Moral Relativism Moral relativism and Nazism seem to go hand in hand. Moral relativism basically is the idea that morals and ethics do not necessarily reflect the objective or universal moral truth, but instead they relate to societies, culture, and even personal conditions. Thus, as a Nazi, moral relativism fits right in with my culture and societal beliefs that whites are supreme, Jews are inferior, and the world needs to be won over to Nazism. It would be very attractive to me because it would allow me to believe what I wanted to believe, despite the clear ethical and moral problems concerned, and it would even help me rationalize my behavior against "inferior" races, such as the Jews. It would in effect help me become racist and evil by allowing me to create my own alternative morals and ethics, whether they had anything to do with real reality and morality or not. Captured terrorists should be treated as prisoners of war because that is what they are. They are waging war on the western world, killing as many people as they can, and they feel they are ju

Arthur Miller is one of America's best-known dramatists. His career spanning over six decades established him as one of the most important playwrights that America has ever produced. His most famous and performed dramas, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, have delighted and inspired both audiences and fellow dramatists all over the world. His plays have succeeded in doing much more than providing mere entertainment; they have reached their audiences and confronted them with truths about their own lives, as well as those that represent the very core of American consciousness. Arthur Miller's main themes are failure, guilt, betrayal, and most importantly perhaps, love and responsibility (Abbotson: 3). Arthur Miller continued the realistic tradition inaugurated in America in the period between the two world wars. His plays dig deep into American consciousness by exploring social and moral issues that Miller himself identifies as common to the majority of his audience. Mi

According to Eric Fromm, in his book Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, some humans are malignantly aggressive. There actually exists an intent to hurt someone else, and the act can provide enjoyment. This is not innate behavior; it becomes worse when there are pressures that cause increased frustration and anger. This behavior can be seen in younger children when they have tantrums. It can also be witnessed in adolescents, because they are looking for a sense of identity and completeness, and there may be barriers keeping them from reaching this

Humans and animals have similarities and differences, which make human beings unique in their behavior. Unfortunately, not all of these differences are positive. According to Eric Fromm, in his book Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, humans have what he calls "malignant aggression," where there is an intent to harm another. The result of this intent can be seen with spousal abuse, crime, or even bullying. In a classroom, a student can be purposely rude, rowdy or even, after time, use verbal or physical abuse. A teacher, recognizing this tendency, can u

By referring to the article, "The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relations," it can be understood that children will show aggression in the classroom when they feel threatened. Unfortunately, children feel threatened when there is someone better than them at something especially when their home life does give security. For example, children from divorced homes have issues with low self-esteem and social competence because they left out from one or both parents. This is due to the fact that the parent is usually sel

During the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American women had a wide variety of experiences. Rural women were moving to the cities to take industrial jobs, there were many immigrant women coming to the country for new opportunities, and working with progressive movements such as socialism and the suffragists. The country was becoming increasingly industrialized and more people were moving to the cities to find work in factories, manufacturing plants, and other bus

The Progressive Reform era marked a huge change in American society. By the turn of the 20th century, society was becoming increasingly urbanized, with families moving to the city to find work in industries that had not existed even a few years before. Cities had always existed, of course, but they grew tremendously as immigrants came to America from many other countries to find new opportunities, and because so many people were moving from agricultural areas to the city. This helped lead to a more prosperous society, and a new middle class of people that

Introduction: Project risk management has been an aspect of business for a very long time, yet it has never been more centralized or scientific in application. (Simons, 1996, p. 3) The process of project risk management is essential to the development of profitability, and especially in large scale production. (Fairbanks, Vance & Chrisman, 2006, p. 97) The utilization of information technology to develop systems of centralized knowledge of the development of a project from conception to completion is an essential aspect of information technology in general. With the information that is gathered and hopefully utilized by a good IT department almost anything about a particular product or project should be accessible at any given time. (Frame, 2002, p. 92) Software developments have also stimulated interest in risk management. Project scheduling software now enables ordinary project managers to create sophisticated models of their projects on their PCs; this previously required the pow

In a legalistic system of justice, human beings are responsible for their actions because they are assumed to have at least some control over their own actions and their environment. Therefore, taking into consideration certain mitigating factors, they can be judged for their actions, and be punished accordingly. Someone who orchestrated the killing of her husband, because her husband murdered a child, like Clytemnestra in the "Oresteia" of the early Greek playwright Aeschylus might be treated with some mercy by a jury. The jury would take into consideration f her feelings for her dead child, although the fact that she took a lover later on might count against her, as it would suggest a less sympathetic motive for the murder of her husband, as would the long period of premeditation of Clytemnestra's actions. But in the in mythic and heroic tradition of archaic society, the justice of the gods prevails, not the justice of equal or objective judgment and retribution, and

Protagonist Thomas Black Bull comes full circle in Hal Borland's novel When the Legends Die. A Ute native from Colorado, Tom spends a large portion of his childhood in the wilderness, where he befriends a bear cub and assumes the name "Bear's Brother." His affinity for nature is encouraged by his family, who fled their hometown Pagosa because Tom's father George Black Bull killed Frank No Deer. Learning and living the old Ute ways in the woods brings Tom in tough with his true self. However, Tom is tricked into returning to mainstream civilization. Spending years of his life in misery, Tom eventually returns to the woods at the end of the novel. The peace he feels in the woods is especially profound compared with his struggles in the modernized world and therefore, the old Ute ways clearly offer a better way of life for Tom. After spending many years on the Ute reserve, Tom and his family take some time to adapt back to the old ways. They rely only on a bow and arrow to go hunting. Th

In an op-ed article in The New York Times, Gerecht advocates that the United States open direct talks with Iran's nation, something the Bush Administration has as yet declined to do and that Democrat candidate Barack Obama has said he would do as president. Why have talks with Iran? Writer Reuel Marc Gerecht points out that Iran has been trying to develop a nuclear capability in the recent past. The Bush Administration has used this fact to stir up interest in the U.S. regarding a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. However, as the article correctly points out, it has been known since 2003 that Iran has "halted its nuclear weapons program." But no matter what the Bush Administration has planned as far as Iran – which Gerecht insists isn't working anyway – there needs to be "a consensus among far more Democrats and Republicans that a nuclear-armed Iran is intolerable." And the Bush White House should show that it has tried to reach out to Iranian "pragmatists" and "moderates" before any more saber-rattling and any more talk of a military option. This would als

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158 is entitled Employers' Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans and was an amendment of FASB Statements No. 87, 88, 106, and 132(R), in September of 2006. SFAS No. 158 was written as a result of the "initial phase of a comprehensive project to improve an employer's accounting for defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans" ("Statement of Financial", 2006). "The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) noted that the existing standards on pension and postretirement plans fail to produce representationally faithful and understandable financial statements" (Hurtt, Kreuze, & Langsam, 2007), and as such created SFAS No. 158, with an end goal of more useful and transparent financial statement for creditors, investors and other users (Rossi, 2007). To accomplish this greater usability, there are several objectives this Statement addresses. First, it directs

In her book "Virtual Love," author and columnist Meghan Daum explores the passion and pitfalls of online courtship. Online courtship, like its more tumultuous counterpart online dating, reveals the power of technology to alter the way people communicate. Body language, physical contact, and the sound of one's voice are key components of communication but are wholly absent in an online relationship. So when a relationship is pursued and developed online it becomes like an old-fashioned romance, notes Daum. Without the added stimuli of physical contact, the two parties can engage each other in Platonically loving discourse. The "getting to know you" phase lasts longer than it might in a physical dating environment where physical contact becomes paramount. Feelings of love and mutual respect emerge in the online environment and are just as genuine as they would be if the individuals met online. Therefore, the virtual reality of online courtship provides a way to return to the basics of lo

Act one scene one of Hamlet finds two guards establishing the identities of each other. The first guard, Barnardo is attempting to discern the whereabouts of Francisco, who is on duty, guarding the castle. After they both have discerned the otheri¿½s identity, Francisco is relieved by Barnardo. Before Francisco leaves the scene, Barnardo asks him to keep an eye open for an additional guard, Marcellus, and Horatio as they are both supposed to be keeping him company. What he does not tell Francisco is the reason why he wishes them to "make haste." Marcellus and Horatio arrive before Francisco takes his leave and Barnardo is happy to see them both. Marcellus and Barnardo have stood guard together the previous two evenings and both swear that an apparition has appeared to them during those

1.Analyze and discuss the intelligence support needed to HLS to prevent terrorism. Homeland security needs an all-encompassing and single point clearing house for intelligence services and support. The centralized requirement will ensure that the "big picture" is always clear, and informing the big picture, the details are collected and collated from the various intelligence units. The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DNS) is a good starting point because the United States now has an organization with over 20 federal entities that can focus on "three national security priorities: preventing terrorist attacks within the United States; reducing America's vulnerability to terrorism; and minimizing the damage and facilitating the recovery from attacks that do occur (The White House, 2006)." Aside from the establishment of the DHS, intelligence support can now be achieved with the reorganization of the American Intelligence community "en

Tolstoy's War and Peace evokes powerful contemplation about the meaning of life, of the nature of the human soul, and of the nature of suffering. In these excerpts alone readers can understand what Tolstoy was trying to convey through his characters' experiences. Both passages address the motif of human flesh: the corporal nature of existence. Through characters like Andrew Tolstoy encourages thought on the relationship between our minds and our bodies and whether or not human beings can or even should transcend their physical realities. Tolstoy is concerned with corporeality and with the effects of pain, pleasure, and all sensations on the human psyche. Andrew offers compelling reasons to believe that the body is integral to the soul. His physical and sexual passion for Natasha is one way Tolstoy illustrates the effect of the body on the mind, emotions, and spirit of a man. His wartime experiences and his brush with death further drive home the intensity of physical sens

Language is extremely important in Postcolonial literature. As a means of communicating with the other and of representing the other, language in itself can serve as a colonizing instrument. For this reason, Postcolonial texts are actual laboratories for experimenting with language. This is the case with both Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Books and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. The two novels are very different in terms of subject and execution, but quite similar in the message they transmit. Both of them introduce language as a major issue for colonization, either as a linguistic screen between two cultures or as a means of deconstructing the other. Although there are major differences between the two texts, it is to be noted that both are presented from the point of view of children narrators, Mowgli in The Jungle Books and Estha and Rahel in The God of Small Things. This fact is important since the children are still in the process of language acquisition, and this lea

Item 1: A travel coffee mug and a cup of 'to go' cereal in an individual, plastic disposable bowl One of the first questions every anthropologist asks about a society is: how did that society eat? A travel coffee mug answers the questions of how our society eats, what it eats, and where it eats, as well as exemplifies America's fast pace and the importance of cars as transportation in the world. Americans are so busy they eat in their cars, live in their cars, and do not have enough time in the morning even to sip a cup of coffee at the breakfast table or to fix a bowl of cereal. Convenience rather than skilled or leisurely preparation of food is what is most important when people select their breakfast menu items, even when consuming is supposed to be the most important meal of the day. It is hard to believe a hundred years ago, few people ate cereal, and many people consumed eggs, bacon, or other substantial meat products that took a long time to prepare for bre

Introduction In this situation, the CEO of the Gap Company should be aware on how employees should be treated since he should be required to treat employees as a partner in his business. From there, there, he should use Emotional Intelligence, which is a theory that managers and CEO's understand their employees emotions. This helps them to communicate effectively and it makes the employees feel they are on the page. This approach generated loyalty and challenged the employees to make the business a success. Each employee should be offered stock options and given a portion of the profits as an incentive to keep working toward higher customer satisfaction. Motivation and communication are additional ways the CEO could create happy employees. Challenging employees allows him or her to be creative and generate new ideas or product lines that will increase sales and or customer satisfaction. Listening to employees opinions is vital to success. The people who work the frontline o

Unions in search of new workers to join their ranks can be expected to target the lowest-hanging fruit. Thus, they will look at two key components – the areas where they have had the most success in the past and the areas in which they offer the greatest potential benefit to the prospective members. According to statistics from the US Department of Labor, males are more likely to be in a union than are females; blacks are more likely than whites or Hispanics. According to the AFL-CIO, Latino workers in a union make 51% more than their non-union counterparts. African-American members and female members also show a significantly higher wage as a result of union membership, whereas Asian-Americans, for example, only earn 4% more on average if they are in a union. Therefore, unions can be expected to target jobs that have a greater proportion of workers who are either female, African-American or Latino-American. Another aspect of their search for workers in areas where they

Introduction: According to the federal government, car accidents are the number one cause of fatality in the teenage years, accounting for more than one-third of all deaths in that age category (CDC 2007). That statistic is attributable to many factors, including the fact that teenage drivers lack extensive driving experience; they often act irresponsibly, especially in groups; they sometimes engage in underage drinking in conjunction with driving; and they may lack some of the cognitive skills to assess potential risks and consider the possible consequences of their actions (Gerrig & Zimbardo 2005). Reducing teen dri

ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR POLICE OFFICERS Communication Skills: Police officers may face many different types of situations on patrol, ranging from rendering aid and assistance to respectful, law-abiding citizens who genuinely appreciate their help to dealing with uncooperative subjects who resent law enforcement authority. Therefore, the single most important skill for police officers is the ability to communicate effectively with all different types of people in various states of mind. They must be able to calm accident victims injured or in shock in a compassionate manner; they must be able to establish an authoritative presence for effective crowd

Stendhal between Romanticism and Realism Stendhal is one of the major writers of the nineteenth century and an important innovator of the novel as a literary genre. His unique style has been many times redefined by the critics, in search of an appropriate tag. Nevertheless, Stendhal's originality springs precisely from the way in which the writer managed to blend entirely different and even contradictory attitudes and philosophies in his novels. His works are all characterized by a critical and even sarcastic view on his contemporary life. The author's deception with post-Napoleonic world is reflected in almost every novel. Stendhal was a writer who could not find his place in the country and the time he was forced to inhabit, and who looked with hostility on the political life and the ideologies of the time. His novels are thus deeply concerned with the connection between history and individual life: "History with the rumble of its cannons marches side by side with an

1. Introduction The contemporaneous society is evolving at a rapid pace and we must all adjust in order to keep up with it. The business community has been affected by numerous forces of both micro and macroeconomic nature. A major macroeconomic force which directly impacts corporate organizations is the liberalization of markets. And this refers similarly to the free circulation of products, services, capital as well as workforce. Given that countries are now free to trade, the international competition has increased drastically and manufacturers must constantly increase the efficiency of their operations and improve the quality of their products, while in the same time promoting a competitive retail price. The combination of the need to reduce costs and the possibility to hire foreign workforce for lower wages has led to outsourcing. i¿½Outsourcing involves the sourcing of goods and services previously produced internally within the sourcing organization to external suppliers.

My friend Michelle has been thinking of getting a new laptop computer since her employer offered her the opportunity to do some of her work at home. She has been using a desktop Dell PC since 2001, but has wanted to upgrade her system, primarily because Windows 98 is no longer supported by Microsoft, making maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrades difficult. Last Sunday, she noticed an advertisement on the back cover of The New York Times Magazine for the new MacBook Air by Apple computer. The full-page ad featured a the word "Thinnovation" in the middle of the page and a side view of the open laptop displaying its extreme thinness; the caption underneath read "The world's thinnest notebook. 13.3-inch widescreen display. Full-size keyboard." She decided almost immediately that she wanted the laptop despite the fact that she had never before used a Macintosh system. Her main reason for this choice was that she liked "the way i