By eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. Small-scale societies are one of the first victims of this transgression. John H. Bodley guides the readers of, "Victims of Progress" to the subjectification to cultural change, modernization, and economic development. The indigenous people had a culture which should have been idolized for striving to satisfy basic human needs such as nutrition and security; was instead, a victim of ethnocide. This ancient civilization understood the importance of life in all aspects of the word, and valued the family and household which resulted in maximum social equality; something that the current society today is still nowhere near. .
Small-scale societies upheld a way of life in which they respected their resources, the earth, and only took from it what was necessary. The society was therefore adaptable to virtually all aspects of the globe and remarkably stable for 500,000 years. Developing western nations maximized rapidly in the growth of their population and consumption and their ethnocentric ways lead to an attack on the indigenous people in order to gain resources. The beginning of the culture of consumption and the modern world system starts with the conquering of land of the indigenous people. "Victims of Progress " encourages one to think, what exactly is the price of progress and is it worth it? .
Rene Maunier once said, "In aiming at progress you must let no one suffer by too drastic a measure, nor pay too high a price in upheaval and devastation, for your innovation". It is evident that In taking over small-scale societies, morality and ethics were very much ignored. The justification was that of the 1960's Law of Cultural Dominance, which states that "whichever cultural system effectively exploits the energy resources of a given environment will tend to at the expense of less effective systems.
However, as the play progresses, Macbeth's tragic flaws influence him to do the unimaginable: He becomes a traitor and a murderer, killing anyone that threatens his rule over Scotland. ... Macbeth's first victim during his reign is his friend, Banquo. ... Macbeth is either a victim of fate, or he is a victim of his own actions. ...
The struggles with victim impact statements is that not many victims exercise the right to use them. ... Only the glorified victims make the news or television shows and in almost all instances the victims are being mistreated or ignored. ... In television shows the victims are disregarded by law enforcement so real victims start to believe in what they see. ... Other positive measures for victims is victim involvement in an alternative justice system. ... I believe that restorative justice can really work so if our traditional system decides to research methods of an alternative justice we ca...
This idea in itself implies that there is progress in science. ... A man drank a glass of a cholera victim's evacuations, the exact thing that was thought to cause the disease, by mistake and yet did not get sick. ... It is this kind of progress that promotes the evolution of both science and culture. ... Larry Laudan's model of scientific progress places a heavy emphasis on rationality as a means of explaining scientific progress while utilizing some of the useful elements of Kuhn's theories. ... Conceptual problems are also of great importance to scientific progress. ...
(Devita, Hellman, & Rosenberg, 1992) It wasn't until 1981 that these symptoms, which were symptoms of HIV, progressed and were given a formal name and description we now know as the AIDS syndrome. ... Instead they will realize that these people are victims of invasion....
As it progressed over four years, millions of civilians and soldiers died, it was said to be the war that would end all wars. ... Germany aligned with Austria- Hungary and Serbia with ties to Russia involved these two great powers within their struggle "Germany was the victim of her own alliance with Austria and of her own folly" . ... Fay does have a similar view; "Belgium being the innocent victim of German strategic necessity" . ...
A new subject is brought into the poem in the second line, when cummings writes that "Progress is a comfortable disease:(death and life safely beyond)" A disease can be comfortable only if the afflicted does not or will not accept that he or she is actually being harmed by it; like a drug-addict, humankind would rather wallow in the false bliss of "progress" rather than find true spiritual, intellectual, and/or emotional growth. cummings thereupon begins to examine progress's victim, for whom (death and life [are] safely beyond) Typically, the two ideas are reversed in the form of life...
With Cutaneous anthrax, it enlarges and progresses to a vesicle in 1-2 days. ... This usually goes along unnoticed by the victim. The victim may initially experience Fever, Malaise, Headache, or Regional lymphadenopathy. ... The most common victims or anthrax is anybody who comes into contact with it. ... The annual number of victims in the United States is approximately 1-2 cases. ...
From the Salem Witch Trials of the late seventeenth century, to the tribunal of O.J. Simpson just six years ago, American History has been written in courts of law. Almost all trials are controversial, with different opinions and views. The most controversial of all American cases is the trial of Ju...
