Justified Deception Is deception justified? This question is a topic that many people have different views on. In my opinion‚ it is necessary to lie to other people. I also think that it is important to be an honest individual‚ but there are certain circumstances when lying is justified. Lying can often times save a lot of unnecessary hardship and trouble‚ but when used in the wrong circumstances‚ can cause trouble too. Take the President of the United States for example. If Obama told the American
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Is there such a thing as justified killing? Many would argue that the killing of another individual is by far one of the worse crimes that can be committed. Though under certain circumstances such as capital punishment‚ or to kill in self-defense‚ justified killing is okay. These options are only acceptable if there is no viable alternative to doing so. Everyone has the right to live‚ and once someone decides to kill another individual then they should lose that right. They don’t deserve to have
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t Justified Discrimination? A Critical Analysis of the Decision in Wilkinson v Kitzinger [2007] 1 FLR 296 by Erin Culley‚ Department of Law‚ University of Greenwich [1] ABSTRACTThe creation of the civil partnership was a clear compromise between the need to recognise a formalised relationship between same-sex couples while still acknowledging the protests of those against the creation of gay marriage. Many were thrilled with the symbolic step taken by Parliament‚ whereas others were appalled at
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Imperialism can be justified based on certain intentions. When Leopold surreptitiously deceived African leaders into signing treaties giving them complete power over Africa‚ it demonstrated the first step of his desire for a colony. The main agent which triggered Leopold into dominating the Congo was because every other European power had their own colony‚ conveying a feeling of discontent in Belgium. This discontent was the cause of the imperialization of Africa. Based on evidence from documents
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Benchmarking Thor Industries’ Inventory Management - Group 2 Teddy Dwork‚ Alexa Esquivel‚ Noelle Fennessy‚ Alec Madow‚ Marc Milgrim 1. Inventory Share of Total Assets Net Accts Rec. Share of Total Assets Gross Profit Percentage (GP/Sales) SG&A Percentage (SG&A/Sales) 2008 15.3% 14.7% 12.2% 6.7% 2007 16.0% 16.7% 12.7% 6.2% 2. 2008 5.8% 13.2% 20.2 25.3 2007 6.9% 17.6% 22.7 24.7 Return on Sales = EBIT/Revenue Return on Equity = NI/Inv Days Receivable = AR/(sales/365) Days Inventory= (Avg Inv/COGS)
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novels from all eras of time. Frequently feelings dealing with deceit –lying or jealousy- creates anger in an individual leading into irrationality. However‚ can a simple trick or lie for the sake of entertainment or flattery allow deception to be justified? Robert Southey once said “All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice‚ and falsehood passing from words into things.” (Southey 133) If we look through the famous works of today‚ we notice deception
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But why? Why have censorship at all? What in the world would provoke one to such drastic measures? Greed‚ power‚ evil‚ the truth perhaps? What ideas‚ can ideas be so threatening that it would be enough of a reason to endorse censorship? In the Nazi’s case books contained information‚ sometimes information that went against what they were trying to enforce; books helped people think. The Nazi’s didn’t want them to think‚ they wanted them to be completely oblivious. Books also‚ sometimes‚ could have supplied
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Case # 4.64 Huge Company Tooling Business Unit (TBU) Choice of Cost System Huge Company ’s tooling business unit manufactures metal and carbon fiber parts for the company ’s major products. They currently use the Functional-Based Costing system or FBC. In this costing system they compute a combined labor and overhead cost per labor hour and charges each job based on the number of labor hours used. This labor-based charge is added to the materials cost to calculate the total job cost.
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Justified Violence Violence has become accepted as a common means to achieve an end. Whether it is for power‚ subduing another country during interstate conflict‚ or an attempt to gain legitimacy‚ violence has become a distinctive force in contemporary society. The more important question that needs to be addressed is when this use of violence is justified‚ if ever. The purpose of the government‚ according to Locke‚ is the preservation of natural rights. When these freedoms are not protected in
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1. Analyze the attractiveness of the airline industry pre 9/11. How attractive was the industry before 9/11? Was it profitable? Was there growth? Was there strong competition or not? If so‚ in what sectors? PESTEL Analysis of the Airline Industry Pre 9/11 Political Government support for national carriers (Johnson‚ Gerry. 2011‚ pg51) Security Controls (Johnson‚ Gerry. 2011‚ pg51) Investment support Restrictions on migration (Johnson‚ Gerry. 2011‚ pg51) Deregulations
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