When the main character and his son come across a stranger in need, he refuses to help them. This is when the father and son reach the coast; a stranger steals a few of their supplies they go and look for the thief. ... Giving the stranger less a chance of survival and showing no mercy. ...
However, some individuals would rather help a complete stranger than family member due to either family issues or simply the more pleasure that will come out of the act. ... Say for instance, when giving to a stranger, they may look at us as an easy way out of the troubles of life. ...
If one were to go up to a group of strangers and ask where the light of the night was coming from, a majority of their answers would be the moon itself. Author Henry David Thoreau would then shake his head at the group of strangers and argue that they are seeing only the obvious and not the reality. ...
Everyone knows someone that can make his or her sunny day turn into a rainy, gloomy day. Or maybe someone has had an encounter with a person on the subway that bumped into you, knocked your bags down and still didn't have the audacity to say excuse me or can I help you with that? What comes to mi...
Genesis For The Nonbeliever Genesis has served the Jewish faith as both a written and oral record of their belief on the creation of man. For many, the stories in Genesis are sacred texts, providing some with an understanding and faith of a power and knowledge beyond their own. People who we...
In the work entitled "Racisms", Kwame Anthony Appiah explains the heart of racism as to be a doctrine called racialism. Racialism is the belief that there are different sets of races, which are established by groups of people sharing common, unique heritable characteristics. This leads to these grou...
There are many implications to consider when questioning the moral status of animals. It is a moderately modern idea that non-human animals have moral status, and philosopher Peter Singer dedicated a lot of his life towards this debate. It follows that humans have certain inviolable rights such as t...
Though he was not the first to discover the hormone itself Getz was able to prove, with the help of neuroendocrinologist and colleague Sue Carter, that an increased level of oxytocin in females caused them to be less choosey about their mates and more affectionate towards them (more cuddling and licking occurred, they also avoided strangers more often) than untreated females. ...
The healthy human mind does not wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But this is believed to be a luxury, not a curse. The soldiers that fought during World War One, unfortunately were not exposed to this mentality, instead they were exposed to the harsh reality that each d...
Religion is the most significant influence in the life of most Africans; yet, its key principles are too often unfamiliar to foreigners (Awolalu, 1976). This leads to considerable misunderstanding of the African worldview and beliefs. As religion is part of life for most African's, it cannot be stud...
In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his c...
Bystander Apathy As you wait to cross the street, a blind man is standing in front of you. Without warning, he begins to cross the street even though the light has not changed in his favor. He seems to be in no danger until you see a car about a half mile away speeding towards him. Totally u...
"All it takes," said Crake "is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever." (Atwood 2004, 223) Can this statement be true? L...
