Blind men and an elephant

In essence, I am the six blind men, and the world is my elephant. I am right, but I am wrong. My semiotics guide me through the world, and blind me to it. My culture, my family, and global cosmopolitanism. These 3 streams of semiotics heavily influence how I create my world. A large part of my identity is my racial background. It plays a major role in who I am, and how I view everything surrounding me. My social circle is filled with people who are in minority groups. When I view news…

Team paper/ Daoism-Confucianism-Jainism *My uninformed thoughts on Daoism I figured it came from an Asian/ Chinese culture. Confucianism, I had never heard of it and had no knowledge on it, same with Jainism. *Basic beliefs and teachings: Daoism/Taoism belief Daoism does not see gods the same way other religions do. They believe more of seeing gods as enlightened immortals helping and guiding living beings through everyday life. The gods are inspiration towards enlightenment. They also believe…

In The Guest by Albert Camus and Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell, both authors explore colonialism and its effect on the oppressed and the oppressors. In Shooting an Elephant, Orwell recounts his experience in Burma as a police officer. Despite Orwell’s contempt towards imperialism and support for the Burmese, he is often caught between his hatred towards the British Empire and personal resentment of the Burmese. Similarly, in The Guest, Daru, a French-Algerian school teacher, is often in…

When something large and complex is being examined different groups will often interpret it in different ways because of their perspective. This is displayed in the story of the four blind men who all are asked to describe an elephant and each touch a different part of the elephant and try to describe the whole animal based on the perspective they have. The history of China has fallen victim to this. The Communist Party in China sets up the idea that china was divided into different classes…

Malcom X, an American Muslim Minister and rights activist, once said that “You are not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you cannot face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.” He is speaking of a term called civil disobedience, the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of the government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is used by influential “rebels” all over the world and throughout history. Many people have different opinions…

to torment Saul (1 Sam. 16:14), and He sent a lying spirit to lead Ahab to his death (2 Ch. 18:21). God rained down fire on Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:24). He killed Nadab and Abihu for disobedience (Lev. 10:2). He burned up two-hundred and fifty men for rebellion (Num. 16:35) and He sent down fire to burn people up at Elijah’s requests (2 Ki. 1). Perhaps, these passages are the biblical witness that God is also a holy God and will show Himself to be holy (Is. 5:16). It could also be that…

because something is not wrong does not make it right. Merely using the doubting game to find errors in a given viewpoint does not reveal what is true. Rather, it often leaves the the doubter confused. Much like the six blind men who each touched a different part of an elephant, those who do not seriously consider other positions tend to have limited, if not distorted, understandings of reality. In other words, one must suspend the critical viewpoint and consider opposing views correct in order…

In The Moral Function of Distortion in Southern Grotesque the author, Delma Presley, explains how different authors express their grotesque works. By using different analogies, Presley explains each author which makes it more intelligible to the reader. “Flannery O’ Connor’s point is that grotesque literature exists because writers are faced with the reality that they live in an age whose distortions function as indicators of how far man has drifted from his true image as a creature of God…”…

They are known as service animals. Types of services consists of companion, working, military, pack, harness, prison, and comfort animals (Malamud). Situations in which service animals take action is when a service animal navigates a blind person around, comforts a person who has bad anxiety, or cheers up groups like UNC Chapel Hill's baseball team's golden retriever. Countless amounts of animals have become a part of families. They help relieve stress and comfort people when they are…

circuses are not natural habits and the animals only do it because they are afraid of the consequences if they do not do as told. In recent news the most known circus ‘The Ringling Bros’ has decided to retire their elephants, unfortunately, they are being retired to a center that breeds elephants for circuses and rents them out to…