Integrity in Contemporary Sociey
In both Arwa Aburawa’s, Veiled Threat: The Guerrilla Graffiti of Princess Hijab and Madeleine Albright’s, Faith and Diplomacy, the authors examine critical issues core to the notion of human integrity and the influences behind the actions people undertake. While the articles are indeed vastly different in their own right and are directed at opposing audiences, they both evidently seek to find logic in why people do the things they do and the extent to which said things are affected by moral integrity.
In the first article， Veiled Threat， by Arwa Aburawa, the author attempts to interpret the message that mysterious street artist， Princess Hijab， tries to send through her work. The general argument put forward …show more content…
Integrity determines how much or how little a society develops. It is a critical cog in the process of societal change and transformation for the better. For instance, the examples put forward in Faith and Diplomacy concerning Poland and Uganda perfectly demonstrate this. In Poland, because the people retained their moral and mental integrity, all it took was a little motivation from the Pope to get them to push towards a better country for them. Likewise, in Uganda, despite overwhelming odds that even the government finds difficult to surmount, it is the moral integrity of the volunteers in the camps and organizations such as World Vision that victims of civil strife and such horrendous acts as rape and forced amputation are able to hope for a better tomorrow (Albright, 2010, p. …show more content…
Although she might believe she is wholly justified to express her dissatisfaction and impose her integrity, she does not see things from other people’s perspective. Similarly, although extremist religious beliefs， such as those demonstrated by the Islamic militiamen in Albright’s story about Lebanese Mary， may be challenged based on integrity, this would be ignorant of the acts of compassion later illustrated by the same
In both Arwa Aburawa’s, Veiled Threat: The Guerrilla Graffiti of Princess Hijab and Madeleine Albright’s, Faith and Diplomacy, the authors examine critical issues core to the notion of human integrity and the influences behind the actions people undertake. While the articles are indeed vastly different in their own right and are directed at opposing audiences, they both evidently seek to find logic in why people do the things they do and the extent to which said things are affected by moral integrity.
In the first article， Veiled Threat， by Arwa Aburawa, the author attempts to interpret the message that mysterious street artist， Princess Hijab， tries to send through her work. The general argument put forward …show more content…
Integrity determines how much or how little a society develops. It is a critical cog in the process of societal change and transformation for the better. For instance, the examples put forward in Faith and Diplomacy concerning Poland and Uganda perfectly demonstrate this. In Poland, because the people retained their moral and mental integrity, all it took was a little motivation from the Pope to get them to push towards a better country for them. Likewise, in Uganda, despite overwhelming odds that even the government finds difficult to surmount, it is the moral integrity of the volunteers in the camps and organizations such as World Vision that victims of civil strife and such horrendous acts as rape and forced amputation are able to hope for a better tomorrow (Albright, 2010, p. …show more content…
Although she might believe she is wholly justified to express her dissatisfaction and impose her integrity, she does not see things from other people’s perspective. Similarly, although extremist religious beliefs， such as those demonstrated by the Islamic militiamen in Albright’s story about Lebanese Mary， may be challenged based on integrity, this would be ignorant of the acts of compassion later illustrated by the same