Although we are living on the same planet – we all understand that life is what make our existence happens – each of us has a different idea on how life should be and express these ideas in many different ways. Writers express their ideas through writing about different subjects while send the similar messages to their readers. In her “Water Incorporated: The Commodification of the World’s Water” Maude Barlow expresses her meaning of life through providing the true appearance of those who manipulate of a natural resource for their interest. On the other hand, in Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” a letter to his enemy, the clergy men, he claims to be a modern prophet and says that no one should decide the solution for problem before they have gather all the information lead to that solution. Francis Bacon, on the other hand, uses his “Of Studies to explains that the important element of life is not only equality but also a process of consider new information for future decision. In the mean while, Friedrich Nietzsche explains life through his “Morality as Anti-Nature,” he points out spiritual beliefs will add weight and drag the believer to stupidity. As a writer who is hunger to find out the reason for motherhood, Betty Rollin argues in her “Motherhood: Who Needs It?” that people should not be treat different or ashamed for being childless. She argues, instead, these people should be proud of themselves because they are people who truly love children, they are people who can ensure that all children will have family full of love. In Stephen Hawking’s “Our Picture of the Universe,” he explains that history and life is a chain that as human being we cannot escape this fact; we are hunger to find the nodes...
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... fact, the power will be shift to the one who able to see far and able to consider new information in making a better decision for future battles. Although for many generations people believe have rely on spiritual beliefs for protection and explanations, these beliefs are the reasons people fall behind and become weak fighters. While the spiritual beliefs are not the true meaning of life or power of the fighter, the nodes in the life chain will provide one with stronger evidence toward decision-making. Yet, one cannot trust the chain as a perfect necklace, instead it is a chain full of nodes of different shapes and sizes, that no events can be predict base on the previous ones. As a result, of the differences between the nodes, we cannot decide the value of the node base on its appearance, that we cannot define a person base on his or her appearance or occupation.
It is fascinating to me to read the articles “Why I Write,” by George Orwell and Joan Didion. These authors touch on so many different topics for their reasons to writing. Their ideals are very much different, but their end results are the same, words on paper for people to read. Both authors made very descriptive points to how their minds wander on and off their writings while trying to write. They both often were writing about what they didn’t want to write about before they actually wrote what they wanted too. In George Orwell’s case, he wrote many things when he was young the he himself would laugh at today, or felt was unprofessional the but if he hadn’t done so he would not of been the writer he became. In Joan Didion’s case she would often be daydreaming about subjects that had nothing to do with what she intended on writing. Her style of writing in this article is actually more interesting because of this. Her mind wandering all over on many different subjects to how her writing came to her is very interesting for a person like me to read. My mind is also very restless on many different unneeded topics before I actually figure some sort of combined way to put words on to paper for people to read. Each author put down in their articles many ways of how there minds work while figuring out what they are going to write about. Both of the authors ended ...
The book, Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, is a radical story that is interpreted as a potential caution to us, society, if we keep making poor life choices. In the novel, Huxley depicts a culture where people are programmed to live forever and forced to think that sex and drugs are. For them, the idea of having a family with a mother and a father is absolutely repulsive to think about. Even though some of Huxley’s thoughts are unrealistic, the meaning behind them can be seen today. Nowadays, the three ideas that are bringing us closer to the Brave New World true are the advancements in technology, an obsession to remain young, and the increasing rate of drug use.
She presents the idea that primitive forms of birth control are no longer ethical in today’s society as their methods would violate various mores that have been set by present day society by saying that that “primitive man have achieved the same results by infanticide, exposure of infants, abandonment of children, and abortion.” She uses examples of seemingly barbaric primitive methods to exemplify that in present times there is a need for a more civilized and humane method of family planning. By using this extreme example, Sanger effectively appeals to ethos to hopefully persuade the audience by showing how the old methods would themselves be contradictory to the set of morals the opposers are trying so hard to hold on to. She also appeals to ethos in the very end of the speech by identifying three separate and conflicting social classes that are based on intelligence and wealth. She describes the first class as being “intelligent and wealthy members of the upper classes who have obtained knowledge of birth control and exercise it in regulating the size of their families.” She then compares the highest class to the mid-level group by saying they they too are “equally intelligent and responsible” but can not gain knowledge and there fore can not plan their families. By comparing the first two alone it appeals to ethics as two groups with equal knowledge and wealth should both have knowledge and control over the size of their families. She ties in the last group by saying that the lowest group is “irresponsible and reckless” and states that this group reproducing in large numbers is bad for society as it will spread disease and the increase in size of this “feeble-minded” group. This in itself is not fair to the other members of society as it makes it more dangerous for the others. She uses the unfairness of this negligence
Albert Camus is a widely renowned author and existentialist philosopher from the 1950s. He believed in a concept called “The Absurd” which he described as the notion that our universe is completely irrational, yet people continue to try and give order and meaning to it. For most normal human beings, this is an extremely difficult concept to accept, including the main character from the novel “The Stranger”, Meursault. Meursault does not express and ignores his emotions, even though it is evident in the book that he does experience them. However, once Meursault falls into a blind rage with the chaplain, the universe begins to make more sense to him. In order to come to an acceptance of the indifference of the universe, one must have an emotional breakthrough, which Camus shows through differences in sentence structure and elemental imagery between parts one and two.
In “Meaning of Life”, Richard Taylor begins with questioning the meaning of life. He mentions this is rather hard to do and decides to define what meaninglessness is in order to understand the exact opposite: meaningfulness. Taylor asks the reader to recall the famous myth of Sisyphus to come about the definition of meaninglessness. He states that Sisyphus was condemned to roll a large boulder up a hill, only to have that boulder roll back down the hill, forcing him to repeat the task forever. Despite all his efforts, his existence amounts to nothing more than endlessly repeating the same task, which itself contributes to no greater goal or purpose. This, Taylor suggests, is the very image of meaninglessness. He defines meaninglessness as the following: “Meaninglessness is essentially endless pointlessness, and meaningfulness is therefore the opposite” (270).
During the process of growing up, we are taught to believe that life is relatively colorful and rich; however, if this view is right, how can we explain why literature illustrates the negative and painful feeling of life? Thus, sorrow is inescapable; as it increase one cannot hide it. From the moment we are born into the world, people suffer from different kinds of sorrow. Even though we believe there are so many happy things around us, these things are heartbreaking. The poems “Tips from My Father” by Carol Ann Davis, “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop convey the sorrow about growing up, about sorrowful pretending, and even about life itself.
In the article “It’s a Child, Not a Choice”, published in February of 1992, author Diane Dew writes to persuade readers about the issue of pro life. Dew writes to women, pro choice and pro life activists in an effort to inflict a guilty conscience in the minds of those who select the choice of abortion. Her intent in writing this piece is to try to convince readers of the negative aspects and irrationality of following through with an abortion. To Dew, the issues of pro choice and pro life should no longer be debatable civil rights issues. Dew supports her convictions with coherent reasoning.
With the ongoing debate and the advancement of technology in determining the viability of a fetus, abortion, the ending of a pregnancy by removing a fertilized egg, has become increasingly controversial. The morality of abortion has caused many to separate into opposite sides of the spectrum, pro-life and pro-choice. The arguments over abortion has stirred a continuous debate between a pro-choice stance such as that presented by the analogical reasoning of Thomson or Glover’s examination of social context and a pro-life position argued by a moral view of personhood by Noonan. The ethical arguments presented by the conflicting views in the abortion debate has caused others to taken into consideration a sociological account visible in Luker’s examinations of world views in order to discover underlying motivations.
Pro life vs. pro choice is a very sensitive subject to argue among a crowd. A large number of advantages and disadvantages leave individuals in an uproar while explaining their stance. Views on religion, myths, and unfit mothers show different arguments to each opposing side. Alternatives to abortion and the future aspects have shown many different pieces about pro life and pro choice. To start, pro life arguments will be stated along with the writer’s opinions. Finally, the writer’s opinions on the subject following pro choice disputes. This provides a clear understanding between the two opposing topics.
Society can influence one to change their appearance, lifestyle, and moral values. But with one person’s detailed research and in-depth analysis of a few major flaws occurring today, victims of society can have a voice in which they can scream sense back into our corrupt lifestyle in our crumbled society. By the time this essay has been read, about (number) (one child for every 2.6 seconds) innocent humans will have the opportunity of life snatched away from them in a brutal and excruciatingly painful way. Society has an amazing ability to create the impression that this process, a morally incorrect and physically harmful action, is not only acceptable but encouraged. This impression has placed enormous pressure on women who are faced with this option, and thus society must take the responsibility to unveil abortion for what it actually is, an act of murder.
When I first started reading the book, I honestly thought that it was going to be a really boring book. After I was done reading the introduction and I started to read the first chapter, the book wasn’t boring. The introduction to the first chapter already interested me. I never really think about the meaning of life. When Joseph Campbell said that people think they are trying to find the meaning of life, they’re actually trying to gain an experience of being alive. When people find their experiences of being alive they are trying to fulfill their “physical plane” so they actually feel alive. Campbell has an interesting philosophy on marriage. Marriage has two stages Campbell says, “First is the youthful marriage following the wonderful impulse that nature has given us in the interlay of the sexes
I believe that creativity, like the spark of life is magic incarnate; Creativity is being able to look at any situation and come up with a unique way to solve the problem; there is a direct correlation to humanities ability to adapt and create, because of this creativity is a driving force of the world. Without creativity there would not be art, music, science, or technology.
Lorber grabs the attention of any reader by using some effective strategies and stating that discussing gender is considered equal to “fish talking about water”( Lorber 1). Therefore it meaning that a fish cannot think of living without water and similarly human beings cannot ponder the thought of living without gender. Judith Lorber has also compared the questioning the authenticity of gender to the rising of the sun. So, it is clearly understood that gender, though being practiced inevitably in our daily lives, many of us fail to accept that it is a way of organizing our lives and practicing gender is like practicing to organize our disorganized lives.
The world is a university and all people learn the nuances of life from their experiences. All are born with a character, but the path they choose and the deeds they do to endure in the way determine their personality. Though there is no best teacher than the last mistake one has committed, writers are being better teachers to sow the rightful seeds like morals, virtues and manners to the readers. Culture and tradition may change from region to region and time to time but universal truths, morals and virtues will never alter even when alterations come. Learning is an endless process; many eminent writers give widest provocative motivations and refreshment for the racers to win their life’s race. Proverbs and Maxims are common in all languages, which are helpful in encouraging and educating people in many ways.
In the present action we call life, there are several gratifying events, and there are situations when moral issues coincide with difficult occurrences. Mistakes may happen, carelessness may appear, and this happens when abortion is involved as an option. This matter is often only whispered about, kept in the dark, and only conceived as one of the worst actions a woman can make. In the article written by Rebecca Traister “Let’s just say it: Women Matter More Than Fetuses Do” denotes that abortion is not always the incorrect and or morally false decision.