Tragedy of the commons

Concealed Carry on College Campuses On April 16, 2007, one of the deadliest shootings the United States has seen occurred on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The fatalities included thirty-two students and teachers. The shooter was a senior English major from the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech, Seugn Hui Cho. The violence began early that morning, when he shot a female freshman and a male resident from his dormitory. He then fled the scene. Police…

on these concepts is the fear that without a clear path or purpose, life would be utterly devoid of meaning resulting in pure chaos. Beliefs also serve as a much needed sanctuary for the human soul, it lets people form a close knit community with a common bond and way of interpreting life. It gives a sense of belonging and being needed among others fulfilling another psychological need of love and respect. This is shown by almost all characters present in Candide, for example whenever Candide…

are examples of the respects and values of the cultures in the times they were written. Oedipus and Beowulf are two mortals who are exceptional human beings, yet fate and human nature are the ultimate deciders in the lives they live. Both share common characteristics and have…

different by white people. Africans Americans, Asians and Egyptians from the cause of stereotypes, tragedies or opportunity for one another. The quote “American by hyphenated, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different view by Mexican alien”. To summarize the quote it brought a example of people's perspective about this world in different ways. You don’t also need a tragedy to make a difference in your community. You can also bring communities together by…

“Peace! I will stop your mouth[with a kiss].” In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Benedick and Beatrice serve as the comedic relief characters, which the plot is steeped in, through their actions of reasonableness, moonstruck ness, and tsundere like actions. Benedick and Beatrice are contradictory in many ways, one way is that Beatrice is reasonable while Benedick is moonstruck, which sucks the plot through a series of humorous paradoxes. In the first quote, Leonato, Claudio, and…

In the first day of the presentations, all three cases are all clearly flawed ethically. It was quite obvious how each theory will evaluate the cases. To me, the group that stood out was the Enron case. Among all the students who present about the Enron case, the two person using Virtue ethics caught my attentions. In total, there are six components in Virtue Ethics, each of the presenters usd different ones to evaluate Enron. The first person used role identity and integrity, and he claimed…

philosophers Ralph Emerson and Du Bois, respectively. These manifestations, though seemingly unattached, were created by these philosophers because of a common event in each of their lives: their sons’ death. Through this common tragedy, each man goes through his own form of grief which leads them toward a common goal of moving forward. Through their common goal, they each create their own philosophies that can combine to create a progression from grief to being born again. After the death of…

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, Lady Macbeth shows many detailed symptoms that today would be classified as a paranoid schizophrenic. Lady Macbeth is the wife of Macbeth, who was a thane who became king by brutal meanings. Although Lady Macbeth is a strong willed woman in the beginning, she is clearly deteriorating from a mental illness. Lady Macbeth’s actions are the clear result that she is suffering from what today are the symptoms relating to paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoid…

Maddie Entine Hosseini: • His first book, The Kite Runner, focused on men and the male perspective. To get the full 360, he decided to write a book from a females perspective. He wanted people to hear both male and female sides of his native country, Afghanistan. • He took a trip to Afghanistan. It wasn’t a trip intended to be about “researching a book” but to educate himself on the culture and lives of the people. About a year later, he began to form A Thousand Splendid Suns. He compiled all…

Macbeth was influenced by other Shakespearean tragedies. Hamlet is one of these. Hamlet is the main character in Hamlet. He is a prince and heir to the throne in Denmark. His father recently died and his mother, Gertrude, married his uncle, Claudius. The ghost of his father appears to him and uncovers that his death was not an accident. In fact, Claudius murdered him. Hamlet is urged to seek vengeance for his father. Hamlet is not convinced that Claudius is guilty, so he will not act until there…