Misery

supply, and if unchecked may cause misery. (TML 900). Malthus…

vital characters such as Whitechapel and Bertie respectively, and the long lasting effects it has on the way these characters view life itself. In the longest memory the concept of trauma is highlighted through love and death. D'Aguiar weaves the misery endured throughout Whitechapel's extensive lifetime through monologues that give an insight into his inner feelings about the death of both his wife and child. Similarly, in Black Diggers suffering is shown by Wright through the hardship of…

it was inescapable. The primary source quotes “I have known those who can face enemy barrage without flinching, who still shiver at the memory of their experiences in the mud of Flanders”, expressing the feeling that mud caused the soldiers extreme misery all through the war and was more of a primary enemy then the other side. As this source was written in 1918, at the conclusion of the war, it can be said…

debate, they stand as almost complete polar opposites of each other, with largely incompatible beliefs on the plight of the common worker. Thomas Malthus takes a classical-liberal approach to the Industrial Revolution and its attributes, arguing that misery and human nature will keep the abuses of the bourgeois in check. On the other hand, Karl Marx would take a Socialist approach, and believe Capitalism is a wretched system, which the liberal factory…

From reading the narration, one can picture the circumstances and understand his reason for such a title. Seven year Equiano misery started the moment he boarded the ship filled with fear and air polluted by overcrowded slave's sweats (164). Phillis Wheatley was a young slave brought from Africa like Equiano. Interesting, Phillis learned how to read and write at an earlier age…

transform their lives and society radically; as moralism requires the similar consideration of misery of all people. In others words, the singer tries to insinuate the mere existence of poverty generates an obligation to affluent to alleviate it. Therefore, Singer only offers illogical arguments that play the psychology of the critical people who remorse, as they should, the actuality of severe misery in the…

Greed. It overcomes us when we do not balance our wants and needs. Often times, people confuse what they want with what they need, causing an imbalance of desires and necessities. Your greediness reveals who you are as a person, and the types of items that you value. Generally, people choose what they want over what they need without realizing it due to their materialistic values. When greed and selfishness overcome someone, they will do anything for what they want, occasionally, leaving their…

Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it…

happiness of the greater crowd outnumbers the misery of the few people that may have experience harm. Act utilitarianism explains, “Always act to promote the greatest good for the greatest number” (Teleological or Consequentialist Theories, 2015). Someone practicing act utilitarianism would advise me to think of the greater good of the people that are in this situation. Some may assume that an act utilitarian would encourage me to not take away the pain and misery of the children that are ill,…

As I sit here thinking of you; heart full of warm thoughts. I look at the floor and then I saw... “The feather”, all dressed in white; peacefully lying on its side; unchanged by the feet that passed it by. The feather that came from you, has attached itself to my shoe. Oh how I miss you to, looking at “The feather” that remind me of you. “My Night Owl” I’m sitting quietly, looking up at the stars I’m thinking, how beautiful! Smiling so big; my heart at peace and I’m feeling very special.…