It is Impossible to Accurately Imagine What is it like to be a Bat
Insofar as I can imagine this (which is not very far), it tells me only what it would be like for me to behave as a bat behaves. But that is not the question. I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat... - Thomas Nagel
In order to take the above request seriously, one must assume that bats have experience and consciousness. Assuming so, one must then imagine the consciousness that a bat must live with. Its brain is "designed to correlate outgoing impulses with subsequent echoes, and the information thus acquired enables the bat to make precise discriminations of distance, size, shape, motion, and texture comparable to those we make by vision." (Whereas we humans rely on sight to create our vision of the universe, bats rely on sound.) Because any argument of any creature's existence must be based on the human epistemology, the question is now not how bats perceive the universe, but how a bat's perception compares to the human perception. Such a comparison may never be genuine or correct, but by...
People are always trying to find a place to fit in. One tries to be like others to be included in a group or even to be accepted into society. There are some things that can not easily be changed and have to be accepted, like one’s size or skin color. Shade is always jealous of the other bats’ size, and he wishes to be like them, big and strong, more than anything else: “Runt. He hated that name – even though he knew it was true. Compared to Chinook and some of the other newborns, he was small, very small,” (Oppel, 6). Shade is used to being offended by the other bats; he no longer bothers feeling bad about what they say. He does not try to fight against the negative statements made about him; he just accepts it as true. He would love for it not to be true and to have the courage to disagree with the statement. Shade has given up on fighting back and he is letting himself be put down and walked all over. Shade is the runt of his colony and he is comparing his size to that of the other bats, making himself...
The main character in the book The Batboy by Mike Lupica is Brian Dudley. Brian tries to solve a big problem with one of the players on the Detroit Tigers, Hank Bishop. Brian knows more about baseball than most MLB players. He tries to get Hank Bishop to be a good hitter again. Hank started going through a slump and almost nobody believed in him. He struck out or grounded out almost every time. Brian helped him get out of his slump and get to his 500 home runs. Brian had three big character traits, nervous, respectful, and helpful. His character traits affected him by making him who he is and making him a great person. Nervous changed him because he needed to tell Hank what was wrong with his swing but he waited a long time.
Thomas makes an analogy between humans and crickets. When they are several meters away, crickets ...
"Who the hell am I?" (Ellison 386) This question puzzled the invisible man, the unidentified, anonymous narrator of Ralph Ellison's acclaimed novel Invisible Man. Throughout the story, the narrator embarks on a mental and physical journey to seek what the narrator believes is "true identity," a belief quite mistaken, for he, although unaware of it, had already been inhabiting true identities all along.
The existence of police corruption in society raises many important questions. What causes police of...
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is a masterfully written short story about Gregor Samsa, a man who devotes his life to his family and work, for nothing in return. Only when he is transformed into a helpless beetle does he begin to develop a self-identity and understanding of the relationships around him. The underlying theme of The Metamorphosis is an existential view that says any given choice will govern the later course of a person's life, and that the person has ultimate will over making choices. In this case, Gregor?s lack of identity has caused him to be numb to everything around him.
Police corruption, misconduct, and brutality in the United States have been issues since the creation of watch system in the United States (Grant& Terry, 2012). New policy and training is now in place and the corruption, misconduct, and brutality has gone down since the beginning of policing. This is a huge issue that impacts all police organizations in the United States. The extent of police corruption, misconduct, and brutality is hard to track in the United States. A lot of these crimes go unreported, tossed aside, or the officer responsible gets little or no punishment. This is huge issue in the United States criminal justice system.
The police officer stands at the top of the criminal justice system in a nation where crime rates are high and where the demands for illegal goods and services are widespread. These conditions create a situation in which the police officer is confronted with opportunity to accept a large number of favors or grants. Police corruption occurs in many forms and observers of police behavior agree that it falls into nine specific areas. Drug related police corruption differs from other types of police corruption. In addition to protecting criminals or ignoring their activities, officers involved in drug related corruption were more likely to be involved in stealing drugs and/or money from drug dealers, selling drugs, lying under oath about illegal searches, and other crimes. Although not enough data was available upon which to base an estimate of the extent of corruption, the amount of cases of police corruption proved that it was striking enough to concern the public. The most commonly identified patterns of corruption involved small groups of officers who protected and assisted each other in criminal activities. The demands of the public and politicians, however, have caused an outrage and a fear that open investigations and accusations of corruption will cause the problem of distrust in the police to grow even greater.
The illegality that necessarily denote corruption it is the purpose of the illegality that adds the substance to get out of corruption. The duties of an officer are to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property, to protect the innocent against deception, and etc. Viewing all three articles on corruption was very overwhelming because it’s hard for citizens to put their trust into officers who supposed to protect them but instead frame the innocent for their wrongful actions. The danger of corruption for police is that it may invent the former goals of the organization and may lead to the use of organizational power to encourage and create crime rather than to defer it. General police defiance can include brutality, discrimination, sexual harassment, intimidation, and illicit use of
You mean like the silica worms on Venus, who, because they can't see through their atmosphere, have the idea that their planet is the entire universe?
Police corruption can be defined as a malpractice by police officers through which they breach their social contract misuse their authority for personal gain. The acts of corruption by the police department in NYC have been rampant over the decades. Series of scandals in the police service involving quite a number of officers has drawn the attention of many, questioning the level of standards of ethics and integrity in the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Bats are amazing creatures that can do something that I bet you have never even considered. Bats are big helpers on pollinating. They pollinate by accident when they drink nectar from flowers. According to Heather Niver, author of “We Need Bats” she states “As they drink from flowers, they get pollen on their faces.” (Niver, 13). When they move to another flower, the pollen gets transferred. This is just one reason why bats should be protected in Wisconsin. If they aren’t, their numbers could be so low we could be missing out on the beauty of many of the flowers we currently enjoy.
Police corruption has been around for a long time the roots could be found all the way back to 1840 (Criminology, 2016)). Eventually, in New York, someone decided to take a stance on all the corruption because the very ones that took an oath to protect and serve are the very ones that are breaking the law. Some examples of the corruption that was implemented were taking bribes, extortion, and even murder. When one man named Frank Serpico had evidence of the corruption done by the police he went through the chain of command and notified his superiors, but only the men lowest on the totem pole was punished. So when Frank Serpico realized the higher authority was untouched he released the information to the public. Releasing that information only got him the label
Goldfarb, Sheldon. “Critical Essay on ‘The Metamorphosis’.” Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 12. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.
Corruption of authority is defined when an officer receives officially unauthorized, unearned material gain by virtue of his position as a police officer without violating the law (Barker & Roebuck, 1973, p. 21). When police officers receive free food, free