Question

Situational Reactions

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.

PLEASE NO PLAGIARISM!!!!!! IN YOUR OWN WORDS PLEASE!!!!!

Answer 1

In Scenario A, as a soldier in the U.S. Military, it is my duty to follow the formal commands of my senior or the commander. It was unfortunate, and not intentional that the raid on a suspected military target went wrong and the squad opened fire on several innocent people. An officer is under an obligation to listen to his commander. So, when asked by the commander to twist the entire situation and blame the suspected military target for initially opening fire on the squad, i will carry out his commands. It is of no surprise that confusions and collateral damage are part of a war scene and instead of creating further confusion by disregarding and disobeying the commander, i will listen to him. I will not get surprised by his demands. but react very normally to it. If the rest of the squad didn’t agree with me, then i will try to persuade them, as much as possible. Still if they disagree, i will discuss the matter and expectations of the squad with the commander. My entire attempt will be to look at the unfortunate event practically, rather than emotionally.

In Scenario B, it is my duty as a new police officer to adhere to state laws and ensure that others also do so. Here, it is important to note that my partner, who is a decorated officer with more than 15 years of experience, is not making a formal command, which has to be obeyed. The request is more personal, related to the experienced officer's wife, who is sick and and whom marijuana can help, by relieving her from the pain. It is not even clear whether it is really for his wife, that he needs marijuana. The officer might take the marijuana home and use it for trading. This might put me in danger, if the illegal acts of the officer come to notice. So, hearing what my partner wants, i will remind him that marijuana is illegal in the state and will refuse to give him the confiscated ounces of marijuana. It will not make a difference that my partner is a much more experienced officer than me.

In Scenario C, i will actively help Johnny to complete his assignment. Johnny has a history of excellent academic achievement and was awarded a full academic scholarship to a good university.  The assignment in hand is inappropriately difficult. The assignment is a topic that my professor did her graduate work on. So, the task at hand is not of Johnny's level of intellect and understanding, as he is a high schooler. I will also help Johnny because it is only in one particular assignment that he is struggling. His grades in other classes are known to be exceptional, which again highlights that the assignment might really be inappropriately difficult for Johnny.