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In the Unlikely Event of a Water landing Tragedies such as murder and rape are thought to be horrendous crimes; acts so violent and malicious that the perpetrators must spend their lives in prison to pay their dues, but these crimes occur so often they rarely make headlines anymore. Every once in a while a big “story” will hit the news and the masses will cry out in outrage but even then the outrage dies down and the victims are forgotten. Many times there are witnesses to these crimes that do…

have become a “wetico” society, a cannibalistic culture, we eat the life of one another for our own personal gain, and this is something that can drive us extinct if we do not change our way of thinking. People believe it is just human nature to be competitive, however, human nature is not selfish and greedy instead the strongest emotion that sets us aside from animals is sympathy. We have the ability to feel what another person feels, we are compassionate to a complete stranger in need. In…

Vidal 1 Euthanasia is a controversy that has sparked many heated debates all around the world. Due to its nature of removing human life in an instant with the mere injection or consumption of a drug. Many people believe that human life is a precious thing that should be preserved. And others would disagree that Euthanasia should be used as a means of ending their life. Though in truth, Euthanasia should be legalized, for people have the constitutional right to die,…

Human beings have always strived to find the beauty in life. Early man was the first to try and express a new form of visual beauty in primitive cave art. Since then art has evolved into one of the most distinguishable features of what make us human. Art has become synonymous with the human spirit and imagination. Art has even become a way of finding the light in dark times of despair. Films like Shindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan have helped show the world that even in dark seemingly…

There are theories about Genesis being written by two different authors. The two Genesis creation stories help to support this theory. There are many aspects of the stories that show there are two different authors for the two stories. This paper will discuss these aspects of the stories and show the differences that help to support this theory. Both stories show the way God created the world, but each story have hints of different themes and authors. The first creation story is separated by…

politics, especially the origin and role of law in human life. In most cases, the study of nature roles in understanding politics must consider how human beings interact with their leaders, as well as how laws inform their co-existence and mutual relationships. Both Aquinas and Machiavelli studied human life and came up with observations based on the relationship between humans and nature. Their works narrow down to the same conclusion that humans cannot survive on their own, and need something…

individual’s life. But perhaps even more profoundly is the realization that friendship is a necessary response to the dignity of all human life. Life is a sacred gift from the Creator and therefore God yearns for his people to recognize the gift of life. I believe that friendship is an answer to the reality of the sanctity of life. If one understands the dignity of a human person and moreover the reality that each individual is made in the image and likeness of God one must love another simply…

Which is understandable, why would we, as the human species, talk about our own mortality. Most of us like to experience life in the now rather then think about the future and what will happen when our time runs out. Though as much as we do not like to talk about death at the same time we are fascinated with it. Humans really do seem fascinated with death at times. Along with this fascination there is also a fascination in the debate on whether or not humans have souls and if one day our soul…

In On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche argues against what he calls “bad conscience” (Nietzsche, 56), or the suppression of instinct. He believes that people should act according to their will to power, an aggressive drive which all humans possess. Restraining themselves from exercising this will to power only causes people to turn its violent demands inward and ultimately hurt themselves. In Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant describes his concept of morality.…

Immediately after reading prompt D I thought about AMC’s The Walking Dead series. I specifically thought of a few episodes from season two when a group of survivors of the apocalypse find another group with land. The owner of the land is Hershel Greene; he has plenty of pasture, a barn, and a fairly large house. Living with Hershel is what is left of his family. One of the survivors from the traveling group named Glenn wanted to meet Hershel’s daughter Maggie up in the loft of the barn. Little…