Years later I realized that my help was unnecessary and that he had paid me out of his own pocket just so I could make extra money. ... Moral behavior is not 2 an easy task to achieve in today's society, but Neil's superior confidence has given him the strength to live up to his own moral standards. ... When Neil began his lawn care business, I observed his strong confidence and clear ambition; and that has helped to improve my own confidence in the struggle to maintain my business ventures. ... Recently, Neil's confidence in ...

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Their greed stifles any good intentions because of uncontrollable ambition. ... Instead she puts her father out of her life because she wants only to satisfy her own needs. ... Ty dreams of owning this farm to which he feels entitled. ... Yet when they put this ambition over their family, they start having problems. ... You don't think I would let him have any thing private with my own sister, do you?" ...

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In the 1940th century, historical fiction novel, Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton uses asyndeton to create an overwhelming presence in Johannesburg's environment, modifying human morality and ambition. ... A large amount of anarchy devours individuals and prevents the ambition for goals. ... He lacks any ambition to help the people due to his own fear. ...

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He describes it as his "vaulting ambition" and he knows that it's there and it's causing him to do these things. ... He has an unstoppable ambition represented by this hallucination. ... This drives her insane and causes her to end her own life. ... I would say Lady Macbeth has a major part to play in this tragedy with her powers of persuasion brought on by her own ambition, but I wouldn't completely blame her because Macbeth did carry on with the murders after her guilt had set in and she had ceased aiding him. ... The witches know all this is going to happen and the...

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When in our own lives we are to find the basis of our human nature, we must look to our early years, the formative years. ... Generally, humans are a species that thrive to better their own lives and if possible others lives also. Human Nature also inhibits the qualities of greed, ambition, pride etc. ... Human nature has aspects including love, greed, and ambition which dogs do not. ...

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Mill feels that the best way to maximize all around happiness is to concentrate on maximizing the happiness of those people whose needs, goals, and ambitions you understand the most. These needs, goals, and ambitions include your own, and those people closest to you which include family members, and friends. ...

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Macpherson, and even his own Father, Max. ... This is a major moral and emotional loss for Duddy that is a result of his over ambition. ... This has become her life's ambition while Duddy forgoes love and lasting relationships in order to get more and more land. ... Max is overwhelmed with the idea that his own son would do this to his boyhood idle. ... In this part of the novel Duddy has gained all the worldly wealth in owning the land. ...

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Concerning human behavior, Machiavelli will suggest that human beings are driven by their ambition and desire, he states: "For when men are not necessitated to fight, they fight for ambition, which is so powerful in our minds, that lets us arrive at what height of good fortune we can, we are never contented, but are still laboring for more; and this happens to us, because we are unable to compass; and therefore our desire being greater than our power to acquire, our minds are never at rest with what we enjoy. ... He also believes that moral judgment cannot exist because your personal judg...

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I believe that every individual is coded differently but that solely depends on his/her own daily choices. ... Education in tolerance, means educating in the exercise of the freedom to adhere to one's own convictions, while accepting that others may adhere to theirs as well, and in respecting those practices that correspond to each individual's religious beliefs, provided that they violate neither the rights of others, nor national security, public health or morals. ... In both of these readings, Socrates expresses prodigious moral ambition, in that he considered it his duty to que...

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He could "see more things than most people, but he could see none of them too distinctly", since his vision is obscured by ambition and greed. ... He convinces everyone around him that they own a share of the Syndicate, and as such, are part of something much greater. ... Heller likewise pokes fun at the gullibility and shallowness of American society, revealing that "the sweetest part of the whole deal was that there was no need to reimburse the government at all" (259), showing that society is more inclined to gain profit than uphold its own moral standards. ...

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As with other examples that turn out satisfying hopeful ambitions, from then on we continued to create regulations in which to govern any civilization, regulations that came with consequences. ... It is in our own homes, in media, in show business, in sports, in politics and even in the manifestations of our own selves. ... Such choices can best be associated with the difference between just or unjust and the answer lies within our own morals. ... It may not agree with those of others but as long as it is consistent with one's own belief system, it qualifies as the "right...

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Seed may seem like he is just another scientist trying to promote his cause for the welfare of the world, but he is really a man who is so caught up in his own ambitions that he can not see the downfall of his actions. ... Seed agrees and disagrees with this statement as he comments to National Public Radio correspondent Joe Palca, "God made man in his own image. ...

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Victor's overreaching ambition to overcome the natural boundaries by taking God's creator role is highlighted in the metaphor "Life and death appeared to me ideal boundsI should break through." Victor's hubris criticizes aspects of Enlightenment rationalism which attempted to control natural processes, exemplified in Galvani's experimentation with "animal electricity." The gothic imagery used to describe Victor's experiments "I dabbled among unhallowed damps" contrasts to the imagery of natural settings "land surpassing in wonders and beauty." This demonst...

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While traditional hedonism is concerned only with one's personal pleasure, utilitarianism is concerned with pleasure in general- both one's own pleasure and the pleasure of other people.2 The phrase "the greatest good for the greatest number" is used to summarise the utilitarian theory revolving around a desire to return morality to the search for a individually satisfying or pleasurable life while often sacrificing short term pleasures for more lasting or "greater" pleasures. ... His complete separation of the concept of morality and duty and our personal desire...

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A good example of this is the description Conrad gives of Stevie's reaction to an injured animal: "The dramas of fallen horses, whose pathos and violence induced him sometimes to shriek piercingly in a crowd, which disliked to be disturbed by sounds of distress in its quiet enjoyment of a national spectacle" (Conrad: p49) In this case it is obvious that Conrad's irony, although appearing to mock Stevie, is instead turned against the crowd, thus revealing to us a degree of fellow feeling in Stevie and our own natures. ... His moralistic behaviour seems to arise from a keen sens...

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Renaissance in England was a period of pomp, show and glitter, marked with growing sense of beauty and an increasing enrichment of life made through adventures, bravery and excess. The English period of Renaissance led to the breaking of the medieval knowledge and philosophy, infusing a new spirit of freedom, introducing a note of patriotism and national glorification, and also accompanying a revolt against the authority of the Pope. It was an age keeping pace with the bold adventures of men discovering new lands, and full of the work of scientists like Copernicus who had revealed man's t...

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Kant's moral theory consists of two imperatives the first one is hypothetical imperative where a person works towards their goals and ambitions where they have personal choice for their desires. ... According to Kant, a person who takes the liberty to take control of their own or another individuals life acts in violation to the moral law, Kant argued that euthanasia is an unnatural act. ... According to John Stuart, "Individuals are ultimately the best judges and guardians of their own interests" [Sin03]. ... Kant's biggest principle is that every individual should be pro...

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The legal portion involves corporate insiders; i.e. directors, officers, and employees, who buy and sell stock in their own companies. ... The issue is whether Stewart was acting on privileged information when Bacanovic (her broker) called her on Dec. 27 to allegedly tell her that her friend Sam Waksal, than CEO of ImClone Systems, was selling millions of dollars worth of his own shares in the firm, according to prosecutors Stewart sold about 4,000 shares the day before the regulators announcement" (Chartier). ... According to the "stockholder theory", her duty is to conduct business in a ma...

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I will not be developing a moral theory of my own, but creating an account of some, but not necessarily all, key characteristics that would, arguably, be necessary for a moral theory to possess in order to not fall to contradiction or other such fallacy while still refraining from contradicting general intuition about the vast majority of subjects, cases, and dilemmas. ... It must of course, be noted that having humanitarian and altruistic agenda for the whole, does not necessarily mean focusing ones own ambitions to benefit the whole. ...

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Many people associate business and its practices with greed and love for profit, which most of the times is directly related to immorality. In this paper I will try to answer the question "Is business ethics an oxymoron?" by examining four ethical approaches: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Virtue Ethic...

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