... consequentialist ethical principles, whereby actions are morally judged in terms of their consequences or outcomes. Beauchamp (2001:104) explains, 'Consequentialism asserts that actions are right or wrong according to their consequences, rather than because of any intrinsic features they may have, such as truthfulness or fidelity'. Furthermore, 'What makes an action morally right or wrong is the total ... the offender. Although Bentham is recognised as one of the earliest writers associated with utilitarianism, the work of John Stuart Mill is generally regarded with greater significance. ...

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... be no different from Washington's viewpoint. So, it is the one representative of Kofi Annan that would make the board "international". According to the proposal, the oil revenues are to be disbursed by an Authority comprising the US and the British forces and the "administration." It is unclear ... still remains apprehensive about an Iranian style government in Iraq and has, in parallel, launched an "offensive" on Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah nexus to rein in guerilla operations, broad principles of governance sans religious overtones should find support in all quarters as mentioned by none...

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... of the Syrian people by the European Union. Second, member states must require sufficient protection against the misuse of aid, weapons and funds to ensure they reach their designated destinations. Third, member states must pursue an extensive evaluation to make sure that equipment is not used for severe "violations of international humanitarian law; provoke[ing] or prolong[ing of] armed conflicts ... the utmost importance.17 The main purpose for creating the educational outreach was to gain support from the next generation of Syrians. ISIS has also strategically implemented means to prov...

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... long known supporter of terrorists also became a target. The American message was: if you support attacks on America, no matter how tangential the connection, we are going to take your governments out wherever they are. A closer look at the notorious regime that has occupied Iraq for the last string ... Another defector told Aviation Week and Space Technology that located at the base were Boeing 707 airplanes that were used to teach Islamic extremists how to take over and fly them (Kaplan 26). Satellite photographs captured pictures of the planes on April 25, 2000, ... of citizens in nat...

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... something but without emotion you may lack the support you need. When you use emotion, it can make people realize that the problems that face our country can personally affect them. I believe that a mix of logic and emotion are the best method to get my support for war. The reason logic is the best appeal is because evidence can evoke emotion if ... , "It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago." He goes on to explain the how the Japanese deceived us with false statements and expressions...

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... the Normandy Invasion. Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they"d been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do."(Ferlinghetti, http://www.sanfranciscoreader.com/interviews/ferlinghetti%20interview.html) "From 1951 to 1953, when he settled in San Francisco, he taught French in an adult education program, painted, wrote art criticism, and met Peter Martin ... first demonstration of Ferlinghetti's Anti-War position. A whole new aspect of the War is shown in lines seven to thirteen. At first it says "The bombs kept falling, showing hat...

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... the Normandy Invasion. Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they"d been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do."(Ferlinghetti, http://www.sanfranciscoreader.com/interviews/ferlinghetti%20interview.html) "From 1951 to 1953, when he settled in San Francisco, he taught French in an adult education program, painted, wrote art criticism, and met Peter Martin ... first demonstration of Ferlinghetti's Anti-War position. A whole new aspect of the War is shown in lines seven to thirteen. At first it says "The bombs kept falling, showing hat...

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... a war of guerrillas, mass uprisings, and a war waged by the 'fedai' [someone who sacrifices themself to achieve their goal - ed.], it will do all that is necessary to preempt the policies leading to a fratricidal war between the Kurds and the Turks. While intensifying our liberation war on these foundations, it must ... unwavering line [of struggle]. We are warning the Turkish Republic to revise for the better all of its policies and practices directed against our people and against our leader."" (http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/PKK/pkk_99-04-25.html) This message clearly states the intent of ...

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... catches your sleeve. You glance down. No damage. Suddenly you have a fellow fighter there in your bunker with you. He tells you he's going to try to take the enemy bunker out. Before you can stop him, he charges out of the bunker, gun blazing. A burst of fire, and a cry. ... You glance out, and see that your teammate has been hit. Anger sweeps over you. You check your ammunition; close to full. You make a conscious decision to take them out. Taking a breath, you burst from your haven at speeds you did not know you could achieve. The enemy is surprised ... the past six months. These inst...

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... catches your sleeve. You glance down. No damage. Suddenly you have a fellow fighter there in your bunker with you. He tells you he's going to try to take the enemy bunker out. Before you can stop him, he charges out of the bunker, gun blazing. A burst of fire, and a cry. ... You glance out, and see that your teammate has been hit. Anger sweeps over you. You check your ammunition; close to full. You make a conscious decision to take them out. Taking a breath, you burst from your haven at speeds you did not know you could achieve. The enemy is surprised ... the past six months. These inst...

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... catches your sleeve. You glance down. No damage. Suddenly you have a fellow fighter there in your bunker with you. He tells you he's going to try to take the enemy bunker out. Before you can stop him, he charges out of the bunker, gun blazing. A burst of fire, and a cry. ... You glance out, and see that your teammate has been hit. Anger sweeps over you. You check your ammunition; close to full. You make a conscious decision to take them out. Taking a breath, you burst from your haven at speeds you did not know you could achieve. The enemy is surprised ... the past six months. These inst...

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... knowledge many Americans are now formulating their own opinions of what our foreign policy should be. Many Americans want to know how we arrived at our present foreign policy. An evening in front of his television set watching his daily dose ... its military. Within the past decade we have sent American military forces, as part of a United Nations" peacekeeping mission, to the former Yugoslavia. Within the past few weeks the United States has diplomatically confronted North Korea after North Korea admitted that it ... , willing, and able, at this time, to make its presence felt anywhere...

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... "Young, Jobless, Hopeless," Bob Herbert talks about the rising percentage of young Americans who may have no job and no place to call home. These young adults, ages 16-18, are introduced to a number of risk factors that may make them more likely to commit crimes. One such risk factor, categorized as stressors, can be seen in the mere fact that these adults are ... our society crime control is almost always correlated with harsher punishments and longer prison terms. Little thought is given by the legal system to the root causes of crime and how to identify those people who are particula...

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... Everybody has a different sense of security, and how they, themselves define feeling secure. For some people to feel protected it may take them a scenario of complete absence of crime, and for others it could be as simple as removing a horrific leader from power to feel secure. Rates of rape, robbery, murder ... damaged during combat. The pay for teachers has risen from $56 per month to $150 per month. Statistics show that there are 5.5 million primary and secondary students, with only 22,000 teachers to help them learn. Basic needs such as electricity and water supply have changed for t...

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... request. Here we were, in Mali, where nearly every adult woman had lost several children to early deaths, and I was asking God to exempt me from the loss of even one of my children. '"Make an exception for me, God. Remember that I'm an American. We're not used to losing our children."' (Dettwyler 1994) Dettwyler displayed an important fact we sometimes forget as a member ... of what their culture, shows them is socially acceptable. In America we are taught patriotism all our lives. In school we learn to pledge allegiance to our country every morning, and it becomes part of American cult...

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... one might say my Achilles" heal. I guess I shouldn't complain. We are all programmed from the grade we first learn the alphabet to learn and follow the "simple" rules of English. Nonetheless I have never taken kindly to being told how to write. In his essay Politics and the English Language, George Orwell describes the decline of the English language. Conveniently he also ... though out the speech like a horribly woven tapestry. To begin, we will look at pretentious dictation. The speech itself starts (as do most) with an introduction. Almost immediately bush jumps into what Orwell would ...

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... they are. Are they a race, a religion, a country? As we see from the following example, even Europeans who are much closer to the Kurds still do not have a complete understanding of the Kurds or the middle east in general: In the West, the left and liberal minded people in ... for this problem lies mostly in the fact that the surrounding countries don't recognize Kurdistan as an automous society and there for do not have to respect there wish to be a free state. Kurdistan in the state that is now, is just a region of the middle east, which overlays ... post war countries, the Kurds fou...

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... do illegal weapons make it necessary to go to war with Iraq? These illegal weapons pose a serious threat to the U.S. people and the world. He has violated 17 UN resolutions trying to disarm him (Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs). He has refused to follow the UN mandates that are against him and continuously use the weapons in crazy ways that no humane person would do ... no long range missiles present in Iraq, but the inspectors that were sent in repeated amount of times found the technology and assets to change a regular missile into a long range missile in 1998 (Iraq's Weapo...

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... right for the common good of their nation and the world. They resisted Bush's policy because they saw that it wasn't going to make things better in the world because it was only going to enflame even more anger that has been directed towards the U.S. and its allies. Just as Maximus fought and resisted Emperor Lucius, the ... . Again on the issue of protest and resistance, the film "The Matrix", fits this aspect of the Iraq war very well. Neo wanted to learn the truth of his so called reality that he was living in. Through the efforts of Morpheus and crew he was able ... truth and resistan...

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... may be no defense. Even though bioterrorism has been banned, it poses a great threat upon the United States because of its easy access to individuals and its ability to inflict maximum casualties. Two incidents in particular make show proof of how this threat of a bioterrorist attack could occur. The first of these occurred in Tokyo when nerve gas was unleashed in a Tokyo subway ... for weaponry. In 1997, Sudaam Hussein's banning of American inspectors from investigating their development of these weapons created a widespread public concern. The world was surprised to learn that Iraq ha...

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... Palmer from 1793 along the way, when he said 'The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun', then quickly moved to how the Russian Revolution and World War I "yielded a conflict of ideologies" (Huntington, 1993). Those ideologies were communism, fascism, and democracy ... of the world. The fact is, the same principles have been adopted nearly everywhere, only with varying degrees of conviction. That does not make a clash of civilization; it makes a statement of affirmation for prevailing ideology. In contrast, the Global War on Terrorism should have rallied ... instea...

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... and no one can completely agree that it exists. Does it really exist? Can one do what they feel because they have the want to? And how far does freedom exist without restraints? Being free is to be able to have an opinion or act on a decision with out fear of oppression from society or ... you believe in. In life, everyone has restraints. There are restraints from school, from your parents, the law and the God. No one is free to do what he or she wants without dealing with some consequence in the end. I personally am not completely free. If you think about it, nobody is ... group of peop...

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... involved. The war itself was directly caused by disputes over the Shatt al-Arab waterway and the Kurdish rebellion in Iraq. Both events led to the most recent crisis between these two countries and the political turmoil that still exists today. The Shatt al-Arab waterway serves as a boundary ... Gulf. The dispute over this waterway initially began in 1969 when Iran declared the 1937 agreement void that granted the control of the waterway to Iraq. Iran accused Iraq of violating the provisions of the treaty for many years. "Iran's Foreign Ministry had alleged that Iraq had, for ... years ...

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... tyrannical? In Borka, the tribes (the Dudas, the Lakalis, the Kan-Kans, and the Woodzies) are not accustomed to working with others outside their tribe. For example, the wealthy Lakalis are selfish to aid the needing Kan Kans. For a government to excel, all participants must learn to work together for the good of all, not simply for necessity. In Iraq, the people have been subjugated ... state, rather than having a strong central government. Borka and Iraq can both learn from the US's previous mistakes. A new country must create its government from scratch because of what the people wan...

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... and introduced many new taxes. This program was approved by Algeria's main source for external financing, the International Monetary Fund. In 1995 the IMF loaned $1.8 billion to Algeria's government to make "structural adjustments." The Paris Club, the international consortium that manages Algeria's foreign debt, refinanced $7 million of the countries oil debts. This has served ... to ease the struggling economy of the country. Algeria, due to its struggling oil and gas economy, also depends on agriculture. The agriculture industry accounts for 47% of the countries labor force and makes...

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