Essay 2

Albert Schweitzer once said, “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” This quote applies to James Dowling’s life when it speaks of the happiness that can be found in serving. Instead of taking the path of the bragging war hero that seeks glory for his ego, Dowling took the path of the humble servant, who, although great, serves others. For example, even though he was a celebrated veteran, he did not spend all of his time on selfish ventures and parties; Dowling volunteered his extra time for the benefit of the children of his town: “Since I had my afternoons free I started organizing baseball games for the little kids, including my five sons. I’d buy the bats and balls and before long we had forty or fifty kids in the league” (Brokaw 433). By giving of himself, Dowling was actually receiving: he was able to spend time with his kids that would have otherwise gone to waste. Therefore, it goes to show that those who will be really happy are those who have sought ...

Mill claims that happiness is the ultimate good and the ultimate end of human being. According to me human being is applying this principle in his everyday life. By trying to attain our own happiness, we deal with situations where the happiness of others has to been taken into account. Thus, by applying the “rule utilitarianism” and taking into examples the previous situations others may have face, we can really improve our life and may be find a basis for the foundation of morality.

In this paper I shall explore the reasons behind why utility should be considered the “ultimate appeal on ethical questions,” as stated by Mill, and in ethical situations. In life, we should look to attain the greatest overall quality of life, which is done through obtaining happiness within ourselves. However, at the same time it is important to consider the pleasure of others as they, theoretically, would be doing the same for us. If people started to try and take advantage of others living this way and decided to become ‘free-riders,’ eventually the utilitarian system would break down and we would be left with a selfish world. This is why its maintenance is so important.

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film “rear window” features a wheel chair bond window watcher played by James Stewart. After breaking his leg photographer L.B. Jeffries, is stuck in his home and takes on a new hobby of watching his neighbors. While it started as a fix to boredom it soon became an exciting murder mystery when one of Jeffries neighbors demonstrates some suspicious actions.

Drinking a social convention that when seen from another perspective and logic seems like one of the most idiotic activities someone can take part in. The voluntary act of slowly poising yourself and killing brain cells all in the name of fun, depression, regret, or possibly any other emotion or reason known to mankind. The absurdities of drinking do not just stop at the harm caused from the alcohol itself but the plethora of possible stupidities that are associated with being drunk. These range from criminal behavior ,like DUIs and disorderly conduct, to self harm from acts committed while drunk such as fighting, and the regretful actions that could follow you for a long time just because you did something stupid in front of a group of people.

Sometimes the desire to be lazy is hard to overcome. All of us have experienced those day’s where you have no desire to do what needs to be done. Sometimes we give into that desire and choose the easy road, and sometimes we resist the desire and we go and do the task at hand, regardless of how hard it may be. So why do we ever even consider choosing the hard road and doing that difficult job? We do it because something drives us to do it, there is some kind of benefit or reward for the hard work, that reward could be a paycheck, a meal, the benefit of something that now works properly because it was fixed or repaired, or the reward could be the eternal reward of heaven. The Bibles books of wisdom, specifically Ecclesiastes lays out the meaning of our lives and gives us answers to the questions of why we shouldn’t just be lazy instead of working hard through life and why it is better to make wise decisions than to foolishly go through life (Hindson, 271).

Question 1. According to the human resources philosophy, Wal-Mart would not seem to discriminate based on gender. However, it is possible that some of the stores could be run similar to Enron. Enron had a great ethical backbone but they clearly did not follow it. Wal-Mart stores could have a great philosophical mantra but never follow corporate policy. Unfortunately, unless you do an internal audit on all 4000 plus stores, you will not really know which store managers are leading according to corporate human resources policies.

I have a good friend who has been working at a hospital recently. He’s been learning many new things about health, and is trying to help people by telling them about his discoveries. He seems to be ineffective in persuading many people however. He has told me that whenever he tells someone about what they’re doing wrong, they usually get offended or don’t listen to him fully. I want to help my friend realize that by lecturing people and telling them what they should and shouldn’t do, he is upsetting them instead of influencing them. Dr. Steven R. Covey, in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Suggests that “Criticism kills the ambition in a person.” Telling someone their wrong and about all their problems doesn’t make the person change, but often creates resentment. It makes them feel bad and hurts their pride. They will usually justify themselves and condemn us in return too.

Michael Ruse introduces the question of why those who study living things or biology look for purpose in living things and do not in non-living things in his article “Does life have Purpose” that was published on June 24th 2013. All other areas of science do not ask the question of the purpose of a being it is only in biology that this will be found. To introduce this, a creature was used. The creature was a dinosaur that the author liked. Using this dinosaur he introduced the question of purpose by asking what purpose the plates on the back of the dinosaur served and what they were for. Ruse says “This essay is not concerned with dinosaurs themselves, rather with the kind of thinking biologists use when they wonder how dinosaur bodies worked.(para 1,Ruse)”. The question that is asked with this essay is why living things are still thought to have purpose, and gives two possible answers to this: living things really have purpose or that biologists are using thinking that is not used by the rest of the scientific community.

The process in which we choose to spend our money as consumers begins with an interesting process of self-evaluation of needs, but also our own unique interpretation of how each brand is perceived by our own mind. It can vary with the experience; such as employees of a specific brand can help you through the buying process as seen with the Apple Genius employees that begin with an appointment. Other types of differentiation that help companies differentiate their products is how they choose to allow their consumers to access it, which creates a target niche and exclusive feeling for the consumer. When ordering special honey ham for the holidays I know from experience my family only orders through one company that makes their orders available through one vendor, and it has to be preordered six months before hand. This type of channel differentiation controls the product distribution and aims to maximize the expertise of that particular retailer or vendor. Two other main methods of differentiation utilized are image and services, which both are integral in how Tesla differentiates their products from competitors. As a new domestic car maker Tesla faced an already daunting task, but on top of it Tesla was only building all electric luxury cars. They began with their image as a fast, fun, reliable, eco friendly electric car with the Tesla roadster. Their image was a revolution of speed, power source and design. Their new sports car resembled a lotus, had the handling of a BMW M3, and wheels with a matching roofline that rivaled the Japanese sports car market. All of these images combined laid the foundation for the upcoming success of the Tesla Model S, which can sell for as high as one hundred thousand dollars. What would...