The View of Aristotle and Mencius

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The View of Aristotle and Mencius

Using the scenario discussed in the article, talk about how Aristotle and Mencius would each evaluate the ethics of the action. For Aristotle, consider the virtues and how it impacts us as human beings to act like that; also whether treating people like that is clearly either compatible with or incompatible with any of the virtues, and why. For Mencius, consider both the 5 relationships and the 4 sprouts of goodness/humanity and their properly developed form. Then briefly evaluate the value of the different theories have in helping us see and fully understand the ethical issues in the treatment this woman received.

Claim, Evidence warrant paper, pretty simple. All sources must sited. doesn’t have to be too crazy. I want at least 2 evidence from each source posted. There are 4 sources. And they must have some sort of connection in a way. For the intro explain what is being discussed and for the conclusion connect all the evidence together and explain how they are related. If you need any more info on the paper, please ask me anything and I will respond to help.

Plan of action to age successfully

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A plan of action to age successfully

Create a Written Plan of Action for you that will enable you to age successfully. Include programming from a holistic point of view- emotionally, physically, and economically.

Does the US have a post-Cold War international strategy?

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Does the US have a post-Cold War international strategy? Describe and explain three central US security interests in the post-Cold War era. What policies have been developed to replace Cold War policies? Is the US acting more as a unilateralist power or a multilateralist power? Why is it leaning in one direction or the other? Is a coherent policy being developed to address these security interests or is security addressed in an ad hoc manner in the post-Cold War era? Why? Was the pre-emptive war in Iraq a one time event, or is it a pattern that will continue in the future?

2. The phone rings: It’s Donald Trump asking for advice. He would like you to help him develop a response to US concerns about the actions of two of these three countries: Russia, China, and North Korea. Evaluate the responses of previous administrations in the post-Cold War. Provide the President with advice on future potential issues regarding the two countries you are focusing on.. Explain the costs and benefits of the options you propose in terms of political support and opposition at home.

3. The phone rings. It’s Donald again. Now he needs your help on terrorism. Explain the evolution of America’s counterterrorism policies and the central policy problems. Provide him with specific recommendations concerning his future policies. To what extent have those policies been driven by public opinion, bureaucratic politics and the evaluation of intelligence? Provide a reasoned evaluation of the prospects (positive and negative) for actually stopping terrorism in light of the current situation regarding ISIS.

4. Why did the US go to war in Iraq? Discuss with reference to the use of intelligence, the Pre-Emption Doctrine, bureaucratic politics, expectations regarding the reactions of the Iraqi people, and perceptions of Iraq.

Comprehensive systems of government

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In 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution on State-provided Health Care. The Resolution expressed “total support for the right of all persons, however needy, to be provided, directly by their governments, with health care of the highest available quality.” It went on to call on all states to “institute, without further delay, comprehensive systems of government- delivered universal health care” for all persons within their jurisdictions. Several states, including several major states, spoke out strongly against the Resolution, but after a vote it was adopted by a large majority (181 in favour, 5 opposed, 8 abstentions). One delegate gave a speech proclaiming that “the Resolution represents a significant development in international public health law” and the UN General Assembly had instituted “a firm global commitment to universal government-delivered health for all.”
The positions of States X, Y and Z on this matter are as follows:
State X voted in favour of the Resolution. It issued a statement which praised the Resolution as “a statement of international law.” However, it went on to say that “certain unfortunate and unavoidable economic constraints preclude the government of State X from implementing the Resolution immediately.” The statement continued: “When the economic climate is sufficiently improved, State X undertakes to give prompt and full effect to the terms of the Resolution.”
State Y also voted in favour of the Resolution. It also, however, expressed concern about the compatibility of the Resolution with a pre-existing treaty obligation, which committed it to safeguarding “the right of private enterprise to play the predominant role in health-care delivery” in State Y.
State Z voted against the Resolution. In a statement, it noted that “the government of State Z is of the opinion that the resolution is utopian and aspirational, and consequently is wholly devoid of legal significance.”
To what extent, if any, is EACH of these states (X, Y, and Z) legally bound by the contents of the Resolution? In each case, explain the reasons for your conclusion.

Answers should be typed, printed out and no more than 1500 words in length. All sources must be properly referenced and there should be an appended bibliography of all of the sources consulted.

Remote sensing for archaeology

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Please use the chapters below from Sarah Parcak’s Book on satellite remote sensing for archaeology Pg’s 1-12 (Introduction) and 81-111 (processing techniques and imagery analysis and 173-204 (remote
sensing and survey)
Use ALL the lectue notes provided
I want these small questions to be answered in my essay.
– How high spatial resolution multispectral data in visible, NIR and thermal can be used to identify surface features that are evidence of archaeological remains?
– what different platforms can be used for archaeological applications of remote sensing?
– how measurements of surface elevation and form can be used to distinguish different features?
– the value of ground-penetrating radar for archaeology?
– what can be learned from ground-penetrating radar?
– what are the range of different sub-surface techniques that are available for studying underground features?

Developmental science focuses on the various contributions to development

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Instructions: Choose 1 paper option. The paper is to be completed before the Final Exam in this course. Each paper is to be 3-5 full pages long, in paragraph form, all double-spaced. Full-sentences are expected, as are opening and closing paragraphs. Be sure to answer the question prompts fully.

Grading information: Each paper is worth 100 points. The paper may be completed any time before the Final Exam. The grading turnaround for papers is one week (that is, you should expect to have a submitted paper graded by one week from the date of submission).

The point distribution for the papers is as follows:

20 points: Writing. Criteria: appropriate grammar, appropriately edited for syntax and phrasing, complete sentences, structured in paragraph and essay form, meets page length requirements. Please use 12-pt font, Times New Roman.

20 points: Follows the prompt: all portions of the paper are complete. Answers fully address the questions in the prompt and address them in a sufficiently detailed way.

20 points: Evidence. In each paper, you are required to support evidence for your written points, whether the evidence is specific detail from the internet, the modules, or your observations (and, in all cases, the evidence needs to be stated in your own words and not plagiarized). These sources should be appropriately cited. For example: (Scott, 2010) or (www.sciencedaily.com, “What is Keeping Your Kids Up At Night,” para. 2). Sufficient referencing and integration (without plagiarism) of other sources is necessary to achieve full points in this area. A reference page is also needed.

20 points: Evaluation. In each paper, you are to include your own thoughts and evaluations, whether it involves thinking about module content and evaluating the meaning, deciding on nature/nurture, or evaluating observations. Your thoughts need to be described in sufficient detail and identified as your thoughts, compared to information that you may obtain elsewhere. Sufficient explanation is necessary to achieve full points in this area.

20: Content. Accuracy of your written positions and appropriateness of content given the question prompts are necessary to achieve full points in this area. This is the heart of the papers—answering the questions correctly, accurately, and appropriately. In the cases of providing your opinions, these should still be grounded correctly in the theory or module topic that you are addressing.

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Paper Option #1 Nature/Nurture
Developmental science focuses on the various contributions to development, and whether they lean toward the genetic side of things (nature) or environmental (nurture). Choose from one of the following topics discussed in the modules:

Child obesity
Eating disorders
Adolescent depression

For this paper, review the module material on your specific topic. Then, write a paper describing in detail the “nature” (primarily genetic, inherited) contributions to this condition as well as the “nurture” contributions. You will need to conduct internet research and cite the sources to obtain additional information on your topic. For example, explaining the inherited reasons for a child to be obese will require that you visit, read, summarize, and cite medical sites on the internet. It is crucial that you rephrase material in your own words and cite it or put phrases from the sources in quotation marks and cite it. No more than a few sentences should be directly quoted, however, in order for you to receive credit for writing this paper (in other words, no credit is given for a paper that is a string of other people’s quotes). As a general rule of thumb, at least 1.5 pages should focus on “Nature” contributions to the issue at hand and at least 1.5 pages should focus on “Nurture” contributions.

Your research must include at least 2 journal articles or books. That is, websites can be very helpful and informative, but your final paper must include full, published research articles or books on the topic. Sources should be reputable and consistent with what you learned in the module as well as other sources. GoogleScholar and PDF articles from the internet can be helpful resources. Make sure you use good search terms when trying to find articles. You may want to start broad (for example, “Bystander effect”) and then narrow to your particular area. This paper requirement means that you need to include at least two primary sources in your paper; articles from the internet can be included, but they would be in addition to the two minimum primary sources. Primary sources are firsthand accounts; thus, they involve the author writing about his or her own work.

Ethics of reparation

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“You don’t simply say ‘I’m sorry to a man you’ve robbed. . . . You return what you stole or your apology takes on a hollow ring.” Consider the ethics of reparation in the USA that attempts to address harms done to racial groups other than whites and women. That is, in the realms of racism and sexism.

Let’s bring the discussion of reparation for harms done down to the ethical foundation underlying it. Forget, for now, the apparent achievability of implementing programs that may seem impossible to implement. For example, giving back the land robbed from native people may sound utterly impossible to implement, but perhaps it is the only truly ethical choice in this circumstance. What about reparation for the enslavement of African Americans? Or for the economic, personal, and societal impacts of sexism on women? There are, of course, more examples of groups affected.

Please write a 2 page paper in our standard format on the ethics of reparation. Examine your own actual ethical view on this topic and write from that stance. Choose one, two, or three groups that have been discriminated against (African Americans / Native Americans) and envision ways that reparation might become a reality. Try to dig deep and consider what would actually make up for harms done, as well as achieve a level of equality currently. If you feel that reparation and/or equality are not appropriate, then substantiate that stance.

Carefully read the chapter prior to writing and bring in material that supports your ideas. Put yourself in the shoes of the groups you are examining. Would your reparations make a difference to you? If not, what might? Gaining equality of opportunity and well-being in all areas of life is an important part of the reparation. Can you begin to address this possibility? The idea, in philosophical writing, is to be clear and succinct.

 

Philosophy Ethics required textbook (Timmons, Mark. Disputed Moral Issues: A Reader. Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press, 2017 (Chapter 6 Sexism, Racism, and Reparation).

Childhood Trauma and its Effects on Adulthood

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The paper MUST have an Introduction + Thesis Statement and Conclusion. The paper must have a critical discussion, evaluation, or analysis. The arguments must be backed up with evidence from credible sources. I won’t accept a shallow and vague paper with poorly written or structured sentences. The grammar mechanic must be exceptional.    You should not cite a paragraph either at the first sentence (topic sentence) or last sentence (closing sentence).The write-up must have a grammar mechanic that is much stronger; its quality and grammar must meet the expected standard of my academic level.

the environmental problem

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Watch a TED talk that is at least 10 minutes long on an environmental issue of your choice. Hopefully, you can find one that is related to the campaign you have already been researching. You need to share a link to the TED talk with me. You may use any of the creative formats below but be sure to include the following:

Summarize the main points of the talk using at least three-time stamps of information you found interesting. For example, “At 2:09 the author states that…”
If the TED talk is related to the environmental problem you have been researching, how did it compare to the information you already learned? Did you learn anything new? Was the problem bigger or smaller than you thought? If the talk was not related to your topic, look up one idea the presenter talked about and summarize what you find.
Were you moved to action by the presentation? Why or why not?
What would the presenter have had to do or say or share (data) to make you change your mind and do something about the problem? If you were already on board or the presenter did change your mind, what did they do, say, or share to make you change your mind or make you feel that you were happy with your decision?
Assignment Deliverables

Transitioning from cybersecurity

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Transitioning from cybersecurity to physical security, this module examines how our nation’s critical infrastructure is affected by the vulnerable cyber technology that controls its daily functions.

In his 2012 Defcon 20 cybersecurity conference presentation, Dan Tentler, founder of the San Diego-based information security consulting firm AtenLabs, shared screenshots of dozens of connected devices he could find on the Internet using a laptop and browser. He was able to access several critical infrastructure systems, showing that they were vulnerable to cyber-attack. His presentation vividly demonstrated that the Internet was not designed with security in mind.

Network-ready industrial control systems that monitor and control the physical processes of machines have become the instruments that contribute to a threat we call physical security. The machines we rely on to supply energy, drinking water, and safe food are at risk. The potential security weakness of SCADA systems was exposed by a cyber-attack against the Natanz Iran uranium enrichment facility. A computer worm, called Stuxnet, caused the facility’s control systems to make the centrifuges spin out of control. Stuxnet, a cyber-weapon that changed modern warfare, does not discriminate between nations; it simply attacks and destroys computer-managed machines.

References:

Tentler, D. (2012) “Defcon 20 – Dan Tentler – Drinking from the Caffeine Firehose We Know as Shodan.” YouTube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cWck_xcH64:

Case Assignment
Using three different industries, provide three examples of physical security dangers faced by SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) network systems.
After reviewing Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21), discuss a national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and resilient critical infrastructure. What is resilient infrastructure? Provide two examples of how this concept protects people and property.
Assignment Expectations
Length: This Case Assignment should be 3-5 pages, not counting the title page and references.