Category: Ethics

Movie: The Dark Knight (2008)
Prompts/Outline:
After watching your chosen film:
1. Choose two ethical theories/medical principles to apply the moral dilemma presented in the film. Choose from the list below: Warning: As we have learned, it is only possible to argue an ethical situation using the four pillars with a normative ethical theory as a foundation. Autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice look different from a Kantian perspective than a utilitarian one.
Virtue ethics
Utilitarian ethics
Kantian ethics
Autonomy
Beneficence
Non-maleficence
Justice
2. Introduction: Outline the movie and then describe the two chosen theories in your own words, backing up your views with academic resources as evidence for your explanation of the moral views.
3. Body: Discuss how these two chosen theories could provide solutions or remedies for the ethical dilemma featured within the film. Be sure your analysis follows this structure and addresses all of the following:
Outline the paramount features of your chosen theories, which are found in the movie?
What conflicts, which are present in the film, relate to your chosen theories?
What moral guidance does the ethical theories you selected provide the characters in the film?
Conclusion: Provide a summary of what you have discussed and reflect on what you have learned. Point out the possible weaknesses of your selected theories, and then apply what you have learned to both your personal and professional life.

Title: Exploring Corporate Culture at Beirut Arab University: Analysis and Recommendations
Objective: The objective of this assignment project is to examine and evaluate the corporate culture of Beirut Arab University (BAU), understanding its significance within the institution, analyzing its impact on various aspects such as staff behavior, academic performance, and institutional outcomes, and providing recommendations for enhancing the corporate culture.
Assignment Overview: This project entails a comprehensive investigation into the corporate culture at Beirut Arab University (BAU), with a focus on its influence on staff behavior, academic engagement, and overall institutional success. It involves studying different aspects of BAU′s corporate culture, its defining characteristics, and its implications for staff morale, productivity, and institutional outcomes.
Tasks:
1. Introduction to Corporate Culture at Beirut Arab University (10%)
• Define corporate culture and its importance within educational institutions like Beirut Arab University.
• Discuss the role of corporate culture in shaping staff behavior and academic performance at BAU.
2. Types of Corporate Cultures at Beirut Arab University (20%)
• Research and identify specific aspects of BAU′s corporate culture.
• Describe the defining features and values associated with BAU′s corporate culture.
3. Impact of Corporate Culture at Beirut Arab University (30%)
• Analyze the influence of BAU′s corporate culture on staff behavior, motivation, and academic performance.
• Discuss how BAU′s corporate culture affects institutional outcomes such as student success, research output, and community engagement.
4. Case Study Analysis of Beirut Arab University (25%)
• Conduct a case study analysis of BAU′s corporate culture, focusing on its strengths and weaknesses.
• Evaluate how BAU′s corporate culture has contributed to its success or challenges as an educational institution.
5. Implications and Recommendations for Beirut Arab University (15%)
• Provide insights into the implications of BAU′s corporate culture on institutional effectiveness and staff well-being.
• Based on the analysis, offer recommendations for fostering a positive and conducive corporate culture at Beirut Arab University.
Submission Guidelines:
• Submit the assignment in a typed format, using a standard font size (12) and style (Times New Roman).
• Include appropriate citations and references for all sources used in APA format.
• Ensure the assignment is well-organized, with clear headings and subheadings for each
section.
• The assignment can be completed individually or in groups of up to five members.
• Paper size should be 15 to 20 pages with page numbering and a list of references at the end.
• Originality of the assignment will be assessed through a similarity check.
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Write a research paper on sexism. The thesis will be about sexism against women and its impact on the society. Be sure to dive into the sexist assumptions about women and their role in society. Also, be sure to include the opposers side of this argument. The paper should be written in MLA format and include a work cited page.

For this forum, choose one of the following topics to respond to for your initial post. When you respond to your peers please respond, if possible, to a learner who has posted a contrary view on the topic you selected and then respond to a learner who has posted to at least one of the topics you did not select. In your primary response please add a brief statement about how the learning acquired in this class will be applicable to your current or future career.
Topic A: Animal Rights
Assuming the research by DeWaal is correct (see video), most if not all social animals have innate dispositions to cooperate for survival and as such, develop moral codes for behavior. As such, should humans not work more to ensure animals have basic rights even if they cannot ask for them? What rights should those be and is there some sort of hierarchy (should dogs have more rights than mice).
Topic B: Free Will (or not)
Imagine if we eliminated the notion of free will when it comes to our justice system. Present an argument that “justice” works better if we seek to help and fix people rather than just punish wrongdoers. See my first post for additional resources. Topic C: Grand summary
Taking all you have learned in the class, discuss how you feel you will be more active in thinking about moral decisions and how your compass will help in that process. Be specific and if you can think of a recent moral decision where this class helped, please share.
Please tie your responses directly to the lesson material, readings/videos, rather than just your opinions on this topic. Final Reflection: And finally, please reflect on the following:
How will you include ethics in your present or future career?
How will you talk about ethics as a career competency?

“Navigating Silence and Voice: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Impact of Stigma on Mental Health Among African American Residents in Frederick County”

Option 3: John Doe, Patient One, is in late stage of kidney disease. If he does not receive a new kidney, then he is predicted to die within a week. Doe is 45, single, and has no children. Doctors theorize that Doe damaged his kidney by not following a low-salt diet. Doe inherited one million dollars and is known for giving money to charity. Without a transplant, he will probably be forced to spend all his money searching for a kidney outside of the usual legal channels. Patient Two is Jane Doe (no relation to John). Patient Two is a mother of two children (ages 21 and 24). She is divorced and 55 years old. She developed kidney problems due to eating a high-fat and high-sugar diet. If she does not receive a kidney within one month, doctors believe she will die. Patient Three is an orphan. This orphan lives in a state facility. She was born with a genetic condition that constantly damages her kidney. The only known approach to her condition is to provide her with a kidney transplant every so often. She is 11 and has already undergone two kidney transplants. She will perish in two months if she does not receive another transplant.
All three patients are at the same hospital. The hospital only has one kidney to give out. The orphan’s birth parents were known to be of a religion that is opposed to organ donation. The other patients come from religions that do not oppose organ donation. Who should get the kidney? Why should that candidate receive it over the others? Devise a course of social action and a solution for this case by using the ethics of egoism and then utilitarianism to a key moral conflict involving health care in this case. Appraise the interests of diverse populations (in terms of ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.) and how they relate to the case. Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
For all the options:
Cite the textbook and incorporate outside sources, including citations.
You should not be using any text you used in a discussion board or assignment for this class or any previous class.
Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
You will submit the following:
An audiovisual presentation that presents one of the options above. Be sure to give equal time to each element. Doing a PowerPoint presentation with audio recorded on the slides is preferred. Please refer to the Narrated PowerPoint Tutorial located in the Required Resources in this assignment.
Please provide a transcript of anything said in the recording aloud that does not appear as text on a slide. This transcript can be provided as a Word document or placed in the Notes section on the PowerPoint slides.
The link or a scan of the article mentioning any health technology, social technology, or case you are reporting on. If you made up the case, please indicate that in your report. If you choose to do option #3 (the case about a shortage of transplant kidneys), your article would likely be an article about the shortage of transplant organs, or a shortage of people signing up to be transplant donors, or the status of educating people about being donors, etc.
Requirements
Length: 4-6 minutes narrated presentation
Slide length: 4-6 slides (not including title slide, conclusion slide, or references slide)
Title slide
Conclusion slide
References slide (minimum of 2 scholarly sources cited in APA format; not narrated)

Recent Arizona case study analysis on fraudulent billing on Native Americans need with opioid and alcohol abuse, in the human services, profession and counseling. The case study analysis will include one or two ethical standards for human services, professional under the national organization for human services know as NOHS.

Having the ability to synthesize a vast amount of information into a succinct and logical explanation is a skill that is vital not only in graduate school but in any career in the intelligence field. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve your depth of knowledge of the different concepts covered, and to further prepare you to move forward in your scholarship.
For this literature review, you must select to focus on the literature covered during one of the following weeks.
For example, you may focus on the basis of ethics, just war doctrine, ethical legal foundations in intelligence, intelligence oversight and ethics, or ethics and interrogation.
The goal of this literature review is to demonstrate the scope of knowledge that is available on these key topic areas. As such a good literature review is a thoughtful synthesis of important information that pertains to the topic at hand. Literature reviews include a summary and critical assessment of the arguments that exist (including whether or not you agree with them) and are arranged thematically. At the end of your literature review, you should discuss where research should go next. Are you persuaded by the arguments/findings of one author or another? Why? How could the research be improved upon (theoretically, methodologically, relevancy-wise, and etc)? Be sure you present any idea that you might have regarding how you would look at the topic area.
Developing a clear and concise literature review can be challenging. NOTE: Literature reviews can be a bit tricky to write. Check out this video to help you further prepare to write this assignment. This will not be the last time that you are asked to write a literature review in your academic career so it’s important to master this skill. Also, check out the following documents: 1) literature review tip sheet and 2) synthesis matrix. Together these documents will give you everything you need to carry out a successful literature review.
Your literature review must be developed using 15 or more scholarly sources, which should include the assigned readings covered during that week. Within each week there are a number of recommended readings that would serve as an excellent starting point to kick start your research (you should keep in mind that not all of these are available within the online library as this recommended list is simply a list of accumulated knowledge, not knowledge housed within the online library). Regardless of your topic of choice you should conduct an article search within the online library within EBSCO and JStor database, and also conduct a book search to help you develop your literature review.
Format: This assignment should be 8-10 pages in length, not including title and reference page. Your paper should have 1-inch borders on all four sides, use Times New Roman-12 point font, be double spaced, and not have an extra space in between paragraphs. (You may need to turn this off in MS word by going to paragraph and selecting “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style). Since this is an INTL course you need to use the Chicago parenthetical citation style with a references page.

Using resources provided in this course, evidence from published research, and ethical principles, students will create an evidence based health care policy brief. The purpose of this brief is to allow students experience with creating a brief that can be given to a policy maker to change current laws or policies of organizations. It is not intended to be a hospital or clinic policy on “how we do this or that procedure”.
Rather, the goal is for students to look at the big picture of policy creation at the state or national level. For example, you may be interested in the limitation of psychotropic medications prescribed to elderly nursing home residents as chemical restraints. In this case, you would create a policy based on the physical and social dangers that these drugs pose to elderly persons and potential solutions to this problem such as mandatory documentation of failed behavioral modification techniques and an evaluation by a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner or psychiatrist. You could include a requirement for oversight by an existing organization and suggest imposing stiff fines for facilities that do not meet the standards such as removal of Medicare funding. You would present this brief and the elevator speech to the policy maker as part of a visit with them in their district or Lobby Day for your organization in your state capitol or in DC.
This brief will be between one to two pages in length, have at least three peer-reviewed references, and will be composed in APA style. In addition to the brief, students will develop an “elevator speech” for use with policy-makers. This is a concise four or five sentence bullet point summation of the problem, the desired intervention, and the expected outcome of the proposed policy. The paper must follow the format posted on Canvas, and must be written according to APA style, including citation format and references. Please refer to the APA Manual (6th ed.) and/or the website: http://apastyle.apa.org/Links to an external site.
Students may use the topic from their ethical analysis paper or any of the discussion board case topics for this assignment. If none of these topics are of interest, the student may select another topic as long as it is a nursing problem and there is published research or systematic reviews on the topic. If you are in doubt about your topic, please email me so we can discuss by email, Zoom, or phone.
Example policy briefs are included in this module aimed at national level policies. These briefs are actually Policy Statements or Committee Opinions drafted by a former instructor. These are usually done as a team of two or more professionals. Your assignment is more of short paper but you can use bullet points in APA style so feel free to do that if you like. The Mental Health America policy is written in Yale style which is neither APA of AMA so if the references look unusual that why. The policies from ACNM are written in AMA style so they may look different to you than APA style. Many NP journals use AMA style but at USF, APA is standard. I cannot accept papers that have more than 3 APA, spelling, or grammatical errors. Direct quotes are not used in policy briefs.

For this forum, choose one of the following topics based upon this week’s assigned readings to respond to for your initial post. Be sure to include pertinent citations from the course textbook were applicable to help you clearly communicate your ideas and help make your major points stick.
When responding to your peers please attempt to respond to at least one learner who has posted who has posted on the topic you did not select to encourage a healthy mixture of ideas.
Topic A: Virtue Ethics
In the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant (whom we will be reading more about this semester) writes that someone who is not inclined to help others, but who forces herself to, performs a morally praiseworthy action. While someone who regularly helps others and enjoys doing so, even if the enjoyment is not selfish, may deserve praise, but her action has no true moral worth. Do you agree with Kant? What reasons can you give for viewing moral acts that are performed merely out of habit as possessing less moral worth than those that require an immense personal effort?
We also saw in this week’s module, that according to Aristotle, for an act to be considered virtuous it must (1) be done for its own sake and (2) the act must follow from a firm disposition, meaning that it must be consistent with the way one usually acts and feels, and not be a one-shot incident. (Giles 30) Do you agree with Aristotle? What are the implications of these conditions on the perspicuity of moral acts, in contrast to Kant’s Deontological theory of right action? Does Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics entail the further possibility that one could live a morally virtuous life and yet not know it? If so, does this pose a problem for Virtue Ethics when viewed as a normative ethical theory? Why or why not?
Be sure to carefully defend your chosen position, citing pertinent sections of the readings for this week to help back up your view.
A minimum of three posts.
The initial forum response is due by Thursday at 11:55 p.m. EST and should be a substantive response to the discussion prompt.
For peer replies, respond to at least two of your classmates by Sunday at 11:55 p.m. EST and give meaningful replies that advance the discussion.
Before you post, please thoroughly edit your writing to ensure it is professional and academic, and includes properly cited MLA citations from our weekly course textbook readings. For more details about the initial post and peer replies are graded, see the attached grading rubric.