Everything Bad Is Good for You

Death is something that everyone knows is imminent. All humans, even religious ones, know for sure that death will come. This thought can be terrifying, as death means...the end. You, and everything about you, is now solely in the works and memories you have left behind before you die, you no longer have any control. All religions conjure some way to explain death and dying to their followers; for example, why we die, what comes after death, what to do to prepare yourself for death, etc. We will…

Alan Dershowitz writes a chapter in his book called “God Overreacts—and Floods the World. In this chapter it talks about the different versions of the flood story you hear anywhere. The bible has two different versions and people either believe one or the other. Either it’s the story of Noah or the story of Utanapishtim. Dershowitz talks about the how the defense lawyers and the traditional commentators and talk about what they believed the reason for the flood was. He then puts either quotes or…

being in egoist is considered wrong. We are taught that having a ‘big ego’ means you are full of yourself. In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand the main character, Prometheus, is an egoist. According to our society, this is a bad thing; according to the world in Ayn Rand’s novel, this is a bad thing. However, being an egoist isn’t always a bad thing. Prometheus is an egoist and despite what people may think, this is a good thing. What is an egoist? An egoist is a believer in egoism, but what is…

I am just going to go over each of the quotes and ideas in order and share my beliefs and reasoning towards each one. The first idea presented in the topic is that everything is given to us in a neutral state that is that there is no apparent good or evil from god but rather just things from god or nature/universe depending I on if you look at a godless world or a religious one. I personally come from a religious background…

parents did. Everything starts at home.…

Ethics is the study of good and evil, right and wrong, moral rules, virtues, and the good life. Ethics can also be defined as someone’s status, meaning and justification of who they are. Plato and Aristotle were two great thinkers and philosophers that differed in the explanation of their philosophical concepts. Morality is the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. Plato and Aristotle differed on how morality is explained. Plato would define…

heart attack, and liver cancer. Steroid user increases their impulses. Steroids are a drug, that after taking one it will lead you to try another drug. These impulses also lead to what is called “roid rage”, is a quick anger that seen in steroids users. Rich Piana was a famous bodybuilder; he started taking steroid when he was 18. “Taking steroids you…

worse. Our environment is where we pick everything up from so that contributes to how often a person lies and their reasons. Lies can become very complicated depending on the situation, there are different lies. People also lie because of the good of their heart whether they know if it’s bad or not because sometimes people don’t have a definition of the difference of the two. They want to avoid or fix something in the wrong way but the intentions are good because sometimes there is no right way…

ambition of mankind affects both sets of characters and plots of the Bible story and “Macbeth”. However, the good comparison, Shakespeare used in “Macbeth” from the Bible really gives Shakespeare an excellent creation of suspense, irony, and theme on “Macbeth”. In many stories around the world, there is always one or many characters that make bad decisions, which leads them to bad consequences at the end. This…

class, they were awful and full of grammatical errors. Comparing the first essay i ever wrote in the class and my college essay that i wrote in my senior english class, you can see growth and improvement. Writing does not come easily to me, it’s like trial and error. When starting an assignment, my introduction is either really good or it’s a hot mess. To me writing is a hit or miss at first, I have to go through tons of editing before it is anywhere near perfect. After reading many books,…