The World We Live In Essay

“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.” I believe that this quote perfectly addresses the horror and loss that the terrorist attacks on 9/11 brought Americans. Sandy Dahl could have been angry, aggressive, or even belligerent following the 9/11 attacks, but instead Dahl very maturely used the events as a life lesson that helped her appreciate the lives we do have. She now understands that one should not waste what little life we do…

What is reality? This seems to be an easy question to answer but it isn’t. Philosopher through time had spend their entire lives questioning themselves between what is real or what is not real. There are so many different version of reality that they don’t know which is which. Instead, philosophers define reality as the state of things that could actually exist through imagination but whether or not it’s comprehensible depending on the person’s perspective. In the movie, “The Matrix’’, a man…

which is a small sliver of time that we have used to almost completely dominate the planet we live on. Though it is a great accomplishment, our actions that we have taken to rule the world are actually ruining it at the same time. Some of the threats we have created ourselves are the fact that we may be growing faster than the environmental can keep up with and obtain, environmental problems we continue to build upon, and the unwillingness of ourselves to change. If we do not take action to…

In the Prestige, the characters we meet live in a world dominated by magic. The characters commit their lives to their acts; this inevitably dictates their every action and in the end seals their fate. Where the film suggests that these choices are freely made; true free will does not exist but is a synthesis construct by their thrownness. This creates justifications for any action taken by the characters during the film, as they believe they are acting freely. One of Heidegger’s primary…

Why would we want Freedom? I got the answer Ever since I watched the truman show I have realized many things about humanity and our way of living life.What really caught my attention in the movie was the first scene that showed the director of Truman’s life talking about his job. The director, Christof, also talked about how he had made Truman lived in a place that represents the perfect world. Having freedom, Rights, independence wouldn’t really matter if we don’t survive. Why would we face the…

King’s leadership and courage, he served as a great historic leader to help stop segregation between black and whites and showed that he cared about people. Also his words of wisdom helped to show the world true meaning of what he was trying to say. Martin Luther King showed how he influenced the world in a good way, by stopping segregated buses, protesting, and saying an “I Have a Dream” speech. His trial and error really served as the base of our future and making it greater than it already…

the people depicted in the novel live far stricter and much more oppressive lives than we do today. Winston even tells us so, “‘Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain…

E.D. Hirsch writes, "To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world." Hirsch considers the Bible so important to cultural literacy that it appears first in his Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Studying the New Testament is essential to becoming culturally literate in the modern world. The New Testament has shaped our view of art, literature, law, education and even music and much more. Jesus shaped all of the events in the New Testament, as a…

someone views and responds to the world. Everyone has different worldviews shaped by many factors such as how they were raised, their cultures, experiences and education. Along with attempting to assess where the worldview stems from, evaluating the worldview is also significant in discovering what is blindly followed and what parts of the worldview makes rational sense. Worldviews are defined by the nature of humans, the purpose of human life and the nature of the world. They are also…

people we do not know and love matters more to us than our own survival”, because we face the deaths of ourselves and our loved ones without significance of valuing what we value, but when it comes to facing the death of humanity, much of what we value would cease to matter. Sheffler uses two scenarios, the doomsday scenario. The doomsday scenario states: that the earth and everything on it will be destroyed 30 days after an individual’s initial death. Referring to the quote above, even if we…