Essays on Altruism

Organ donation and transplantation are notable hallmarks in medicine. Medical advancements are significantly confronting complicated conditions through organ transplantation and related practices such as grafting. Over the years, the procedures have grown and developed. However, organ donation and transplantation are surrounded by various ethical and legal issues. This paper discusses these issues in detail and elicits the relationship between them. The analysis is in line with both the support and opposition of organ donation and transplantation, particularly in Australia. The paper will also provide my personal stance and the final ethical decision by leveraging several theoretical perspectives – deontology, consequentialism, ...

In one afternoon when I was sipping coffee in a certain restaurant looking out of the window, a boy seated on the ground on the other side of the road drew my attention. The boy seemed hungry and exhausted, just seated waiting for help. I stood up, got out of the restaurant and approached the boy. The temperatures were not very accommodative and the boy was shivering as the wind blew. The boy was in a tattered t-shirt, very hungry and in an awkward situation. I took him to the restaurant and bought him food and gave him my ...

End-of-life care refers to the provision of care to patients with incurable terminal illnesses and patients who are in a permanent vegetative state, and that type of care is one of the most commonly debated ethical issues in contemporary health care for two reasons. First, because of the development and advancement of medical techniques and technologies, physicians and nurses are now able to prolong the patients’ lives, but those interventions do not always improve the patients’ quality of life or maintain their human dignity (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). Second, the human population is aging, so the prevalence of terminal illnesses ...

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Introduction Nursing practice recognizes altruism through various interventions such as understanding different beliefs and cultures, advocating for vulnerable patients, taking risks on behalf of other workers and patients and mentoring other professionals. In altruism, interpersonal factors such as respect and compassion are considered virtues that cultivate a caring attitude towards others. As such, some people feel that altruism usually places heavy demands on the nurses’ self-sacrifice, thus overlooking the challenges that these nurses face while in practice especially with acute-care settings and psychiatric situations. In this regard, it means that master’s prepared nurses have a role to play ...

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Introduction Conscience is one of the most commonly experienced psychological faculty of an individual, but is also one of the least understood. For many years, little attention have been given towards understanding conscience; particularly on how it is shaped and who influenced the modern understanding of this concept. Nevertheless, conscience is an important phenomenon that requires significant attention primarily because it impacts all human judgment. The manifestation of conscience delineates man from other animals species as conscience is proof of man’s self-consciousness; an attribute that is only observable among human species. As a learned psychological faculty, ...

I had a lecturer who occasionally skipped lectures. She was an old woman who could not come due to health problems, but she saw no need to inform us about her non-attendance, and the whole group had to wait for her every time. Once, the guys decided not to come to the lecture and persuaded the others; everybody agreed, cause we were frustrated with her point of view. However, I felt remorse and came; I saw the lecturer entering the classroom and faced the ethical dilemma: I could go away, could come in the classroom and try to explain ...

Research article summary

Literature review summary Summarizing the relevant research related to the interconnection between eating disorders and parenting styles, the authors point to the general scientific interest for connections between types of parent-child bonds and overall psychological and mental implications for the child. The authors state that the existing research on long-term psychological implications of parental bonding style is predominantly retrospective, while the body of research shows the connection between overprotective parenting (especially from mothers) with eating disorders and particularly anorexia, bulimia and drive for thinness (Lobera et al., 2011, p. 729). At the same time, the reviewed research shows a ...

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act guarantees the security of patients and confidentiality of their medical records. Healthcare centers have put in place digital methods of recording data, which is secured by encryption or by private access keys that are only known to healthcare providers to enhance security. Healthcare practitioners have appreciated medical privacy with patients taking legal actions against violation of their privacy and confidentiality. However, healthcare providers have experienced ethical dilemmas in various situations where they are torn between their code of ethics, overall welfare of patients and other concerns such as national security. Mary (a senior ...

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Martin Luther King Jr., is among the greatest civil rights leaders that the world has ever had. Throughout his life he was able to portray various characteristics of a good leader. In cases that an individual is able to study the way Dr. King carried out his activities and the various issues that he took into consideration before making a decision would really help to mold an individual into an ideal leader that the world would be proud to have. In addition, to this, the various challenges that he faced as he made his decisions and the various barriers ...

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The documentation of this journey in pastoral counseling of an event is outlined from “Crossroads”, which is based on a set case study of characters. The implementation of F.A.I.T.H. for Solution-based Short-term Pastoral Counseling (SBSPC), along with faith based measures of the counselor in pastoral mantle is the focus of the assessment. As a final report requirement, a counseling initiative for documentation in a pastoral role is required, and has been carried forth. An individual was chosen from the case studies, and all culminating work in this course of study has come to this report. The four F.A.I.T.H counseling ...

Relationship between Personal Ethics, Work Ethics and Ethics of Advertising

Ethics refers to moral principles, and it is used to define the wrong and the right issues. The application of the usage of ethics encompasses some areas including at the individual and organizational levels. It is critical to note that ethics has two essential aspects. The first element refers to the capability of a person to discern right from wrong. The second element, on the other hand, involves the commitment of a person to do what is correct and proper. The three top types of ethics include personal ethics, work ethics, and business ethics. It is important at this ...

The question of nursing ethic is one of the most important when we reflect on the role of this profession in our lives. The behavior of nurses, their observance of professional and moral principles, and the display of their ethics in practice has an obvious influence on other people’s lives. Any nurse regardless of area of practice can face various ethical dilemmas every day. In this essay I would like to show why I decided to dedicate myself to this profession, and share my opinion on why it is necessary for me to have a clear understanding of ...

Crime rates have increased drastically among the children and adults in the society over the recent years. Poor parenting, altruism, and prosocial learning has been associated with violence among the children. Therefore, the paper will focus on the role that poor parenting, altruism and prosocial education play in the development of violent behavior in individuals. The knowledge shared by authors of various articles supports these ideas. It will discuss the relationship that exists between aggression and self-esteem. The paper will summarize the complete knowledge covered as well.

The relationship between aggression and self-esteem

A debate on the relationship that exists between self-esteem and aggression has ...

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INTRODUCTION Main idea: Frequent ethical lapses by corporate executives require university administrators and business school faculty members to evaluate study curricula regarding ethics

Specific Section: Ethical Egoism

Thesis statement: Despite the reinterpretation of ethical egoism, as long as it is based solely on self-interest, ethical teachings will be rendered useless.

SUMMARY

Business schools teach students to think critically and equip them with tools to be financially successful and become better contributors to the society. However, recent events in the corporate sectors have seen frequent lapses in ethical behavior. Maybe an evaluation is due regarding the ethics in the curriculums of business schools. Integrating ethical ...

While the English language is constantly evolving, the overuse of words in the wrong context diminishes their meaning and value. The word “hero” is constantly being used, especially in the media, to apply to anything from sporting personalities to sporting shoes (Nike, 2016) to sandwiches. The book by Christopher and Smith (2007), entitled Greatest Sports Heroes of All Time, uses the word “hero” in the wrong context. In this context, the word “hero”” has been widely used to describe any person of prominence in the sporting world who has ever achieved something noteworthy, when in fact these people, while ...

For this argument, we choose the stance that humans are not capable of pure altruism. We are all born selfish and being selfless is like acting against once survival. Altruism is just an adaptive feature that human evolve to coexist amicably with fellow species and the environment (Sánchez & Cuesta, 2005). Altruism comes from the Latin word, ‘living for others’. This selfless act is done voluntarily by the person, without any expectation of reward and with no concern for once own wellbeing (Batson, 2014). Even rare saints who are identified as altruistic, are gaining reward in the form of ...

Question 1

The youngest children in any family often have to go an extra mile to compete with their elder siblings since they are more mature and experienced at most things. Benjamin Franklin was the not any exception; he was the youngest son in the family. Therefore, he always tried to stand out from the rest of the siblings. Firstly, Benjamin Franklin was more eager to read and learn compared to his brothers. He started reading at a very age. As he says “my early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember ...

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This paper evaluates Hassan’s essay concerning suicide bombing with the aim of gaining an understanding of the phenomenon. In his discussion, Hassan offers three main explanations for the motivations behind these attacks. Initially, he argues that suicide bombers rarely suffer from mental disorders. According to the author, it is also inaccurate to refer to suicide bombers; rather they are more motivated by political reasons. Vengeance also drives some attackers. Such individuals or groups believe that injustices are being or were committed against the population they represent. As a result, if need be, they are willing to sacrifice their ...

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A caring disposition is a highly crucial aspect in service leadership. It is a fundamental attribute in today’s workplace settings that provide a unique system to which a good service leader can be assessed. In essence, a caring disposition encompasses powerful knowledge that is particularly efficient in formulating and implementing team approaches in ensuring the delivery of a successful leadership practice. This term paper seeks to discuss important concepts in caring disposition and how it promotes service leadership. The introductory part of the paper creates a clear understanding service leadership. In the first section of the term paper, ...

Research Paper

Introduction The social world is as complex as the physical world. Due to such complexity, sociologists have made considerable efforts to explain various social phenomena through different sociological theories. One of the major sociological theories is functionalism, which has its origins in the works of Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim. The functionalist theory explains how societies survive and maintain social stability. It also explores dysfunctional events like suicide. This paper argues that functionalism can provide a reasonable and accurate explanation of the phenomenon of suicide since social factors, like excessive social cohesion or the lack of it and extreme ...

An emergency situation took place while I was inside a building for my insurance renewal. There was this big fat lady whom I learned was an employee there. She tripped and fell flat on her face while trying to get out of the elevator. I was sitting just few meters away from the elevator so I was the first one to witness what happened. I saw her hurt and could hardly move. That situation was a good demonstration of 5 steps to helping. First, I noticed that something was happening and since I had plenty of time and obviously ...

In Parts one and Two of Volume One of Michael Foucault’s Philosophy on Sexuality, he analyses and distances himself from what he calls “Repression Hypothesis,” using our desire to analyze and investigate the “science” of our sexual behavior, our need to confess what we deem sexual immorality, and the productive nature of the relationship of sex to power and knowledge, as the key elements of his argument. A definition of “Repression Hypothesis” is necessary for us to understand further why Foucault rejects it. According to American philosopher and University of California, Berkeley professor of Philosophy, Hurbert Dryfus, and ...

As Sadcheva and colleagues (162) reasonably note, “the question of whether morality is an objective truth gleaned from nature or a socially constructed concept has been important in the philosophical study of ethics as well». In the editorial titled The Moral Instinct, Steven Pinker cultivates a rather controversial and ambiguous issue of human moral judgments, moral decisions/choices and moral dispositions. Thereby, the provocative nature of the author’s argument reveals itself as early as the introduction points to the blurred and seemingly inexplicable standards we evaluate the worth of particular prominent figures in terms of their compliance with moral ...

One of the most common moral philosophies in the world today is utilitarianism. It was developed by John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham. Utilitarianism seeks to determine the moral stand of actions by looking at their effects and consequences (Mill 43). There are two different types of utilitarianism, act utilitarianism, and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarianism focuses on specific individual actions, for example, the murder of a political figure. Rule utilitarianism, on the other hand, focuses on the action as a whole such as murder (Mill 44). According to the utilitarian’s, morality is supposed to better life by increasing ...

Individual Reaction to the Advent of Artificial Intelligence

Introduction Through advancements in science and technology, human beings have managed to create machines that work more or less in the same way as the human brain, performing tasks like mathematical calculations and language translations. This is what has come to be known as Artificial intelligence (AI) which is the kind of intelligence that machines exhibit when certain manipulations and programming is done to them. Some of these machines like the IBM computer, Watson, are capable of mimicking or performing certain cognitive functions that are normally associated with the human brain only. Artificial intelligence research thus deals with problems ...

Both institutional and organizational ethics are increasingly becoming vital in shaping professional conduct within the health care system. This paper discusses ways in which organizations address ethical issues through a comparison of the American Nurses Association (ANA) to Select Specialty Hospital. The Select Specialty Hospital is a renowned 47-bed capacity acute-care hospital in Miami. As one of the best facilities of its kind within the Miami area, Select Specialty places emphasis on the delivery of quality health care. They use a rather customized treatment plan for every admission case to prevent the development of an ethical related issue (Select ...

Public goods game: a group of people play a public game which is based on voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM). VCM is the game in which subjects have a certain amount of endowment (20$ in this study) and decide to allocate the endowment between public account and private account. The contribution to public goods is multiply with marginal per capita return. Marginal per capita return is the ratio of benefit to cost if people decide to give 1$ from private account to public account. An outcome of each player is:

In which ei is the endowment of each subject ci ...

If death is really true, based upon the animistic quality of our five physical senses, then how do we know that we are truly alive and breathing and not in a dream? It has been proposed that people who are aware of the existence of their surroundings mostly rely on their five senses, which may cause illusions. The ethereal yet grounded theory of existentialism provides the landscape for a more positively-identified pathway which reaches across the separation that exists among humans.            When thinking about the quote ‘existence precedes essence’, the concept lends room for credibility that Morrie was right ...

Though the settings differ substantially, the theme of love is clear both in “The Greatest Thing since Sliced Bread” and “The Gift of Magi,” through the author’s use of character, style and point of view. The book "The greatest thing since sliced bread" by Don Robertson and Gift of Magi are used to expound themes of love even though the two have different settings. The authors have employed the use of characters, point of view and style to bring out the theme of love. Gift of magi is a book concerning a couple and has inspired many readers ...

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1.0. Introduction The researcher followed a survey which was given out to the employees within magic care solutions care home. The researcher seeks to find out if the management within magic care is very effective. It was done through an analysis method which comprises of qualitative and quantitative. The analysis was built on primary data which was carried out through doing a questionnaire on effective leadership within magic care homes. The questionnaires were given out to staff within the care home. The results of the respondents was converted to qualitative data Leadership styles can be different with all different ...

Modernity refers to the approaches, behavior, and ideas of the post-traditional period. Originally, modernity can be defined as a critique of tradition, and a movement toward a new point of view rooted in new paradigms and insights. Recently, modernity has embodied present-day thoughts and present-day lifestyle. One important aspect that arises from this definition of social change and its impact on human experience is the formation of a newly constructed self-image and identity. In essence, the concept of modernity differentiates the modern person from the traditional individual. Such newly founded freedom in connection to modernity involved an experience and ...

Introduction

The Bhagavad Gita is a set of sermons given by Lord Krishna to his nephew Arjuna who was caught in a mental dilemma where he was unable to decide between lifting arms and annihilating his own relatives who were against him and his brothers (Pavulraj, 2014). The sole purpose of the entire scripture was to demystify the connection between the humans and the God. Lord Krishna holds the religious value of being an incarnation of lord Vishnu who is among the three main deities in the Hinduism. Thus, although literally, the message of Bhagavad Gita was to inculcate the ...

The grade point average (GPA) can be considered a negative force in the American educational system. It is based on the assumption that human beings are fundamentally thinking creatures (Brooks). This means that learners must be enrolled in teaching programs to train them to become self-disciplined. This is the initial integral step towards the acquisition of knowledge by school-going individuals. Even though this is partly true, the fact that human beings are driven by their individual desires is inevitable. People have the need to satisfy their particular needs in the manner they want. This is the basis of human ...

Decision making situation

I faced a situation recently during our class project. We were assigned to the big project. This project was team based and after completing this project, we had to give the presentation on it; in result, each team member based on overall presentation gained equal marks. The team was based on six members, from whom two members of the group were not paying any attention towards assignment, saying that they do not have time to do the work, but they will participate in the presentation. Due to this situation, I and other group mates in my team decided to ...

The Titanic may have been swallowed by the vast seas that fateful night, but the story forever lives on for the survivors and the spectators. We take lessons from that forever tale and still look to the events of the day for guidance and support. One of the areas worth admiring, despite the disaster and the havoc aboard the giant, was the ratio of women and children who managed to walk away from the wreckage. Research shows that 20% of the men while 75 percent of the women were the survivors of the incident. Of the total 109 children ...

Rational Choice Theory

Rational choice theory forms the basis for understanding and modeling the reasons why people make decisions or perform actions that lead to specific results and for prediction of their decisions and actions under specific circumstances. The roots of rational choice theory lie in political and classical economic theories. Its sociological use is innovative as allows to explain how social interactions influence people’s decisions and shape social order. However, rational choice theory is criticized for several reasons including over-rationalization of human thoughts, modernism, and ignoring of the social determinants. This critic seems well argued, as social behavior does not ...

Research Essay

As we live our lives, we tend to encounter various challenges every day. Our own thinking brings some of these challenges while other challenges are brought by the paradigms created by the society. Since the world has all kinds of people, we are likely to encounter the rich, poor, unhealthy, and healthy people in our daily interactions. These interactions are sometimes challenging, as we tend to question ourselves on how much we can do to help the world’s poor and the unhealthy people. This challenge presents itself in two ways. In one way, we personally feel that it ...

Love is a topic that has been written and sang about through ages because love is a key subject in life. Love is an emotion felt and displayed by people, with each individual expressing love in their own unique way. Zora Hurston was an African American woman writer whose work was criticized for her views on love. In her book “Their eyes were watching God, she demonstrates the lack of love in African American marriages, and the great lengths to which women have to go in search for love. Stevie Wonder was an African American singer who demonstrated his ...

Compare and contrast Achilles in Dante’s Inferno and Homer’s Iliad

Compare and contrast Achilles in Dante’s Inferno and Homer’s Iliad

Introduction

Dante Alighieri in his legendary text, Inferno, believes that anyone who committed unacceptable deeds would be damned eternally among the nine circles of Hell. Without a doubt, people like Achilles were to be found in these circles. Specifically, Achilles existed in Hell’s second circle. He qualified for this circle by being not only extremely selfish but lacking self-control, having raging passions and betraying his country at times. These descriptions paint Achilles largely in weakness. His description of Hell focuses mainly on his failings rather than his ...

The society has always considered helping and altruism as a characteristic of what human is. But is the main reason that people help the others written in their genes? Or is it influenced by different factors? The research of helping behavior has shown that there are actually multiple reasons of helping behavior. It appears that in numerous cases the societal norms or gratifications become the driving forces of such prosocial behavior as helping the other people. Basically, people choose to help each other for several reasons that include biological drive to help, receiving some kind of reward and social ...

overty is one of the major problems facing many people and it is as a result of several factors which are independent of each other. In many countries, there is a big gap that exists between the poor and the rich. There is the tendency that the poor will become poorer while the rich get richer. This is a result of the differentiated social classes that are in existence. Even though there are rich people around the world, those that are poor are seen to be many. A small proportion of individuals around the world may be considered to ...

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Dаte Love Speaking about love, people usually mean love between a man and a woman. However, there are a lot of other, not less important, situations of love: love of children or parents, love for one’s job or one’s country. But the love between a man and a woman can be very different as well: amorousness and mature love, love-passion and love-habit, consumer’s kinds of love or a giving love. In psychology, love usually is described as a feeling that can grow. Appeal to someone can lead to amorousness; the latter one can lead to ...

1. What elements of religion and philosophy are in the movie? The elements of religion in the movie are related to Catholicism and Christianity and everything immoral deed is justified with religion. The bishop Germanus is a person who wants to control everything and everybody and free-thinkers like Pelagius are sentenced to death and are scorned because they defy the psychology of the masses. At the beginning of the film, Arthur has much respect for Roman Catholics and listens to them, but later on he realizes that they just want to be in control and that everything about this ...

Henrik Ibsen seems to be of their idea of the bigger picture. That is to say that as a writer, Henrik Ibsen always portrays characters in his drama plays so as to communicate to the society the importance of being selfless. In a society, selflessness is a virtue that should be nurtured and encouraged since in the long run; it creates something good for everyone. Henrik, therefore, as a writer with a responsibility to teach the society of the important human values; believes that in case of a conflict to pursue individual interest or defy social conventions so as ...

York College

Abstract Media violence has incorporated negative effects on the behavioral development of children due to which their inclination towards the positive behavior and attitude has been decreased. The previous studies have addressed the extent to which the environmental factors, including exposure to the media content, contribute in the development of the violent or prosocial behavior. However, the prior studies did not provide any strong ground by means of addressing all the aspects of media content. In this manner, the current study is aimed to determine the effect of the media content on the prosocial behavior. The current study incorporated ...

Introduction

Upholding ethical principles is essential to the maintenance of peace in any community. Precisely, the nature of people’s conduct in any organization is essential to the success of the institution. As such, people can determine how ethical or unethical we are by assessing our behaviours. According to Guerrette, Ethics is the philosophical study of the principles that govern the conduct of people in society [1]. Our actions can, therefore, be said to be ethical if they are praiseworthy and unethical if they are blameable. Ethics, therefore, tries to make a distinction between what is right and wrong. This ...

ABSTRACT

The Hamas in a terrorist organization that has a long and diverse history. In this paper, I will examine this body and break down its organizational structure. Other sectors of key interest will be its ideologies, military involvement, and past atrocities. This will facilitate an in-depth understanding of the Hamas, its vindication as a terrorist organization and the role it plays in the Middle East.

INTRODUCTION

While all these definitions appear concise at face value, countries worldwide are confronted by a serious challenge of picking a comprehensive definition. With the State Department of the United States' definition, for example, sub-political ...

Many scholars have debated the role of women in politics over the ages. The reason for this is that the women’s intellect has been compared with her potential to also trick male leaders into failing in love with her. Throughout the ages women have played both roles. Before Christianity, women have been heavily involved in politics and political theory. It was not until the dark ages, that women took a more backseat role to those aspects of politics that they are just beginning to come back from today. In the books of the Aeneid, Virgil absolutely compares women ...

Religion has an enormous influence on any given society. Religion has been widely praised for promoting prosocial behaviors among individuals in society(Moore, 2015). Psychologists as well have acknowledged the benefits religion has to our lives such as reducing the rates of depression. In Sociology as well, religion has been long recognized for its effect of promoting prosocial attitudes and behaviors. It does this by regulating behavior and coming up with norms and values that integrate people into the society. Emile Durkheim proposed that religion has a prosocial influence of decreasing suicide via establishing values and norms by which ...

Introduction

Community service is being involved in work done by community based that is non-profitable to the organization or to an individual with the need of helping people in the community. Community service cuts across a range of services that include information and advice, advocacy, counseling and support that targets a diverse range of people and area of interest. This paper seeks to give a reflective thought on my experience doing community service at Lafayette Urban Ministry. Lafayette Urban Ministry (LUM) is an organization that serves as a societal safety net for Lafayette’s needy families and children. LUM works ...

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Women and veterans have long been ignored as far as combat is concerned. Health issues associated with women could easily be controlled, if the issue of women and combat was carefully legislated. However, recent changes in the United States military organization have stressed that women should be given equal opportunities to participate in combat as men. Therefore, this research paper aims at analyzing various constraints to organizational behavior that led to such legislation. Furthermore, analyzes of the best organizational behavior theory that can best enhance the performance of the organization, and hence eliminate cases of women and veterans facing ...

Pvt’s experiences with the World War II are unique with a comparison to other soldiers’ experiences. First, he receives a ‘greetings’ letter from the Head of state, Roosevelt, inviting him to the physical examinations at Albany, N.Y, and evidently passes the test. The act of being acknowledged by the Head of State to join the army is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and is not common for every soldier who joins the army. Another unique incident is when he failed to ship out with the rest of the trained platoon because he had three missing teeth. This saved him from ...

1.0 Introduction Panda is one of the most famous and successful restaurants in the US preparing and selling Chinese food. Indeed, the ultimate success of this company is an indication that there are several aspects that gears its breakthrough. A close and critical analysis conducted in regard to the business shows that some of the components studied in class have been applied in the company as discussed in section 2.0 and 3.0. 2.0 Components in Class Readings Used by Panda Express 2.1 Social Media Use During the class readings, the essence of social media and how it affects customer ...

Basic communication literatures would differentiate various methodologies that highlight how significant encoding and decoding are in the process of communication in general. By the literal translation, the process of encoding signifies the conversion of various pieces of information from system into another with the use codes. These codes can fall different categories such as sign, letters or symbols that be generated to form secret meaning. The process of coding constitutes to both rules and signs that decipher how the signs are used and what complex messages are formed. Both culture and sub culture are formed due to the full-pledged ...

Question 1: Followership

Followership is the capacity and willingness to follow a certain leader(s). It happens when employees admire the methods and attributes of their leader. The follower must have certain critical attributes to contribute to their followership. The attributes are awareness, diplomacy, courage, collaboration and critical thinking. Being a follower, means that one has to be aware of the needs of the employees and be in a position to read and understand people, particularly, the things that motivates or upsets them. Secondly, a good follower is diplomatic; he/she understands how to get along with employees with contrary opinions. Thirdly, being ...

The Night In Question

Tobias Wolff ‘The Night in Question’ is one of a collection of fifteen short stories by Tobias Wolff published in 1996 by the same name. The story gives us an insight into human desires and its varied exhibitions in different situations. Wolff is an American fiction writer, who hated cruelty and violent behavior. This attitude was due to the violent behavior of his alcoholic stepfather who infused extreme physical and emotional strain in Wolff’s life. This aspect may be seen in ‘The Night in Question’ in which the author attempts to stress on family ties, loyalty, love, affection ...

Thesis Statement: The crime of terrorism has become closely associated with Islam since most of the perpetrators of terrorist attacks such as the September 11 had been committed by Muslims and they claim that the terrorist ideology is consistent with their religion. Osama bin Laden is a known devout Sunni Muslim and was the identified mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in the U.S. Reports show that Bin Laden had the intention to ruin the American economy (Rose & Blomberg 1) In fact, Islam become closely associated with terrorism since the Muslims recognize Jihad and ...

Peter Singer is an Australian Philosopher and is perhaps one of the world’s most controversial literally ethicist. Many people who read his book “Animal Liberation” were in great numbers moved to accept or actually embrace his vegetarianism theory while others were repugnant about Peter Singer’s “most retrogressive” attempt to place the human population and the animal population in the same even moral plane. Similarly, Peter Singer argued that severely disabled little children should in some occasions, receive euthanasia. His idea has attracted both praise as one of the most courageous idealism and denunciation as a pro-abortion idea ...

Altruism is the quality of a person. This quality is diametrically opposite to selfishness. Altruist is not indifferent and ready to help even when he/she does not have any reward in return, and when he/she does not expect any gratitude (Hewstone, Stroebe& Stephenson, 1996).. There are different theories which explain prosocial altruistic behavior, reasons and motives of this behavior, etc. For example, altruism can be explained by the fact that a person who helps other people has some external or internal reward. A businessman can improve the image of his company by doing money donation. In this case, ...

Singer’s work on ending world poverty is among the most significant works on altruism. Singer precedes his arguments by giving two cases. First, he described a case of Dora as depicted in the Brazilian Film “Central Station.” In this scenario, Dora, a retired schoolteacher works in a station where she writes letters for illiterate people. She gets an opportunity of gaining $1000 by taking a 9-year boy to an address given to her for adoption. Upon delivering the boy, Dora takes the money and buys a television and settles to spend the rest. However, her neighbor spoils her ...