Dacher Keltner

Rodrigo Guzman, a fourth grader, will never to go to Jefferson Elementary School again. While trying to come home from the Guzman’s family Christmas in Mexico, the family was stopped and sent back to Mexico. Their travel visas had expired. At the time of the writing, thee had been over double of the pior of minors trying to cross the border. Jeremy Adam Smith, the author of Our Fear of Immigrants, writes about why do American’s fear immigrants. The author goes into depth of how the way people…

Gender role plays a tremendous role in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. The reader can conspicuously infer how gender role affects everyday life in Afghanistan. In “The Power Paradox” by Dacher Keltner, Keltner states that “Power leads people to act in impulsive fashion, both good and bad, and to fail to understand other people’s feelings and desires”. This is especially true in Mariam’s new life with Rasheed and later becomes Laila's new life as well. Rasheed’s capability to have…

Discrimination is an unavoidable oppression that transpires across the world. The U.S., a country known as the “Land of Opportunity,” is perceived by immigrants, people of different origin from different countries, as a gateway to obtaining a better life. However, immigrants may encounter many obstacles and ill-treatments that will keep them from progressing. “Our Fear of Immigrants,” an article by Jeremy Adams Smith, unveils why the United States government and some of its native-born citizens…

“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely’ said the British historian Lord Acton (Keltner, 2007).” This fully explains how Creon has allowed himself to place such a harsh punishment for an action made with the greater good in mind. Antigone buried her brother in accordance with the will of the gods. Creon is so corrupt that he can not…

Human Nature Are humans born good or evil? This is a question that there are many different answers to. Confucians, the founder of Confucianism, the official state religion of China for nearly two thousand years, had his own answer to this question, but it provided a somewhat vague explanation. Since his answer was very vague and indirect, Confucians were split on the question of human nature. Some like Mencius believed that humans are born good, and with the proper training, can become perfect.…

Our senses are a part of us, however we are not always consciously aware of all of our senses at every moment. Moreover, our senses, can guide our behaviors and actions, even those senses we are consciously aware of. For example, a person who received a positive comment, earlier might be compelled to donate to an organization few hours later. That individual might have done this action because his/her mood was affected by the compliment, but that individual might not exactly be aware of that.…

In Jeremy A. Smith essay, “Fear of Immigrants”, he vaguely states people of the United States fear migrators who come seeking a better life. In the article he makes various points across why he thinks they are good or bad. Ranging between how they boost the economy, all the way to how they bring diseases into this country. Jeremy A. Smith even has psychologist resources from Universities to back himself (Smith750-757). But his real opinion is yet to be seen, as by his arguments seen for and…

Pursuit of Sadness In our society today, people tend to find happiness within themselves, others and their community. But everything in the world comes with a price tag. Like the old saying goes, you pay what you get and happiness is no exception. So what one must give up to obtain happiness? What moral decisions do we have to overcome to acquire well-being? Ursula LeGuin, author of “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” described the city as a utopia filled with joy. But in order for the…

Most people see the word compassion as another word in the dictionary when actually it’s a word with so much meaning and a form of way of expressing your emotions. Compassion is having kindness and feeling others pain when suffering. Compassion brings people together and makes the world a better place. But, most importantly it has allowed us to connect with others and show our emotions to others. It’s an important need to us humans because it keeps us emotionally connected. The article “Living…