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- 20781: Capital Punishment
- ... the death penalty is inhumane. The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of capital punishment and the moral viewpoints on the death penalty. The first evidence of capital punishment is from Hammurabi's code, a book of Babylonian law, from 1700BC. (http://www.schoolsucks) The Bible mentions that execution should be used for many crimes. (Bedau1) One example of the death penalty in the bible is "Whoever strikes ... that he dies shall be put to death." (Exodus 21:12). The bible also suggests stoning a woman if she unmarried sex and had "wrought folly on Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house" (Deuteronomy 22:21) England recognized seven major crimes that called for execution by the end of the 15th century. These crimes were: murder, theft (by deceitfully taking someone goods), burglary, rape, and arson. As ... Courts (federal level). Any time in the trial the defense may choose to appeal. Even if a suspect is sentenced to a crime the case may be appealed for a variety of reasons. The defendant's lawyer could claim that the defendant's rights were violated when he was arrested, that the defendant received an unfair trial, or new evidence that could prove the defendant's innocence has surfaced. (Guernsey, ...
- 20782: Human
- ... morality, ability to know the principles of right and wrong behavior, and ethical judgment. Alexander Pope, Shakespeare, and Gilgamesh, these people and books, use concepts of human beings are: morality, divinity, and integrity. In today’s world it is shown that humans are very easily divinity and animal. Concerns and perspective status of a person and behavior is what leads humans through life. One of these is which perseverance gives determination of a strong-minded person. A person leads himself with his or her own good moral conduct. We are different than animals in a way, that we can see happiness, while most animals can’t. Economy is what lets you manage your household and private affairs. Prudence is the ability to govern and discipline oneself. Courage holds your mind and soul together throughout thick and thin. Human also have another ... and what might possibly happen. Essay on Man, Alexander Pope, says that a man doubts everything. Humans can see the good and bad in things, while an animal just wonders what it is. The Human’s mind and body both prefer different things. The mind could say you’re too fat, and yet the body is hungry. Animals just eat whether they are hungry or not, in the wild they ...
- 20783: How Richard Selzer Is A Philos
- ... society today. As well as the article “Abortion” by Selzer, I have also read Mortal Lessons, a book he had also written. Selzer is an author who wrote in order to describe “unsparingly the surgeon’s art, opening up the body to view one part at a time.” The article “Abortion” classifies him as a doctor, but the way in which he writes makes him a philosopher as well. Selzer not ... never seen before was something that shocked and amazed him. He though he saw the fetus “struggling against the needle (281)” trying to get away from it. He observed that the needle inside the woman’s stomach was moving and believed that to be the fetus fighting against what it instinctively knew as death. These observations, in my eyes, make him a philosopher. He not only thinks about the woman having ... which I think are right to have an abortion, such as being rapped. It is true that after anyone is violated in that way, no one is going to want to carry around a rapist’s baby to remind you of how you were abused. This is one way that I think is acceptable to have an abortion. To have an abortion because you are not responsible enough to use ...
- 20784: Marijuana: A Horticultural Revolution, A Medical and Legal Battle
- ... supervision and that the cannabis plant, in its natural form, has important therapeutic benefits that are often of critical medical importance to persons afflicted with a variety of life-threatening illnesses. Courts have recognized marijuana's medical value in treatment and have ruled that marijuana can be a drug of “necessity” in the treatment of glaucoma, cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis. From the collection of information we now have on marijuana's health benefits for the ill, there is no longer any reason to keep it illegal. It should therefore be legal for licensed physicians to prescribe marijuana for terminal patients for whom it offers the only ... marijuana has “no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States,” the medical prohibition has come under strong legal challenge from seriously ill Americans who have been arrested on marijuana-related charges. In U.S. v. Randall, a Washington, D.C. man afflicted by glaucoma employed the little-used Common Law doctrine of necessity to defend himself against criminal charges of marijuana cultivation. On November 24, 1976, federal Judge ...
- 20785: Confucius
- ... upon the Way. Support yourself by its virtue. Rely on goodness. Find recreation in the arts."4 Confucius put the moral duties before the arts as the essential activities of the gentleman. "A young man's duty is to behave well to his parents at home and to in love to all, and to cultivate the friendship of the good. If, when all that is done, he has any energy to ... power, who has goodness to secure that power, and dignity to approach the common people, if he handles them contrary to the rules of propriety, full excellence is not reached. 13 Confucius believed that official's political action should follow the Way. His actions will vary depending on whether the government is following the Way or not. Confucius gives this advice for the different circumstances: Have sincere faith and love learning ... from others…do not speak what is contrary to ritual, and make no movement, which is contrary to ritual.24 Poetry had broader humanistic values for understanding oneself and other people, and even increased one's awareness of the natural world. My children, why do you not study the Book of Poetry? The Odes serve to stimulate the mind. They may be used for purposes of self-contemplation. They teach ...
- 20786: Cocaine
- ... the eyes, nose, or throat and widely used as an illicit drug for its euphoric and stimulating effects. It is a naturally occurring substance derived from the leaves of erythroxylon plants. Cocaine is the world’s most powerful and potent CNS stimulant from natural origin. Plants grown at different altitudes produce different levels of the alkaloid. The higher in elevation, the more cocaine is produced. The coca plant is resistant to ... irrigation. Only two of the seventeen species yield sufficient levels of the cocaine alkaloid to justify mass cultivation for processing into cocaine. These two species, cultivated primarily in Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia, supply the world’s cocaine. It also can be harvested four times a year. Coca leaves have been used before recorded history by South American Indians, so the knowledge is derived totally from archaeological sources. Chewing coca leaves has ... Catholic Church. Returning Spanish conquistadors introduced it to Europe and it was considered an “elixir of life”. In 1862, Albert Niemann extracted purified cocaine from a coca base from the coca leaves. In the 1880’s and 1890’s cocaine was in many elixirs and highly regarded. It was an ingredient in cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum, and several “tonics”, most notably Coca Cola. Coca-Cola advertised itself as “the drink ...
- 20787: Psychoanalysis
- ... developed by Sigmund Freud. His work concerning the structure and the functioning of the human mind had far-reaching significance, both practically and scientifically, and it continues to influence contemporary thought. The first of Freud's innovations was his recognition of unconscious psychiatric processes that follow laws different from those that govern conscious experience. Under the influence of the unconscious, thoughts and feelings that belong together may be shifted or displaced ... id. To defend itself against unacceptable impulses, the ego develops specific psychic means, known as defense mechanisms. These include repression, the exclusion of impulses from conscious awareness; projection, the process of ascribing to others one's own unacknowledged desires; and reaction formation, the establishment of a pattern of behavior directly opposed to a strong unconscious need. Such defense mechanisms are put into operation whenever anxiety signals a danger that the original ... institutes appropriate mechanisms of defense against certain danger situations. These danger situations, as described by Freud, are the fear of abandonment by or the loss of the loved one, the risk of losing the object's love, the danger of retaliation and punishment, and, finally, the hazard of reproach by the superego. Various psychoanalytic schools have adopted other names for their doctrines to indicate deviations from Freudian theory. Carl Gustav ...
- 20788: Bulimia nervosa
- ... interviewed. According to the American Journal of Psychiatry, surprisingly, the risk for bulimia was not related to social class, income, education, occupation, the occupation of parents, or even an outgoing or introverted personality. A woman's childhood relationship with her mother, as she reported it, was not associated with bulimia, but neglect by her father was. Women with bulimia had lower self-esteem and more neurotic symptoms, and they were more ... woman in general. The problem of bulimia is closely related to the problem of obesity, since almost all bulimic women either are or think they are overweight. According to a widely accepted theory, each person's body weight has a biological set point that is strongly influenced by heredity and difficult to change. Studies in several countries have found that mothers and their biological daughters have a similar weight-height ratio ... effects and tend to cause weight loss rather than weight gain. In 1997, fluoxetine became the first drug specifically approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment for bulimia. References Roth, W.T., & Insel P.M. (1996). Core Concepts in Health. Toronto: Mayfield. Kendler, K.S. (1991). The genetic epidemiology of bulimia nervosa. American Journal of Psychiatry, 148:1627-1637. Mitchell, J.E. (1996). Bulimia Nervosa. West ...
- 20789: Customers For Life By Carl Sew
- "Customers for Life" Carl Sewell’s book “Customers for Life” is devoted to teaching the businessperson of today ways in which they can turn one-time buyers into customers for life. He states that every customer has the ability to be ... is checking your work, you may be less likely to check it yourself. Having a human relations department allows you to become out of touch with your employees and your customers. 6. No complaints? Something’s wrong. Encourage your customers to tell you what you’re doing wrong. 96% of unhappy customers never say anything, they simply do not return. You need to encourage your customers to speak their minds so ... enable you to correct the situation immediately and once again regain that customers respect and trust. 7. Measure everything. Baseball teams and football teams do it, you should too. You need to measure everything that’s relevant to the employee. You cannot tell people to do their best and them hope that their best is good enough. Both you and the employee have to know how they are doing and ...
- 20790: Antibiotics and Their Role In Society
- Antibiotics and Their Role In Society Antibiotics have played a major role in our society thanks to Sir Alexander Fleming's careful observations in 1928. Without it, many lives would be in danger due to infectious diseases. Antibiotics are chemical substances produced by various species of microorganisms and other living systems that are capable in small ... from living organisms such as bacteria, fungi, and molds. Others are wholly or in part synthetic which means produced artificially. Penicillin is perhaps the best known antibiotic. Its discovery and later development is among mankind's greatest achievements. Antibiotics have enabled the medical profession to treat effectively many infectious diseases, including some that were once life threatening. Antibiotics can be bacteriostatic (bacteria stopped from multiplying) or bactericidal (bacteria killed). To perform ... the growth of a specific microorganism. It probably accomplishes this by interfering with the wall of the bacteria cell at which it is targeted while at the same time having little effect on the body's normal cells. When one is exposed continually to an antibiotic for an illness of long duration, the targeted bacteria may develop its own defense against the drug. The bacteria may produce an enzyme that ...
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