Read the following three situations. Describe what you would do in EACH situatio
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Read the following three situations. Describe what you would do in EACH situation. Integrate the elements of reasoning and intellectual standards in your writing to show an understanding of the material behind your personal example
Your essay should be 500-750 words in length and include the use of at least two (2) elements of reasoning and two (2) intellectual standards for EACH of the three (3) scenarios you will be discussing.
Do not worry about your answers being right or wrong – your work will be evaluated on its connection to the material – not the behavior you would engage in if you found yourself in these situations.
Scenario A: You are a soldier in the U.S. Military and are deployed in a foreign country during a war. A raid on a suspected military target went wrong, and your squad opened fire on several innocent people. Your commander asks you and the rest of the squad to make it look like they opened fire up on you first.
How would you respond?
How might your response change (or would it change) if the rest of your squad didn’t agree with you?
Scenario B: As a new police officer, you pull someone over for speeding. You note some suspicious behavior and feel it is justified for you to search the offender’s vehicle. After searching the vehicle, you confiscate several ounces of marijuana, which is still illegal in the state you serve.
You realize that the computer system is down, so you cannot chronicle this bust until you return to the station. After learning this, your partner, who is a decorated officer with more than 15 years on the force, pulls you aside and tells you that his wife is sick and he could really use that marijuana at home for medicinal purposes to help her with her pain.
How would you respond to your partner?
Does it make a difference that he is a much more experienced officer?
Scenario C: Your child, Johnny, is a senior in high school, and has, up until this year, earned very good grades in his coursework. Because of his academic achievement, he has been awarded a full academic scholarship to a good university.
Now, Johnny has a first-year teacher who assigns work that seems inappropriately difficult, and Johnny is struggling. Though his grades in his other classes are exceptional, he will need to earn a C or better for this class if he hopes to keep his scholarship, and it all hinges on his score on the last assignment in this difficult class.
The assignment is on a topic that your professor did her graduate work on, so you know there’s no way a high schooler should be expected to do well in this assignment. Still, if Johnny doesn’t ace this assignment, he will not earn a good enough course grade to keep his scholarship.
Do you actively help him complete the assignment, or do you let him do it himself, knowing that without your help he will fail the assignment, not because he isn’t smart enough or dedicated enough, but because the assignment is inappropriately difficult?
Your completed assignment should be written primarily in first person and should be 500-750 words in length. If you use sources in your writing, be sure to identify them. If you use any direct language from a source, be sure to place those words in quotation marks.
Your assignment should adhere to the stated page length requirement for the week and use APA style formatting including a title page and reference section. You should use Times New Roman, 12pt. font, double-spaced lines, and one inch margins. A description of APA style and the APA template can be found in the Writing Center.
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Scenario A-Until I was back in the safety of the base, I would most likely agree with the group, or I could end up as a casualty of the scrimmage. After returning to safety, I would at that time attempt to determine if any of my peers are on the side of truth, but in the end, I would end up turning in myself to the local MP’s regardless of my own safety. At first I would not respond as I would fear my life would be in dangerif I answer his questions while I am not on base yet and near other witnesses and safety. I would simply respond “sir can we please talk about this later, It’s been a long day”. When I get back on post I would ensure that my soldiers understand what was instilled in us to do what is ethically and morally correct. I would then turn myself into the military police ensuring that they knew all the chain of events, to include the fact that I was asked to lie because several innocent people died. These are people who expect us to protect them and it is unfair that as soldiers we do not do this. Scenario B-You realize that the computer system is down, so you cannot chronicle this bust until you return to the station. After learning this, your partner, who is a decorated officer with more than 15 years on the force, pulls you aside and tells you that his wife is sick and he could really use that marijuana at home for medicinal purposes to help her with her pain.Sorry brother, I can’t help you with this. If you need money, I can help you out partner, but this needs to go into evidence. Because you’re my partner, I won’t turn this in, but please tell me you’re only joking so we can get on with this bust. I would respond by pulling him aside out of earshot from the suspect, I would ask him if that is really what he wants to do, and remind him that it could mean a lot of trouble, and he wouldn’t really want to risk losing everything he has earned by doing something this stupid. Using a logical argument in this would hopefully sway his decision and lead him to make the right decision and take the suspect back to the station. If not, I would just gather information about what happened and discreetly bring it up with the appropriate authority at the station.His tenure as an officer does not affect what is right and what is wrong, so no it wouldn’t really change what I would do. Even a junior officer might be tempted to do something that is outside the law if he thought that it would ease his loved one’s pain. Everyone deserves the chance to take a step back and decide if they are about to make a bad decision, up until the wrong choice is made there is still a chance to do the right thing. Due to time limit only some questions could be answered,the remaining can be asked as another question,they will be answered,thankyou for your cooperation
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