Cultural diversity

In a world where we witness many tragedies and many achievements there are lingering questions on why we make certain actions and not others. There must be a way to find the source of our morals because we seem to make similar actions through time. Many of the attempts to name what the source of our morality are rejected due to dilemmas and challenged premises, but strongest among them all is Moral Relativism. The argument for Moral Relativism is the strongest argument for discovering what…

“But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart” (271). In Orson Scott Card’s, Speaker for the Dead, we are met yet again with Ender Wiggin, on a foreign planet, with foreign people, a new foreign alien species, and one he has carried with…

from the western culture of America to the Inuit culture of Siberia. Cultural Relativism argues that every culture, no matter how different, is entitled to their own beliefs and other cultures do not have the right to take offense to another culture’s beliefs. This means that morals that may seem correct in one culture may be considered morally wrong by another culture. An argument against cultural relativism would be that if Cultural Relativism were considered to be fact societies could not…

The objectivity of moral values has been questioned greatly through out time. So, do objective morals and values really exist? Or are we so enamored with the idea that there is a standard universal code to follow for guidance. In his piece “The Subjectivity of Values” J.L Mackie states that, “There are no objective values.”(Landau175) The moral subjectivists uphold the idea that moral claims are only true, if they are objectively true. But what makes these true? Consequently what establishes…

According to the textbook, it mentions, “The four generations identified in today’s workforce are the Silent Generation, Baby boomers, Generation X and lastly Generation Y” (Chapter 1, pg.14). The textbook also states how, “Baby boomers which is the largest generation had to become extremely competitive to find jobs and promotions and how many became workaholics while spending less time with their families to keep their jobs or to obtain greater pay or promotions” (Chapter, pg. 14-15).…

The Cultural Revolution severely delayed the development of Chinese technology, so Deng sent students to foreign countries to learn and bring back the technological ideas to China. Not only were students a part of this new movement, so were the professionals…

that exist in our current society. Many cultural conflicts in the past have led to superiority of cultures over others, which has resulted in slavery in some cases. This leads to the concept of cultures, clashes, communities and freedom. These concepts can be conveyed through many different ideas in texts. The two texts The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M.T. Anderson and The Arrival by Shaun Tan, convey the ideas of cultural difference and isolation which display…

Is civilization an effective organizational tool for studying history? Civilization is great at describing many cases throughout more recent history. However, due to the limited concrete information we have on early societies and peoples the term "civilization" is constantly changing and evolving and therefore inadequate to describe earlier civilizations. The definition of a civilization most basically is "the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced."…

To Live The movie “To Live” explains the life of an average Chinese family through the feudalist Warlord Era, the labor-intensive Great Leap Forward, and the communist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. “To Live” shows how China moved from a feudal system to a communist system during the twentieth century. This family consists of Fugui (the husband), Jiazhen (the wife), Fengxia (the daughter), and Youquing (the son). At the time, China was struggling to unite. This…

The earliest of studies for speech sounds has been studied intensively since the early 1930s. Studies concerning the acquisition of phonemes are used in clinical practice and serve as a guideline to a practicing clinician. The earliest of studies came from 1931 by Wellman, Case, Mengert and Bradbury. Following Wellman’s findings, other researchers found new material and listing different ages in comparison to Wellman’s research. Sander (1972) discusses the various individuals that contributed to…