can be done” (Atkinson‚ 2015)‚ are sometimes objected to being demotivating for people to work hard because it essentially implies that more you work and earn the more you are taxed. However‚ this can be argued with support from the Priority view (Parfit‚ 2013) and Singer’s ideas in “Famine‚ Affluence and Poverty”. In essence‚ the Priority view states that even if the better off would suffer some loss it wouldn’t affect them much but that transfer would benefit the worse off relatively vastly and
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The Loved Little Whale: What Should Have Happened “Life had been transformed by our affection for this little whale‚ [because...] what we shared mattered” -Mike Parfit. Luna the orca has been separated from his pod ever since he was two. Through the years‚ this little orca has learned to cope not by joining another pod or learning to live in solitude‚ but by forming a miraculous bond with the citizens of Nootka Sound‚ British Columbia. As Luna gets older‚ he seems to be getting in more and more
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Beginning her tale unannounced‚ the Wife of Bath bursts onto the scene taking the entire pilgrimage by surprise. Her agenda is to engage in the medieval debate on marriage‚ confronting the scholarly authority of the church from the standpoint of common experience. Her main emphasis is on maistrie and believes that women should have the upper hand in marriage‚ making winning and retaining maistrie their main objective. She also refutes canon law which says you are only allowed one husband‚ distorting
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The titular character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” challenges medieval patriarchy in an attempt to denounce the sexist ideals at the time. However‚ the Wife of Bath herself is not a flawless example of feminism. The Wife of Bath is named “Alis” (326)‚ which is short for Allison in modern English. Interestingly‚ she shares the name with the young wife in “The Miller’s Tale‚” also from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The name‚ then‚ represents a challenge to the patriarchy
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There is no single problem of personal identity‚ but rather a wide range of loosely connected questions. Here are the most familiar ones: Who am I? We often speak of one’s “personal identity” as what makes one the person one is. Your identity in this sense consists roughly of what makes you unique as an individual and different from others. Or it is the way you see or define yourself‚ or the network of values and convictions that structure your life. This individual identity is a property (or
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Moral Arguments Against Human Cloning A. Would the Use of Human Cloning Violate Important Moral Rights? Many of the immediate condemnations of any possible human cloning following Wilmut’s cloning of an adult sheep claimed that it would violate moral or human rights‚ but it was usually not specified precisely‚ or often even at all‚ what the rights were that would be violated. I shall consider two possible candidates for such a right: a right to have a unique identity and a right to ignorance
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PHIL 230A (921) Introduction to Moral Theory Summer 2013 MW 7pm-10pm BUCH D222 Instructor: Doran Smolkin‚ Ph. D. Email: through the UBC Connect Website or doran.smolkin@ubc.ca or doran.smolkin@kwantlen.ca Office Location: Buchanan E275 Office Hours: MW 12:10-1:00‚ 6:30-7:00 and by appt. Required Text: Ethical Theory: An Anthology‚ 2nd ed. Shafer-Landau‚ Wiley-Blackwell‚ 2013. Course Description: The purpose of Philosophy 230 is to introduce you to the study of philosophical
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By Krishna Chaitanya.E Assistant Professor of English MGIT‚ Hyd. UNIT –IV DISASTER MANAGEMENT THE CUDDALORE EXPERIENCE (TEXT BOOK) Objectives of the Lesson To comprehend the magnitude of tsunami and its consequences in Cuddalore To know about the crisis management/disaster management To inspire to take up the social responsibility during nature’s fury To extend support during natural calamities To understand the role of rescue and relief operations To train how to open relief operations and
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What in your opinion‚ is Chaucer’s view of the “religious” characters in The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales? Chaucer began to write The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales in 1387 when England was a Catholic state. Chaucer‚ a strong believer of his faith became aware that the Catholic church was becoming corrupt. He saw that over time‚ it was becoming ironically more greedy‚ among other sins‚ which are of course strongly prohibited by the religion. Thus‚ The General Prologue to
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The stimulus selected is a scene from TV series “Dexter” where Dexter makes a speech about a hidden identity within his physical body. His line “I’m not sure what I am‚ I just know there’s something dark...in me...it’s there‚ always.” This leads me to consider the issue of personal identity and Shakespeare’s quote‚ “We know what we are‚ but not what we may be”. Human beings are physical matter that exist in time and are aware of their identity and existence. We often believe we remain the same person
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