Infanticide

It was interesting to see how different artist portrayed the civilizations that we discussed in class. We talked about how Christianity become a huge role, especially during the medieval times, and how the church had a huge influence of the people and even the king. But after additional research, I was amazed how quickly the Christianity could bounce back from being ostracized and deemed blasphemous, to becoming so influential that the Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and made…

Women of India has faced the discrimination for an era and this still continue to exist in numerous forms.According to the web definition “Any denial of opportunity or equality on the gender basis is a discrimination”. Nature never discriminate women from men. But the world has made the women victims of inequality.India has lately become outrageous for its continuous sexual abuse and discrimination against women. Sexual violence and harassment there is so widespread that it even has a tagged…

In “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” Mary Anne Warren takes the position that abortion is morally permissible with no restrictions. I shall argue that Warren’s argument is inconsistent and can lead to different assumptions due to unclear points made in the argument. According to Warren the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights and not considered immoral to be killed. Warren argues that abortion should be legal with not restrictions or exceptions. In the argument given by…

potential to prevent a worldwide gendercide epidemic! As a result, All Girls Allowed is committed to doing all within God’s will to convey an end to gendercide, in China and beyond. In particular, we will work to end prenatal gender selection, infanticide/abandonment of young girls, trafficking of girls/women, and forced abortions/sterilizations against mothers.This is not to say that male gendercide need precede female gendercide or that male gendercide by itself cannot count as genocide. Like…

exact her revenge on Jason. This would lead to the belief that her character follows a path from misery to happiness; however, according to Aristotle’s rules this is only possible if the hero is a completely bad individual. Even in Classical Greece infanticide was something viewed as “break[ing] mankind’s laws (p. 71), but in the case of Medea there seems to be quite a bit of sympathy and understanding given to her which shows that there are other reasons that Medea could have killed her…

With thought-provoking commentary on the relevance of memory and rememory within a slave’s life, Toni Morrison uses the pain of memory to justify infanticide by illustrating to the reader that slavery is worse than death and by using the experience of rememories to demonstrate how Sethe and Paul D’s ability to respond to new traumas has been impacted by their past. The theme of rememory is so powerful in the characters’ lives that it makes them shells of functioning human beings, unable to…

An ethical dilemma is a problem in decision making involving two or more moral imperatives where neither of the options is acceptable unambiguously. The complexity arises because of a situational conflict where selection of one alternative would lead to transgression of the other option. Ethical dilemmas are invoked to refute a moral code or make improvements to it so that a solution can be achieved. Numerous ethical dilemmas are often debated upon from different perspectives with basis of such…

The legal rights of Chinese women remain almost nonexistent during the 14th to 17th century Ming Dynasty rule, however, modern day China is controlled by a government working to achieve equality for both genders. Throughout the 276 years that the Ming Dynasty was controlling China, a plethora of achievements in the areas of education, philosophy, literature, and art changed Chinese society. However, these changes affected mainly males because women were treated as nothing. For instance, the main…

However, more specifically the infanticide is a gendercide of female babies. Why specifically female babies? For much of history, women have been viewed as inferior to men and thus in heavily impoverished areas, girls are viewed as undesirable, dispensable, and second-class citizens. The…

would male bottlenose dolphins be attacking their own neonates? As is the case with many terrestrial top male predators, they want to father the upcoming generation and will do anything to make sure this happens, so to do male Bottlenose Dolphins. Infanticide has been well recorded in this species. Bottlenose Dolphin females produce a calf every 3-4years, and as such males who come upon a female with a calf who he knows is not his own will try and kill the calf so as that hopefully within a…