Sarah Good

From the eternal conflict between God and Satan, to the struggles of Winston Smith against Big Brother in 1984, by George Orwell, the battle between good and evil, morally just and unjust, oppressed and oppressor has been a central theme throughout much of mythology and literature. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, examines this theme by detailing the war between Nurse Ratched, the head nurse of a psychiatric ward, and recently admitted Randall Patrick McMurphy, a rough…

Social media is a platform that enables people from all around the world to be connected together and communicate with one another. It is done by sharing media content, ideas and information. Some examples of social media are Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Social media can impact us both positively and negatively depending on the situation. It impacts us in terms of the way of expressing ourselves, our emotions, behaviours and relationships. It is important to learn about social media at…

argued that humans are naturally good. However, John Locke declared that humans are not innately good or evil. William Golding came back to the of innate human behavior during the 20th century when wrote the novel Lord of the Flies, where he displayed his unique and nuanced view of innateness of good and evil. His complex view is implied through his complex characterization of Ralph and Piggy. However, Golding characterizes characters as Simon and Roger as naturally good and…

asks the Reb why he has so many files, and he spots a file named God and asks the Reb about it. The House of Peace, when Covington was 10 years old, he accepts Jesus as his savior for the first time. In The Daily Grind of Faith, Albom describes how good Albert Lewis was when it came to preaching and how he become a Reb. In Ritual, the author talks about how Albert Lewis wants to keep his traditions to feel connected with the past generations and future generations. In The End of Spring, Albom…

Eudaimon by Aristotle. Though, he himself suggests that truly virtuous and happy person will be able to endure all the sorrow that befalls him/her. It becomes slightly unclear, how much importance does Aristotle really grant to all of those external goods. Probably this claim connects to his view that person can be called happy only after his death, that is when his whole life can be evaluated. Thus, it seems that if several misfortunes befall someone, he/she can still be called happy after his…

gift of free will. The ability to choose either to do good or to do bad. This may seem a bit over simplistic, but ultimately, in life, this is what it boils down to. We can either behave in a manner that brings both glory and honor to the Creator or we can act in accordance to our own selfishness seeking instead to place our lives above Him. Once Adam and Eve made the significant decision to defy God by eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil His once perfect creation was tainted.…

I believe that bad things happen to good people. Better yet, I believe that terrible things happen to the most innocent of people. Nothing bad ever happened to Hitler; the millions of innocent jews he killed did not deserve their gruesome deaths. Orphans as young as children do not deserve a life without a parent to guide them through it. A lot of times I ask myself, Why? Why do things like this happen to good people, why don 't I ever see bad people suffering? A lot of times I turn to God and…

two categories good and evil. ‘Good’ meaning someone who does not cause any harm to a person or thing in any situation and ‘Evil’ meaning is the opposite, a person who intentionally hurts people or things. Some debates that surround this topic are good deeds and the selfish or selfless intentions behind these good deeds and the ability of one evil deed weighing out all good deeds. Although some humans’ good actions are motivated by selfish intentions, humans are fundamentally good because they…

the knowledge to use in years to come. A time that I was so careless in school, getting by with straight A’s my eighth grade year, was corrupted by going into my freshman year, Geometry class. Our eighth grade year was still young. This was the good times when our grades didn’t count and I personally, didn’t care if my grades did count or not. My favorite time of the day was Algebra one. Now, I know that many of my classmates hated…

Throughout the ages, there has been a battle of good and evil. What caused all this mayhem? Many have tried to answer this question, and in various ways. These answers have shaped the different worldviews of history. The remarkable thing about these worldviews is that deep underneath all the outer issues runs a central theme with two sides that divides all worldviews into one of two categories. This topic has roots so deep that it affects every single other facet of the worldview. There are two…