The Lives of Others

that the best interest for their country is exterminating a race/religion. When other countries believe that genocide is the best interest for their country, neighboring countries should step in. They are human lives, I understand countries did that in the past but its called learning from past mistakes. Destroying a culture, a way of life is not right. Forcing that race to travel hundreds to thousands of miles to other countries to avoid extinction, is a fear I do not wish upon my enemy. I do…

their lives freely because their future has been chosen for them. In this case it wouldn’t matter…

to spend more time with her friend and not worry about what other people are doing and how they are spending their days. She had fun with her friend and was content about having a fun evening without worrying about others. From this experience, Wortham proves to our society today that cellphones play a large role in our lives and how they shouldn’t be so…

style dorms are too expensive and harbor strict rules. These places are not appropriate or suitable for children or elders to live in. Older college freshman cannot live with their children under these conditions. A college freshman should not be required to live on campus because of the cost associated with housing and meal plans, the age of the college freshman, and the other primary responsibilities the person has. The cost associated with housing is too expensive for some college freshman…

Final Essay From the curriculum that we have studied in this course, we were faced with the pros and cons of aging and with dying. There is no doubt always the desire for longevity but we can see that, that drive to live longer may not be such a promising one. As we continue to talk about these topics we should know what are the ones we need to be asking. The questions that we are posed with can be answered from many avenues, films like Harold and Maude, Cocoon, and books such as Spring…

and that it is thus natural for man to live in a polis. Hobbes disagrees with this understanding of man a political animal, as he claims that man is actually a greedy being that is driven by power. Thus he feels that the natural state of man is a state of war. Although the two disagree initially about the man’s natural state, Aristotle comes to agree with Hobbes’ view since they agree that without a common sense of justice that individuals have no reason to live together. Furthermore the two…

Society is made up of groups of people that live in a structured lifestyle where they live by rules and regulations. The structure of society is made to keep balance among the people and their economy. Individuals living under the control of the government keep society in place. Within society there is class structure that divides the people. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat are two types of class status which are distinguished depending on their economic status in society. In the reading…

to lead pleasant and happy lives by destroying one’s inner self and relationship among people. Disagreeing with the most people, Rubin thinks that competition causes a “self-depleting cycle” making people feel self-abased and isolated. Through competition, people are always comparing themselves to other people, so they are never satisfied and happy. According to Rubin, in Switzerland, a country without competition, the relationship among students is much closer than other countries. However, in…

community. Because people live in a society, they are forced to compare themselves to each other; the rich depend on the poor in order to thrive and the poor depend on the rich in order to survive. This is an inequality because one person benefits at the cost of another person whether that be in wealth, power, or social status. All these inequalities share a similarity by amour-propre because they are all based on other people’s economic or social ranking. If man did not live in a society, he…

Is black lives more important than any other race? No. This question appears in every discussion because black people are saying black lives matter. They ask because they think we’re just stating that because we matter most but in reality Black lives are more at risk than white and other lives. Black and Spanish lives are similar. We both struggle to survive and gain, just spanish people aren't dying everyday, being thrashed on social media, or being called out their name for the color of their…