The Slippery Slope

Pregnancy and prenatal harm to offspring arise many issues. What is the right balance of the fetuses "rights" and the mother 's rights of bodily integrity? Finding the accommodating balance is both difficult and challenging. Both the fetus and mother must be analyzed and evaluated to come to an ultimatum deciding what is best for the unborn child, while also considering the mother 's rights to autonomy and bodily integrity. Robertson and Schulman say, "Ethical analysis must balance the mother…

The allegory of the cave by Plato and systematic skepticism by Descartes, are arguably two of the most influential concepts within rationalism. The formulation of Plato’s work served to fight back the growing influence of fallacious sophism at the time that paid attention to rhetoric and semantics over truth. Similarly, Descartes’ approach of radical skepticism confronted the monopoly of traditional scholastic philosophy that prevailed for centuries before him. Although both concepts are…

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We all know that Harry Potter series is a masterpiece of literature. However, many critics attacked Harry Potter and tried to ban it from the public. As the response, Judy Blume, an author of 22 books, published an essay: “Is Harry Potter Evil” to defend Harry Potter series. According to “The Language of Persuasion” by Media Literacy Project, Blume’s essay qualifies as a “media message” that uses many “persuasive devices” (340) Thus, I will categorize Blume’s essay as a positive propaganda…

Naomi Miller AP English Literature Mr. Gladding Since 1995 the percent of people in the world with internet access has gone from .4% to 49.6%. In the past decade, we have developed laptops that fit in our backpacks, phones that fit in our pockets, and internet that can fit all knowledge known to mankind. What could be wrong with that? Both Dave Eggers and MT Anderson, the authors of The Circle and Feed respectively, believe that these technological advancements may soon end up doing more…

The man on the television screen is Jack Kevorkian. Kevorkian was an advocate for physician-assisted suicide. He was known as “Dr. Death,” because he was a physician who assisted “one-hundred and thirty patients to their end.” Some viewed Kevorkian as a “hero” because he helped enforce the movement of physician-assisted suicide to become more relevant. His famous saying was “dying is not a crime,” and it is true because that’s all assisted suicide is; the patient dies, they are not being killed…

Through standing at her window and describing the sketches of nature that she sees, Lowell communicates her feelings of loneliness and struggle of feeling like an outsider. In similar fashion, MacNeice also stands presumably before his window, but instead of personifying the moon, he observes the rain falling and the sound of the rain on the London city streets which inspires him to go on "an imagined journey across the roof-tops of London as religious, moral and metaphysical questions are…

and/or school. Alcohol is an addictive substance and can lead to physical dependence. Although a person who is physically dependent (i.e., has an increased tolerance among other side effects) is not necessarily addicted, ongoing drinking is a slippery slope that can lead to addiction. Children and extended family members, as mentioned, can become codependent on a loved one’s alcohol abuse, or at least be significantly affected. As a general rule, these people have a greater likelihood of having…

Mark Wallace writes that the stories that Borges writes “are based on genuine dread of the endless time and space and a wise skepticism, but for the most part that dread happens on the level of ideas and not in the narrative itself as such… the dread comes from contemplating the philosophical puzzle the stories present.” Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius makes the reader contemplate mankind’s need to make connections and see order in a seemingly orderless world. The narrator states that “any symmetry,…

conditions in the Kokoda were appalling. During the day, the thick jungle was scorching with heat and humidity. By nightfall, temperatures would fall to about 5oC. Constant tropical rain dripped through the rainforest, causing the track to become muddy, slippery and even more difficult to travel through. The swamps within the Kokoda were very…