SOC 189 - #1 Exam 1. Is meritocracy fair? Discuss the pros and cons of our achievement-oriented society. Does it give rise to a meritorious elite? Why or why not? This country was founded on the principle that one’s status in society should be determined by your individual achievements‚ not by your conditions at birth. The idea is that we are all created equal‚ with equal opportunities‚ not results. The concept of meritocracy is essential to our ideas about American exceptionalism. A benefit
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No‚ it is not ethical. From this case‚ we can easily find out that the sales of the Fair & lovely and Fairever are totally based on the success of the advertisements. Skin color is a powerful theme in India and Asia where a lighter color represents a higher status. Both of the companies take advantage of the truth of the dark skin of the Indian people and emphasize a lot on the benefit of having fair skin. For example‚ in the HLL’s advertisement of “fairer girl gets the boy theme”‚ it featured a
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Let’s be Fair Out of proportional‚ regressive‚ progressive‚ lump-sum tax systems; to me‚ I feel like the proportional tax system is the best type. I am sure a lot of people would argue and say that it is not the best. They probably think that they are right in their mind‚ and that is okay. Proportional tax‚ is “a tax for which high-income and low-income taxpayers pay the same fraction of income.” The reason why I think proportional tax is the best‚ because fair is fair. The current tax system that
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of witches who intend to interact with Macbeth‚ but one particular line does‚ at least‚ set the tone for the rest of the tale. Together‚ just before parting ways‚ the witches all recite‚ “Fair is foul and foul is fair” (Shakespeare 1.1.). On the surface‚ this statement seems simple enough: good is bad and bad is good. But what does that really mean within the context of the play? There are two main things to note about this line. To begin with‚ the witches’ statement can be looked at as either an
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The Nuremburg Trials The Holocaust was an unparalleled crime composed of millions of murders imprisonment‚ racism‚ and destruction. It destroyed millions of lives and wiped out over six million Jews during the course of World War II under Hitler’s power. The aftermath of these horrific events proved to be a difficult one since no form of punishment could ever suffice to the torture and pain the Nazi’s inflicted on the Jewish Community. This challenge was attempted by the International
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Business Law I APPLIED RESEARCH Fair housing Laws A course paper presented to the School for Arts and Sciences and Distance Learning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Baccalaureate Business Law I Park University September‚ 2006 You would think that today’s society would not discriminate against someone based on their race‚ color‚ or national origin. With the changes in lifestyle‚ people continue to discriminate against those‚ but also someone’s sexual orientation
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“Why It’s so hard to be fair” is an article written by Joel Brockner and was published in the Harvard Business Review March 1‚ 2006. In this article‚ Professor Brockner analyzed the benefits of process fairness‚ when and where company applies it as a performance booster. However‚ he also made a question that process fairness has many advantages but why everybody doesn’t use it. In the end‚ he gave advice to companies of how to make process fairness the norm. Starting with the downsizing problem
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In Macbeth‚ William Shakespeare shows a good side‚ and a bad side of a person. At the beginning of the play‚ three witches mentioned “ Fair is Foul” and “Foul is Fair” ( 1.1.13). Macbeth felt that his cousin Duncan are king was unfair to him‚ however‚ Duncan felt it was acceptable. In order‚ to right what Macbeth felt was foul he killed Duncan to make it Fair in his eyes. Their apparition are simply true and they have Macbeth thinking that anyone will hurt him. Macbeth had a taste of power‚ and
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The aim of this essay is to discuss about the comment made by the Adam Smith Institute (2008) about how ‘The Fair-trade movement achieves virtually nothing in terms of reducing world poverty’. Fair trade is a standard that is set to support the developing countries exports‚ it is to improve the workers in a developing country’s working conditions‚ fair payments which help them towards development and planning of their future that may help poverty. It also helps them to sell products to developing
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The quote “Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair” that is said by the three witches towards the beginning of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ can be applied to Lady Macbeth’s character. Lady Macbeth showed that her personality consisted of acting in a fair manner to deceive others of her true foul intentions. William Shakespeare sheds light over Lady Macbeth’s true colors when she received news from her husband about him one day becoming king. Lady Macbeth’s foul desire for power was strong enough for her
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