is permissible due to the net happiness and utility of five people (and their families.) Another way to think of this scenario is that we do nothing and allow five people to die is enabling one to live. From a utilitarian point of view‚ this is indefensible‚ in the sense that with all entities being equal
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Camdenn Young-Harry Food Production Essay Seng Alex Veng WRI 010 09/09/2016 Bill McKibben’s essay “The Only Way to Have a Cow” establishes a sense of comfort as his approach to the meat eating controversy is superbly logical. The current industrial approach to livestock has birthed an issue pertaining to the sustainability and healthy feeding of our lives. Yet there is another problem in relation to our consumption‚ which tends to be overlooked. If the pricing of meat reflected in the damage done
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The author creates a sense of urgency with very brutish words. Her method of writing is persuasive and simultaneously evokes sympathy. This passage is very clear in its stated goal and spends the entirety of the essay attempting to convince the reader; this was achieved through various methods beyond the preceding. Words like “need”‚ “Make”‚ “never”‚ and “must” all imply power and generally go together with forced obligations. For example‚ you MUST do the dishes or don’t MAKE me hurt you. These
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(Paragraph 4). Some of these words are jargon words‚ meaning it might be difficult for the readers to understand‚ or they might have an abundance of meanings. Orwell presumes that political writing and speech is are much like “the defense of the indefensible” (Paragraph 8). Politics try to defend something yet clearly it is wrong‚ consequently because of “politics itself is a mass of lies‚ evasions‚ folly‚ hatred‚ and schizophrenia” (Paragraph 9)‚ this makes the language corrupted and bad‚ due to it
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Max concludes his argument for Bigger’s life with a speech in a final attempt to persuade people to see the greater good in letting him live. His purpose is to convince that public as well as the judge that Bigger’s violent nature is spawned from the oppressive society that keeps him and other African Americans in constant fear and poverty. He achieves success in articulating his points by employing various rhetorical strategies: similes‚ cause and effect‚ and comparison. The speech is punctuated
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DIMAPORO V. HRET FACTS: This is a petition brought by Congressman Dimaporo seeking to nullify the twin Resolutions of the HRET which denied his Motion for Technical Evaluation of the Thumbmarks and Signatures Affixed in the Voters Registration Records and Motion for Reconsideration of Resolution Denying the Motion for Technical Examination of Voting Records. Pursuant to the 1998 HRET Rules Congressional candidate Mangotara Petition of Protest (Ad Cautelam) seeking the technical examination
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Slavery is awful and unacceptable; the word itself rings with cruelty‚ suffering and inhumanity. Slavery is a loaded with meanings word; even originally in a biblical sense the slave employee and conscripted labor were not clearly defined. There were a lot of forms of slavery around the world; in fact‚ slavery exists even today in a different forms and degrees. Slavery as a legal term means the ownership of human beings by other human beings as if it was a property. It is the purest form of slavery
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the standards that others must meet for the same opportunities‚ it is at the expense of the others‚ who may therefore be denied opportunities‚ even though they may have met a higher standard. On this basis‚ Affirmative Action may not be morally indefensible. Our Constitution is not colour-blind and recognises the need to take race and gender into account in making certain decisions. It sanctions the use of restorative measures such as affirmative action 2. . 3. South Africa chose to implement
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Socioeconomic Status and Sentencing – Is it Fair? CRJU 354 – Corrections Abstract In 1963‚ the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment guarantees every defendant‚ regardless of socioeconomic status‚ the right to an attorney and equal protection under the court of law. This means that an indigent defendant that cannot afford to hire a private attorney may have a public defender appointed to him or her. However‚ fifty years later‚ the promises of Gideon
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Words and phrases such as “pacification” and the “elimination of unreliable elements” are used to name acts such as bombings and murder without invoking a mental image. He claims that “political speech and writing are largely the defense to the indefensible” (3). Then‚ in paragraph five‚ he explains how “language can also corrupt thought” (5). Next‚ the essay transitions from informing the reader of the problems in modern English to how this process can be reversed. As he says earlier in the essay
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