anyone with their words, since words, at times, can be more powerful than actions. Right Action: recognizes the need to take the ethical approach to life, to consider ourselves in the world we live.nIts simple to live out this path since Right Action also references the five precepts which were given by the Buddha, which in summary are not to kill, steal, lie, to avoid sexual misconduct, and not to take
test chemicals that we use every day on animals. It’s surprising; we do this so often without thinking twice. Imagine if a giant that we have no power against tested on us. We’d rally and protest and do anything to get our way. Just because animals don’t organize huge rallies against our actions, it doesn’t mean they don’t feel pain. By now you’re probably wondering, Hasn't anybody done anything about this? We get mad at the slightest of things, so surely this hasn’t been overlooked? Well, it has. In
Watching TV Makes You Smarter Summary We have been told all of our life that watching television is bad for our brains and our body. People say that television is supposed to distract us from what is really going on and “dumb us down”. However, in the story Watching TV Makes You Smarter, Steven Johnson says that shows that make us pay attention and follow the plot are actually nutritious to our brains, he calls this the Sleeper Curve. The Sleeper Curve you must pay attention to the show, track
Abortion I am presenting a summary of a paper written by Judith Thomson on ethics of abortion. In this summary I will analyze her arguments in support of abortion and her distinction between moral obligation and supererogatory action, under the assumption that a fetus is a person. Thomson justifies the case for abortion by arguing that there are limits to the fetus’ right to life (i.e. there are more important rights at stake). I will summarize Thomson’s three cases for when abortions are justified:
“Shower what sufferings you like upon us, we will calmly endure all and not hurt a hair of your body. We will gladly die and will not so much as touch you. But so long as there is yet life in these our bones, we will never comply with your arbitrary laws” (Gandhi). This quote from On Civil Disobedience shows the consensus in concepts between Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr, and Mohandas K. Gandhi because the primary concept of Thoreau’s writing, Civil Disobedience, is that if the government
V. Plot • Short summary of the film Paper Towns was adapted from the popular novel of John Green, the story centers on Quentin Jacobsen an eighteen year old boy living in Orlando Florida and his enigmatic neighbor and secret love Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, the two protagonist discovered a dead body; an incident that binds them in ways that they don’t realize. As they grow up, unfortunately they grow apart. Then one day Margo showed up to his window and seek vengeance to her friends and
we are in has many values and different outlooks on many things. Gender roles means how we’re expected to act, groom, and conduct ourselves based upon our assigned sex. In our current engineering field there are plenty of outdated gender roles enforced in them which is very discriminating towards our females. When we go back into the way our society and the way our culture was built in, we would see many problems when it comes to the issue of gender. Females are often are generally expected to
Plato’s Crito and the common good expressed the challenges that Socrates must face in an extremely challenging time in his life. Rather than sticking to a status quo and welcoming the development of what he viewed as immorality within his expanse, Socrates questioned society and their beliefs. He was said to be corrupting the youth because he wanted to inspire them to think like himself. Dougal Blyth touches on many aspects of Sorcates situation in great detail. The areas he explores are; the argument
we know it today ‘rings’, which greatly contributed to research years after his death that gives us the information we know today about the universe. (5) The Starry Messenger included observations of the moons surface and information on new stars in our Milky Way, but in particular his view of a heliocentric universe (solar system revolves around the
determine which medicine can be used to cure and prevent future infections. As phlebotomists, we are all aware of microorganisms living all around us. They are too tiny to see without a microscope yet they are abundant on Earth, especially on us. The human body is home to billions of living bacteria, which are capable of causing diseases. Although there are normal flora found in the nose, mouth and skin, transmission of infectious diseases is still permissible. Equipped with this knowledge, we protect