Kinship and descent

While observing Bernard Williams experiment about Jim, we are faced with a question of what should Jim do regarding the offer he was presented with? The offer being, Jim has the “privilege” of killing one of the twenty conquered Indians and freeing the rest or her can do nothing and the captain kills them all. In comparing J.S Mills’ philosophical theory utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant’s philosophical theory deontology, we will pay special attention how the two derive from different aspects of…

legacy Richard displays a flagrant disregard for the law of primogeniture, the very law “that sustains his rights to the throne. “For how art thou a king but by fair sequence and succession?” Initially York feels it is important to uphold Richards’s kinship as in doing so he upholds the law of primogeniture. He challenges Bolingbroke and refers to him as a traitor to the commonwealth. He claims, “I am no traitors uncle.” However, Richard’s inability to care for his people, respect the laws of…

connection as to why urbanization and modernization haven’t eroded the embedded process of marital dynamics throughout India. Statistical evidence shows that still in today’s time the practice of arranged marriages is the predominant option to bonding the kinship between two people. The article states “As indicated by the frequency distribution for marriage type, Indian women often have little say in the choice of their husband. Only about 5% of marriages are self-arranged by women with no input…

There are only two stories in the New Testament that recount the birth of Jesus as the most extraordinary event of history, Jesus birth was the cause of worship, for God dwelled with us. At first glance it can be determined that the two gospels present Jesus childhood in different ways, in fact Saint Matthew does not present with details the childhood of Jesus. Saint Matthew presents a genealogy of all the descendants of Jesus. Matthew places fourteen generations from Abraham and David, another…

mental inability to leave the mansion, he is horrifyingly a captive who has no other option but to watch him slowly perish. This alienates him from normal society and adds on to the mind-numbing isolation of the story. The revolting “direct line of descent” that the Usher lineage is based upon…

from this week’s reading argues that Canadians are convinced that there is something unique about their identity but they are “unable to agree on what constitutes it”. Perhaps it is a sense of moral superiority, but Canada is well known for their kinship externally and internally, being global peace keepers around the world and for having free health care for its citizens; opposed to the United States who could be seen as war mongering individuals, setting their priorities on the insistence to…

home and the father in handcuffs, as he tried to fight with the cops as well. Both parents were heavy under the influence of drugs hours after abusing drugs. All three children were removed from the home that night. Currently the children are in a kinship home placement. Contrary to popular belief, drug addiction rarely starts because a person has “felt like it” or because it was “cool.” Drug addiction is linked to mental health…

audience. “The term Latino is operationalized to include all persons of Latin American origin or descent, irrespective of language, race, or culture”. (Hayes, Bautista, Chapas 1987)The only female Latino character, that is essential to Modern Family’s plot, is drawn…

land settlement, opportunities of trade, or barbarically raiding villages. None of these would prove to be more pivotal than the settlement of Normandy in Northern France in 912 A.D. An agreement made between Rollo (Scandinavian descent) and Charles the Simple (French descent) was to grant land in return for protection of King Charles’ people. The agreement was known as the Treaty of St. Clair-sur-Epte.…

behavior implies the evolution of altruistic traits that reduce the chance of reproduction (fitness) of individuals, through Natural Selection ( Freeman & Herron, 2009). Currently, there are models that link outputs for this apparent paradox, being the "Kinship Selection Theory" or "Theory of Fitness Inclusive", proposed by Hamilton (1964), which produced the greatest scientific impact (Queller & Strassmann, 1998; Keller & Chapuisat, 1999; Strassmann et al, 2011;. Liao, Rong & Queller, 2015).…