Rachel

Inspiring, assuring, encouraging, while our lives may not be like these words, there are other facets in the world that bring inspiration, assurance, and encouragement to us like music. For me, Rachel Platten’s single “Fight Song” is what brings me those beautiful things. I first heard the song during the spring of my junior year and it has been on my playlist ever since. I love the song’s relatability to my life through its lyrics and how it has pushed me to strive for what I want in life,…

Triumph Against Adversity Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in the early 1960’s as a response to the massive amounts of DDT being spread throughout the United States. DDT had first been introduced in the wake of World War II as a “wonder pesticide” that could eliminate all pests. The real problems began rising when farmers starting using much more of the pesticide than were necessary. Farmers were using as much as two pounds of DDT per acre on their crops, and not long after the effects were…

The author Rachel Summers can be considered an authoritative source for my topic because she has written an academic article on how music, thought, and culture all influence each other and these three categories relate to one’s self identity. Her article can be creditable because it is an undergraduate thesis submitted to the Lloyd International Honors College in candidacy for Full University Honors and reviewed by a Professor, Dr. Paul Stewart from the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance…

Rachel Alvarez has lived a very healthy life for the past twenty-three years. In those past years, she made a choice, one that she can’t even comprehend going back on. She has been happier, healthier and doesn’t even want to go back. Rachel Alvarez is a vegetarian. Vegetarianism is very self-explanatory. It is a non-meat based diet. In the standard vegetarian way, not a single piece of meat is consumed when one follows this life-style. And, in recent years, more and more people have taken the…

During the 1940s powerful chemicals, such as DDT were used to remove crop-destroying insects. In Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure”, she argues that harmful chemicals are not only killing insects but also modifying its surroundings(604, par.1). She develops this argument using poignant diction, explaining that the environment take milleniums to adjust and that human pollution is advancing further than the Earth can keep up thus causing irreversible damages to the environment. Carson’s…

In the citation from Leviathan, Hobbes is describing the law of nature which in essence is a general rule that is discovered through reason. Furthermore, such a law asserts human self-preservation and censures acts destructive to human life. As opposed to, a civil law, which must be written down and issued in order to be known. A law of nature is inherently known by all because it can be deduced by innate mental capabilities (such as reason and philosophy). Hobbes illustrated the terrors within…

In Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, published 1962, the author brings forth the idea that we are poisoning ourselves and the environment through the common misuse of chemical pesticides during that time (Introduction). She believes that citizens must have the right to “be secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons” (p xv under Introduction). In the face of obvious toxic effects of DDT and other chemicals, she reports that at the time, new chemicals were being…

As I read the “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism,” I learned some of the views of James Rachel. This article has a section on moral progress and its doubts. This is where I learned about James Rachel doubting cultural relativism. In this article James uses women rights as the topic of discussion. It talks about how things are changing for the better for women rights. This however can not be true based on the cultural relativism theory. In cultural relativism it states, how do we have the…

indicating that sex trafficking is more problematic than illustrated in most statistics. According to a journalist for the Huffington Post, “Trafficking minors for prostitution is the third highest money-maker for organized crime in the U.S” (Goodman 1). Rachel Lloyd, born in 1975, is a leader in advocating for victims of…

The purpose of Dawn, the prologue to Searching for Sunday, by Rachel Held Evans, is to introduce key elements that will be proceeded throughout the book, as well as establish Evans opinion on the her view and the view shared by millennials regarding the institutionalized Church and how it must change to recapture the attention of herself and the rest of the millennial population. The audience of Evans work is primarily directed toward millennials who wish to strengthen their faith, but also can…