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Moral Comparability In Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer, he argues that we are morally obligated to donate as much money to charity as we can to help limit poverty in the world. Singer explains that there are many people in the world suffering from poverty, and living very poor-quality lives as a result of poverty. He argues that poverty is morally wrong because of the suffering it promotes. Singer believes it is the moral obligation of humans to donate as much as they can…

“The Final Hours of Troy” Virgil is a first century B.C.E. Roman epic poem writer. Virgil wrote the greatest epic poem and the most influential work of all classical literature, The Aeneid. The Aeneid makes up twelve books in total and it incorporates various legends of Aeneas who later becomes the founder of the Roman Empire. The story of “The Final Hours of Troy” is Book II of The Aeneid and it’s told by the Trojan Prince, Aeneas, to a Queen named Didio and her court. This long and tragic…

Teagan Hawes Author’s Craft Essay In life, humanity needs to see past the surface of others, or they will face the pain of guilt later on. Guilt. This is a word that can weigh down on your shoulders like a 50 pound dumbell. Having a guilty conscience can make one go insane and feel an immense amount of paranoia! This is evident in the short story, “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, where the narrator has an obsession with an old man’s eye--an eye that brought great agony among the…

Like an avalanche in the mountains change is inevitable and unstoppable. In the Iliad, by Homer, an epic/poem retelling the tale of the Trojan war, there was a bloody battle between Greece and Troy. One of the main characters is Achilles, an almost invincible Greek warrior. The author uses characterization to show Achilles experiences great change throughout the poem, from stubborn to devastated to avengement seeking, all because his good friend and comrade, Patroclus, was killed in battle.…

In 2011, Chad Newbrough Steacy wrote his thesis, Discourse in the Abandoned Small Town: Toward a Critical Geography of Decline. The title must be Steacy’s best expression of his interpretation of the state of affairs in the small town of Sunbury, PA. Steacy elaborates in the heart of his thesis, “An indication of the economic change that has affected Sunbury is the large amount of abandoned industrial space woven into the town’s landscape.” (Steacy, 2011). Clearly, Steacy is writing about a…

The possibility of education in solving the intergenerational poverty in Hong Kong What is the intergenerational poverty? It refers to the poverty induced by the socially or economically challenged background of a person’s parents. (Commission on poverty, 2007) In Hong Kong, there are 121,400 poor households with children under 18 years old. (Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report, 2014) It is impossible that education solves the intergenerational poverty in Hong Kong because there are great…

Pakistan remains one of the backward countries in the world. The nation’s progress is hampered by failing democracy, economic instability, menace of corruption, lawlessness and pervasive poverty and gender inequality. Inefficient justice system has contributed to causation of these menaces. Unless efficient justice system is produce no nation progress is possible in Pakistan. Pakistan remains one of the most lawless countries in the world. According to rule of Law index, published by World…

John Steinbeck was an American author in the 1900’s.Steinbeck lived during the Great Depression. The Great Depression happened in the 1930’s. This event occurred because the stock markets crashed due to inflammation. Inflammation is when money is massed produced and it loses its value. Banks went corrupt and poverty spread. Everyone had lost sight of their dreams, no matter what their dream was. The American Dream was that every United States citizen should be able to achieve success through…

THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS Characteristics of Informal Settlements The main characteristics of the informal settlements are informal land tenure, lack of access to basic amenities, social and physical infrastructures and finances in housing (Vienna, 2004 cited by Amao, 2012). Aside from that, it is also characterized by lack of secure tenure, the shelter opposes the city policies, illegal settlement, lack of access to public services, poor quality housing structures, illegal subdivisions of…

The great recession that is known as the “Great Depression’ started in 1929 and continued until about 1933 in United States. This severe economic phenomenon that was originated in United States not only affected the USA economy but also shook the economy of almost all the countries of the world. This great depression led to severe decline in the real output, acute unemployment rate and consequently all the economic sectors and variables were negatively affected. As a result, the living standard…