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What are the Three 3 fundamental reasoning strategies listed in the text? What is comparative reasoning? On what skill is it based?

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Joseph

What are the Three 3 fundamental reasoning strategies listed in the text? What is comparative reasoning? On what skill is it based? We learned four tests for evaluating arguments: truthfulness of the premises, logical strength, relevance, and non-circularity. How well do these tests work with respect to evaluating comparative reasoning? Consider each of the four tests. […]

What are the implications of this change, and does he portray it as good or bad? Include a statement from Birkerts’ text as evidence for your assessment of his view on this

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Joseph

1, Birkerts begins by linking reading (at least the comprehension part) and thinking as both being invisible activities, but he sees the connections as going well beyond this superficial observation. He argues that the way we read is related to the way we think about the world. Using metaphors of time (deep vs momentary) and […]

Some people might argue that suicide attempts are just a cry for help. How can a physician determine if a request for euthanasia is genuine and not just a cry for help?

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Joseph

Ethicist Margaret Battin (1987) suggests that physicians should uphold a patient’s autonomy by informing them about humane methods for ending one’s life. Thus, the principle of autonomy creates a moral obligation for physicians to provide patients (who request it) with information on how to die. Furthermore, some individuals create suicide kits that are available for […]

In a business environment, why should people be moral as individuals?

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Joseph

Use the following 2 starting points to develop your essay on morality and ethics: The article by Jay Feldman: Sunday Dialogue: How Corporations Behave Alfred North Whitehead’s controversial statement, “What is morality in any given time and place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike” […]

How did you resolve the differences between what you really wanted to do in the situation, and what the restrictions, rules, or societal conventions “told” you to do?

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Joseph

The philosopher John Locke theorized that humans are born with a blank slate or a tabula rasa. Our experiences imprint on the blank slate – and this is how we achieve knowledge, according to Locke. An opposing philosophical theory holds that humans are born with innate ideas. That is, we already have some information or […]

Evaluate and examine opportunity for increasing services available and incorporating a new service line into already existing lines of effort within the system for which you work.

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Joseph

You have been newly hired into the Johnsonville Community Hospital System. There is a wide array of services available to the community of 80,000 people. Such services include many of the typically expected services found within most medium-sized hospitals. The community has also seen a notable amount of economic growth recently and with said growth […]

Explain the relationship of that underpinning philosophy and the chosen aspect you want to highlight in your nursing story.

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Joseph

This paper is a discussion about the choice of one philosophical underpinning, and how it relates to the way we come to know in our nursing practice though the lens of a chosen aspect of your nursing story. For more information on this assignment, Guidelines Philosophy provides the perspective on what is important to know, […]

Foucault and Butler have each provided us with conceptions of resistance. Explain the two conceptions of resistance as fully as possible.

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Joseph

Pick two competing conceptions (Foucault vs. Butler) of ‘resistance’ we’ve looked at so far and try to evaluate them. Foucault and Butler have each provided us with conceptions of resistance. Explain the two conceptions of resistance as fully as possible. Also explain why you take them to be at odds. If there are respects in […]

Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder, or are there some things that all cultures find beautiful?

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Joseph

There are certain big questions that philosophers have been puzzling over for centuries. Amazingly, many people ask these same questions in daily life. Choose one of the following six branches of philosophy below. Reflect on the central questions as related to the branch you chose. Write an APA-formatted essay of 2-3 pages explaining the chosen […]

Choose a flag, banner, or symbol of your own liking that speaks strongly to you and then study it carefully and critically.

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Joseph

Choose a flag, banner, or symbol of your own liking that speaks strongly to you and then study it carefully and critically. 1. What arguments-implicit and explicit-does the banner or flag make? 2. What are its appeals and who does it seem to address? 3. How do you respond to the image or symbol, and […]

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What are the Three 3 fundamental reasoning strategies listed in the text? What is comparative reasoning? On what skill is it based?

What are the implications of this change, and does he portray it as good or bad? Include a statement from Birkerts’ text as evidence for your assessment of his view on this

Some people might argue that suicide attempts are just a cry for help. How can a physician determine if a request for euthanasia is genuine and not just a cry for help?

In a business environment, why should people be moral as individuals?

How did you resolve the differences between what you really wanted to do in the situation, and what the restrictions, rules, or societal conventions “told” you to do?

Evaluate and examine opportunity for increasing services available and incorporating a new service line into already existing lines of effort within the system for which you work.

Explain the relationship of that underpinning philosophy and the chosen aspect you want to highlight in your nursing story.

Foucault and Butler have each provided us with conceptions of resistance. Explain the two conceptions of resistance as fully as possible.

Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder, or are there some things that all cultures find beautiful?

Choose a flag, banner, or symbol of your own liking that speaks strongly to you and then study it carefully and critically.