What is equality? Whom should we base the standard on? Can we justly apply the same standards of justice when there are different expectations of life? Do human beings have an ultimate right to know the truth when it comes to their health? According to the rights ethics, "an individual has a right not to be intentionally deceived by another, especially on matters about which the individual has the right to know" But who decides what those "matters" are? And what happens when the good of a whole community comes into question? Which should take president, the rights of the individual or the good of the community? .
In Trinidad and Tobago a non-profit American organization opened a clinic to service members of a poor community with modern treatments for surgical ailments of underdeveloped nations. A fragile woman came in to get a routine cataracts operation. She was visibly shaken and seemed suspicious of the modern equipment and sterile environment. Because of this the woman was reassured in Spanish by the attending surgeon that this operation was painless and would be over quickly. Two nurses checked the medicine which was supposed to be "lidocaine," a topical anesthesia. The Lidocaine was then given to the surgeon for a third inspection. After confirming that it was lidocaine, the surgeon plunged a full needle into the patients tear duct. The woman screamed in pain, her body jerking against the nurses hands which had to constrain her bucking, willow thin frame. The bottle had been mislabeled, it in fact held formaldehyde, commonly used as embalming fluid. The liquid destroyed her good eye and left her blind. Crying out in agony she moaned, "why is the serpent causing me so much pain?" (The serpent being the devil) This "serpent", in the form of human error robbed an innocent woman of her sight. .
The people of Trinidad and Tobago are by nature suspicious of western medicine. The doctors worked tirelessly to cure patient after patient, slowly laying the building blocks to earn the trust of the natives.
Who Really Lost Paradise? ... Yet she denied authority and asked the serpent,where grows the tree, from hence how far?? ... How dies the serpent?...... She does not think that the serpent did not die because it never ate the fruit, nor is it a normal serpent. ... Thankfully today it has started to turn around, and who knows, maybe someday men will be seen as the bringers of doom. ...
Who is to Blame? ... Or could Adam, the Serpent, and God be somewhat responsible also? ... The Serpent replied "You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like the gods who know what is good and what is bad." The Serpent was so cunning that Eve believed it. ...
He accuses Regan of being evil and compares her to a serpent as he hopes the heavens will avenge him. ... Although Lear mentions that "she hath " taken away this power from him, it is not true because it is he who defies the gods when he divides the kingdom. Inclusively, it is Lear who commits the error of having "abated"" the kingdom from the ruler the gods have chosen when he gives up all his power. Unfortunately for his kingdom, while he is King he also neglects to help the impoverished and those who are in need throughout his kingdom. ... At the moment he gives this speech he doesn't ...
They were tempted by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit. ... "The source usually assumed to have been the first written is called J (Yahwist) because the divine name Yahweh (spelled with a "J" in German and so-labeled by the German biblical scholars who first stated the theory) appears in it." ... The Serpent wanted Eve to become her own god. The Serpent tried to make Eve think that sin is good, pleasant, and desirable. ... We should not listen to the Serpent's temptations. ...
The serpent is an indigenous/Aztec image in this scenario. ... Coatlicue was the Aztec earth goddess who was known as both a creator and a destroyer. ... According to Anzaldua "Coati is the Nahuatl word for serpent. Lope-uh means "the one who has dominion over serpents." I interpret this as "the one who is at one with the beasts." ...
Hawthorne writes, "There was one shrub in particular that bore a profusion of purple blossoms, each of which had the luster and richness of a gem seemed enough to illuminate the garden, even had there been no sunshine some crept serpent-like along the ground or climbed on high- Serpent-like in the description causes us to think about the serpent in the Garden of Eden. The lizard who is killed by Beatrice's flower also reminds us of the reptile appearance in Eden. ... In both "Rappaccini's Daughter" and the story of creation, there is a character who plays a part in discrediting the...
His beasts who grew up in his wilderness will turn from him. ... "And the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not be doomed to die. ... Eve is lured by the serpent to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. She falls for the serpent and with no shame she takes a bite and also offers the precious fruit to Adam. ... "And the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not be doomed to die. ...
There was a serpent on the ground that started talking to her. Eve did not know who or what Satan was, nor did she know that that was who was talking to her though the serpent. ... She did not know that the serpent was Satan, nor did she know what Satan was. ... The Serpent used several arguments to get Eve to eat the fruit. ... Eve was also asked why this fruit would kill her, if the serpent had not died. ...
