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"Ask a Mortician" ETHICS - 57 views

started by Amy Burvall on 19 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
  • Christina Cortese
     
    Are you treated differently when you tell people you're a mortician? How do they react to your line of work? Do they think it's weird, do they treat you somewhat negatively afterwards? Do you view death differently than you did before you first started work? What made you interested in becoming a mortician?
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Brand Loyalty - 9 views

started by Devon Franke on 29 Aug 12 no follow-up yet
  • Christina Cortese
     
    Like Devon, I thought the Fanboys concept was really interesting - and found it to be incredibly true after thinking about the way my friends act. My dad is certainly an Apple Fanboy - although he is incredibly Pro-Android over the iPhone, which I found pretty interesting. He's also a diehard Coke fan. Also, agreed with Devon, Tara's discussion about Coke tasting better than Pepsi was a prime example of Brand Loyalty, and after I thought about it I'm a pretty big "Fanboy" myself. Brand Loyalty isn't just about products though, it can extend to social websites - for example, Reddit over 9Gag - Brand Loyalty can apply to "website loyalty" as well. I discovered something about myself that I never really questioned before - my loyalty to certain brands, games, and even websites. This sort of loyalty exists everywhere.
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Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 18 - 142 views

started by Amy Burvall on 24 Aug 12 no follow-up yet
  • Christina Cortese
     
    The part I chose was 18:20 - On Authority. Stephen Fry says, "the world might be better if we were all well-behaved and had strict authority," but he says that the riot and chaos that we have now is infinitely better than order. The way we live today is infinitely better than the rigidity of tyranny. He attacks fundamentalism, and says that fundamentalism is just another form of fascism. He says it's an extreme dictatorial way of ordering people how to behave. He relates it to following the orders and rules blindly - for example it's okay to do one particular thing on Wednesday but it's not okay to do that on Tuesday, and that we should question that and say, why? I agree with Stephen Fry on this one. His argument was very interesting, and not aggressive. It really opened my mind up and made me see order and things in a whole different way
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