The October Crisis Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the President John F. Kennedy ended the Cuban Missile Crisis. Thesis: Thanks to President Kennedy’s plan of action in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis, we were able to avoid a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Introduction: I. Attention Getter: Did you know that in 1962, we were very close to a nuclear war? Did you know that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest we have ever been to a nuclear war?
Augustine provides one response to the problem of suffering which is known as the Augustine Theodicy. He suggests that suffering is a consequence of sin. That God, just as it says in Genesis with the Doctrine of original sin, created the world 'perfectly' and it was the presence of Adam and Eve that led to 'the fall' of humanity and the presence of suffering. Augustine believed that God is right not to intervene to put a stop to suffering. He firmly thought that God is a righteous one who at the end of time will deal with those who rejected him.
Ethical statements are not just about observable facts, but are often statements about what we believe should happen and so are not very easy to establish as true or false, as they are expressions of points of view not shared be everyone. In ethics then, do we know something is good, or do we believe it is good and recognise that our belief is subjective? This is the question philosopher of meta-ethics are trying to answer – can ethical statements have any meaning? There are two schools of thought to do with ethical language, which are cognitive and non-cognitive theories. Cognitivism is the view that we can have moral knowledge.
The Perspective of Wrongness Kathryn Schulz’s “Two Models of Wrongness,” focuses on two aspects of error which are optimistic and pessimistic errors. Schulz argues that this model can give a person a better understanding toward the two models of wrongness in both optimistic and pessimistic views. From this model of wrongness she limits the possibility of wrongness by having only two sides and not having some middle ground for anything that can’t be placed on one side of these two models. Could there be other models of wrongness other than the two that Schulz mentions that don’t focus on a binary view? In this essay I’ll explore the reasons why someone would disagree with her about her two models.
All these are exceptions of the exclusionary rule do have good points. I do think that these exceptions should be allowed only if they are used correctly. These exceptions are not fully going against the person’s rights, but they are on the boarder of possible doing so. Even though I am for the exclusionary rule and the Fourth Amendment, these exceptions serve as a purpose and I believe they should be allowed. It may be hard for people to understand, but I believe that these exceptions are not abusing the system or the defendant’s
Some people believe that culture is a way that morality can be established, but morality differs from culture to culture. In Doing Ethics, Lewis Vaughn talks about cultural relativism and lays out an argument for it. In the second premise it states “If people’s judgments about right and wrong differ from culture to culture, then right and wrong are relative to culture, and there are no objective moral principles” (Vaughn 26). He makes it clear that he does not support this premise and explains his points as to why this is false. Cultural relativism is the idea that the moral principles someone has are solely determined by the culture one lives in.
The arms race began in 1945 when the US dropped their atomic bomb on Japan. Not only did this demonstrate the power of the USA but was the catalyst for an age of rapid weapon development, the arms race. This ended with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, an event that bought the superpowers dangerously close nuclear war. A number of factors other than the accumulating advancements in weaponry lead to the Cuban missile crisis, the personalities of the leaders and the national interests of each country all effected how the arms race developed, leading to the inevitable situation where the USA and USSR were left hovering over the trigger. The main aspect that lead to the Cuban missile crisis was the arms development between 1945-1963.
This story tells us of Adam and Eve and how mankind came to be like we are today, much like the Hebrew Bible. It tells us of their innocence in the Garden of Eden and how they quickly lost it due to Satan’s persuasiveness. Paradise Lost tells us how Eve was betrayed by a serpent-Satan- and how eating from the forbidden fruit tree made them lose their innocence. Once their innocence was lost, Adam and Eve covered their naked bodies and were sent out of the Garden of Eden. God told Adam of the sins that were in the future, and though rather than being scared, he was more looking on the bright side of his and Eve’s future together.
It is worth mentioning in this context that a similar crisis featured the year ahead the Cuban crisis (Berlin Crisis of 1961) which eventually met the same fate as that of the crisis of discussion. In the decades following the above mentioned events, the two super powers, marked by the realization of the great risk involved in such a confrontation along with certain other considerations, came down to some sort of negotiations to lessen up the immense tensions or pressures building up following their emergence in the world scene as two rival super powers. Now the ‘tension reduction’ process that found a one word expression in form of Détente (French word meaning ‘relaxation’) is not a one-dimensional project.
Duty theory is a moral theory, especially connected with Kant, according to what actions are right or wrong because of their inherent content, and the motive from which they are done. Stealing is wrong principally because we can't make taking property a universal law. In general, philosophers usually call duty-based ethics deontology. It focuses on the act and not its consequence. The morally binding nature of a deontological norm derives from the person’s obligation to perform some act in some specified manner, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes it is not.