Before the war, Odysseus feels as if he would never feel a sense of heartache, however, the war teaches him that everyone is going to hurt at some point. Odysseus feels pain when he sees his mother’s spirit in Hades and realizes that he would never see her again, “‘But look, the ghost of my mother came! My mother, dead and gone now… Anticleia —daughter of that great heart Autolycus — whom I had left alive when I sailed for sacred Troy. I broke into tears to see her here, but filled with pity, even throbbing with grief, I would not let her ghost approach the blood till I had questioned Tiresias myself.” In this moment, Odysseus learns that life isn’t easy and there will be moments of grief that must overcome. The sense of pain he feels now is transient and once he grows stronger again, he will be able to…
this whole country actually. And even before I come here, I already surmise believed it. I was exhausted; I grabbed all my bags and lay down on my bed and locked the door. I stayed there for a couple of minutes thinking about what would my life be in this new place. I looked out of the windows; I see nobody walking around the sidewalk, or kids playing outside or people chit chatting in the neighborhood. And I said to myself, "I 'm already feeling lonely, I wouldn 't get a chance to make…
civil rights movement as a singer. Mavis was in a singing group with her father, brother Pervis, and her two sisters Yvonne and Cleotha.(Family Circle) The family band was created after her father gave up his job as a cotton picker in Illinois. Mavis, at only age ten became the lead singer of the Staples Singers. Her voice sounded a lot older and much bolder than a singer her age should. This group was just the start of the impact that Mavis had on the Civil Rights movement. In 1946 the band…
Utilitarianism is an attractive concept because you are always trying to increase the net pleasure of the world depending on that specific consequence rather than going around with a set of morals that might not be appropriately applicable to every situation. Regarding whaling, if the net pleasure coming from the harvested whale outweighs the net pain in terms of the whale then whaling should be permitted, albeit regulated. In keeping accordance with Singer, the pain and pleasure points of the…
Adobe Photoshop, Amy Winehouse portrait. To make this Pop art inspired artwork, I simply used a picture of Amy Winehouse and manipulated it on Adobe Photoshop to make it look similar to the Marilyn Monroe pop art by Andy Warhol. The source of my inspiration was the Pop Art movement, more specifically Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup repetitive pop art. The reason why this movement inspired me to do my artwork is because I like it. It is very pronounced and colorful. It draws…
After reading both sides to it, Mill’s and the opposition, I have decided that it would be in our best interest to not live always trying to please everyone else. I think that there are good ideas behind it, and we should take time out of our days to do something good for others such as donate money or time, but it should not be a constant thing. People have jobs and families that they need to tend to, which in my opinion comes before helping strangers. The pleasures standard that John Stuart…
Some argue that why do you have to sacrifice your own happiness to be considered moral? Is your happiness not important? How is it immoral to think about your happiness? In above example of saving a drowning person, if the person does not go to save drowning person, is it immoral? The person is probably afraid of himself drowning. In my opinion, giving up your own happiness for others is a weakness of utilitarianism theory, because, I think, everyone deserves to be happy. Another…
logical thing to do is to deem which of the people has lived the most immoral life, and choose them as the victim. Although knowing that this is highly unfair, and doing something which no person should do, placing a value on others lives, I hope that I would do what is necessary to help the most amount of people in the situation. Contrary to what I hope I would do, in reality I feel as though I would probably be crushed under the weight of the idea of taking someone’s life, and ultimately do…
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that gauges the worth of actions by their ends and consequences. Utilitarianism, claims that a person should act in the way that produces the greatest amount of good over evil, and should consider everyone that would be affected by the action (Skelton,2017). In other words, the ethically “correct” action is the one that causes the most pleasure and the least pain for the greatest amount of people. This theory demands that all choices be considered based on the…
The utilitarianism and deontological ethical theories can be used to explain the solution to the ethical dilemma of pushing sales versus demeaning the body image of a consumer. The utilitarianism theory posits that the greater good is the only concern and that the right course of action would lead to the least amount of pain or the greatest pleasure. As such, the theory takes into account the majority instead of the minority. Most advertisements and promotions get considerable share of…