ETHC 445N Week 8 Assignment; Your Personal Moral Theory

Introduction In this session, you have been considering moral-ethical dilemmas you yourself faced or that you know of thatyou either resolved or failed to resolve, but hopefully learned from. You may never have given much thought toethical theory nor what ethical premises/paradigms you have unconsciously held. You will be focusing on this case for this assignment: Jane Doe is a nursing student at University X. Jane is in week eight of a course entitled: “Introduction to Ethics”. For the week one discussion, Jane copied work done by her friend John Doe in the same class two months ago(with a dierent professor). John told Jane it was okay to use his work as John’s professor never checked anywork in the class using T. John claimed to have earned an A on the work also. In week two, Jane went to StudentP and paid ten dollars for a week two essay done by a student(not John Doe) who took the same course four months ago. StudentPapering promises that all its archived workis of excellent quality and cannot be detected as copied. Jane then uploaded an exact copy of the work for theweek two assignment. In week three, Jane paid a worker at PaperingS ten dollars to write for Jane a brand new essay afterJane shared with the worker the essay assignment instructions. In week four, Jane relied on her knowledge of Esperanto. She felt pressed for time and found an article by aprofessor from Esperanto on the week four topic. She translated Esperanto into English using MoogleTranslate, and the translated text served as her week four paper. In week ve, Jane was running late again. Jane purposely uploaded a blank paper hoping that she would laterclaim it was an innocent mistake and not be assessed a late penalty. In a previous course on History, she haddone the same (with an earlier paper from the History class rather than simply a blank) and had not seen anylate penalty assessed. In week six, Jane took work she did in a nursing course from a year ago and submitted that for her discussionposting in her current class. She simply copied and pasted the work she had labored intensively on a year ago(even though University X forbids this practice as ‘self-plagiarism’). Jane was condent her Nursing instructornever checked that work using T or another method. In week seven, Jane copied and pasted work found on for the paper. Jane did not use any quotation marks or other documentation to show the text was not by Jane. Since Jane’s Ethics professor did not check papers and posting for any issues by using T or anothermethod, the professor graded all of Jane’s work unaware of Jane’s actions throughout the weeks of the class.Jane feels her actions are morally justied both because her economic situation requires her to work too muchto devote time to school (although other students are well-o enough to have such time) and her religion saysthat it okay for her to take such actions since a degree will benet her family (while Jane is aware that otherreligions of students in the same class forbid such actions).