Vegetarianism

In 2016, mostly everything is instantaneous: information, media, and most of all our food. People in the western world, particularly Americans, rely on the instantaneousness of food in their daily lives. This benefit of accessibility is also a downfall. The food that millions of Americans consume so readily and easily on a daily basis is not only bad for them, but also the environment. Americans are eating more fast food than ever before. Long gone are the days of home cooked meals every day…

A taboo is an activity that is banned or not allowed words based on religious beliefs or morals. They came from ancient times, because people did not want to speak and think bad and provocative things. Breaking a taboo is extremely bad and unpleasant in society as a whole. Around the world, an act may be taboo in one culture and not in another. Prohibitions ranged from strict taboos in which a species or area was forbidden by the ancestors to social norms that concerned acceptable behavior when…

In addition to the short story, Tolstoy also devoted a substantial amount of creative effort, after War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina', to that longer type of fiction which he had attempted in his earlier period - the short novel. Though they vary a great deal in length, no one of them could properly be regarded as either a short story or a novel. For like the earlier short novels, each involves a number of characters and a frame of reference too extensive for the concentrated focus of the short…

Hindu god Vishnu with a strong tinge of Jainism, a morally rigorous Indian religion whose chief tenets are nonviolence and the belief that everything in the universe is eternal. Thus, he took for granted ahimsa (non injury to all living beings), vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between adherents of various creeds and sects.” This quote simply explains how peaceful we was from the start and how this trait has always been with him. “He led the popular…

In the novel Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, a The Life of Pi teaches us that the companionship in the most primal of animals indicates the close similarities man and animal contain, especially within an atmosphere that lacks civilization. Throughout the book, Yann Martel fills in this grey area between man and animal by demonstrating that when both are under the line of survival, similarities arise, which in turn helps provide an interdependent relationship between the two opposite figures.…

It first came about when Tim Harper started a rumor that Paul McCartney died, and put an article about it in his magazine. The news spread like fire in a gasoline factory and became one of the biggest conspiracies of its time. After Paul ended it all, the Beatles didn’t want to break the fans’ hearts. So they called up Billy Shears, Paul’s complete physical and vocal lookalike to take his place. Still to this day Billy Shears is “Paul McCartney” On the Album cover Abbey Road conspirators…

there has always been a moral dilemma. In order for there to be meat, an animal has to die. Many people consider this morally wrong. The most definite way people go about eliminating moral tension with eating animals is to not eat them. Studies of vegetarianism show that the slaughtering and the brutal environment animals are being put in is a primary motivation for eliminating meat in their diets. On the other hand, a reason why some people eat meat is to show that they are more masculine than…

Food: Where does it come from? The modern Standard American Diet or “SAD” is a diet based on chemical products, animal fat and refined food loaded with oil, salt and sugar that the majority of Americans consume and induce into their bodies. Needless to say, this diet is anything but nutrients. As a result, this diet causes many health diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, and coronary disease. The problem is also that the amount of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, seeds and nuts…

The Ethiopians - unlike the Hyperboreans - are a real people but have been imagined by the ancient sources . Similarly, they are described as living in a golden age state in that they are purer, nobler, taller, just and more beautiful than the people at the centre . They also do not practice seafaring – despite their location beside the ocean - and have no want or use for gold . Homer’s Iliad gives the Ethiopians their first appearance in literature and in book I Thetis reports that the gods are…

In his towering essay “Ideas of Nature,” Raymond Williams examined the dynamic relationship which humans hold with nature – a relationship which involves histories of intervention, separation, and domination – to investigate “whether nature include[s] man.” The dominant narratives which emerged from this debate suggest that nature* is wholly separate from human; contemporary discourse argues that nature is intrinsically where industry (and in extension human activity) is not. But what happens…