In favour of abortion one would say that because the fetus is part of a whole person (the mother) than the fetus itself can not be its own person and not until it is separated from the mother is the fetus a human person. ... All one really has to note is that we have whatever rights we have because of whatever it is that makes a human. ... Justice, peace and worst of all love will be lost, something no civilization can survive without. ...

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God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...

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Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely ...

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• Grade Level: High School