Electric Cars: Savior‚ Satan‚ or Step in the Right Direction Introduction: While it may seem that electric cars are a new fad of the twenty-first century‚ this is not the case. Electric cars have been around since roughly the 1890s‚ and in fact they were the dominant motorized vehicle in the market until about 1929 [1‚ p. 17]. This was due mostly to high gas prices during war and the fact that back then having a range of 18 miles was more than enough to meet the needs of most people. But then
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Ethics of Profit‚ Part 3: The Profit Motive Posted March 29‚ 2011 Filed under: character‚ competition‚ corporations‚ decision-making‚ ethics‚ finance‚profits‚ white collar crime | This is the third in a 3-part series on the ethics of profit. (See also Part 1 and Part 2.) As mentioned in previous postings‚ we should distinguish between our ethical evaluation of profit per se (which‚ after all‚ just means financial “gain”)‚ and our ethical evaluation of the profit motive. After all‚ I don’t worry
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What is renewable energy? Why is everyone out there concerned about the future of renewable energy? Well‚ the answers are not as tough as we would have expected‚ nor do they require a lot of action in order to succeed. Our planet is dependent upon us to keep it thriving‚ and the best way to do that is to switch over to renewable energy. Renewable energy effectively uses natural resources such as sunlight‚ wind‚ rain‚ tides and geothermal heat‚ which may be naturally replenished. Renewable energy
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What Is Ethics? Ethics is the part of philosophy that deals with good and evil. Ethics tries to answer questions like: • What actions are good? What actions are evil? • How can we tell the difference? • Are good and evil the same for everyone? • How should we make hard decisions that might help or hurt other people? The Four main studies of ethics are; • Meta-ethics‚ about the theoretical meaning of moral propositions and ethical opinions; • Normative ethics‚ an abstract set of principles
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SCHOOL OF LAW Year 2013-14 Term 1 LAW001 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Instructor: David N. Smith Practice Professor‚ School of Law Tel: Email: Office: 6828 0788 davidsmith@smu.edu.sg School of Law‚ Room 4044‚ Level 4 COURSE DESCRIPTION Issues of ethics and social responsibility arise in all professions and all aspects of life. The failure to anticipate‚ recognize and deal effectively with these issues can have serious implications for individuals‚ companies‚ governments
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Does your child spend most of his or her day on the computer‚ using social media networks? Are you worried that this will have a negative effect on your child? What about the time “wasted” that they’ll never get back‚ are you worried about that too? Well‚ don’t be! Trust your child and love them for who they are. Let them do what makes them happy‚ besides they might even be using the network to their learning advantage. Melissa Healy had the right idea when she wrote “Teenage social media butterflies
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‘Only children’ are disadvantaged compared to children with siblings. Discuss. Introduction “I am an only child‚ I only have one sister” (Woody Allen). This statement is characteristic of the complex relationship between siblings. Dunn & Kendrick (1982) referred to emotions amongst siblings being both of love and hate (cited in Smith‚ Cowie & Blades‚ 2011). It is commonly believed that the existence of sibling interactions creates a beneficial environment for a child’s emotional and mental early
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Level of Loneliness between Single Child and Child having siblings Department Of Applied Psychology The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Research Supervisor Miss Ambreen Anjum Researchers Group 2 Girls Boys Name Roll No Name Roll No Aniqa Sleem 10 M. Zubair 12 Komal Aithaf 15 M. Hassan
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CARE ETHICS (The Ethics of Care) A Presentation of the Northeast Ethics Education Partnership and Ethical Awareness for International Collaboration‚ Brown University‚ 2012 Introduction • Care ethics [The ethics of care] originated among feminists who maintained‚ on the basis of Carol Gilligan’s work‚ A Different Voice ‚ that women and girls approach moral issues with a strong concern for empathy and caring in interpersonal relationships. Care and Virtues • Care ethics focuses on virtues
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ROLE OF ETHICS IN BUSINESS: Ethics Defined: Ethics are principles based on doing the right thing. They are the moral values by which an individual or business operates. In theory‚ a business or individual can act ethically and still attain ultimate success. A history of doing the right thing can be used as a selling point to heighten a person’s or organization’s reputation in the community. Not only are ethics morally valued‚ they are backed by legal repercussions for failure to act within certain
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