Political compass

When you grow you will find that you have to make different decisions in your life some harder than others and some simpler than others. In the novel Lyddie by Katherine Paterson. The story is about a girl named Lyddie her mom and her 2 sister left to live on their aunts farm and her mom sold Lyddie and her brother to work. Lyddie started to work at a mill as a maid then she was transfer to a weaving room and her brother to work on a farm to pay det of her family. While there are many reasons…

In The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman, Lyra is an ordinary child from Oxford’s Jordan College living with her uncle at Oxford’s Jordan College in a parallel universe where people’s souls are portrayed by an animal or daemon in physical form. But like every other child, she is very curious, and this leads to her being brought into an amazing journey nobody could have imagined. It all started when she realized what power in society can do. After learning about a project involving Dust, which…

resources. Finally, my biggest core belief that has had influence over my entire life has been hard work. From my past experiences and struggles, I’ve developed the belief that it is no one’s job except my own to improve my life. As I explored political ideologies and parties, I have found my values align with parties that share my core belief of hard work bringing…

questionable moral compass.…

moral rule or belief that helps one distinguish what is right and wrong. To have power means to have the capability to direct or influence the behavior of others. Virtue and principle go hand in hand, virtue requiring a moral compass and principle providing that said compass, but is that what’s most important? Being morally responsible? Or is obtaining and having power more important— specifically when it comes to politics. Socrates and Rousseau definitely would argue in favor of morality versus…

defines political power as the right to make laws for the protection and regulation of property. In his view, these laws only work because the people accept them and because they are for the public good. He claims that all men are originally in a state of nature, which means that a man in this original state is bound by the laws of nature, but he is otherwise able to live, act, and dispose of his possessions as he sees fit. He goes on by stating that all men have been given a moral compass by…

from both extreme sides of the political spectrum gathered a significant following and our president elect may be one of the most hated elected presidents in recent history. But how do the officials elected to power and prominent figures in the media effect the…

Wordsworth’s “London, 1802,” the poet John Milton metonymically symbolizes the artistic excellence and revolutionary vigor the speaker believes England has lost. However, the speaker also appeals to Milton for moral guidance, correlating England’s political and cultural stagnation to a forgotten moral foundation. While the speaker employs parallelism and a wide variety of poetic devices to demonstrate this causality, his conspicuous and incessant use of the colon and semicolon particularly…

have a right to overthrow any authority that displeases them. It can be patriotic to protest one’s government due to the possible immorality of leaders and that the core of a country is its people, not its rules. The incompetency found in some political leaders can lead to poorly-made and unjust laws. In Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Pap is clearly the antagonist of the novel, but still represents the former rules of the southern government and the…

I think this concept is true in my life: my morality heavily influences my overall political stance. Specifically, my Christian values tell me to care about everyone, no matter their ethnicity or background. Even when I considered myself to be more conservatively inclined, I have always believed in an international, multilateral approach…