The World State

most prominent is seeing more of the world I live in. One of the many things I have loved since I was a child is exploring. The ocean Appalachian Trail Seeing different cultures and ways of life Travelling is an important factor in the growth of humans as people and as global citizens. Understanding different cultures Meeting new…

Christian R Weisser speaks more about the idea of what sustainability is and how is important for society to be aware of it. Robert Paarlberg explains in his article the way the Earth is more and less sustainable because of everyone 's actions around the world. Both articles touch on the ideas that there are people out there helping change Earth for the better, and want to make earth sustainable for the future. The authors both explain how there are also harmful situations happening that hardly…

question is essential when trying to decipher the puzzle of America’s war loving behavior. But people respond to the rewards and punishments of any particular system, and if our system rewards greed and self-interest that is the way we will behave in the world. My theory of why America goes to war can be narrowed down to four words: America’s brand of capitalism. The America focused on power, wealth, and privilege is hooked on war, because without war it can no longer function correctly, or in…

a thinning fiction keen to aspire” (Groarke, 56, 22-26). Yet even with this meticulous care, the only way to escape the confines of the poem is “by way of leave”, or by flight. This is also, therefore, the only way to leave the physical world and reach the metaphysical one. Alan Gillis has a contrasting perception of birds; birds are not a beautiful part of nature, but another disorderly part of it. No poem is more explicit in its view of birds than the poem ‘Lagan Weir’, which is…

A World to be Bought Hope Nelson Global Business 3304 9/5/2015 In American culture, it is perfectly normal to see ads on a day-to-day basis: “Buy these clothes, it will make you cool.” “Buy this truck, it will get you places faster.” “Buy this, buy that. It will make you happy.” But even in America, where many things are becoming permissible, should there still be a line determining what can or cannot be bought? This is what authors Michael J. Sandel explores in his paper, “What Isn’t for…

what they call a “unique colony” within today’s world, and not a social group who makes their decision based on society’s opinions. The authors chose to use the metaphor of a colony to symbolize that although the church is part of the state its first priority is God and his will, rather than the governments. The second metaphor the authors chose to use throughout the book is that Christians are resident aliens, meaning that we do not belong to this world but instead belong to heaven. This…

so he can pay off his debt. Ashes took the money from her mom’s teapot because her father's her hero, he encourages her to be anything in the world, and Ashes is everything to him. Ashes took the money because her father's her hero. In the short story “Ashes” the author stated,”He was always harder to hear when they fought”( Pfeffer 1). This quote states that Ashleigh’s dad was a very calm and collective person. He…

lets the world become more connected unlike ever before. However, this infinite amount of access and connection also comes with a cost. Transparency brought by social media blurred the line between public self and private self . Thus, makes it hard for people to balance it. In “Electric Funeral”, Chuck Klosterman states that technology has the power, technology is the future and it is hard for us to walk away from it. And in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets”, Peter Singer states…

for we are now all connected throughout the world in one way or another. An individual can pick up this small 6.7 square inch piece of plastic, place their thumb on a button to unlock it, tap digit buttons displayed on the screen, and talk to someone on the other side of the globe. This level of communication is not just restricted to phones, but can also be done through computers, iPods, and tablets, and not just audio, but visual as well. The world is now connected communicably through the…

Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach, an insightful poem, warns its readers about the dangers of the world in an attempt to make them feel better. The poem compares the harsh reality of its readers’ isolation in the world to various images of oceanic scenes. In his first stanza, Arnold emphasizes the importance of distinguishing the difference between illusion and reality through his constant change from a beautiful to disheartening tone. Arnold’s “Sea of Faith” metaphorically attributes the decline of…