The case of Theresa Marie Schiavo aroused the longstanding claim that any judgment that death is preferable to life violates the important concept of sanctity of life.1 Right-to-life advocates largely chose to ignore the judicial finding that Terri Schiavo had, by oral expressions, dictated her own medical course. Instead, they portrayed her husband’s determination to let her die as reflecting ...

Teacher performance is a determining factor in achieving educational goal. Factors affecting teacher include competence, lesson planning, learning activities, and evaluation. This study aims to analyze the direct indirect effect of transformational leadership, communication, work ethic on performance. used quantitative approach with correlational techniques. The population this were all teacher...

In the territory of violence and despair, hope is rare. Recent work on hope has shifted attention from hope as a feeling to hope as a practice that people can do together. This case report of a family exposed to domestic violence highlights the role played by a South African police officer in the mother's actions to separate from the context of violence. As a witness to the violence, the police...

A successful post-conflict reconstruction is characterized by a self-sustaining liberal political, economic and social order that does not rely on external support. It is argued that the extent of reconstructed orders is constrained by their institutional prerequisites. These prerequisites—a shared ideology and ethic of individual and private property rights, a commitment to markets and the rul...

This study is an investigation of the work ethic of K-12 educators from Generation X and Baby Boom generations. Although much has been written about the baby boom generation, there have been few studies that investigated the work ethic of teachers born between 1946 and 1964 (Gribbin, 2003; Keller, 2002; Petty 2009; Petty 2010; Petty & Brewer, 2008). Additionally, there exists a teacher shortage...

This essay explores and challenges the two primary ethical arguments for assessment, accountability, and professional responsibility, by demonstrating their strengths and exposing their weaknesses, which are rooted in their limited notions of community, contract, and guild respectively. In contrast, I argue for assessment on the basis of an ethic of covenantal obligation which incorporates both...

The aim of this article is to examine how women with children define dmoralT behaviour in relation to the issue of divorce. The data consist of life stories written by married Finnish mothers who say that they have contemplated divorce or separation. The analytical focus is on how the decision process is narratively constructed. The theories around a feminist ethic of care provide the theoretic...

This study aims to examine how the influence of work ethic, environment and motivation on performance public high school education personnel in city Padangsidimpuan partially simultaneously. research was conducted using a quantitative approach with survey method. From results partial hypothesis test, it is stated that ethic variable has positive significant effect educational staff, but not sta...

Whites’ and Blacks’ intergroup attitudes were examined across four samples. Participants wrote essays describing their racial attitudes that were later coded for recurring themes. Coding revealed that Whites and Blacks had similar positive themes, but diverged for negative themes. White participants’ most frequently expressed negative attitudes were consistent with the tenets of modern racism t...