Promise

Organization, 250 million preschool children are vitamin A deficient. An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 vitamin A deficient children become blind every year, half of them dying within 12 months of losing their sight. In the article Golden Illusion the Broken Promises of “Golden” Rice by Janet Cotter, many interesting points were brought up concerning how genetically engineered rice is a futile approach to solving the Vitamin A deficiency problem. The author’s main claim is that the high complexity…

In The Promise by C. Wright Mills, he disuses the impact that change has on mankind society. He states, we humans do not learn about history and biography as becoming sociologists and how to keep a relationship between two individuals in a stable society. He states we should investigate in organizations and how people interact with others and influence our thoughts and actions. Moreover, he talks about awareness of the relationships between personal experience and wider society. Our lack of…

Doris fuller lost his daughter to a mental illness. It was a few weeks before her 29th birthday. She did it by stepping in front of a train in Baltimore. Her name was Natalie and her dad and herself wrote a book together “Promise You Wont Freak Out: A Teenager Tells her mother the truth about Boys, Booze, Body Piercings, and Other Touchy Topics (and mom responds).” Since it was such a scary concept telling the truth about her secrets they were on morning America shows and got paid to give…

After reading part one of Gone from the Promise Land, I was not at all surprised to find out how troublesome Jim Jones’s childhood was. In class, I learned that Jim Jones had thought of himself as ‘God’ and he had lead a religion where he was able to convince the followers of this religion to commit suicide. Since Jim Jones was able to convince a large number of people to commit suicide, I thought that his reasoning for doing this must have stemmed from his childhood. I thought it stemmed from…

In Samuel P. Huntington’s book, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony, he lays out a distinct claim; the gap created by the division between American institutions and the moral perfection ideals of American Creed are what cause friction in our political system. Ultimately, our ideals like democracy, equality and individualism as American’s are at odds with the institutions and government around us. This gap that Huntington says exists, I believe, will never be able to be succumbed. The…

I. Formula of Humanity (FOH): False Promises Fail to Value Humanity as an End in Itself: Promises are invitations of trust involving two reasoners: promisors and promisees. Promisors offer trust by uttering “I promise”. Promisees are recipients of promises that accept trust and reason accordingly. Deceitful promises are false invitations of trust. Deceitful promisors falsely offer trust. Deceived promisees unknowingly accept false invitations of trust and reason accordingly. Kant argues that…

The main character in the book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is Deborah Blau. If I were to go through Deborah's trash, I might find many uncanny things. In the beginning of the book Deborah attempts suicide, she cuts her wrists and enough blood spills to fill half a cup. I would think that this would be one of the many items in her trash can that have to do with her failed suicide attempts. In chapter two Joanne Greenberg wrote, “The half cup of blood on the bathroom floor had given all…

“Can you promise me something?” Maybe it was the serious tone in his voice, or, just that particular arrangement of words, but Shawn’s question made Celia panic. “That depends…” she said with hesitance. “Promise me you’ll wipe the extra ice cream off my face before we leave.” Celia instantly relaxed and began laughing. “You know,” said Shawn, his tone heavy with sarcasm, “it’s rude to laugh at people. Especially those with disabilities.” Celia gasped dramatically. “How dare you accuse me of…

Why is Poverty so Common? In an excerpt from a book I found titled “The Forest and The Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise” by Allan G. Johnson, he talks about how major social problems are hard, if not impossible to stop. He gives the example of poverty, describing it as the most far-reaching, long-standing cause of chronic suffering. Johnson explains how common poverty…

The book St.Margaret Mary and the Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Mary Fabyan Windeatt, recounts the painful life of a girl from Lhautecour, France in the17 century who fervently wants to become a nun and fulfill the promise she made to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In her way to achieve this, she must endure a lot of difficulties. Nevertheless, by Gods Grace, a lot of prayers, and many virtues as like obedience, charity, and humility Margaret at the age of 23 is able to enter at the…