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    If Moral Relativism is true are all Moral Opinions true? Inroduction: Say a person was asked to investigate a range of cultures ethics and their reasoning to come to a conclusion as to what is the ethical ideal that should be universalized. No matter how much depth and reasoning provided, it is most likely this person will conclude that their own cultural ethics will prevail. Not because the person is unsympathetic to other cultures, but because their own culture is most justified in their eyes.

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    Hyde v Hyde 1866 defined the term marriage as: “The voluntary union of one man and one woman at the exclusion of all others for life”. This definition is built of the back of a very morally religious country, and in fact prior to the definition it uses the words “in christendom” . The basis of this concept can be traced right back to the creation of religion with the creation of Adam and Eve as Husband and Wife in the bible . This position has stood the test of time and is still to some extent true

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    Since it’s discovery, HIV has spread relentlessly, bringing about the most devastating pandemic in recorded human history. This pandemic is obliterating the lives and livelihoods of millions of individuals worldwide, with more than 39 million people having died due to AIDS-related causes, 35 million people living with HIV and 2.1 million individuals being newly infected each year. Thus, each day an estimated 15,000 individuals are newly infected and this alarming rate is set to increase. In Swaziland

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    As a result of imperialism, several Christian missionaries went across the world to spread their religion, especially in Africa. Europeans divided the land up according to country at the Berlin Conference. Those missionaries went to colonized territories and attempted to spread their religion to the native people. Certain ideas resonated with the people, but others did not because of the conflict between ideas of traditional religion and Christianity. This conflict was present between the missionaries

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    Although some stories may be written by completely different authors, countless stories can and have shared similar themes and ideals. One example of two stories that share similar concepts is the example of the stories: Sticks and Salt and Growing up Hmong in Laos and America. In the story, Sticks and Salt, Phuoc Nguyen talks about his life growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in America. On the other hand, in the story, Growing up Hmong in Laos and America, Pa Xiong Gonzalo talks about his life growing

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    In the article “The Sexist Truth about Office Romance”, the author explains the phenomenon, reason, and social bias on office romance (Drexle, 2014). Even though “both men and women take part in office romance”, due to the discrimination on women, the society blame more on women than on men for this phenomenon (Drexle, 2014). Generally, women in office romance are motivated by advanced jobs while men are motivated by threatening love and ego. Because employees who are involved in interoffice affairs

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    Ch 13 Outline Protestants, Catholics and the Wars of Religion I. Personalities A. The Increasing Radicalization of the Movement 1. Ulrich Zwingli—1448-1531 a. Supported by guilds in Switzerland. b. Ideas differed from Luther's. 1. Luther kept sacraments (baptism and the Eucharist) 2. Advocated revolution. c. Supports union of church and state, Catholics resist, civil war in 1531 1. Catholics win, Zwingli captured and executed 2. Peace treaty resembles Lutheran Knights'

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    Canadian Family Sociology

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    Some main points Baker was trying to make are that most of us have been raised within a family, which tends to make us think that we are knowledgeable about the sociology of the family, and that if we generalize from our friends and family we would have a poor basis of research and theory. Not all people behave the same way and share the same values and lifestyles as others. She also talked about how personality and aptitudes can be affected not by only physiology and genetic inheritance; they are

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    of men and women who promoted peace and just wanted to have a good time. They would take many different kinds of drugs, such as marijuana, LSD, and Angel Dust (PCP). When they were high they would participate in many sexual acts, including orgys. Polygamy was very common among them, helping contribute to the Sexual Revolution. (Stern, n.d) “Many hippies dropped and of school and followed their own paths of discovering themselves through the use of psychedelic drugs such as marijuana or LSD...Rock

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    values. This is shown through Zeus’ marital situation. In the Greek myth “Heraclês”, Zeus has a countless number of wives, while he has only one wife, Hera, in the Disney movie Hercules. This reveals that American culture does not support or deem polygamy as acceptable and values loyalty to a great extent. American culture typically supports only the marriage of one person to another, not multiple women to a man or vice versa. On the contrary, this shows that ancient Greek culture does not necessarily

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