Essay Scoring- Ownership Essay 1 score Thesis- 1 Evidence and commentary- 3 Sophistication- 1 The student has started their work by clearly defining the subject matter of their essay i.e., what ownership is, thereby enabling the reader to understand what the paper will be addressing clearly.  This is an essential initial step in the writing process as this allows the writer to introduce the reader or the intended audience to what the material they are reading pertains to. In the evidence and commentary region, the student has managed to present a well-developed essay that has a sequential flow of ideas using clear and concise language without a lot of technical jargon. The writer has also led to exhibit a good mastery of the subject matter and has also used bright and vivid examples to help the reader understand the topic at hand better. Besides this, the students also included a thesis statement in their work stating, “Therefore, ownership is a way of showing success in life, and it is what people do with their ownership that determines the good and…

Hick vs. Plantinga views on religion             The aspect of religion is considered to have generated great views passed on where religion is inclusive or exclusive among the different people in the world. Such elements are supposed to create great arguments, which are the basis in which renowned religious philosophers such as John Hick and Alvin Plantinga argue upon. According to Hick, religion is an aspect that contains a set of beliefs that co-exist in all religions and which are considered valid by the believers in the different denominations about the origin of the earth, the existence of people, and God. In this case, Hick believes that each religion has the same interpretation of the same reality and salvation (Hick, 635). On the other hand, Alvin Plantinga, who believes in exclusivity in religion, argues that the belief in God is universal and that the belief in God can be justified independently. In this case, Plantinga argues that it will be wrong to expect a person to treat all religions as a similar way to God if they genuinely believe in…

MAECEL Virtual Toolbox – Tool #4 My Personal Knowledge Management System Graduate students often conduct a great deal of research for both professional and academic purposes. As you know, evaluating your sources of information is crucial because you want to use credible sources to support your claims, arguments, and assertions in all of your coursework. So, now that you know how to find and evaluate quality web-based sources– you will need a system for collecting, annotating, organizing, and sharing your own personal library to improve your workflow and productivity. For this assignment, you will create Tool #3 My Personal Knowledge Management System using both Diigo (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. or Symbaloo (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Powerpoint slides. Using the content topic areas of the MAECEL PLOs and the sources you have examined during this course you will bookmark a total of 20 quality, web-based sources in your Diigo or Symbaloo library. These should be sources that you will want at your fingertips throughout the program to easily locate credible information on various program topics for discussions and…

female vaginal cutting Use 12-point Times New Roman type. Double-spaced with standard margins (MLA). Do not leave gaps between. Question 1. What ethical issues are involved in FGC? 2. How would a utilitarian, a Kantian, a virtue ethicist, and a rights theorist evaluate the practice of FGC? What factors would they consider when determining whether or not FGC was an ethical practice, and what would they most likely decide? (Remember: They will likely come to different conclusions for different reasons.) 3. What is your position on FGC? Do you believe that FGC should be considered wrong? Why or why not? With which moral (rights) theory does your position most closely align?[unique_solution] This paper should be written in your own words. References to the textbook material must be followed by an ine-text citation (Widdows). If you must quote from the book, quotations should be kept short (no more than 10 words in length). There should not be more than two quotations in this paper. Quoted language must be placed in quotation marks and followed by a citation. Information from the book…

Breast Implant A philosopher is a person who bids views or notions on profound queries in logic, principles, metaphysics, and other related fields. The case with a breast implant is an ethical and psychological issue with women who feel to be uncomfortable with their natural breasts. Two ways philosophers can help solve this issue is by analyzing and writing about ethical ideas concerned with breast implants and secondly the biblical approach and understand about a human being. A philosopher should let women understand that breast implant as health side effects like the ones which were filled with silicone tend to damage vital body organs. Women should choose against increasing the size of their breasts as this may raise health concerns. The implant surgery may also impact the drive and proper functionality of breast by instigating lactation deficiency and other problems related to breast-feeding. Outside what we recognize with our own eyes, here are some things that our cognizance cannot grip and whose splendor and sublimity grasps us directly. Breast implants should be for women who have undergone surgery due to…

Peace One Day             Peace is not just a word that can be used to describe something or someone but the acts of kindness towards the people around us. My mother has always told me to forgive each other, give to others, love each other, and help those who in need. Is that not the full definition of peace? Extending the simple acts of kindness ensures that peace prevails among the people we are interacting within our daily activities. This year I will make peace with my parents in the effort of bringing peace over the whole world. Everyone should focus on creating a peaceful world by creating new friends every day and smiling to others in spite of their moods to achieve high levels of acts of kindness in the world. Philosophers and politicians have come up with different opinions and formulas for achieving a peaceful world (Bassiouni, 2017). However, none of the great opinions have yielded the expected outcome because small conflicts and bloody wars still exist in our community. Peace in the world begins with myself and…

Thales of Miletus Introduction Socrates method is used in encouraging students to learn efficiently. Socrates prepared his students to investigate and question the logical beliefs and principles to be critical thinkers. The Socrates approach applies pedagogy questions, dialogue aimed at helping the students to reflect on their understanding of the specific issue. Socrates is a real model to many philosophers’ this could be understood by examining some of the pre –Socratic philosophers. This essay   will focus on Thales of Miletus. Thales was a pre-Socratic philosopher who is often considered the first philosopher and the father of western philosophy. He believed that everything came out of water and the earth floats on water, his main idea was to uncover the unifying principle of diversity, to him the earth could be rational, orderly and understanding being quite different from the Greek that saw it as unpredictable, full of chaos and unrelated forces therefore there was need of something to unify it.In Aristotle’s Archê means the source. Specifically, Aristotle talks about the arch of material, and Thales has some ideology that Aristotle teach…

The Renaissance             Florence has been for many years recognized as the masterpiece of art and the birthplace of the Renaissance. The Renaissance marked the literary transition from middle ages to modernism although several scholars have viewed it to be an extension of the middle ages. The Medici family comes in the middle of every discussion about the renaissance because they were the ruling family of the time, being wealthy wool merchants. Renaissance is always differentiated from middle ages by the development in humanism that happened then with the recognition of man as the measure of everything that is in existence. Renaissance was however seen to have brought into life cultures and beliefs that were immoral and were in line with paganism. The acceptance of art was not regulated, and different works of art were later interpreted to be in deliberate recognition of paganism. Although the renaissance has been defined as a rebirth after the fall of Rome, which was the center of religion, paganism has been discovered to have dominated the renaissance period of the 15th century. The period…

Ultimate Moral Responsibility             The debate about the existence and nature of the free will have existed in the philosophical world for many years. One side of the philosophers, the compatibilist, argue that having free will means that people have the ability to do whatever pleases them according to their beliefs and desires. The other side of the philosophers, the libertarians, argue that free will is having the ability to make choices that are different from specific choices that people end up making. The way the libertarians define free will is the only way that individuals can be ultimately responsible for their actions. Philosopher Galen Strawson combines the insights of compatibilists and libertarians into a single position, the pessimist position, where he concludes that it is not possible for individuals to have ultimate moral responsibility. Galen Strawson argues that individuals are rational agents who make choices according to their desires and beliefs. The argument by Galen Strawson agrees with the compatibilist definition of free will that their personal desires entirely guide the actions people do (Vyse, 2018). However, this kind…