Apathy

The short story emphasized the alienation and apathy of Krebs as he is unable to communicate the trauma he had faced in World War I because no one would listen to what he had to say. He had recently returned home in the summer of 1919 to a small town in the Midwest after being dispatched in the war…

There are currently 46.8 million people worldwide who have dementia. This number is likely to double every 20 years, to 74.7 million people in the year 2030, and 131.5 million people in the year 2050. (Alzheimer’s Disease International & World Alzheimer’s Report, 2015). There are more than 9.9 million new reported occurrences of dementia in the word, making this one new person every 3.2 seconds. (World Alzheimer Report, 2015). In the United States the fifth leading cause of death in people over…

Fight Club the film compared Fight Club the book The 1996 book Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk is a classic satrical novel that contains interesting social commentary on connsumierism and masculinity in the United States, particularly for Generation X and Generation Y. The 1999 film adaption of Fight Club directed by is considered to be one of the best book-to-film adaptations ever, however it manages to change quite a lot from the original novel without damaging the themes, culutral…

The Meursault Investigation, originally published in French in 2014, was written by Daoud in respond to Camus’ 1942 novel, The Stranger. The epicenter of both novels is the murder of an Algerian Arab, left unidentified in The Stranger and given the identity of Musa in The Meursault Investigation, committed by Meursault. Harun, The Meursault Investigation’s narrator, proves to be narratively quite similar to Meursault and faces severe repercussions following his brother’s death, which ultimately…

Elie Wiesel, a writer and survivor of the Holocaust, said the above words in 1986 upon accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel’s words touched upon a common question: How should a country respond to injustice abroad? It is a useful question. The social history of humanity is largely one of bloodshed and hate, only occasionally intersped with triumphs of justice. There has scarcely been a year of history free of one man-made tragedy or another, for all people are capable of bloodlust, of bigotry,…

empathy for their lives. As such he is a harsh king, and causes his people so much pain and suffering that they cry out to the goddess Aruru to create a man his equal- so that stormy heart may contend with stormy heart. Enkidu manages to bade his apathy for a brief while, but even then the city suffers. For example, Gilgamesh’s refusal of Ishtar results in the death of two-hundred people, yet he feels no remorse. Enkidu is slain by the gods as a result of Gilgamesh’s actions, yet guilt does not…

“One Murder made a Villain / Millions a Hero.” – Death: A Poetical Essay by Beilby Porteus, 1759 Utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham first coined the modern interpretation of utilitarianism in 1812, as a “defined utility as the aggregate pleasure after deducting suffering of all involved in any action,” or in simpler terms, the most good for the most amount of people, serving to maximize pleasures and/or minimize suffering. How did a moral based principle created by a social reformer, less than a…

more-talented employees and cross-cultural customers. Lack of a cultural dimension in leadership would also create low job satisfaction and mistrust that would reduce productivity efficiency and increase costs for the organization. This might also cause apathy that would sabotage the efforts of managers to keep projects within the budget and on…

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that disrupts a person's perception of reality.It also effects the thoughts ,emotions and behavior.People with this mental disorder can often have other mental-health problems like anxiety and depression. Scientists believe that a person's genes ,differences in brain chemistry and structure and environmental factors may increase the risks of schizophrenia.Exposure to viruses, poor nutrition during pregnancy ,cannabis use,and an imbalance in dopamine are some…

Proverbs 12:27 says, “Diligence is man’s precious possession.” (Proverbs 12:27 ESV) To extrapolate, Diligence influences a person 's character and a person 's character defines the life the person leads and the lack of diligence fosters laziness and apathy, which are toxic traits for people. When you possess those attributes, they affect our faith, love life, workplace, and your character. If you look at your body as a house, Ecclesiastes 10:18 says, “Through laziness, the rafters sag;…