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This principle is referred to as Kant’s practical imperative and is an important principle for an ethical system which says that each human being is an end in himself or herself. No human being should be thought of or used merely as a means for someone else end. Dr. Jeffrey Wigand the main protagonist of “The Insider” portrays himself to be a conflicted individual as he makes decisions throughout the movie. Against an undetermined future, he ruminates about what he knows is right for example, receiving

The Insider The Insider is a 1999 movie based on real-life events that happened within an unaired 1994 episode of 60 minutes on CBS. Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, played by Russell Crowe, was the Vice President of Research and Development for the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation and was not satisfied with the way that the third largest tobacco company was going. Wigand was then fired when he began to voice his personal opinion about how he did not agree with how the company was adding various chemicals

service, he returned to college where he went on to earn his doctorate in biochemistry. Wigand worked in healthcare for companies such as Pfizer, Union Carbide, and Ortho Diagnostic System until he eventually landed a lucrative position with Brown & Williamson (B&W) in Louisville. He started out at the bottom, making a small salary until he accepted an attractive offer to become the research chief, head of research and development,

Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson 529 U.S. 120 (2000) Parties: 1) Petitioner- Food & Drug Administration 2) Respondent- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation Facts: The Food and Drug Administration issued a rule in 1996 that prohibited the tobacco products labeling, promotion, and availability to young people (children and adolescents). The FDA claimed that as per Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), it had authority to regulate tobacco products because nicotine

work around five-thirty. He returned home that afternoon to find the house cordoned off with yellow crime-scene tape. Six weeks later, he was arrested for her murder. He had no criminal record, no history of violence, and no obvious motive, but the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, failing to pursue other leads, had zeroed in on him from the start. Although no physical evidence tied him to the crime, he was charged with first-degree murder. Prosecutors argued that he had become so enraged with Christine

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor tells the story of Cassie, who is learning about the conflict about blacks and whites. Set in 1930's Mississippi, the main character sees and begins to understand the separation between blacks and whites, and how the whites did awful things in order to get the blacks to listen to them. Then, many bad things happen, including Mama losing her job as a teacher, and Papa getting severely injured, while the plans with the boycott did not go as they originally

New Orleans Chooses Home Rule Charter The city of New Orleans is governed by a Home Rule Charter. The Home Rule gives a municipality the power and authority to determine how it city should be governed. Without this power a state can make it difficult for a city to function. It can be because of political differences, old grudges, or just because it can. The state can cause economic and financial hardship. The Municipality can be given as much or as little power as the state sees fit, because municipalities

Williamson County Schools serves nearly 38,000 students in 45 schools spanning grades PreK-12. Only 4.2% of the student population qualifies as economically disadvantaged. Fewer than 2% of the students are English Language Learners and 10% have disabilities while over 82% of the population is white. Additionally, WCS receives less than $9,000 per student in funding, among the lowest in the state. 79% of students have achieved a 21 or higher on the ACT (the minimum score to qualify for the Tennessee

solution to it. The Sorites Paradox begins with the problem that if one looks at a vague term such as a heap, at what point is it no longer a heap if you keep taking grains of sand out of it. The same can be said for cattle, if one keeps removing cattle from a herd when will it no longer be a herd. The Sorites Paradox is paradoxical because all the premises appear to be true as well as the argument being valid (the conclusion really follows from the premises); yet the conclusion appears to be

Introduction Vagueness is an epistemological phenomenon (Sorensen, 1988 and Williamson, 1994). Williamson expounds this position by rejecting the tolerance principle in the Sorites paradox. He regards claims such as “this is a heap” to be either true or false; there is a sharp boundary in heaps and non-heaps, or in this essay, paragraphs and non-paragraphs—but we cannot locate this boundary. Some argue against this view on the basis that vagueness is an “unimaginability phenomenon” (Horgan, 1997)