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  • Moral Issue

    Moral Issue

    Background and related standards According to this case, BTI became a public listed company in 1999, section 100 (general application of the code) and section 200 (members in public practice) of “code of ethics for professional accountants” should be considered during the analysis. 1. Three threats and safeguards a) Based on these principles and the situations in BTI case, there are three main threats that AWC and Angela Metz have to face. They are self-interest

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    Essay Length: 2,551 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2011
  • 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: 922 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2011
  • Moral And Ethical Issues

    Moral And Ethical Issues

    Moral and ethical issues greet us each morning in the newspaper, confront us in the fundamentals of our daily jobs, encounter us from our children's daily school activities, and bid us good night on the evening news. We are bombarded daily with discussions of drug abuse, the morality of medical technologies that can prolong our lives, the rights of the homeless and abortion, the fairness of our children's teachers to the diverse students in their

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    Essay Length: 1,697 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2011
  • Humanity And Moral In Hamlet

    Humanity And Moral In Hamlet

    Humanity and Moral in "Hamlet" While reading "Hamlet" the reader is induced to ponder upon centuries-old problems that still have no concrete answer - humanity, moral, madness and sanity, love and hate, good and bad. Shakespeare leads us through the various aspects of these issues by revealing the contrasting personalities of his characters and by the protagonist's philosophical view of life. Often contradicting in his words and deeds, Hamlet makes us think what would be

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    Essay Length: 592 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2011
  • The Morality Of The Scarlet Letter

    The Morality Of The Scarlet Letter

    The Morality behind the Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne has often been described as allegorical novel. With Hawthorne's use of details and symbolism a moral message is portrayed to the reader. The strong and well developed characters used in the novel also help to reinforce the universal truths of the story. Hawthorne's symbolism and characters combine in such a way that an interesting story and many important messages are developed within the

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    Essay Length: 532 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2011
  • Ethics And Morals In Marriage

    Ethics And Morals In Marriage

    "Can I spend the night with you tonight" the young boy asks the other boy? The response, "No, my dad has me this weekend, maybe next week." We live in a world where over half of the marriages end in divorce. This is truly a confounding issue that faces us today. The moral and ethical ramifications brought about by such a change in family organization will only begin to show in the years to

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    Essay Length: 1,477 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2011
  • Morals In Intelligence

    Morals In Intelligence

    Topic: Sierra Leone Central Idea: Conflict Diamonds Purpose Statement: The purpose of this presentation is to inform the listeners of what a conflict diamond is. Author: Wesley Harris Jr. Introduction [VA: Picture named Blood from a stone] I. Attention Getter: Does anyone know or has anyone ever heard of a conflict or blood diamond? II. Central Idea (My purpose today is to enlighten you on what a conflict diamond is, where they come from, and

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    Essay Length: 1,632 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2011
  • Moral Issues

    Moral Issues

    Our Behavior as the Example Everyone has their own morals that affect the way they behave. For some it is the law, and for others it is a religious set of morals, such as the Ten Commandments. No matter what people's morals are they must always be careful of how it affects their behavior, because every person is responsible for the example he or she sets for the behavior of others. In today's society, this

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    Essay Length: 920 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2011
  • No Longer A Question Of Morality: Gay Rights In The United States

    No Longer A Question Of Morality: Gay Rights In The United States

    In 1999, the Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America rejected the application of Timothy Curran, who was applying for the position of Assistant Scoutmaster, on the basis that he was of homosexual orientation; Curran sued, but in the end, the courts rejected Curran's claim and sided with the Council ("Curran v. Mount...", 1999). The decision ended up sparking much anger and confusion within the gay and lesbian community, and rightly so. Would

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    Essay Length: 1,629 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2011
  • Is Abortion Moral And Ethical?

    Is Abortion Moral And Ethical?

    "Is abortion moral and ethical?" Abortion is a very controversial subject that has been continually argued over many years and probably many to come. The main controversy is should abortion be legalized in all cases? There are two sides to abortion they are the PRO-LIFE which is those who are against abortion altogether and the PRO- CHOICE or those who believe it is the woman's right to choose if she wants to have an abortion.

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    Essay Length: 537 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2011
  • Wealth Leads To Moral Decay

    Wealth Leads To Moral Decay

    Wealth Leads to Moral Decay of Characters from The Great Gatsby. In the 1920's The United States went through many changes as well did people, "Jay Gatsby, a farmer's son turned racketeer, whose ill-gotten wealth is acquired solely to gain acceptance into the sophisticated, moneyed world of the woman he loves, Daisy Fay Buchanan" (Poupard 146). That quote showing how Jay Gatsby gained his wealth. This novel has many different types of people in it.

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    Essay Length: 925 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2011
  • Morals And The Media

    Morals And The Media

    Children today are growing up much too soon, or at least that's what we are frequently told and the media seem to getting blamed for this. I can't say that I disagree with this argument either. Young people seem to be maturing physically - showing an interest in sex, and physical violence - at an earlier age. Even young children appear to be about the details of sexual behavior. Young people frequently encounter sexual material

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    Essay Length: 441 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2011
  • Moral Dilemmas In The Crucible

    Moral Dilemmas In The Crucible

    Moral Dilemmas in the Crucible During this course we have read three literary works by or about puritans. These are "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, "Upon the Burning of our House" by Anne Bradstreet, and finally the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In the story of The Crucible many moral dilemmas are created. It is about the puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts and how people are singled out

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    Essay Length: 1,016 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2011
  • C Apital Punishment How Morally Correct Isit?

    C Apital Punishment How Morally Correct Isit?

    When someone that is close to you is hurt, it not only hurts them but it also affects you. We sympathize with the ones that we love and knowing that someone you love is suffering will make us suffer just as much. If another being hurts or kills someone that we care for it can make us go to certain extremes that can distress us mentally and sometimes even physically. As humans we all

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    Essay Length: 609 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2011
  • Declining Moral Standards In The Us

    Declining Moral Standards In The Us

    Moral standards in the United States are much too low. Today, many US residents seem to feel that they shouldn't have to work and that they should just get everything they need or want from the government. People on welfare find that if they get a job, they may only get as much income for their unskilled labor as they received while on welfare. Because of this, they do not have the incentive to

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    Essay Length: 378 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2011
  • Compass Case Study

    Compass Case Study

    Company Description Deluxe Corporation is the largest supplier of checks in the United States, providing check printing services for about 10,000 financial institutions and selling direct to small businesses and consumers. The demise of the check has been widely predicted for the past two decades because of the spread of ATMs, increasing use of credit and debit cards, and - more recently - Internet payment/on-line banking options. Yet in the U.S., checks continue to be

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    Essay Length: 1,351 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2011
  • Lust: The Moral Sucking Bite On Society

    Lust: The Moral Sucking Bite On Society

    Obsessive, unlawful, greedy, and unnatural sexual desire establish the core of lust, one of the seven deadly sins. Consuming in its very essence, it rots away at anything that was once considered pure or moral. Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest" and Bram Stoker's "Dracula" are stories that effectively demonstrate the disastrous and catastrophic effects on society by the unbridled greed, ambition and lust of its inhabitants. Most importantly, both the characters of Dracula and Dinah Brand

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    Submitted: March 23, 2011
  • Moral Relativism In Crime And Punishment

    Moral Relativism In Crime And Punishment

    At the close of Crime and Punishment, Raskolinkov is convicted of Murder and sentenced to seven years in Siberian prison. Yet even before the character was conceived, Fyodor Dostoevsky had already convicted Raskolinkov in his mind (Frank, Dostoevsky 101). Crime and Punishment is the final chapter in Dostoevsky's journey toward understanding the forces that drive man to sin, suffering, and grace. Using ideas developed in Notes from Underground and episodes of his life recorded in

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    Essay Length: 2,962 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: March 24, 2011
  • Moral Risk And Nuclear Weapons

    Moral Risk And Nuclear Weapons

    Moral Risk and Nuclear Weapons See the Cat? See the Cradle? "'See the cat?' asked Newt. 'See the cradle?'" (Vonnegut- 183). The day the atomic bomb dropped, August 6, 1945, was the day in which Newt Hoenikker's father tried to play a game with him. Felix, one of the scientists who had helped create the weapon, wanted to play cat's cradle. It is a game played with string looped over the fingers. After a series

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    Essay Length: 1,288 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2011
  • Macbeth Moral Story

    Macbeth Moral Story

    Macbeth is a play about a Scottish man Macbeth who gives in to temptation and greed. He starts out being the Scottish hero with no real major problems in his life. It all goes wrong for Macbeth when he encounters three witches that prophesise that he is going to be king. He tells his wife and she pressures him into murdering the king so that he can become king. Macbeth cannot decide whether he

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    Essay Length: 361 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2011
  • Compassion

    Compassion

    Compassion If you look up compassion in the dictionary, you will see the following definition: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. The construct of compassion is not clearly defined in psychological literature. We define compassion as a feeling of sorrow or concern for another person's suffering or need accompanied by a subsequent desire to alleviate the suffering. Compassion is an emotion: a short-lived feeling that anyone

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    Essay Length: 309 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 31, 2011
  • Abortion: Morality

    Abortion: Morality

    Abortion: Where Has Morality Gone? Joan Didion's essay, "On Morality," poses the question, "What is 'right' and what is 'wrong,' what is 'good' and what 'evil'?" (182). In today's society, often times many people do not even consider this question before taking certain actions, because the subject of morality has become a gray area in which morality can scarcely be defined. For instance, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines morality as "the quality of being in

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    Submitted: April 4, 2011
  • 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: April 5, 2011
  • The Effects Television Has On Children'S Moral Reasoning

    The Effects Television Has On Children'S Moral Reasoning

    When children watch violence on television, what do they see? Many cartoons and video games in today's society produce many violent products to sell to children. What exactly do these children perceive from these violent acts, and how can these acts of violence affect these children in the long run? A recent study conducted by Krcmar and Vieire was put into place to test whether violence on television had an effect on the moral reasoning

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    Essay Length: 536 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 6, 2011
  • Family Vs. Morality

    Family Vs. Morality

    Young Sarty Snopes, the main character in William Faulkner's "Barn Burning," exemplifies qualities that show he is both like and unlike his mother and father. Sarty's adolescent mind often recognizes that what his father is doing and mother is forced to witness is wrong, but another side of him realizes that family is important and that it would be both dangerous and difficult to turn his back on his own flesh and blood. He is

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    Essay Length: 1,205 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2011

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