Walter believes it is not the individual’s responsibility to help slow down global warming at all. According to Sinnott-Armstrong, even if he were to accept the three assumptions stated above, individuals would still have no moral obligations to reduce their own emissions. He explains his objection through the example of joyriding. Driving a gas guzzler for fun will bring pleasure to the driver which produces the most positive outcome for the individual (assumption one). He argues that the ride does no direct harm because “In contrast, global warming will still occur even if I do not drive just for fun.”…
In the article, “Why Bother” by Michael Pollan, we see him discuss many arguments on why we should do our part in going green. His inspiration to start living green was inspired by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. He discusses that many people are aware of the rapid environmental changes, but feel that it is too late to take action. I don’t believe that is true.…
The first source is an editorial cartoon drawn by American journalist Harold Jackson. The author conveys that those who think they are doing a lot to help our planet, in reality, are not doing much at all. Within the cartoon, an overweight man is sitting on a chair. This highlights that the man is a sedative individual who consumes a lot. Stereotypically, obese people are regarded as lazy and careless.…
Underground, dark, warm, and damp is the work environment of a coal miner. Coal mining has been around since the 1300’s. Since then, technology has changed and is still booming in today’s society. It was approximately around the late 1800’s that coal became a significant resource in generating electricity. The differences in coal mining today and back then were tremendously different.…
Air Pollution Policy and Controversy Rachel Carson boldly warned the American people in 1962 that if the United States continued its agricultural and industrial practices, songbirds would cease to exist. Losing an important part of the ecological food chain would have repercussions, possibly worse than we could imagine. While literature like Silent Spring helped bring attention to environmental concerns in the mid to late 1900s, several fatal disasters struck a stronger chord. Smog in Pennsylvania and the fire-lit Cuyahoga, for example, illustrated just how dearly the environment needed policy reform.…
He relays every negative thing about our environment and health to our increased dependence on cars. Brown seems to cry out to the world that we need to change our ways before it’s too late. He wants people to be more mindful, and to not just throw out the environment. Brown begins his argument with a stroll down the authors’ childhood.…
OTHERSIDE – MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS Poets have been able to use their expertise to address social issues for centuries. From William Shakespeare to Edgar Allan Poe, they have been able to affect their audiences using a variety of poetic devices such as similes, metaphors, imagery, assonance and many more. Songs and poems have affected society in both negative and positive ways, especially when it comes to the controversial issue of drug abuse. In the rap “Otherside” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Macklemore talks about his former drug addiction and how drugs and the media can affect today’s youth. The main purpose of “Otherside” is to show the audience the dangers and risk of drug addiction.…
himself knew he was not many people's definition of good and he was okay with that. The Misfit even said that his parents were good people and he meant that, when the grandmother said The Misfit were good people she did not mean it. Her definition of a good person was for that person to be perfect and that is something that the grandmother proved herself to be far from. The moral of this essay, is simply that morals play a vital role when it comes to the judgement of others. Down to the endless amounts of research and stories, it is evident that people determine things based off of morals.…
High school students are not being prepared with the appropriate skills and knowledge necessary to excel after graduation. In fact, only 1 in 4 high school students graduate college-ready. (Sheehy) Are the academic techniques used today the most effective they can be? In the book How We Learn by Benedict Carey, he details multiple studies about memory and learning; and provides insight on how these studies can be implemented to create more effective ways of learning. Using Carey’s techniques can drastically improve students overall success in high school and after graduation.…
After reading Ishmael, my mind was astounded by the depth of which the novel illustrated about humanity and its captivity. It gave me a new prospective of how in some ways I would be considered conformed to the world based of “Mother Culture” ideas. It made me feel guilty that despite everything I have done and learned in relation to the environment my humanistic values may be contradicting it. I had to take a step back couple of times reading the novel to correlate it with my own personal values, the way I saw the world, and the very foundation of the world’s educational systems and beliefs.…
As technology continues to advance with every passing minute, it seems as if the idea of robots taking over human jobs, whether it be physical or intellectual, no longer seems too far off from reality. While it currently seems likely that machines are on a path to take over human jobs, many still feel uncomfortable with this becoming their reality. Kevin Kelly in his persuasive essay, “Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must-Take Our Jobs, assumes that his audience is anti-machine job takeover, and attempts to persuade his audience through the use of logos. Kelly heavily relies on logos throughout his essay, it becomes his crutch as there is insufficient amount of strong evidence that prove his claim.…
Anxiety is something I have always been accustomed to, and even some of my earliest memories involve that anxious, nerve stricken feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was always the shy kid in the class, something to grow out of once I grew older, except that was not the case at all. Anxiety and I have grown closer over the years, so much so, that I developed several crippling anxiety disorders that shaped my life and how I lived it. It came on during my high school years and it affected my school work, my home life, and just about every instance in between. I would wake up every morning filled with anxiety dreading the day ahead of me, and waiting for it all to be over.…
Another way to say this is, smoking around others, doesn 't just affect your but the life of the people around…
As an individual, how can he confidently say that smoking is not dangerous when his doctor clearly stated that one stick would be the end of him? It is somehow shown that Nick Naylor is aware of the negative effects of smoking but he deliberately ignores his own judgments for he upholds the values of his organization. As a human being, how can he glorify cigarettes and look at the ill people who blames smoking for their sickness without compassion? Being the PR practitioner of crucial companies means that you have to bury your personal views just to do your job…
To Be A Human I Am Human I am human I am the melody I hear Harmonious and bright I am the paintbrush…