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  • Medical Ethics

    Medical Ethics

    Physician-assisted suicide refers to the physician acting indirectly in the death of the patient -- providing the means for death. The ethics of PAS is a continually debated topic. The range of arguments in support and opposition of PAS are vast. Justice, compassion, the moral irrelevance of the difference between killing and letting die, individual liberty are many arguments for PAS. The distinction between killing and letting die, sanctity of life, "do no harm" principle

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    Essay Length: 277 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Anna
  • Ethical Issue of Abortion

    Ethical Issue of Abortion

    Ethical Issue of Abortion Abortion, the intentional termination of a pregnancy through surgical or medical devices, was legalized in 1973. The biomedical ethical issue of abortion has caused a great segregation in our country. Often the debate is thought to be conservative versus liberal, republican versus democrat, but more accurately it is pro-life versus pro choice. A pro-life stance opposes the belief that a woman should have the freedom to choose an abortion in

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    Essay Length: 1,176 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Poetics by Aristotle & Hamlet by Shakespeare

    The Poetics by Aristotle & Hamlet by Shakespeare

    Poetics and Hamlet Centuries ago, Aristotle laid down guidelines for criticizing dramatic works in his Poetics. This paper considers whether that structure is adequate for analyzing William Shakespeare’s Hamlet that was composed after Aristotle. The Poetics is too short to go into great detail, so we’ll have to use only the most basic of his definitions and guidelines for what dramatic works should entail. He begins by discussing poetry, then moves to tragedy, which he

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    Essay Length: 396 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    1. Explain why Protestants consider Gregory I to be the first pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He organized the papal system of government that characterized the entire medieval period. He also promoted missionary activity among the Germanic tribes. He sent dozens of monks to northern Europe especially England. He laid the foundation for the great edifice known as the Roman Catholicism. An early king of the Franks Pepin the Short granted the pope extensive

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    Essay Length: 978 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Introduction Background The literature being studied is an article written by Hellen O’ Sullivan, the Director of Scientific Methods Australia. The article entitled “Business ethics are set to set to stage a comeback” was published on the th page of The Australian Financial Review on the 6th February 1990. Literature Review Basically, the article discussed several important issues about business ethics. One of the most prominent was the remark she made about business ethics making

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    Essay Length: 881 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Bred
  • Ethics of Technology

    Ethics of Technology

    Computers are now dominating our current world. we are getting more and more More and more people everyday are given access to using them, and it is crucial to understand that computers are not knowledge should not be abused in any way. First thing's first,let me tell you the difference between hacking and cracking. Most people overuse the term hacking, and think it as breaking into someone elses' computer, stealing control, etc. That is not

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    Essay Length: 384 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Max
  • Ethical Environment of Business

    Ethical Environment of Business

    Tim Haught Ethical Environment of Business 9/14/06 Critique of VBE Article #3 It’s a sign of the times: “West Virginia, Open For Business.” Journalist, ethicist, and university professor Thomas Michaud has a very interesting perspective on this sign and on the condition of business in West Virginia in general. 10 minutes east or west from the aforementioned sign, in Wheeling, West Virginia, Michaud lives in a city that has sustained a 50% population decline over

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Socrates - Virtue, Wisdom, Enlightenment

    Socrates - Virtue, Wisdom, Enlightenment

    Virtue, Wisdom, Enlightenment Socrates spoke of many qualities he believed to be important in humanity. He worked his entire life to spread wisdom, peace, wonder and knowledge to all those he met. Although this eventually led to his execution, he preached the important of morality and virtue right up to his death. It was the importance of being virtuous that and living a "good" life that Socrates felt was essential for humanity to flourish. Although

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    Essay Length: 1,183 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Max
  • The Ethics of Student - Faculty Business Deals

    The Ethics of Student - Faculty Business Deals

    The Ethics of Student-Faculty Business Deals The Akamai Corporation has meant big money for one Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and one of his students. Back in 1995, Tom Leighton, a professor of applied mathematics at MIT, started playing around with ways to use complex algorithms to ease congestion on the Web. He enlisted several researchers, including one of his graduate students, Danny Lewin. At the time, they weren't thinking about starting a company. But

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    Essay Length: 4,490 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Yan
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    "Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor." When first glancing upon this quotation which comes directly from the reading "Sermon on the Mount", one might find themselves in a state of utter confusion. However, once this quotation is analyzed it becomes obvious as to what it is attempting to imply. For as long as I can remember, several times throughout my life I have heard people ask if it would be better to

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    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethics Filter Worksheet

    Ethics Filter Worksheet

    Value Personal Source with Examples Justify the Value's Position in the List. Include any challenges to employing these values consistently when making personal and organizational decisions. Honesty I was brought up to be honest with everyone. Honestly is the best policy in both your personal and professional life. My parents instilled in me that honesty mattered. Being honest at work will build character. Being honest to your family is also important because this allows them

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Edward
  • Why Should My Conscience Bother Me? Business Ethics

    Why Should My Conscience Bother Me? Business Ethics

    To say that I was surprised by the content of this article would be a dramatic understatement. In a day an age when America is at war I was sad to see that a company would place the bottom line before the safety of American soldiers. In 1967 the B.F. Goodrich Co. made a bid to produce four disk brakes for the LTV Aerospace Co. However, in order to receive the bid Goodrich had

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    Essay Length: 711 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Max
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    One is buying a hotdog from a vendor, as he looks into a near buy ally he notices a man being beaten and robbed by a criminal with a baseball bat. One must now consider their options both to ignore the problem and go about as if nothing happened, or secondly to help the person in need. For the purpose of this essay it will be agreed that one will come to the aid of

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    Essay Length: 618 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Edward
  • Enron Ethics

    Enron Ethics

    Introduction Enron was one of America’s leading companies prior to its spectacular collapse in 2001. It was frequently named as one of America’s top 10 most admired corporations and best places to work, and its board was acclaimed one of the US’ best five, according to Fortune magazine. As America’s seventh largest company, Enron experienced explosive growth through the 1990s. It had revenues of US$139 ($184) billion, US$62 ($82) billion in assets and employed more

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    Essay Length: 1,666 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Vika
  • Ethical Worksheet

    Ethical Worksheet

    Ethical Filter Worksheet John Doe University of Phoenix Value Personal Source Justify the Value’s Position in the List. Include any challenges to employing these values consistently when making personal and organizational decisions. Integrity This is one of the U.S. Airforce Core Values. Being an Officer in the USAF Reserves, I have come to live by this value and have adopted as one of my own. In my mind, integrity is more than just following

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    Essay Length: 468 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Stenly
  • New York State Accounting Code of Ethics

    New York State Accounting Code of Ethics

    New York State Accounting Code of Ethics Contemporary Business Law 1 Monica G. Bradshaw June 1, 2004 New York State Accounting Code of Ethics Introduction The accounting system is constantly changing. During these changes, it is important for accountants to adhere to the high ethical standards that they have always lived by. Adhering to the high ethical standards is an accountant?s obligation to the public, the profession, and themselves. An accountant?s ethical conduct usually

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    Essay Length: 778 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper

    Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper

    Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper Accountants have been working since the early 1900’s to establish rules and regulations pertaining to the accounting profession. But it was not until 1933 that the Securities and Exchange Commission obtain the authority to establish accounting principles for companies whose securities had to be registered with the SEC, from that point on other entities were created such as the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) which established the Financial Accounting Standards Board

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    Essay Length: 481 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Yan
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    Wikipedia defines ethics as “elements of professional practice that are part of dispute resolution or which have some great potential for: bodily harm, urban planning, medicine, law, politics and theories of civics (Wikipedia 2005).” Today when a person turns on the news all they hear about is the ethical crises making the headlines. Companies have to protect themselves from ethical issues like embezzlement, fraud, or misuse of company products or services. An ethics statement explains

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    Essay Length: 599 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Ethical and Legal Duties

    Ethical and Legal Duties

    Discrimination Complaint Tom Jones is an employee at Smith Systems Consulting Inc., a private sector organization, who wants to file a discrimination complaint against his employer. This is a long and tedious process that hopefully nobody will ever have to go through, except for Tom. In this paper I will be discussing and evaluate ethical and legal duties related to the Virtual Organization Smith Systems Consulting Inc., SSC. I will discuss how Tom Jones, an

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    Essay Length: 928 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Bred
  • Paper on Ethics

    Paper on Ethics

    It is important to understand the issues that underlies in an individual’s behavior within an organization. As good companies are driven by people who are all pulling towards the same direction and working for a common goal, the behavior of those people can have a major impact on the overall performance of the organization. Some of the many factors they may play a role in behavioral change within an employee are stress levels, lack of

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    Essay Length: 438 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jon
  • Ethics Essay

    Ethics Essay

    An ethic is a moral philosophy by which one should abide. My belief is that ethics are a code of integrity and because of this an individual should undermine all rationality in order to influence one’s “ethics” and determine what is right and what is wrong. Ethics are used in everyday life to determine moral direction and to penetrate absolute good over relative good. The problem is how “absolute good” is to be determined

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    Essay Length: 419 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethics and Equality in College Admissions

    Ethics and Equality in College Admissions

    Ethics and Equality in College Admissions Ethics in an Academic Environment- Ethics and Equality in College Admissions College admissions counselors face many decisions today when it comes to decisions that involve which students get to attend their college of choice. College admissions counselors are faced with concerns about ethics and equality. In 1996, the State of California banned affirmative action (Wooldridge, 1998). This means that colleges and universities are not able to make admission decisions

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    Essay Length: 425 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Artur
  • Ethics in the World

    Ethics in the World

    Chronic Disease Clinton Bernard University of Phoenix SCI 100 Paradigms of Health Professor David Hayhurst April 25, 2007 In this text the Chronic Disease called Cancer will be defined and exposed for the killer that it takes lives in America everyday. Looking into the depths of the disease should give a broader spectrum of the class of diseases that plague America and the citizens that reside within this great nation. The research from scientist and

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    Essay Length: 864 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    I would like to discuss the normative ethics pertaining to the affair committed by Boeing corporate executive Mr. Stonecipher, and an unknown female executive, and whether he should have been forced to resign. Widespread corporate scandals of the last decade have heightened public awareness about self-dealing and other conflicts of interest in the corporate context. Congress responded by enacting federal legislation mandating corporate accountability and the formalization of policies governing business ethics in public

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    Essay Length: 934 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Yan
  • A Role of Ethics and Social Responsibilities in Management

    A Role of Ethics and Social Responsibilities in Management

    A Role of Ethics and Social Responsibilities in Management. Ethics can be defined as a process of evaluating actions according to moral principal of values(A.Alhemoud). Throughout the centuries people were trying to choose between profit and moral. Perhaps, some of them obtain both, but every time it could have roused ethical issues. Those issues concern fairness, justice, rightness or wrongness; as a result it can only be resolved according to ethical standards. Setting the ethical

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    Essay Length: 440 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jack

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