Necessary Evil Essays

  • Necessary Evil for Men vs. Sexual Exploitation of Women

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    Necessary Evil for Men vs. Sexual Exploitation of Women Abuse – transitive verb 1: to put to a wrong or improper use; 2: obsolete (deceive); 3: to use so as to injure or damage (maltreat); 4: to attack in words (revile). noun 1: a corrupt practice or custom; 2: improper or excessive use or treatment (misuse); a deceitful act (deception); 4: language that condemns or vilifies usually unjustly, intemperately, and angrily; 5: physical maltreatment. Abuse, in any and all of its forms, is something

  • The Author's Depiction of Warfare in Beowulf

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    violence. The narrator emphasizes that the power, nobility and greatness of a warrior are often enhanced by his successfulness in battle. The fact that good things may be achieved through war, suggests that the narrator considers warfare to be a necessary evil. Whether the author sees warfare as good or bad, he recognizes its importance in the creation and molding of great leaders during this violent era. The author believes that war is not a situation that can be avoided. He also points out the

  • Sports and the Business World

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    community relations activities and kids club. Case in point: Like many teams, the Arizona Cardinals have a kids club through which members receive specially created newsletters and team merchandise. Many marketers figure that kids clubs are a sort of necessary evil, a way to create some connection with children and teenagers who probably aren’t going to buy full-price tickets for years to come. For pro teams, getting fans while they’re still young is probably the most important now than ever because of

  • Invisibility Over Negation in Invisible Man

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    Invisibility Over Negation in Invisible Man Early on in Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's nameless narrator recalls a Sunday afternoon in his campus chapel.  With aspirations not unlike those of Silas Snobden's office boy, he gazes up from his pew to further extol a platform lined with Horatio Alger proof-positives, millionaires who have realized the American Dream.  For the narrator, it is a reality closer and kinder than prayer can provide: all he need do to achieve what they have is work

  • A Necessary Evil

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    In all of Earth’s wars and conflicts, waged for thousands of years, our most terrible weapon has only been unleashed once. The atom bomb, is a device capable of unfathomable destruction, first created in 1945. World War II had been undergoing since 1939, the Germans had surrendered in May 1945, but months later the threat of the Japanese remained. The allied powers were growing sick and tired of this war, and a costly invasion of japan loomed overhead. The existence of the atom bomb was known by

  • Civil War

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    The Civil War is widely believed to be the necessary evil our country had to go through in order to come to a common understanding and abolishment of slavery. Yet the slavery had existed in our lands since before our country was even established, so what made us examine it closer so as to see that its nullification was required? Between the years of 1850 to 1861, our country¡¯s eyes were turned toward slavery by the major reform movements in the north, the discrepancies that came with the westward

  • Genocide in Rwanda

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    Genocide War is not a necessary evil humans must endure. Although, war is not necessary, humans go to war to try to gain power, fortune, and to spread their particular group’s religions and beliefs. By definition civilization is an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions. The chaos of war

  • The Criticisms of Kohlberg's Moral Development Stages

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    instance, Spartan societies were adamant about maintaining the purity and strength of the civilization. Citizens saw no wrong in exposing a sick or lame baby to the elements so that it might die. Surely an act of cruelty today, but in that society, a necessary evil The prosperity and wealth of the whole was of greater importance than that of the individual.In addition to these justifications, additional research substantiated Kohlberg's claims. Different subjects were tested, from all ages and regions, and

  • Justice and Peace: The Road to Christian Salvation

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    a moral issue, just a matter of fact. Faith requires Christians to determine when, and under what conditions, they may participate in the war making process. Christians strive for peace but realize in certain extreme cases that war may be a necessary evil to rectify certain situations and this can be shown through the current situation with Iraq. Unfortunately, at this point in time war appears to be inevitable with Iraq. The United States has done everything in its power to communicate with

  • Let's Put an End to Animal Research, Testing, and Experimentation

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    and mice are experimented upon and die each year, as living fodder for the great human scientific machine. Some would say that animal research is an integral part of progress; unfortunately, this is often true. On the whole, animal testing is a necessary evil that should be reduced and eliminated whenever possible. Since the time of Aristotle, animals have been used to further human progress. When Galen pioneered the study of anatomy or when Harvey discovered the circulation of blood, they used

  • lieshod The Lies in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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    The Lies in Heart of Darkness A lie, as defined by Webster's dictionary is 1) a false statement deliberately presented as true; 2) to convey a false image or impression. It is generally accepted that Marlow told a lie to the Intended - the reasons for that lie are debatable. I would suggest that he told not just one lie, to the Intended, but several - that his visit itself was, in a form, a lie. The statement easily recognized as a lie, and that falls into Webster's definition 1), is Marlow's

  • Argumentative Essay: Gun Control Violates The Second Amendment of the Constitution

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    suffered a tyranny on the scale of Nazi-Germany has been due to the proliferation of firearms in the hands of the general public. The Second Amendment to the Bill of rights of the United States Constitution states "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." In order to understand that right, the modern reader must understand the semantics of the eighteenth century. The term "Well Regulated" meant

  • Capital Punishment in the Work of George Orwell, H.L. Mencken, and Norman Mailer

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    Capital Punishment in the Work of George Orwell, H.L. Mencken, and Norman Mailer Capital punishment in the essays by George Orwell, H.L. Mencken, and Norman Mailer was a necessary evil to deter crime. These authors incorporated the use of alcohol or drugs as mind-altering chemicals to relieve the pressures of the characters involved in death due to capital punishment. Chemicals such as drugs and alcohol can be used for the pleasure of relieving stress, a means to forget, or a way to subdue personal

  • Are Cell Phones Necessary?

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    Cell Phones Necessary? Sifting through his latest screenplay on the way to class, Geoff Yetter ignores the muffled sound of a computer-generated rendition of Johan Pachelbel’s Canon in D coming from inside his book bag. “Porcupined onions,” he curses to himself. “I’ll call them back when I’m free.” Yetter, a senior film and video studies major at the University of Oklahoma, said that although he has a cell phone, it is only because he considers them to be a “necessary evil.” “At the

  • The Powerful Message of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

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    Before Ayn Rand, no one had ever seriously attempted to justify capitalism on moral grounds. It was a given that capitalism was immoral; the proponents of capitalism merely tried to exhibit the efficiency of the system (i.e., it is a "necessary evil"). Economists did this because they focused only on the people who would be helped by an anti-capitalist society: the "needy." What Ayn Rand presents so masterfully through Atlas Shrugged is the objective perspective of what is occurring in

  • Is Education A Necessary Evil?

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    For many, education is seen as a means to an end. A necessary evil. If you want to become a “professional _______”, you will need an education in that field of study. Prior to specialization in your chosen field, however, comes compulsory education. Years of drilling math formulas and verb tenses, most which will be forgotten over the summer and have to be reinstated the following year, alongside new material. It was put best by George Murchison in the classic American drama, A Raisin in the

  • Testing Is A Necessary Evil

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    Standardized testing is a necessary evil. We know is important in education, and is needed for funding, but we also know how testing does not always help our students’ education, and it came sometimes hinder their learning. For this article review I wanted to focus on testing, since it is what is currently consuming my next two weeks at school. As I grew up, I viewed testing as something we needed to do, especially when I was in college, but I was never a big fan of testing, I was never good at testing

  • Facebook: A Necessary Evil

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    belief that there is nothing better on earth then when the newest technology comes to the shelfs.Whether it is the new Ipad, Iphone, or big flat screen T.V. there always seemed to be a line out the front door. Unfortunately there is a underbelly a very evil and dark side that is finally getting the attention it deserves. One of the biggest contributors to the new social media push is Facebook. This particular application has been used for gross electronic aggression and has become the gateway for the

  • Charlemagne: A Necessary Evil

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    All throughout history, people have been fighting, there have been wars and conflicts ever since man has become ‘civilized’ enough to raise an army. And, many, many if not almost all of these conflicts have involved religion in some way or another (Ben-Meir). The question is why, and how, do people use God as justification for fighting and killing one another. Isn’t killing supposed to be wrong in God’s eyes? Whatever happened to ‘Thou shalt not Kill’? And how is it that hundreds of thousands of

  • FDA: A Necessary Evil

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    has developed over whether or not the FDA is necessary. People that are indeed against the FDA complain that they take too long to approve drugs and spend too much government money. People for the FDA claim that the agency keeps us safe and without it, many Americans could suffer serious side effects or even die. Although I can see both sides over the need for the FDA, I concede that it is helping us more than it is hurting us. The FDA is a necessary agency because they regulate what is put into