The Killing

Try being forced to move away from your home country, family, and everything you know to escape an unsafe environment. About 1.7 Million out of 7-8 million Cambodians were killed due to the Khmer Rouge Genocide, not one person has been persecuted for their actions during this time. Loung Ung was forced to leave everything she knew in Cambodia including her sister Chou, to move to America. She moved with Meng and Eang, Meng is Loung’s oldest brother and Eang is his wife. She moved because of the…

McWhorter, a linguist and activist. He says this in a Ted Talk called "Txting is Killing Language. JK!!", about whether or not texting is killing language. He believes that texting is not hurting language. Texting is a very fast system that is revolutionizing quickly, but is also bringing characters, other than letters, into the American Language. This character is an emoticon or emoji. While texting is not killing language, emojis are questionable. They are not words, but are used so often to…

Option 3: In Hanife, how does Soysal deal with the issue of “honour killing”? Hanife (2010), is one of the famous short stories of Sevgi Soysal who was a Turkish- German female writer and was imprisoned for political reasons, during a military coup in Turkey in 1971. Soysal deals with the issue of honour killing by examining the different perception of honour and its importance and the place of women in the view of society, through the symbolism of the images such as the poplar tree and the…

The title of the article "Why Killing Coyotes Doesn't Make Livestock Safe" is an effective hook because it draws in readers from both sides of the debate it discusses. Conservationists will be concerned with wildlife populations, and owners of livestock will be interested in the safety of their own animals. Megan M. Draheim's article follows up on its title with a startling introduction: the US government's Wildlife Services killed more than 70,000 coyotes in the year of 2016. Despite the fact…

Is Killing Lennie Merciful? Imagine the tough decision where you must pick to either kill your best friend to end their struggles or continue to let your friend live but know that they will constantly suffer. In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, reveals the life of both a woofer and caretaker during the 1930s named George. His best friend, Lennie who suffers from mental illness, travel with him, two best friends share the dream of having their own place to live. However, Lennie’s…

Imagine your grandmother is fighting a battle with cancer and she is in a hospital bed brain dead and unable to breath on her own wouldn't you want what's best for her, or would you want her to suffer for the rest of her life? While others believe killing another is not justified ending a life can be, in the case of Military Ethics, Euthanasia, and in the case of George and Lennie. Assisted suicide is not a justifiable act because doctors are going against their oath to keep people safe and save…

Is Killing the Solution Over the past Century there have been various opinions on how to prevent, or maintain overpopulation of White-Tailed Deer (WTD). Although killing are the oldest, and most effective method of deer population control, according to the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission (NCWRC). Some animal rights groups like People for the ethical treatment of animals (PETA) feel that the killing of the WTD is not the answer to the problem. The population of these beautiful WTD is…

information were given about honor killing. Most of the articles were against it like” Honor killing as a global problem “which was written by Arslan Ifitkhar in 2016 , and discusses the dangers of honor killing as it threatens a lot of people especially women worldwide and how some people plea on their religion (Islam) in order to justify this crime. Also, “ Preliminary Examination of so-called "Honour Killings" in Canada” by Muhammad Amin (2016) showed that honor killing started many…

question is yes. Soldier’s killing during a war is justified because morality is frozen during wartime, they are doing it for the common good of the public, and they are acting in self-defense. Soldiers murdering other people are justified because morality is frozen during wartime. That statement means that war makes things that we would normally condemn not condemnable. During wartime, some civilians and soldiers alike don’t consider killing as murder. During wartime killing your enemy is…

controlling all of China. The Qin dynasty lasted for less than 20 years, the Han dynasty that then replaced it kept China together politically for centuries. Even though the character Nameless in the movie Hero died heroically because of his attempt of killing the king he eventually wanted peace for the king. The Qin’s emperor and king was a cruel and supercilious character so the movie and the book…