial aircraft for profit and the development of aeronautical systems, is also an important symbol of national prestige and a powerful economic force. Safety in air transportation is therefore a matter of significant national importance. The Natio...
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First World War Storm Troopers
1,002 wordsDefinition of Holocaust: The Holocaust is generally considered to be the activity conducted by the German government from 1941 - 1945. The Nazis, the fascist government in power from 1933 - 1945 in Germany, systematically exterminated about 8 million people during these four years. The Nazis had been killing Jews, other minorities, and political enemies since the early 1930 's. It wasn't until an SS conference, chaired by Heinrick Heydrick, convened in 1941. At that conference it was decided tha...
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Private Property Class Structure
582 wordsThe first people who are known to make contribution to the development of thoughts about the economic issues and made them the part of the society philosophy are the ancient Greeks, mainly Plato and Aristotle. Although their overall contribution to economic though is rather unimportant, many seeds for later developments can be found in their writings. The early philosophers lived in a society characterized by self-sufficient peasants, thus the focus of their economic thoughts lay upon micro-issu...
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Usa Patriot Act War With Iraq
855 wordsPatriot Act In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11 th, the Bush administration submitted anti-terrorism legislation to Congress. Titled the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 " (with the catchy moniker "USA PATRIOT Act") it became Public Law 107 - 56 on October 26 th. The USA PATRIOT Act contains a mishmash of provisions to expedite law enforcement. Some of these changes eliminate loopholes or u...
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Zaire Or Sudan Infected With Ebola Virus
1,266 wordsEbola Virus or Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is one of the most deadly viruses known to mankind. The strength and amount of time it lasts varies with different strains, but Ebola kills 50 to 90 % of the people it infects. As of July 1, 1995, 573 deaths have been reported due the disease. It was first identified in 1975 in Zaire, when a small village was almost entirely whipped out and 340 people ended up dead. Ebola is a member of a group of RNAviruses called Filoviruses. There are three known strains...
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Year Old Boy Pain And Suffering
1,522 wordsGenetic Genetic Engineering Genetic Engineering Genetic Engineering is a radical new technology, one that breaks down fundamental genetic barriers- not only between species, but also between humans, animals, and plants. By combining the genes of dissimilar and unrelated species, permanently altering their genetic codes, primary organisms are created that will pass the genetic changes onto their offspring's. The field of genetic engineering has the potential to strip the individual privacy, diver...
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Law Abiding Citizens Strict Gun Control
1,359 wordsThe gun owners almost talismanic faith in the protective efficacy of guns leads him to cling to them notwithstanding the indubitable evils to which guns all too often lend themselves. The other side seeks to outlaw handguns (many would prefer outlawing all guns), dogmatically convinced not just that, on balance, guns do more harm than good, but that In the hands of the general public handguns confer virtually no social benefit and, since legislatures have proved unwilling to ban handguns, Magist...
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Cell Membranes Red Blood
421 wordsIn the early stages of the twentieth century, little was known about cell membranes. Until the early 1950 s, the biological cell membrane was rarely mentioned in scientific literature. It was recognised that something was probably there, but hardly anything about it was known. Considering the lack of technical equipment available a century ago, scientists such as Charles Overton and Edwin Gorter were not only exploring new territory in looking at the properties of cell membranes, but laying the ...
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Sort Of Thing Cash Flow
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