Essays on Sense Of Duty

Beowulf is a heroic man that is worthy of adoration. He posses several characteristics that make him a hero: honor, bravery, and a strong sense of duty. Beowulf’s honor and integrity are specifically exemplified in his decision to go to the land of the Danes to kill Grendel simply because he wanted to help the Geats. Never wanting or expecting money in return. Beowulf’s bravery is evident when he goes to slay the dragon even though all of his men abandon him, even though he realizes that the dragon is more powerful than he, Beowulf does not ...

Argument with Evaluation

There are some talented authors who managed to portray life as they saw it with all the white and dark strips. One of such gifted natures is surely an Irish dramatist Lady Gregory. She was not interested in things and abstract ideas but preferred to depict the complicated inner life of people’s feelings and emotions. The Rising of the Moon is her remarkable one-act little play that was widely praised for its consummate dramatic technique. It was written in 1904 and proved that harmony and loyalty could be found in the most intense situations ever. Thomas Hogan named ...

Introduction

Upholding ethical principles is essential to the maintenance of peace in any community. Precisely, the nature of people’s conduct in any organization is essential to the success of the institution. As such, people can determine how ethical or unethical we are by assessing our behaviours. According to Guerrette, Ethics is the philosophical study of the principles that govern the conduct of people in society [1]. Our actions can, therefore, be said to be ethical if they are praiseworthy and unethical if they are blameable. Ethics, therefore, tries to make a distinction between what is right and wrong. This ...

The poem opens with Juno who is the supreme goddess and who is angry. Aeneas is going away from Troy because of its destructions by the Greeks. He recuperates his strength and his remaining men and sets on a journey towards Italy in order to set up a new home. Juno is angry because she favors Carthage and there is an ancient prophecy saying that the Trojan race will one day ruin this city. The trip has many dangers on the way and Juno is also angry at Trojans because Paris announced that Venus is the most beautiful goddess ...

Utilitarianism and Kantianism

Utilitarianism, Virtue ethics and Kantianism are examples of normative ethics. In these theories, there are three components which characterize every action: the consequences of the action, the action itself (which also include the motive of the action), and the agent (the doer). Utilitarianism deals with the consequences of the action. On the other hand, deontological theories (Kantianism and divine command theory) are concerned with motive/action. Virtue ethics, however, is concerned with the doer/agent (Stewart, 2009). Utilitarianism and Kantianism Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is derived from the word utility. In utilitarianism, an action is deemed right only if its outcome is to ...

Questions: Modern Japanese Literature

Question 3 In Oe's The Catch and Banana's Lizard, themes of trauma and salvation are addressed in both tales. Both short stories grab the reader's attention immediately, and both short stories are fast-paced as they explore themes of salvation and redemption in different ways. In The Catch, the protagonist, a small Japanese boy who lives in a small rural village during World War II, befriends a prisoner-of-war, an African-American soldier. Throughout the story, their relationship gradually develops into a kind of trusting friendship. The story is told through the eyes of the boy whose nickname is "Frog". As the story progresses, ...

Introduction and thesis statement

Human action and society have been molded upon generations of interaction between past inhabitants of this planet. It is upon this richness and growth that practices are recognized as best practices or as out-rightly wrong. The presence of such guiding principles is useful in leading of the present organized lives that we enjoy. In this progression, philosophy has played a key role in formulating principles or guidelines upon which we can understand our actions, their implications, their motivation and the interdependence between various actions. The formulation of philosophies such as utilitarianism has acted as a base upon which philosophers can examine ...

Chapter 3

‘Instructors’ Name’ Many social and political scientists have used scientific tools for understanding public behavior. Garry .R. Orren in his article ‘Beyond Self Interest’ delineates how most of these theories propose that social patterns are mostly formed based on an individual’s self interest. In other words they say an individual support or oppose a public policy, based on the implications it will have on his personal need. Orren disagrees with these theories and takes the opposite view by stating it is the group/shared values that affect an individual’s public behavior. For that he takes three theories, neoclassical ...

1. Federal, State and Local Agencies

Federal: United States Secret Service (USSS)

The United States Secret Service (USSS) is an integral component of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for handling of financial crimes and the protection of national leaders and their families. Currently, the USSS has an estimated 6,700 employees and 4,400 sworn members dealing with problems on fraud concerning the financial institutions and transactions of the US. Yet, the death of President William McKinley by assassination in 1901 led to the expansion of the role of the USSS to include the provision of safeguarding mechanisms for national leaders and all those ...

English 111

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an effective instrument that will be able it analyze and determine a person’s strong points without having to cause a damaging impact on the undesirable characteristics of well-known people, whether they are still living or dead. Rosa Parks is a famous civil rights activist who was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. She became a legendary symbol of civil rights when she refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger inside the bus that was on its way to Montgomery, Alabama which sparked a boycott. Based on the Myers-Briggs, Rosa fits into an ISFJ personality type appropriately ...

One of the most complicated questions to answer in human behaviour is how a person becomes who he or she is. In this context, the main problem is in identifying the difference between inborn inclinations of an individual and subsequent influence of the surrounding environment of living. From one point scientists argue that the answer to who we are is in our genes and DNA chains, and we cannot go beyond what our DNA has programmed us to be capable of. From another point of view, we are what are made by totality of factors. Among these factors are our ...

Ethnic group-Croatians

Emigration of Croatians in the USA is a part of European migration and period when they started migrating is between 1890 and the beginning of the Fist World War. The reason for this was mainly because they had a difficult life and had trouble providing their family with food. The only chance that they had was to migrate to America and try to earn money for their families. Croatia is an independent country settled in the Balkan Peninsula and exiting the Adriatic Sea. Since 1918, they lived in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croatians and Slovenians and after the Second World War, ...

1. How does Aeneas’s piety and sense of duty change as the poem unfolds?

Aeneas was a Trojan who travelled to Italy and became the ancestor of the Romans. He was deeply pious, “you bear no more than what the gods ordain” (Virgil, 19). He followed the instructions of gods to set off on a journey to Italy as quoted from book 1 “he came to Italy by destiny” (Virgil, 24). Aeneas’s sense of duty keeps changing as the poem unfolds. The first six of the twelve books making up the poem describe how Aeneas wandered from his native ...

Man is an interesting animal; he can purport to be virtuous, but that often only holds as long as his creature comforts are left intact. Once put out into the wilderness, facing certain death horrifying creatures, man’s inherent goodness can often fall apart. However, it is most interesting when some among these men can hang on to their humanity. In The Terror by Dan Simmons, such a scenario occurs – during a long and arduous expedition, the crews of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus go through what could literally be described as Hell; starvation, harsh conditions, and mysterious beasts are ...

Abstract

In most jurisdictions, tort is regarded a civil wrong but under certain circumstances it is also regarded as a criminal case e.g. in cases of assault. In legal circles it acts as a basis for an action of a lawsuit. Torts are categorised under the law of obligations. Duties that fall under tort law are regarded as a necessary requirement for all citizens unlike voluntary obligations imposed under contracts. If a person commits a tortious act, then in legal term for the person is a Tortfeasor. Tortious acts include breach of duties imposed under statutory laws, negligence, inflicting bodily harm to other persons, property, or infringement on ...

One thing that the gentry have, which the pirates don’t, is a strong sense of duty “to king, country, professional ethics, and moral principle.” Point out instances in Treasure Island where members of the gentry do their duty, even though it appears to handicap them in their conflict with the pirates. Does their devotion to duty in fact cost the gentry something, strategically? Or does it turn out to be an advantage over the undutiful pirates? This is an interesting and complex question. There are moments, episodes in the novel, where the devotion to duty shown by the gentry ...

As an act of altruism, I donated a sum of money to Commit2Africa. This is a charity which helps children in Africa to access education (Clover, 2010). However, I gained pleasure from knowing that my money was going to help other people. I also knew that I would feel this before I made the donation and, therefore, it was not a truly selfless act. “Altruism is helping behaviour that is motivated by a selfless concern for the welfare of another person” (altruism). Altruism differs from personal and social responsibility as both of the latter are motivated by a sense of duty. Altruism focuses ...