a) Explain the difference between Act and Rule Utilitarianism (25 marks) Throughout this essay I will be comparing the Act and Rule variations of Utilitarianism to uncover the difference between the two. Utilitarianism is teleological or consequentialist approach to ethics‚ which argues that something is good or bad according to its benefit for the majority of the people. Jeremy Bentham formalized this theory through his principle of Utility‚ “the greatest good for the greatest number”. Act Utilitarianism
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Dawn King Andrew J. Bacevich‚ Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (New York: Metropolitan Books‚ 2010) Before even reading the book‚ Readers are easily enticed by the covers bold‚ and clear book cover‚ The red backround is daring and prevokes the person in a bookstore to pick the book up‚ and at least read the back of the book to see what could be so important to have such an eye-catching
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Time Sample Observation Form Observer’s Name: Child’s Name: Context (what is happening during observation): FREE PLAY-OUTSIDE TIME Number of Children in room at time of observation: 14 Teacher to Child Ratio during observation: 1 TO 12- 2 TEACHERS Child Behavior Identified for Observation: _____________________________________________________________________________________ Start Time|End Time|Area Child Is In|What Child is doing|Describe Incident/eventComments| 10:00
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exclusionary rule was established (Hendrie 1). The exclusionary rule was a part of the Fourth Amendment. It states that evidence found at a crime scene is not admissible if it was not found under the correct procedures. This means that the government cannot conduct illegal searches of a person or place and use evidence that is found at that time. The government must go through the procedures of obtaining warrants or have probable cause to search an individual or place. The exclusionary rule is used
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Coaching Observation 1 The average football fan may assume that football is an attractive‚ prestigious‚ and glorifying sport when seen on television. Little does the average fan know the mental toughness‚ criticism‚ and commitment it takes to play on Saturdays. Every year college football programs pride themselves on their recruiting classes of twenty or more high school athletes. Four years later‚ the same class of twenty highly touted high school athletes will usually be cut down to five
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Indian dishes‚ which signaled a feeling of positive multicultural interaction. The woman acknowledged that she had been at the store before‚ which defined a pre-existing relationship in the purchasing of these food products. I felt that these types of social interactions gave the impression that many different types of people were encouraged to try Indian food and to explore the different types of food being sold at the store. In this manner‚ Kohinoor Foods was simply a place in which Indian immigrants
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aggressor. The dependent variable is the responses given by the bystanders. There were two students (researchers) who observed the bystanders for each observation. Each part of the study involved a male aggressor and a female aggressor as the confederates. For the female observation there were six individual behaviors observed. For the male observation there were seven individual behaviors observed. Measures The materials used for this study was a static and action checklist. On the static checklist
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Why are Americas rules of evidence more restrictive than those established by other countries? America’s rules of evidence are more restrictive because unlike some countries we have Constitutional protections that safeguard individual rights. An example of this would be the Supreme courts determination that a state rule requiring that a defendant wanting to testify in a criminal case must do so before the admission of any other defense testimony is a violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment
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The mischief rule[1] is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts.[2] The other two are the “plain meaning rule” (also known as the “literal rule”) and the “golden rule.” The main aim of the rule is to determine the "mischief and defect" that the statute in question has set out to remedy‚ and what ruling would effectively implement this remedy. The rule was first laid out in a 16th-century ruling of the Exchequer Court. -------------------------------------------------
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New Water Protection (WOTUS) rule issued by Obama On May 27‚ 2015 Obama administration issued a new rule‚ under the Clean Water Act‚ to protect the nation’s water resources such as wetlands and streams for benefiting safe and clean drinking water and to protect from pollution and degradation. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers issued The Water of United States (WOTUS) rule that aims to protect water sources that flow to drinking water unit to be clean irrespective
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