Justification

Okay,picture this!Your wonderful teacher,Mrs.Domingcil,asks you how her new white pants look today but secretly you know she looks very goofy but she is your teacher,what’s your answer?What about this,your best friend gots the hots for the new guy in school she asks you what you think of him and you know that he’s not in her league, but your friends really sensitive and her feelings get crushed easily,what do you say?These examples are why I firmly believe that lying is justified in our…

The Motivations and Justifications for the Spanish’s Treatment of the Natives After Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, Spain began to expand trade beyond their adjacent surroundings. They began multiple expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean in order to find new lands to develop into Spanish colonies. While establishing colonies in the New World, the Spanish discovered a wealth of gold. The Spanish enslaved natives of the New World and forced them to mine for gold and convert to…

In the following essay, one wishes to discuss why there can never be any justification for a belief in Other Minds. Descartes offers up “I think therefore I am” in First Meditations on Philosophy (Descartes, 1641), which has it’s fair share of problems but one wishes to use this quote to illustrate that while Descartes only proved that ‘I’ exist within one 's own mind, there is nothing to say that this must extend to others too. Or even to anyone but Descartes and Myself. And while that may seem…

“Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam”. This is a famous speaker of Martin Jacques, a famous editor, academic, author in England. This quote tells us about problems of Cambodia after Vietnam war, Cambodia was controlled by Khmer Rouge, a communist group from 1975-1979. Many…

commonality and is something that is a part of everyday life for the citizens of war. What this does is help to emphasize and help the people of the Roman Empire to deal with war in their everyday lives, and the writings aid in the government’s justification of war. As far as war in itself, the books do their job, portraying war as an honorable and necessary part of life in the empire, with the culmination of thoughts influencing everyone. In their respective stories, both authors portray the…

Rohan Kumar Dr. Nilak Datta Modern Fiction – HSS F336 24th November, 2015 Justifications of Huxley’s clarification on the advancements in science In the foreword to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the author clarifies his purpose of using science in the novel. He asserts that Brave New World is not about scientific advancements as much as it is about the effects that such an advancement has on the population at the individual level. The novel focuses on the ways in which human nature is altered…

the civil rights movement. The movie The Help (Taylor 2011) is an enlightening film depicting a group of women who are deprived of simple luxuries because of the color of their skin. There are many examples of: Modern Racism, Outgroups, System Justification Model, and Social Categorization in this movie. Most of us would say if I lived in that era I wouldn’t stand by and do nothing while these people are treated the way they were I would do something. But in all honesty how many us actually…

Arguments used by the Southerners to justify slavery include the economy, social status, and the right to own property. In 1832, Thomas Dew, a professor at William and Mary college, stated, “It is, in truth, the slave labor in Virginia which gives value to her soil and her [properties]; take away this, and you pull down the . . . whole system.” Thomas Dew meant that the South’s whole economic system is centered around slavery, and without it, the whole Southern economy would collapse. J.D.B…

Hanson believes that reducing defense spending while increasing entitlements dooms the United States to follow Athens, Rome and Byzantium into the dustbin of history. His premise that “nations that choose butter over guns atrophy and die” appeals to military officers and is potentially acceptable and consistent. You cannot defend a nation nor project power with butter! But applying critical thinking to the Hanson article reveals a number of “thinking shortcomings”. He fails to successfully…

In a letter addressed to his wife in 1864, Robert E. Lee wrote, “What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends…to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.” War, no word strikes deeper despair or dread at the inevitable, grotesque acts that will be inflicted upon the face of a beautiful world. One does not even have to imagine but may simply look into the history books to learn of the things…