In chapter 2 of your textbook‚ Jonathan Wolff gives a formalized version of the utilitarian argument for the state. Please evaluate the first three premises of this argument: for each of these three premises‚ state whether you think that premise is true‚ and explain why or why not. For each of the three premises that you think is true‚ please also describe one objection to that premise‚ and explain why you think that the objection ultimately fails. Please assume that “state” in the formalized argument
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The Subjective Meaningful Life "What do we want when we want a meaningful life? What is it that makes some lives meaningful‚ others less so?" (pg.1). These are questions we all ask ourselves at some point or another during our lives. We spend the majority of our lives aspiring to achieve a meaningful life‚ and at the same time we spend most of our lives questioning and wondering what exactly a meaningful life is. "What is it that makes some lives meaningful‚ others less so?" (pg.1) is also one
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“Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff‚ shows how essential the cold and frigid weather is to the actions of the characters and the situations that they are involved in. Towards the beginning of the story‚ it seems that Frank and Kenny have established a vigorous relationship leaving Tub out of the relationship. On the day of their hunt‚ Kenny and Frank left out their companion Tub forcing him to struggle in the heavy snow. The two men utilized the heavy snow to leave behind their friend. As the story
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The last paragraph there is longest sentence‚ that ‘The train came huffing in from the south and stood great dominoes smoldering in the dark and ge could not but compare this arrival to that one twenty-four hours ago and she touched the silver chain at her throat and turned away and bent to pick up the suitcase and then leaned and kissed him one last time her face all wet and then she was gone.’ This sentence is longest in the the final goodbye passage because John Grady doesn’t want to be separate
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In Tobias Wolff’s short story “The Rich Brother‚” we are introduced to two brothers Pete and Donald. They is a major difference between these brother that one is wealthy and the other is always in need of financial assistance. The older brother‚ Pete‚ is a successful real estate agent while his younger brother‚ Donald‚ works as a painter whenever he can. The two brothers are very different in their belief about what is valuable. Pete is a man that has worked hard and values what he has acquired
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Supply Chain and Value Chain Supply chain is a network of distribution and facilities options that performs the function of procurement of materials‚ conversion of these materials into intermediate and finished goods and the supply of these finished goods to the ultimate consumers‚ for e.g. for a single product‚ supply chain consists of flow of raw material from vendors‚ transformation into finished goods i.e. interflow of materials‚ transportation to distribution centers and supply activities for
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Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” centers on the actions and personalities of Kenny‚ Frank and Tub as they embark on a hunting trip during the winter. Each character faces problems (in character or otherwise) which they attempt to cover up through deception – the central theme in this short story – in order to accept their respective actions. The consequences of these cover ups profoundly change the power of each character over another. Furthermore‚ the characters don’t realize how their lies
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Society has many opposing opinions and facts‚ however‚ their thoughts are overshadowed by an act of respect and acceptable behavior; just like the example of the relationship of the characters of Tobias Smollett’s novel‚ The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle: Godfrey Gauntlet and Peregrine Pickle. In their tense argument regarding Pickle’s lover‚ who is also Gauntlet’s sister‚ illustrates Smollett’s balance of controlled emotion and social propriety. Although the two characters express hated contentment
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Cause and Effect Final Essay Ever since I was young‚ I have been exposed to different kinds of experiences. Each of these experiences has brought a new life lesson. My mother has always encouraged me to do what I love‚ so during high school‚ in 8th grade I attended to a school called The Grier School in Altoona Pennsylvania‚ which specializes in dance and horse back riding. In this school I meet a variety of people that really made me grow as a person. Of all these new people that I met‚ the
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The novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff‚ set in the early 90s‚ is about fourteen-year-old girl La Vaughn who takes on a babysitting job. She needs to work her way through school to save enough money to get through college. She means to study‚ to get a better job‚ to escape the poverty that she is growing up in. She babysits for Jolly‚ a seventeen-year-old mother of two‚ Jeremy and Jilly. The place where this little family live is disgusting. The children are filthy and deprived of all
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