Ethical Decisions In 'On The Western Circuit'

You take risks every day, know it or not. Even if they aren’t influential, every risk has the potential to teach you a valuable lesson. Lessons like these are seen in many texts. Excerpt from chapter VII of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave is an example among two others, "Learning to Read" and, "The Day I Saved a Life." The three texts all have one thing in common: the speakers all took a risk for a lesson to be learned.

The book shows that Henry has bountiful of feelings for her but is too scared to tell her that he loves her. Also does not want her to leave to the other

This telling of a tragic story is able to influence the readers to romanticize the story of Ethan, Mattie, and Zeena, while the novel itself stays true to its naturalist roots. This is important in the development of the plot and the audiences connect to the characters as the readers begin to root on the forbidden love that Ethan and Mattie have, and then in turn, by the end of the novel have pity for all characters. Towards the end of the novel, the narrator has a conversation with Mrs. Hale about what he saw, which gives the readers yet another perspective of the story. “Mrs. Hale answered simply: ‘There was nowhere else for her to go;’ and my heart simply tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor” (pg. 179). This interaction between the narrator and Mrs. Hale further allows for irony to emerge as their descriptions of the emotions they felt towards the accident influence how the reader feels.

This article on ethics was really interesting and a dilemma that is prevalent within criminal justice. In the article Dr. Steven Davis recognized that students cheating in high school increased by 20% in the 1940 to 75% today. Davis stated, "If students lack ethics in high school and college, then there should be little surprise that they lack ethics in their careers. (2008). " This observation by Davis holds some value, because individuals that is willing to cheat to get ahead, definitely has no problem crossing ethical lines, because in their mind the wrong is acceptable, just as it was when they cheated.

In “A Few Good Men,” there are many issues regarding ethics that arise, however two of these issues stand out from the rest. These issues are how LY. J.G. Kaffee practiced his profession, how LT. COL. Jessep ordered a code red even though he received a command to cease the practice and how this order passed through the chain of command to LANCE CPL. Dawson and PFC Downey.

Daniel Yang 4/14/23 P. 2 Mrs. Garcia Blind Eye Doing the ethical thing is almost always the best choice; however, there are some situations where the best choice is doing the right thing, not necessarily the good thing. An example of this event taking place is in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a story about two siblings named Scout and Jem growing up together and both have many adventures with many intriguing events. The main ‘villain’ in the story from Scout and Jem’s perspective is a man named Arthur Radley. More information would be given about him in the next paragraph. Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem’s father, should accept Heck's story about not convicting Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley for the murder of Bob Ewell because Ewell

An argument, once presented, should stand by itself, regardless of its presenter. To say that the profession of a writer affects the credibility of their argument is foolish. If a janitor presents the same argument, it needs to be refuted the same way. Demeaning a writer for their choice of profession would be, at best, an ad hominem fallacy.

In the criminal justice system, there are many different people that can be corrupt at different levels of the process, from police officers to judges. Anti-corruption organizations and citizens have taken a stand to prevent corruption, however, the issue of corruption is so ginormous that it cannot be stopped in a single day or action. I believe that the most efficient strategy would be to start from the top because that is where most of the power is held and abused. Judges have the power to rule over a court and decide the outcome of a case; if that power is abused many innocent people could go to jail. To prevent corruption, corrupt judges need to be reprimanded first because they hold power over other people within the judicial system.

In his article, William MacAskill lays out a moral argument to guide individuals in choosing the best career. He argues for two claims, weak and strong, attempting to show why the individual can make more of a difference through professional philanthropy than through a ‘direct benefitting’ career. MacAskill maintains that the common-sense view of an ethical career involves all careers that directly benefit others by exerting a beneficial impact on the world. Such careers would include working for charity or serving in the role of, for example, a social worker, NGO worker, or state school teacher (MacAskill 270). However, MacAskill argues that those working in high-impact, lucrative careers can make a bigger difference than someone in a “typical”

Virtue ethics Virtue ethics is Miller's next cab off the rank. Twentieth-century virtue ethicists tended to focus less on particular norms and actions, and more on the character traits of a good person and a good life. Despite the general dissatisfaction that virtue ethics is supposed to have with clear cut, rule-based approaches, Miller asserts they have at least one moral absolute here - "the virtuous person would have an unwavering desire to promote love in all its forms" - and, yet again, the same-sex marriage rabbit is brought out of the hat. The deployment of virtue ethics in public policy is often vacuous and circular: you simply assert that "the virtuous person would surely... (fill in the blank with whatever character trait suits

Ethical Violation Summary- Conard Black Bella Kattaviravong I chose to do Conard Black to write an Ethical Violation Summary about. Conard Black was the creator of Hollinger Inc.. Black was in charge of all of the finances of the company. Conrad stole money from shareholders and his own company.

When Emma realizes that she loves Mr. Knightley, she notes the biggest blunder of all is the failure to understand her own heart: “The blunders, the blindness of her own head and heart!” (373). Out of all of Emma’s blunders, this is the biggest. She must find another match for Harriet, secure her own position with Mr. Knightley, and gain her father’s approval for marriage. While this is not unfixable, Emma must take responsibility for her actions for the first time in her life.

In the movie Crimson Tide, we look to the question ethical decisions, and what someone would do when thrown into a situation that made them question themselves, and who they serve for. In this example, when serving in the United States Military, once a solider is given orders, that solider must follow the orders out and not to question them. The trust between the solider and the higher command giving orders is almost based on blind faith. The solider relies on the higher commands decision of protecting democracy, even if someone, or a lot of people are killed. Is it an ethical decision to follow a commander’s order even if it means killing mass numbers of innocent civilians?

Because of the surroundings it is a critical point that the betrothed ,May, does everything in her power to appear proper and poised through out her entire life as a young bride and eventually a mother which is already resolute. This undoubtedly has a great effect on May as she is still young enough to be paraded about wealthy doting relatives by her mother with out any say in any matters as was expected by the society in this time and area and it is May that is oblivious this fact and couldn’t change it even if she realized it. The setting also has a perhaps greater effect on May’s cousin Ellen who Newland falls in love with. Ellen, having been away from the New York society for a long time is unaccustomed to how she ought to be ,in the opinion of everyone, dressing, acting, and speaking and she regularly makes mistakes, but this does not seem to harm her nor the people around her in any way.

However, as we discussed in class, there are so many situations where ethical decision-making occurs, and there are so many factors that influence why we do what we do. Because we work with a multitude people with interesting and diverse lives and backgrounds, and because we come in with our own baggage and experiences that influence how we act and react, we make split-second decisions all the time that can have profound effects on our work and our consumers. Having so many opportunities to look at my own actions, this particular assignment has been so rewarding and interesting for me. This is the first time in any of my assignments where I have been forced to look at how ethics is involved in our