homeless people everyday early in the morning is something sad that a few weeks ago I began experiencing when I started working downtown. The fact that they sleep on the street without blankets, without having a place to eat, shower, rest, or just feel safe and warm you can imagine what a sad life they have. Even though I don’t know their stories I know that many homeless are slaves of drugs, have been abused, are runaway teens, suffer from mental illness, or just can’t afford to pay a rent. Many people
is one of the many simple yet startling facts that should be more than enough for our society to take a vegetarian diet into consideration. A vegetarian is someone who does not eat meat and sometimes other animal products for religious, moral, or health reasons. Around 500 B.C.E vegetarians were first mentioned by the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras of Samos. The most common form of vegetarians are lacto-ovo vegetarians who eat vegetables, eggs, and dairy products but do not eat any
Life as we know it, is a very painful place. Poverty, hunger, hate, loss and pain is something that is just a part of everyday life. Now, what if we lived a life where none of that will never exist? That’s where the society of the giver serves as a utopia and a solution. What’s interesting about the novel the giver, Is that there isn’t a specific time, but rather the reader is left to assume it’s the future. A futuristic community that focuses on one boy who questions whether his home was a utopia
meaning that the person has not explicitly requested death. Euthanasia can also be active or passive. Active euthanasia involves taking deliberate action, such as giving drugs, to cause death. Passive euthanasia takes place when someone is allowed to die by withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. If you look at Greek mythology, you can see that the views of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato favored euthanasia but only under certain conditions. As time moves on we start to have organized religion flourished
only way to prevent violence. Today, we are witness that our people are suffering from domestic violence, poverty, drug addicts, street harassment and explosion. If you see the headline of Afghanistan’s news, you will read about killing, sexual assault, kidnapping and so on. Education is the only medicine to prevent violence in Afghanistan. Some people argue that education does not play a significant role in reducing violence because people in Afghanistan are getting educated but still they are the
and bring her home. Unfortunately, most of the time these abandoned baby will just die of hunger in cold weather. Should they suffer just because they were born unwanted? Dear audience, do you know that there are around 35% of all women have done at least once abortion by the time they are 45 years old in the United States. Even though, some people view abortion as a cruel action that slaughters a fetus mercilessly, why abortion is still being carried out by 35% of
of directly and inadvertently shaping the youth of our nation, who then grow up to be adults infatuated with the status quo. The rigid constraints of society force strongly independent thinkers to completely break the mold, completely straying away from the path society has set for them, while others who may be independent thinkers but with weak will power will fade into the background. In this way, society does more harm than good. It allows only the strong willed to create changing while divesting
“Death surrounded people, penetrated their hearts, and chilled their souls” (Cunningham 53). With these words, author Kevin Cunningham summarized one of the most catastrophic events in the world. The Black Plague, also known as the Black Death, was an epidemic of apocalyptic proportion. Whether they were young or old, rich or poor, it did not matter. The Black Plague was a detrimental epidemic that affected every social class and still wreaks havoc to this day. The Black Death spread through
Why do poor children die more than rich children? The death rate have drop to record of low developing countries, that the improvement of the government action, are simply protect in health measures, that helped narrow the death rates between the richest and the poorest. They compared death rates between the 2000 and the 2007 also with the records of 2008 and 2012, they found under five death rates that fell 4.3 deaths among poor families. Among middle income families rates fell 3.36 million
identity that they belong to a group of people bound together by one common belief. Christians mostly get their moral ideals from the Bible because according to them, that is the answer to basically everything. Being born and raised in that Christian community helps them answer those big questions in life such as: ‘Why should I respect my parents?’, ‘Why should I save myself for marriage?’, ‘Why is gossiping considered morally wrong?’, or ‘Does all this do-good attitude get me anywhere in the end