The Lives of Others

obligation or dependence on others, who finds the ability to make a living for himself and look out for his own interests.” This means that an American is someone who doesn’t need to rely on others and can fend for themselves. They can work hard and they aren’t treated by complete trash. Now that we have explained what Crevecoeur believed to be an American. Let’s go a little deeper into it. I want to talk about how Americans are different and why Americans need to value each other. Let us begin.…

purposes of this discussion, to claim that humans have a superior ethical status to animals is the same thing as declaring that it is morally right to give the interest of humans greater weight than those of animals in deciding how to behave. On the other hand, one may argue that it is generally wrong to kill humans, but not animals, because humans are rational and animals aren’t. Along with that, one may claim that the suffering of animals counts less than the suffering of humans because humans…

always meditates on death and thus always creates life.” Like a coin always having two sides, the problem of life and death always interact with each other. In the 1925 published novel Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf points out that the view of life and death is rooted in individual consciousness. Some people die, their consciousness still live; some people live, their consciousness is empty, they are the walking dead. Although Clarissa has well material life, her spiritual life is empty.…

Japanese American’s lives changed in an instant due to a different country's actions. In the middle chapters of When an Emperor Was Divine, it showcases the struggles all families went through when realizing where they will be living until the end of the war. Otsuka highlights the hardships the characters go to through inside and outside of the internment camp, reminding us of the struggles Japanese Americans went through during WWII to overcome the public's trepidation. As the girl and her…

are forced to give them away at birth. Women are not only diminished to their fertility and ability to reproduce but they are also prohibited from thinking for themselves and using their bodies as they wish. They barely have any freedoms and their lives are limited to going to the market and the doctor. In both cases, women do not have power over their reproductive rights…

Erikson’s Stages of Life Socialization is defined as learning social norms and gaining social experience and using it to help build a unique personality and become a part of society. Unlike other species, studies show that humans need social interaction to live normal,healthy lives. Researchers in the mid 1800s to 1900s came up with six major theories of socialization, including the Erik H. Erikson’s 8 stages of development. Erikson looked at human development in a broader view and broke down…

However, while these systems help to make our lives richer and more advanced, not all agree that the association of humankind in close contact with each other is the healthiest or best choice for the people that exist in this world. In the novel, Civilization and Its Discontents, author Sigmund Freud articulated…

they think and live. Zimring (2004) says “Until rather recently, the penalty of death was a universal feature of criminal justice. Students of European ideas and institutions usually credit Cesare Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments, published in 1764, as the first detailed and influential criticism of capital punishment that expressly called for its abolition.” When someone kills a human being…

the first place, Monaco, has an average lifespan of 89.52 years. How come The U.S.A has a low lifespan compared to forty-two other countries? How do other countries live so long? The United States may have a lower life expectancy compared to other countries, but with slight changes, everyone can live happier, healthier and longer. First is America’s diet. Compared to other countries it’s unhealthy, greasy, and loaded with unneeded and unwanted calories and fats. Consuming too much of these foods…

The gulper eel is very different from other eels. The biggest difference is mainly in its’ physical structures. It’s physical structures help the eel survive. Something happens to male eels when they mature. They eat in a special way but deep sea predators eat them. They eat small creatures. They live deep in a dark environment. The eel has many categories it is uniquely adapted which, includes physical structures, reproduction and behavior, feeding habits, position in food web, range, and…