Second person

In any society we see that each of us as individuals occupies a place or position. Each one of us has a status and a role or roles, but these are not simply what we as individuals choose. They are not like roles a film actor may or may not opt to do. There are social institutions that constrain and control, punish and reward. They could be ‘macro’ social institutions like the state or ‘micro’ ones like the family. Social institutions are integral part of a human society because they are one of…

So what makes someone rich or poor? People are rich or poor based on their family, education, and expectation of greatness. First, family plays the most important piece in whether or not someone ends up as a rich and successful person or a poor and unsuccessful person. Moms, dads, and siblings all play important roles in the shaping of people. If your family life has…

you hear? - When I read it, I hear like music. I feel a sound like a person is running fast and then slows. Like a strong run followed by a smoother one. 2. It is strange that this poem addresses a “you”? Is this “you” the audience? Or, do you think the speaker’s audience is wider? If the audience is wider, who is the audience or reader? - I think that the speaker is referring to all of us in general. The audience is every person who has achieved something gigantic in his life. The feeling that…

Tom Regan “The Case for Animal Rights” The term inherent value is a state in which a being is more than just an object; it professes that any being has inherent value equally. Tom Regan uses the inherent value term to defend his case for animal rights by stating that animals possess these inherent rights and that it is justifiable to abolish the use of animals in science, hunting, and agriculture, etc. There are three main views to argue Regan’s inherent values term. One can argue against him…

debilitating complication known as post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN). The path that shingles takes consists of three phases which are prodromal phase that precedes the acute phase by days, and finally the chronic phase. Physicians demonstrated that if a person ever had chickenpox,…

there are many different kinds of chairs out there.” (Belluck 2005). Moreover, in Belluck’s article, Susan Fiske a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton mentions that stereotype of appearances is divided into two wide extents. Either a person appears hurtful or kind. However, all of this was the psychology aspect of stereotype. Scientists are finding that stereotypes are not a simple action that is stored and retrieved by the brain but associated with general regions in the brain…

When it comes to disability, a person may be denied a job because of it. In consequence of their disability, they are not allowed to do certain things like other people who have none. However, most employers use this excuse to protect the disabled person from getting hurt more than they already are. A person in a wheelchair shouldn’t be exposed to working conditions that involve lifting heavy objects or climbing. They’re…

man or any person. This woman never commits to one man, and prefers to be self-governing. Her life is not as happy as some people might think it is. “She can never go out alone.” Her friend Jake says. (1). Brett is constantly complaining about her life to her friend, that is miserable and that nothing is good in her life. (1). Being independent is one of her best qualities, but sometimes she needs someone to be there for her, when she seeks help.…

ability to care for others outside of our family/friend circle which is a valid concern. If we go back to to the homeless person we always ignore, the utilitarian would say we should give everything to him/her until we are on an equal playing field. Those who believe in Ethics of care would give him/her food and water, or maybe take this person to a homeless shelter. The homeless person can benefit from us, by us providing for them things they don’t have, but not in a way where we lose…

famous thought experiment conceived by British philosopher, Phillipa Foot; in which the question is posed whether a person would pull a lever to divert a train and kill only a single railroad worker or act in passivity and let the train run its course, killing four workers. Most people who answer this question claim that they would pull the lever, thus diverting the train. In the second part of the thought experiment, a new scenario is proposed in which the lever that was used to divert the…