Americans dropping of the Atomic Bomb over Japan under Harry S. Truman Name Institution Americans dropping of the Atomic Bomb over Japan under Harry S. Truman Under the rule of President Truman, USA were ready to use an atomic bomb against Japan. Various options that were suggested to the president for retaliating against Japan, but he decided on the nuclear bomb that has not been in use for a period. Truman based his decision on the past phenomenon such as “the wake of the bloody battles on Iwo and Okinawa. “The essay focuses on the primary objective of the Harry S. Truman, which is dropping the atomic bomb on Japan about the moral dilemma that the president faced.…
When feeling compassionate, you feel concerned for others and wish to treat them more than they’re worth. If I were to be able to take the people in need, I would do it in such a heart beat. When reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, I realized how compassionate he was throughout his whole journey of the Holocaust. To begin, Elie Wiesel from the start, was so generous enough to be able to share his own story. In this case, it would be so hard for someone to go through so much and still be able to have courage to talk about it.…
People who give their time, money, and effort to people who need help deserve an award. The humanitarian award is an award for people who try to help society try to make lives better for those are in need of help. Russel Wilson is deserving of the humanitarian award for his efforts to raise money, spend time during his busy schedule to help others, and hosting charity events. Russell Wilson is big about helping children in need of help. He is also the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.…
The Elizabethan era was a time of great change. This resulted in an environment of speculation and uncertainty. It is during this time that Hamlet, Shakespeare‘s most famous play was being performed. This essay will argue that the ambiguity of the Shakespeare’s Hamlet was designed, at least in part as a reflection of the uncertainty of the Elizabethan world, for as Bloom stated “the text was not created in a vacuum”(7). This essay will begin with a brief explanation of how plays can be used as a tool for social and political commentary.…
Is Compassion Necessary to Human Survival? Compassion is necessary to allow humans to live and not just to survive. The human race allows the human race to feel sympathy and empathy. Without it, people will turn against one another, creating situations like genocide and the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel describes this in his backstory of Night, about growing up as a Jew during the Holocaust and the situations that he was put in.…
All around the world, innumerable amounts of children live in poverty or unstable conditions and the United Nations helps determine rights in order to ensure the happiness and protection of children. In Nicaragua, the majority of the population lives in poverty and have no choice but to live in underdeveloped environments (CultrueGrams). In fact, Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Central America (World Book Encyclopedia). Extensive families must share inadequate rooms, health care is limited, the sanitary quality of water or public facilities is indigent and scarcely any people consume a healthy diet. In Nicaragua, hurricanes are common, as well as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides.…
Humanism is a system of values and beliefs that is based on the idea that people are basically good and that problems can be solved using reason instead of religion.(“Webster,” def. 1a). Humanism is used in many different books. An example is Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, humanism is shown when Huck treats Jim as a human being and recognizes his value, even though back in those times Caucasians thought African Americans were created to be treated as nothing but property. Another example of humanism is John Milton’s Paradise Lost, it deals with the dignity of man, his freedom of choice and internal struggles.…
John F. Kennedy is a president that is remembered because he was assassinated during his presidency. But Kennedy is also remembered for a few great accomplishments during his term as well as a couple major failures. The main accomplishments of JFK’s presidency include the enacting of the Peace Corps, the Space Program, the 24th Amendment, Cold War management, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The failures of the presidency were seen mainly in the Bay of Pigs invasion and the inability for JFK to pass any legislation regarding civil rights.…
Brent Weeks stated, " I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with question of good and evil and humanity and inhumanity." Throughout time the words good vs. evil always have an affect on history. Why do humans battle good and evil? In fiction we read of some of the most famous battles with good vs. evil. Two of the most classic stories that we read in this course are The Cask of the Amontillado, and Othello.…
Selfless Altruism means that caring more for what others need and want, and not for your own needs and wants, it does not act selfish motives. The selfless altruism that people are voluntary to help others for the purpose, not expect to have any benefits or rewards and without anything in return. There is selfless altruism happen in the real life, some people who are in the society to able to blend the process of feeling because they think have a responsibility to help others. In addition, it is a nature behaviour that people who feel the victim appears or similar to one’s experience that will increase people help others due to they have in common reflect, people can be more understand others needs and help.…
Michael Walzer makes a compelling argument in his article on global crisis, “the Argument about Humanitarian Intervention”. Walzer argues that humans have always been fighting each other and causing global problems. He claims that with today’s technology it has never been simpler to kill large numbers of people, if one has the resources of course. Walzer poses the question that in the event of a humanitarian crisis, such as cases of severe war crimes or ethnic cleansing, to what degree should the rest of the world respond? In Walzer’s article he discusses four major questions.…
Humanitarian Services People all over the world are suffering from the effects of natural disasters, poverty, and war. There are two humanitarian organizations that offer a number of programs to assist those in need. The Cooperative for Assistance Relief Everywhere or C.A.R.E and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies or I.F.R.C, are two organizations that over relief to people all over the globe. Each of these organizations have several different programs specified to a particular need.…
Charity: Water Charity: Water is the name of a non-profit organization that has a goal to bring pure and safe drinking water to rural areas of developing countries around the world. Charity: Water was founded by Scott Harrison, who is a former photographer and volunteer for Mercy Ships, and currently works out of New York City. Mr. Harrison was a former night club organizer in New York City, but wanted to commit himself to the higher power of helping people in need. After working for several years with Mercy Ships, he realized that lack of clean water was the root cause of lack of education, health, and security. In 2006, he started Charity: Water and aimed to have it be completely transparent in all of it 's funding.…
Humanitarian Interventions Concept of Humanitarian Intervention Intervention means dictatorial interference by a state in the affairs of another state for the purpose of maintaining or altering the actual condition of the thing. In simple words, a state interferes in matters of another state without permission of the state. Humanitarian intervention in simple terms is intervention in a state by another when there is gross violation of human rights in that state. This evolved from the concept of that everyone had a “duty to assist people in danger”.…
III. Confucianism and Human Rights It is impossible for Confucians to simply integrate a liberal conception of human rights into their view of social justice. There is a prevalent debate among the scholars if Confucianism is compatible with any universal human rights. One side argues that it is not just because this philosophy is oriented into relations and morality is based on roles, therefore it leaves no space for obligations or rights belonging to individual persons.…