What role does religion or spirituality play in your life?

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Is religion Good or Bad? I don’t see it as bad or good I see it as is work or did’t work for each person and at this life time the way I see it if it help us grow as and healthy happy and balance, peaceful life then is good and if the Opposite, then is bad.
What do I think religion is?
mostly cultural and norms of believe.
What do you feel religion or spirituality can or does do for you? religion ? didn’t to anything for me but being spiritual it help me to connect to our higher self, make me feel balance and powerful that everything is working out to serve us.
What role does religion or spirituality play in your life?
don’t have religion but I have intuition that guide me the more I listen to my intuitions the higher focus that we have in our life. The best part of life is to be able to trust our own intuition or Instinct.
How do you view other religions? the same

Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question) (14:40) Kwame Anthony Appiah at TEDSalon NY2014
“Plenty of good things are done in the name of religion, and plenty of bad things too.
But what is religion, exactly — is it good or bad, in and of itself? still don’t care …. not my priority
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah offers a generous, surprising view.”
Has watching this video caused you to rethink what you wrote last week? no not really the same point with different words
– note to writer Please see the attachment from last week essay.
What are your thoughts on what Kwame Appiah states here?
Does it lead you to want to learn more about the religions he discusses? no, not really but I kinda have to because of part of assignment that is being graded
If religion is about so much, should we teach EVERYONE about religion so that they can learn more? No! and none of my business they will do what their intuition lead them.
Should we teach our children facts about religions, just as we teach them reading, writing and arithmetic? I’m not going to prevent new generation to learn as much as they can and thats including learning religion but i’m i going to make them learn religion? no I don’t think so….i’m not going to make them to learn religion, they have they own truth reality and freedom to chose and I hope i can teach them to chose what ever it is that serve them in all aspect of their life. ( teach them freedom, and unlimitation, fearless, powerful, and believe in our own intuition.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_s_response_to_rick_warren?utm_campaign=tedspread–b&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare (Links to an external site.)
“Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion — all religion — to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution.”

What does Miller mean by the distinction between the non-rational and the rational?

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Before submitting the paper, carefully go back through the entire paper. Have you provided citations for all of the paraphrases from the text? Have you provided citations for all of the quotations from the text? Have you clearly indicated what the quotations are? Have you provided citations for any outside sources that you have used in writing this paper?

1. After reading the online article on plagiarism select any paragraph of over four sentences from your textbook (be sure to give a proper citation). Then provide a. an unacceptable paraphrase of that paragraph, and b. an acceptable paraphrase of that paragraph. Explain in detail what makes your examples acceptable and unacceptable. Be sure to distinguish between a paraphrase and a quotation.
2. What does Miller mean by the distinction between the non-rational and the rational? How does this relate to Foundationalism? Then how does he answer the charge that philosophy is not practical? Do you think his response works? Why? Why not?
3. Fully summarize Aristotle’s criticisms of the Form theory of Plato. Then describe the way he modifies Plato’s theory in his view of matter and form.
4. In your own words, describe Miller’s four principles for the study of the history of philosophy. Then evaluate his principles. Do they seem fair or unfair? Explain your reasoning.
5. Fully and accurately define a deductive and an inductive argument. Give the differences between the two by way of your own creative examples.
6. Explain Jaggar’s view of the prime categorizations in Western philosophy and its relationship to feminism. Then evaluate the worth of her argument.
7. Fully explain Ockham’s reasoning on the problem of universals. Then describe conceptualism and its reasoning on this problem.

Why do many ethicists and philosophers reject both individual moral relativism and cultural moral relativism?

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In this discussion, you will converse about individual and cultural moral relativism, along with the objections to each. The purpose of this discussion is to practice thinking about ethics and philosophy.

Use information from assigned texts from this Module to answer these discussion questions.

Why do many ethicists and philosophers reject both individual moral relativism and cultural moral relativism?
What are the strongest objections to both of these theories?
Are these objections decisive?
Instructions

Please use spell-check and write in complete sentences. Post your initial post (no less than one full paragraph) by the third day that the discussion is open. For an A, three replies to your peers (3–5 full sentences) on three different days of the week are needed. Please also see the discussion rubric.

See the Schedule and Course Rubrics pages in the Syllabus Module for due dates and grading information.

Is it morally justifiable to steal from corporations and fund life-saving research for the betterment of society?

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In November of 1995, a McDonald’s game piece worth $1 million showed up in the mail at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. St. Jude’s Hospital is an organization whose mission is to find cures for dying children. McDonald’s generously waived the rules that only the winner could claim the winnings, and paid St. Jude’s $50,000 in annual installments. It was the largest anonymous gift in St. Jude’s history. No one ever took credit for the donation. Everyone just thought it just came from deep pockets with a big heart.

Twenty-one individuals were accused of rigging McDonald’s monopoly game, “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire”, and other promotional games. An indictment charged the perpetrators with embezzling more than $20 million in winning game pieces in an alleged fraud that began in the late 1980s. Prosecutors stated that customers had little chance of winning before the FBI, with McDonald’s help, shut it down. Additionally, prosecutors argued that larceny, not charity, inspired the perpetrators to play Santa to St. Jude’s.

Both St. Jude’s and McDonald’s were surprised when CNN broke the story and identified the mystery Santa as the aforementioned team of thieves. Did McDonald’s ask for its money back? No, although St. Jude’s said it would do whatever McDonald’s wanted. In an official statement, a spokesperson for McDonald’s stated that the restaurant chain had no intention of asking for its money back. McDonald’s kept its word and paid out the sum in full, sending the final check to St. Jude’s in 2014.

In your view, did the perpetrators of this act of fraud and thievery commit moral wrongdoing? Is it morally justifiable to steal from corporations and fund life-saving research for the betterment of society? Of children? Using one of the moral theories to bolster support for your view, do your best to attempt to definitely answer whether or not the fraudulent actions of the perpetrators of this act of theft performed a morally right or wrong act.

What diverse or multicultural experiences have you had in your life that allowed you to gain respect for oth

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What diverse or multicultural experiences (race, color, ethnicity, language, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, gender, socio-economic status, age, and physical and mental ability) have you had in your life that allowed you to gain respect for oth

What differences in your life or the world does doing or not doing those activities make?

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Phenomenology Paper

This is a paper that interrogates your own direct experience with your way of living. I want you to become a kind of ethnographer, like Lee or Sahlin, of your own life.

You will ask three primary questions about your own experience as you live your normal life on a given day and try to dig beneath the surface to richer answers to these questions:

– What do you spend your time doing? Like Lee, make a record of the amount of time you spend on particular activities. Record the actual time spent. You can ignore unusual activity. Try to focus on the predominant activity of your day. Don’t prejudge the relative importance of the activity. Let the time spent indicate importance.  As you are watching yourself, try to organize your activity into broad categories, but avoid letting the conceptual categories distort a clear picture of the activity.

– As you are observing your activity, pay particular attention to how that activity connects you to the world and to others.  What does that activity “make important”?  Are those things actually important?  What objects do you use?  What are you connected to and in what ways?  It might help you to think of the !Kung San as a contrast to help you more clearly see your own situation.  How are they connected to the world and each other in their activities?

– Finally, and this is the hardest part, what is at stake in your activities and the connections they establish or fail to establish?  What differences in your life or the world does doing or not doing those activities make? Again, comparing your own practices to those we are investigating that are very different may help you see what is at stake for you more clearly.

In this paper, report the breakdown of your primary activity, and then write about the activity you spend most of your time on.  What kind of world and person does that activity create?  How does that activity locate or anchor you in the world and in relation to others?  How does it connect you and to what and with what specific consequences?

This analysis will be a kind of “ethnology.”  You’ll be thinking and talking about what kind of things and activities are central to your life, and what those reveal about yourself and what is important in your world; what the point of those things and activities are; what value do they have.

Treat yourself as if you were an unfamiliar culture or kind of person. What conclusions can you draw about yourself and way of life from your observations?

Paper should be 4-5 pages in length. 

 

How did the mother/daughter interactions affect their ability to communicate with others shown throughout this documentary?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I9x8Kd14Hs&list=PLKHCtZGOtY8ekZgou0-_vzdjgWSYXtM7a&index=8&t=0s&app=desktop As you reflect on the mother/daughter relationship in this documentary, provide your response to this particular mother/daughter relationship. What type of parenting styles were reflected? How has this parenting style affected the adult behavior of the daughter? What did you notice about their interactions throughout this time? How did the mother/daughter interactions affect their ability to communicate with others shown throughout this documentary?

How does it makes us look at larger ideas like Ethics and Law and even Neuroscience (brain stuff)?

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You know the Trolley Problem, and you know it can’t be solved without someone dying…and that seems pretty pointless, doesn’t it?
Yet, fifty years in, we’re still trying to figure it out, knowing we can’t. Yet, you’re going to write a paper about it.
Here’s the question you have to wrestle with:
What does a question like the Trolley Problem teach us? How does it makes us look at larger ideas like Ethics and Law and even Neuroscience (brain stuff)? The ‘unwinnable scenario’ is out there, how do we use it? Examine the ideas here, tell us what you’ve learned and what you think others can learn from confronting this vexing question.
Now, don’t tell me how you think you’d solve it – you already did in the discussion. Don’t tell me you’d pick 5 or 1 or go for lunch – this is about the bigger idea.
No sources, no citation, I don’t care about formatting. Just your brain and what you’ve learned so far. The idea is for me to see how you think, no one else, just you, your voice, your ideas
Give me 3 pages, but feel free to go over. Again, I don’t care about format, I care about how you think and what you say

Discuss/explain thoroughly how and why you think each standard is applicable to the case.

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1. Read the case CAREFULLY: Identifythe ethical dilemma (e.g., what are the choices faced by the social worker?).

2. Go the NASW Code of Ethics and read carefully the descriptions of each of the following standards:
Social workers’ ethical responsibility to clients Commitment to clients (1.01)
Self-determination (1.02)
Informed consent (1.03)
Competence (1.04)
Cultural competence and social diversity (1.05) Conflicts of interest (1.06)
Privacy and confidentiality (1.07)

Clients who lack decision-making capacity (1.14) Consultation (2.05)
3. Choose THREE (3) standards that you think are most relevant to the ethical dilemma case.
4. Discuss/explain thoroughly how and why you think each standard is applicable to the case.
5. Address the degree to which there may be conflict between standards and or parts of standards.
6. Rank in order the NASW standards in terms of their ethical relevance to the case.
7. Identify personal values that may be relevant to the case, and explain how these values influence your thinking about the case
8. Identify and discuss any potential conflict or discrepancy between your personal values and the professional values from the Code of Ethics discussed in #3 and #4.
9. To what degree do your personal values conflict with or shape your interpretation of the professional values as applied to the case? Consider how you will “recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide social work practice.”
10. Based on your rank ordering of professional values (above) and relevance of personal values, identify the next steps you would take to resolve this ethical dilemma.
references must only be scholarly references

dilemma :
Ethical Dilemma Case #2

Self Determination or Child Safety?

Maria (aged 30), who has 4 children, suffers from domestic violence. She had contemplated divorcing her husband but never did. As a result of this domestic violence, Maria became depressed and had attempted suicide several times since last year. She also told her children she wanted to die with them as she did not want to leave them behind. Sara (age 9), her eldest child, shared this in confidence with her school counselor. Maria was referred to the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and soon after she was Baker Acted into an inpatient psychiatric hospital. The children were subsequently placed in foster care.

Following Maria’s discharge, the children were returned to her care at the family’s request. DCF shared with Maria their concerns and explored safety plans for the children. Maria proposed that she move out of the house with the children as she had already made up her mind to divorce her spouse.

Furthermore, Maria also agreed to continue with treatment for her depression. Three months after the children’s return, Sara shared with the school counselor more information and pleaded with the counselor not to tell her Child Protection Officer (CPO) or her mother what she had shared because the mother had warned her that the CPO would place her and her siblings in foster care again if they are aware of the information.

The school counselor shared the information with CPO in confidence after she explained to Sara that she had to inform CPO so that they can get help for her mother, Maria. When CPO spoke with Maria about her bringing the children to meet their father, she denied. She demanded to know the source of CPO’s information and alleged that someone is “making up stories to destroy my family”. She accused CPO of not trusting her and being concerned only for the children. She also demanded that CPO close her case and leave her family alone as they had been doing fine the past 3 months.

you can use the NASW and the Education policy as 2 references you just need to add one more. before you start this paper i would like to chat to make sure you understand it completely. the instructions are an outline for the paper and i will like the paper without a title page please.
pages 1-4 should be content and page 5 is references.