Essays on Gert

What is God? How do we understand God? Should we praise God? All these questions were being posed by humanity countless times throughout history. And there indeed always were more answer than questions. Some said that God is omnipotent, transcendent entity, others told that God is the reason for everything, the third suggested that God watches all of us, rewards the good and punishes the bad. And that is only a tiny bit of the explanations offered by different individuals, teaching, and religions. Indeed, such variety may be troublesome because it makes the task of deciding the true explanation. ...

Morality can be defined in different ways. Some of the definitions are dependent on several factors. Philosophy is a broad subject that involves the study of different aspects of life, and non-life factors too. Philosophy even becomes more interesting and intriguing when involves the lives of human being directly. This is because it includes the perceptions of different things that people would take normally under normal situations. However, philosophy brings everything into light, though in a rare manner.

As opposed to descriptive efforts of ethics, it is also meant to describe what ethical behavior entails alongside providing reasons to be ethical. ...

The Maastricht Treaty launched the European Monetary Union in the year 1992. The union comprised of two parts, which included the creation of euro the common currency and creation of the European Central Bank, which coordinates all monetary policies in the Eurozone. The treaty also created the rules for countries willing to join the union. The other element of the treaty was the national central banks of the 16 member countries. European Monetary Union creation has led to price stability and proper management of public finances (McKay Volz & Wolfinger 2011).The final phase of the single currency introduction ...

The healthcare practitioners usually confront difficult ethical choices in their quest to provide appropriate health services especially for people with diverse values (McWay 2014 p 91). Consequently, different bioethics principles have been put in place to help resolve ethical issues in the event of such diversities (Koslowski 2001 p 137). The principle of double effect encompasses the two types of consequences that results from a single action (Yelon et.al., 2014 p 374). For example; a doctor may use morphine on a dying patient. Thus, the use of morphine will have a maleficent effect of cutting short the patient’s life while simultaneously having a beneficial effect of ...

Cloning

1.0 Historical Background During mammalian reproduction, the sperm fuses with the egg. During this process, both the egg and the sperm contribute half of the genetic material resulting into a genetically unique individual. On the other hand, cloning involves the development of an organism or cell that has identical genetic materials to the parent. Thus cloning can be defined as producing a copy of DNA, cell or organism asexually. This definition is not a clear reflection of what people considers cloning to be thus raising perennial and heated debate on the ethics and morals of cloning. However, it worth noting that ...

Utilitarianism is one of the concepts that seek to provide various justifications on practical questions and moral activities. In a consequence based notions, utilitarianism is asserted to include all the bad and good outcomes of an action, whether it arises before or after the act. According to scholars, actions of individuals in society should either be morally right or wrong. There are situations whereby utilitarianism is taken to justify the breaking of moral rules. In this case, utilitarianism is taken to be one of the teleological ethics; this implies that utilitarianism is a concept that derives moral or duty obligation from ...

Cisco systems Inc. is one of the largest companies in the world. It boasts of an employee base of around 66,000. As at 2008, its annual turnover revenue was in excess of US$38 billion. With its Headquarters in San Jose, Ca. It deals with manufacture and selling of communication and network related technologies and services. It was founded by Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack. Being husband and wife, they were working in Stanford University as support employees in the computer lab. They were joined by Richard Troiano and they started Cisco Systems in 1984.

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Abstract

The international business area has played a major role in opposing countries belonging to different cultural clusters. Countries in different clusters will not conduct business in the same way. Some differences will come about following a number of factors such as laws and rules. This paper majors more on sociocultural aspects. Figures of the cultural aspects differ, depending on the where the country is located, and its cultural beliefs. This paper has looked at two countries, the US and Italy. Figures of the cultural dimensions are shown, similarities and differences are also brought out. There is a brief discussion on how the ...