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car instead of the child. Peter Singer argues that most people will think that Bob’s action is unhuman and wrong than he remind us that we also have the opportunities to save children around the world from dying through organization such UNICEF or Oxfam America etc. By comparison, Singers states “…Bob’s situation resembles that of people able but unwilling to donate to oversea aid….”(203) Since the result of Bob not throwing the switch is that the child died, that can be said the same to the…

And in a sign of what’s to come, the Shopping program at M&S continues to make strides. Last year its customers dropped off 4 million garments, which raised £3.2 million ($5 million) for its partner Oxfam. The program has also expanded outside of Britain to the Czech Republic and Hong Kong. Marks & Spencer's Plan A sustainability strategy has racked up £135m worth of savings over the past year, a 29 per cent increase on the previous 12 months. The £30m…

Money Matters: The Art of Corruption Growing up in modern America’s east coast, a highly a pressure ridden, materialistic pothole. In the investigative journalism piece Into the Wild by John Krakauer, the author goes into the detailed adventures, and experiences Chris Mccandless endured both on his trek to Alaska and the time in the wild. Chris Mccandless, on paper, had the perfect life, he was raised by a well-to-do family outside Washington D.C., graduated Emory University with no student…

Solar energy is a resource that produces electricity by emitting energy from the sun in form of solar radiation. Moreover, solar energy is not only considered as a type of renewable energy, but also sustainable energy, which means that it does not harm the environment, and there are no limits for using it. Further, devices that are used to produce solar energy are solar panels and solar cell. However, everything has both negative and positive sides, and solar energy also has its advantages and…

In contrast, Thoreau was much more mature, and he was aware of his limitations. He was not impulsive about his journey, and his house and lifestyle were well thought out. First of all, the purpose of Thoreau’s mission is in general different from Chris’s. Chris’s was an extreme test of his survival while Thoreau’s mission was a philosophical journey. All in all, Thoreau did not wish to expose himself to the elements to a severe extent. He just wanted to experience what life was like without…

Chris McCandless was a true modern transcendentalist, his story ended tragically but throughout his story, he showed how he progressed as a transcendentalist. Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, tells the story of Chris, starting from his adolescence years to his final days on the bus. Chris met many people who helped shape him even more as a transcendentalist and made his choice to leave his old life behind worth it. Gallien was one of the first people Chris met when starting his life. He…

The Generous Sinners: A Comparison Between Elton John and the Franklin “Every age is a Canterbury pilgrimage; we all pass on, each sustaining one or other of these characters” (Blake), said William Blake, celebrated 18th century English poet. In reference to the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s most celebrated writing, The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer develops a mental model about all of the characters in the literature and describes each character in detail. Three centuries later,…

no experience living out in the wilderness at all. At least Chris had previously experienced living out in the wild. It all started when he chose to abandon his car, burn all of the money in his wallet, and donate all of his $25,000 in savings to OXFAM, an organization to help end world hunger. Chris…

The quote, “Britain is a nation divided by class whereas the US continues to be a classless society” is only partially true; both Great Britain (GB) and the United States of America (USA) are divided by social classes. However, at one point in time, roughly about the late 1900’s, the quote was highly debatable. The United States of America and other countries thought that there was little class differentiation in the USA and the social class system consisted mostly of the middle class. Michael…

him a car and verbalized “I’m going to have to be authentic conscientious not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will cerebrate they have bought my respect”. This withal explicates why he gave the rest of his college mazuma to OXFAM America because he wanted to prove that riches are dispensable. Homogeneous to Chris McCandless noetic conceptions of the riches of life, Henry David Thoreau once verbalized that, “The nation itself, with all its soi-disant internal…