Somerville

Almost every Saturday morning when I was in elementary school, my mother would wake me up for breakfast which usually consisted of cinnamon toast and cereal, I would get dressed in my favorite purple outfit, and pack. I would fill my small book bag with Barbie dolls, coloring books, and the whatever I was reading for school. Before leaving, my mother would make sure to stop by the gas station for snacks and to fill up on gas. We were going on a trip! We were headed to my grandparents’ house forty-five minutes away in Pascagoula, Mississippi; however, it felt like we had to drive for a full day. When I would return to school the next week, I would tell all my friends about the adventures I had traveling to and from my grandparents’ house. It was my version of an adventure, but I knew I wanted to go farther. I loved watching movies about other places that seemed so far away and listening to my grandfather’s stories from when he traveled during his time in the U.S. Air Force. Listening to other people’s experiences and watching movie stars travel all over the world inspired me to want to go on my own worldly travels. I could then bring what I have learned back to my community. Growing up in a low-income household with a single mother who had never attended higher education, it was difficult to imagine myself having the opportunity to travel, especially outside of the United States. However, being adopted into my best friend’s Greek Orthodox family my senior year gave me not…

2.1 Home and Homelessness Phenomenon Home and Homelessness are two diverse yet interconnected topics that are subjective in concept. Peter Somerville, on his theoretical article about homelessness, attempts to describe the complex nature of the two, and to his research found out that homelessness is the absence of “home” that are defined by the six key indicators which are: shelter, hearth, heart, privacy, roots, abode and paradise (Somerville, 1992). From this nature, home is now defined as…

described as written by fate. From the beginning, Somerville was allowed to grow up independent and free of the standard strictness enforced by officious parents. Through her upbringing, Somerville rarely had controlled and encouraged contact with the maths and sciences. In fact, she only studied for one full year and didn’t begin arithmetic until age 13 after seeing some “mysterious symbols” in a fashion magazine which propelled her interest in algebra. After her adolescent era ended,…

For years now, people have known that plants and animals are to some degree sentient. Does this give them the right to personhood? In the articles “ Are Animals Persons?” by Margaret Somerville and “Are Plants Intelligent? New Book Says Yes” by Jeremy Hance this topic is brought up. While both Hance and Somerville write about having respect for these species, Somerville is not willing to grant animals personhood just based on the fact that they have emotions, whereas Hance is all for plant…

Throughout her career and later life is where Foot began her life in philosophy and wrote her many essays on the topic of moral philosophy. In her personal life, she had shared a flat with Iris Murdoch directly after they graduated out of college. However, their friendship was fairly short lived as Iris left historian MRD Foot, and caused him suffering. Philippa, as a way to console him, married him in 1945. After marrying, the couple moves back to Oxford where she begins a graduate scholarship…

the majority of the prerequisites for a personality disorder (APA, 2013). According to the DSM-5 typical highlights of narcissistic personality disorder are variable and vulnerable self-esteem, with endeavors at regulation through attention and approval seeking, and either overt or covert grandiosity (Somerville, nd). Characteristic difficulties are apparent in identity self-direction, empathy, or potentially closeness, alongside particular maladaptive traits in the area of Antagonism…

immigrants may produce conflicts between different ethnic groups. Will Somerville and Madeleine Sumption mention in their book that in September 2008, in Italy there was a significant growth in unemployment and government statistics agency said that it was caused by high rate of immigration (Somerville & Sumption, 2009). Weeks later, similarly, unemployed people in Spain suggested their government to introduce a new program according to which the government would pay immigrants for going back to…

Joyce’s portrayal of Dublin in Dubliners is certainly not one of praise or fanfare. Rather, Joyce’s Dublin is a slumbering and pathetic portrayal of a metropolis in which her citizens cannot exercise the ability to break free from the city’s frigid grasp. Therefore, the Dubliners struggle to carve out a distinct identity that contains meaningful aspects of human life. Somerville states that “Dublin has suffered a sickness of the heart,” an assentation that certainly captures the undertones of…

Somerville, a physician and an ethicist, suggest that if physician assisted suicide were to become legal “we would have the duty not to treat people who attempt suicide” (Boudreau and Somerville 5). The fear of suicide becoming a normal event in our society exists in the people who oppose physician assisted suicide. However, the biggest issue that emerges when so much attention is brought to the subject of PAS is the “suicide contagion” phenomenon. Jacqueline C. Harvey, Ph. D., a bioethicist,…

This implies that when Francie dies, she’s given peace and Miss Charlotte is left to endure the woes of the world. Miss Charlotte is seen throughout the novel doing anything she can to hurt others. The fact that she takes Francie’s inheritance and plot to marry her off to Christopher is a great illustration of this idea. On the other hand, Francie is meek, timid, and weak; she’s also caught in an emotional bind. The way Somerville and Martin portray volume 3 insinuates they’re showing it pays…