Lather Nothing Else Analysis

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After reading “Independence Day”, “Lather Nothing Else”, and “Savior Siblings” and evaluating how these apply to the ethic definition of: your stand morally on what is right and wrong. The authors use your connection with these stories to inform and explain how people stand ethically on subjects they deal with daily.
To begin, the mother should have killed the father because deontologically the abuse with never fully and truly stop. Gretchen Peters, informs, physical abuse victims that they are known and supported, In her song, because during abuse it calls victims into fight or flight survival mode. In a song about physical abuse. Illustrating the fight: “let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the whole world know today is the day of reckoning, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong, roll away the stone,let the guilty pay,it's Independence day.” (17-21). Today is the day the abused need to stand up; the weak need to be strong; over turn the stone and announce that they are abused and to make their abusers guilty. People need to be supported and fight for their cause in order to achieve true happiness. Deontologically for people we need to stand
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Hernando Tellez, explains, in his excerpt, revolutionary people can go against their morals because temptation is all around and people have to evaluate their situation. The barber is asking internal questions. Explaining how he feels: “ But the spectacle of the mutilated bodies prevented… How many of ours had he killed? How many had he mutilated?” (1-3). The barber was worried, about how many people were being mutilated and killed at the hands of Torres. Instead of killing many and having long lasting effects on many families they can kill one and finish their cause. Consequently, it is okay to kill one person in order to save a few or a

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