Bengal

People are choosing to not donate to the Bengal Relief Fund because they do not feel they are obligated to do so, since there are many other companies who are trying to convince people to give to their charity, so what makes the Bengal Fund so special? Singer states that if people knew specific numbers of how much to donate it would show the realistic of where the funds are going and what…

Longstanding, culturally ingrained beliefs do not evolve quickly, and few will cast aside religious beliefs for tax cuts. In “Who are the Bengal Muslims?,” Eaton asserts that “ashraf Muslims in Bengal adopted a strictly hands-off policy toward the non Muslims,” (225). Islam Khan punished one of his officers for allowing a conversion to happen because of a commitment not to allow religion to interfere with state administration…

In his essay, Peter Singer argues that humans have the skills and resources necessary to end suffering in the world. He says that to do this we are each morally obligated to give as much as we are able without negative consequences on ourselves. He also states that in order for this to be achieved as a moral code, our structure of society must be changed. In this paper, I will argue that Peter Singer adequately presents his argument. I will also raise an objection to his argument and state his…

Martel uses the theme of survival. Mans duality is demonstrated through facing his fears, psychological survival, and constructed reality. At the beginning of the novel, Pi’s father instills a lesson is to be learned around big animals such as Bengal tigers. Pi’s father makes Pi and his older brother watch as a goat is thrown into the cage of the tiger as a meal. Growing up at the Pondicherry zoo, Piscine had a love for animals and found them so extraordinary. However as Pi watches this…

The Life of Pi, by Yaun Martel, is an adventure filled story about how an indian boy named Pi Patel spent seven months at sea with an adult Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Throughout the novel, Pi speaks about his life in the boat and the adventures that came as a result of his peculiar situation. He constantly has to struggle with the problem of living with the tiger on the boat, since the tiger could easily kill him. However, Pi intuitively manages to subdue the tiger and make his own life…

Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, emulates the conventions of a quest in its incorporation of a quester in the protagonist, Pi, moving to Canada due to deficient governance in his home country on a ship that sank, which leaves him stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger seeking for the will to survive through faith, and along the…

In the world of sports, head coaches are the most important people off the field. They make the decisions that can ignite a team towards victory, or spiral downwards towards defeat. Due to this fact, they are the some of the most scrutinized people on the team, with the media placing as much pressure on them as they do players. If the coach is successful, they will be revered by the media and the fan base as long as they can continue at a certain measure of success. If a coach is unable to…

to always do the right thing and guide my peers into a direction that is best for them. Since coming to Woodberry my Freshman year I feel as though I have grown stronger in this trait. One example that stands out particularly is when I was on the Bengal football team, and it was a scorching day early on in the year. It seemed as though everybody had a terrible day, and it was looking like we were having a horrible practice. After the opening stretches of the day, I started being loud, cheering…

The transition from high school to college, Idaho State University, was a much greater experience than I was expecting. Changing environments from a small town, Mackay Idaho, with only five hundred people to a city with thousands of people was a completely different adventure. The transition was a huge experience for me because of the change in the environment, people, and school. I had much more experiences to see and do. When I arrived at Pocatello the environment changed completely from…

the capability to prevent suffering in other parts of the world and have not done enough to help. He uses the situation in Bengal as an example because it has arguably the most extreme and largest-growing problem in the world. Individuals and governments were aware of the problem, which is why he chose this as the primary example to begin his critique. The situation in Bengal represents the thousands of other emergencies, disasters, problem etc. that go on throughout the world. The way…