University of Phoenix Material Topic Sentence and Informal Outline Worksheet Using the Center for Writing Excellence and MyFoundationsLab resources‚ provide the topic sentence and informal outline for your Personal Ethics Statement. • Topic Sentence: My ethical perspective as outlined in the Ethical Lens Inventory is viewed through the Rights-Responsibility and Results lens. Everyone’s point of view is certainly different when determining how ethics will play out in their lives
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According to Nietzsche‚ this responsibility actually brings the realization that one has the power to take charge of one’s own life. Even if the individual adopts certain social codes or beliefs‚ how one acts these values will prove one’s unique way to be in the world. In his book `The Will To Power`‚ he introduces the idea of the `individual`: ``Something which is new and creates new things. Something absolute; all his acts are entirely his own ultimately. The individual derives the values of his
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considering how major decisions effect the people we work [pic] around and the lives we lead. There is no way that we can have one set of ethics for home and another set for business‚ we must have a clear objective of the critical thinking for each phase of life and they must be thought out ethically and morally. Critical thinking‚ thus‚ helps develop our own moral code‚ since it makes us think for ourselves and be rational while judging both ourselves and others. Critical thinking plays a large role
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Donnie Darko Assessment Dashiell Lieberman I would like to answer this question not as the Dashiell we all know and love but as an existential Dashiell. As an existentialist I would want the truth and the facts; that is a lot different than wanting an explanation. An existentialist doesn’t believe that everything needs an explanation and a reason. They believe in the cold hard truth and facts like the great existential characters Donnie Darko and Mersault of The Stranger‚ who died
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dream and during the whole thing he is lying to her and himself. Another trait which Jake possesses’ is that of a dreamer. In the beginning of the passage‚ the narrator speaks of things Jake would like to do with the ’58 Buick and ends it with his life. "The car would have crushed velvet interior with electric controls for the L.A.
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purpose is to live a good life in order to go to heaven. Through this belief‚ an individual may not be actually acting morally being that their desire to be good is motivated by the purpose of going to heaven. Without this motive‚ someone may not be inclined to act in such a way. Kant and Aristotle both cover this idea of purpose. Aristotle believes that people’s actions are governed through their desire to achieve happiness. According to Aristotle‚ the purpose of human life is by happiness through
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independence and self-initiative. Education seems to share a common aspect but there are some differential ideals between American and Asian values. Within the Asian culture their family core interactions being the fuel to move them through their individual life practices uses parenting as a fundamental aspect in pushing their children to work harder in their education; even overachieve. However‚ Americans might consider Asian parents to be overly dominating; there is an in-turn on exceptive goal that parent
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Alternative lifestyles are new ways of life that are different kinds from the traditional way. In the past‚ most people had chosen to get married. Whereas now some people are not planning to get married‚ but live the single life with or not children. This way of life has gradually formed the mainstream. Alternative lifestyles now include many different new ways of living‚ including: single-parent families‚ staying single and communal living. There is social situation have become a common
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In turn‚ this depression affects the way he perceives his own life‚ and the life of others‚ and leads him to see every aspect of life in a negative and pointless light. In essence‚ the text illustrates how people who are affected by severe depression‚ often experience an existential crisis in which they question the very meaning and purpose of life itself. This will be demonstrated by Michael’s indifferent attitude towards his life‚ his dismal perception of the lives of his family members‚ as well
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“The Man in the Well” by Ira Sher was a story about a couple of young kids who find this man in a well near where they live and decide to start talking to him. I think that one of the main themes in this story is identity. I believe that human beings are one of the most complicated species on this Earth. Human beings are so complex on how they think and act. When the children find the man in the well they very quickly seem to make a game out of it. They immediately decide not to save him
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