1) The final paper is not a research paper; my preference is for you to choose an issue about which you are already aware. It can be one from your own experience, something happening at your work site, etc.
2) Once you choose the issue you want to work with, the final paper should include the following sections:
a) A brief summary of the issue as you understand it. This need only be a paragraph or two. It should not be long.
b) The specific stand that you take; what you see as right/good/just in regard to the issue. Be clear, explicit and direct. There should be no question on the part of the reader of your paper about where you stand.
c) Some thoughts about how the issue relates to your own life experience.
d) A moral analysis that employs a deontological approach to ethics, either as the kind of duty ethics expressed by Kant.
e) A moral analysis using teleological approaches to ethics, either utilitarianism.
f) A moral analysis that focuses on the relationality-responsibility model we worked on in the course. Items (g) and (h) can be incorporated into this portion of your analysis. Please include mention of why this model for ethics works better than (d) or (e).
g) A moral analysis that uses Young’s ideas about justice, including thoughts about how marginalization relates to your issue. Also include at least one from the following list: cultural imperialism, systematic violence, exploitation or powerlessness.
h) Thoughts about how an ethics of risk relates to your issue particularly as an ethics of risk suggests a strategy for dealing with the issue.
It is necessary that you include each part above; how you include them is up to you. For example, if duty ethics supports better were you stand, you can still include utilitarianism by summarizing what a utilitarian might say about your issue, and then by offering thoughts about how/why you disagree with them. It is possible that not all of the sections above will yield conclusions that you may agree with. The only requirement is that all the parts, as you present them, work to support your stand on the issue.
The paper will be evaluated in terms of how you work with items 2(d) to 2(h), (i.e., proper definitions, accurate applications and effective support of the stand taken).