A Complicated Kindness

Whenever I have a seat at my desk and gaze into the void, black screen, I am overwhelmed with the thought of the steps it took me to get there. I try to comprehend the endless codes, commands, pieces, and elements that exist in this mad thing I created. The thought of a traitor, whom I believed in as a mentor and followed, continues to haunt me. In my adoration of processors and motherboards, I experience infinite memories haunted by him. I often ask myself if I have created a monster or become…

The Gospel of Luke is essentially the basis of everyday Christian life for communities of the past and today. Upholding Gospel values goes beyond donating to the Salvation Army’s buckets in front of our peers or performing small acts of kindness for others to notice. It is ultimate dedication to God’s way of life, being grounded in faith, spreading the Gospel to build the Reign of God, being the good Samaritan, selflessly helping the powerless, poor, social outcasts, disadvantaged, following…

this instance is referenced to the wife’s ability to act in a self-determined manner to be able to deactivate the husbands’ pacemaker and to end his suffering. In contrast, beneficence was referenced as a relieving of suffering, a deed of mercy and kindness to deactivate the pacemaker to Jeffrey’s best interest. However here we face an ethical dilemma of doctors refusing to respect the power of attorney’s autonomy due to their own medical moral code. Or, not viewing the patient as sick enough to…

Acala Bodhisattva Secondly, the disappearances of the three men in front of the temple further question their real identities. What if they are not real, who are they? In order to figure out this question, the characters and the relationship between the monk Budong in the temple and Your Highness in the country of women have to be examined first. Budong is the name of the Acala in Chinese, which means immovable or steadfast (Buswell 13). He is a powerful deity, a Bodhisattva among the Five…

Six billion years ago, along with the first humans, many concepts appeared on earth. Religion, created as common sense guidelines for the cavemen and the hunters and gathers, was among them. It was created for humans of all colors, sizes and backgrounds, would to coexist peacefully. Religion causes chaos, and wars, and death of the innocent. Religion is harmful limits the intellectual capacity of the humankind, gives false hope, divides the people, and causes harm to innocent lives. Firstly,…

The building many people called “home” was for my siblings and me an abuse-laden place where torture and rape were commonplace. The cruelty was rampant for my immediate family, their friends, and my aunts, uncles and grandparents. The safest place for me was out on the streets. As I wandered the streets, I met many kind and helpful people. However, some of the strangers did not have benevolent hearts and I was kidnapped twice. During my childhood and early adulthood my physical body was…

In a world of everything chairs, plants, houses, spaceships, abortion, smartphones, love and death there is one word for it all life. Life is the one word that describes everything in just one word. Life is everything. The word life is so complicated that it does not just mean a living organism it means so much more. We are so smart that we question everything and create too many problems for ourselves. What is the creation story; how did we get here, from God or gods, aliens or from nature?…

Mrs. Dalloway (300 words minimum) The men in Mrs. Dalloway are so much more complicated than the men in earlier writings. There are three leading men in Mrs. Dalloway, and none of them would be considered a Mr. Darcy type. Men in older writings were sophisticated. All of their problems were superficial. For example, Mr. Darcy is held…

Question 1: Where do our morals come from? Morals are not as instinctive as heartbeats. A sense of right or wrong is teachable, but not as permanent as bones and blood. People are not born with morals instilled in them. In fact, the opposite is true: Humans are born with no sense of right and wrong. Rather, they are taught how to act throughout childhood by parents, teachers, and other means of authority and experience. Morals are adopted, adapted, and even discarded throughout life,…

Bullying defined on Merriam-Webster is “abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, more powerful, etc.”. In the book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” Frederick Douglass goes into detail of what slavery was and the effects that it had on the slaves and the slave owners. In addition, slavery in America could be considered a severe case of bulling. Were slaves not abused, mistreated, and used by a people stronger and powerful? By analyzing…