Being able to present and broadcast your opinions in a clear manner is important in today’s technological society. In this assignment, you will record your responses to the prompts below using a smartphone or other recording device.

• Upload your video to YouTube. You may mark the video as private as long as you invite your professor to view the video.
• Submit a written script of your video to the dropbox. If you make the video public, you can include the web address (URL) in the script.

1. In the 1997 case of University and Community College System of Nevada v Farmer, Farmer was initially awarded $40K in damages for violation of the Equal Pay Act. The university won an appeal in front of the State of Nevada’s Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, leaving the lower court’s verdict in place. Defend or critique the finding of the Nevada Supreme Court using a deontological or teleological approach.
2. The WatchMark-Comnitel Corporation has undergone significant changes since their case of outsourcing. They were renamed Vallent Corporation, and later were acquired by IBM. This shows the competitive nature of the software industry. Based on this knowledge, examine the outsourcing actions taken by Watchmark-Comnitel from the deontological and teleological perspectives.
3. Present an argument that it is easier for employers to comply with diversity legislation in Canada than it is in the United States.
4. Select a source of media as outlined in Exercises in Media Diversity. Comment on the questions listed in the textbook for the media option you selected.

Assignment Expectations:

• Length:
  • 10 -12 minutes, (about 1500 to 1800 words; answers must thoroughly address the prompts in a clear, concise manner
• Structure:
  • Include a title page and reference page in APA style for your script
• References:
  • Reference any outside content. Include the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions
• Format:
  • save your assignment as a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), Open Office (.odt) or rich text format (.rtf) file type
• File name:
  • name your saved file according to your last name, first initial and the week (for example, “jonesb.week1”)
• Submission:
  • submit your assignment to the Drop Box

The Due Date:

Purpose:

The purpose of this assignment is to give you practice particularly in:

1. Identify and apply a variety of epistemological theory
2. Evaluate and differentiate between an epistemological, a metaphysical and an ethical question
3. Understand and apply the criteria of correct philosophical reasoning
4. Understand the difference between a rhetorically good argument and a rationally good argument.
5. Identify, reconstruct and evaluation arguments posed by philosophers

Outside of this course, this will help you understand and apply good reasoning, spot problems in another person’s side of a debate (or spot them in your own) and know how to rephrase a person’s stance in better, more easy to understand ways.

Task:

In the reading as well as the modules, we have discussed the method of Descartes and the results of his methods (Meditations 1 & 2).  In this assignment you need to answer the following questions (a paragraph a piece):

1. What was Descartes method for getting 100% certain beliefs?
2. What thought-experiments did he accept/reject?
3. Why did he reject one and not the other?
4. What couldn’t he doubt, if anything?

Each of these should take you around a paragraph to answer. Each of them are worth 5pts. Since this is worth 20pts, this is worth 5% of your total grade.

Submission:

To submit this assignment, I only accept .pdf, .doc, .odt, and .docx. I do not accept .pages. You can find where to submit in the upper right of this screen. As for all assignments in this class, the standard is Times New Roman, 12pt font, double spaced, 2-3 pages (that is, at least a few words onto the second page to the bottom of the third).