Human bonding

Berry, David. “How South Park Pokes Fun at Political Correctness Without Being Dismissive.” The National Post. Nationalpost, 5 Oct. 2015. Web. 01 Sep. 2017. David Berry conducts a critical analysis of the 19th season of the hit satirical comedy show South Park. Berry praises show creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, for creating a season that revolves around making fun of today’s PC culture without being completely dismissive to the plight of the members of the left-wing. South Park may be…

The new definition of Love, introduced by Barbara Fredrickson, in “Love 2.0,” not only presents the scientific analyzes of the brain’s response to positive connections, but also a unique perspective of what love actually is. The unfamiliar standpoint about how love is “forever renewable” (108) and how “[it is] not unconditional” (108) refines how love is interpreted and perceived. Fredrickson presents an ongoing juxtaposition from both ends of love and strongly states that “love is a single act…

another. Further, it causes the evil in the world due to hate of imperfection. Mei concludes that God shouldn’t be blamed for humanity’s faults considering God only judges the evil of humanity -- He does not interfere. Her elohistic God stays away from human interaction until postmortem judgement. Later, in Mei’s adult life, the reader notes Mei’s beliefs seeping through to other…

The philosophy of Martin Luther King has six principles of nonviolence. The first is nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. Someone that is non violent only because they are afraid, is not a true form of non violence. Kings second principle of nonviolence is nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. An example is a community that comes together after a peaceful protest or a boycott. His third principle is nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice not people. In other words…

A person’s view of the world and the rights and wrongs of it come from how they were raised. We do not all grow up believing the exact same things. One person may believe that and “eye for an eye” is the correct revenge, while another person may say that an “eye for an eye” does not solve the problem at all, it merely just enforces that harming others is okay. This difference in the view of the world can greatly change a person’s perspective of what they have done to others. In Hannah Arendt’s…

Argument From Marginal Cases The Argument from Marginal Cases is rooted in the idea that certain human beings are “marginal,” in that they are considered lesser, in their abilities or in their value, than other humans. For example, humans with mental or physical disabilities (and in some cases even infants), within the argument from marginal cases, are considered less valuable than the humans without these disabilities, and thus do not deserve the same ethical considerations. This argument…

Synopsis: The story “All In My Mind” by Eugie Foster is about a man named Kristof who discovers a computer virus that can only infect people with illegal computers in their brains. He comes across this because his friend Dina tells him about it and he then gets infected with it without knowing until he meets Adrienne, Dina’s sister. The three then need to stick together to cure the virus before it kills him. The most important character in this story is Kristof. If it wasn’t for him caring for…

Power, whether within nature or society, determines one’s possibility of life and death. Geraldine Brooks novel Year of Wonders and Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible similarly explore how in times of crisis, it is those that do not withhold power over others that are deemed to suffer. Both texts reference fear as a driving force for desperation and replicate images of shepparding to emphasise conformity. Those that practice unethical and superstitious trades such as Brooks, Gowdie women, and…

Case Study: Allport and Monica Gordon Allport was an evolutionary scientist who explored previously untouched concepts to better understand the human condition. He developed a combination of new terminology and progressive ideas that formed the basis of his view on personality. He advanced the discontinuity theory which suggest that during development an organism experiences genuine transformations or changes (Engler, p. 239). Whether Monica of our case study would agree with this contradictory…

Humans are fundamentally different than any other existing organism, not only because of the obvious diversity in physical form, but also because of the uniqueness humans have from each other. Our important features are our foundation as who we are as individuals, and the assortment of personalities set us apart from one another. As Neil Gaiman, author of the novel Anansi Boys, inspires us by writing, “Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote.…