Vegetarianism

Indian state of Gujarat. His father was the Prime Minister of Porbandar, and his mother was extremely religious and practiced the religion of Vaishnavism. This religion was influenced by Jainism, which taught “compassion toward all sentient beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification,…

education, health care, marriage, government and class privilege are the issues which always engaged Shaw’s attention either in his personal life or in his writings. Shaw was noted for expressing his views in uncompromising language, whether on vegetarianism, the development of the human race, or on political issues. He is the only person who has been awarded by Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award in 1938, for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film…

A Response to Peter Singer on Animal Rights and Consciousness Long has the world and its popular philosophy considered animals to be mere things, mere living objects; lacking essential consciences, devoid of personhood. Humanity, however, has changed and is continuing to change, drastically. Knowledge is rapidly increasing, culture extensively expanding, and philosophy dramatically changing; thus, the personhood and, by extension, rights of animals is subsequently being reexamined. A leader, if…

Colonial India was a key commodity in the world trading economy during the time of European exploration. India was sort after for its wealth and prosperity. This lead to many rival nations, namely the Dutch Republic, England, France and Denmark-Norway, establishing trading posts within the country during the era of the 17th century. It was during the late 18th century that one of the biggest colonial players, Great Britain, achieved dominance over India, dragging it through to the 19th century…

In his essay All Animals Are Equal Peter Singer argues that non-human animals are equal to humans. He believes that the next major liberation movement will be the one to end speciesism, which he defines as the discrimination against animals by humans. I will be arguing that the case Singer puts forward is persuasive, and provides a simple and easy solution to end speciesism by using logic and appealing to human emotion. Singer highlights a few main examples of speciesism in our society, the…

American trade union leader, born March 31, 1927 near Yuma (Arizona) and died on April 23, 1993 in St. Louis (Arizona). Cesar Chavez was the founder of the unit of agricultural workers, who, since 1964, brought together migrant laborers, most of them Hispanic, to fight for the improvement of their working conditions. Cesar Chavez belonged to a family of Mexican immigrants employed in agricultural work. His childhood was stage a succession of fields of work between California and Arizona, which…

Religion on the road: a Desert Debate While traveling along the silk road, a Confucian encountered a young man sitting peacefully beside the road. He was sitting with his feet crossed upon his thighs and his hands resting his knees. The Confucian, wondering what the man was accomplishing, respectfully asked, “May I ask what you are doing?” The man replied, “ I am meditating. Meditation is a conscious effort to change how the mind works.” Interested, the Confucian sat with the man. The man…

Changing Outlook on Body Appearance Throughout the article, Mary Worley expresses her feelings toward body acceptance by not only revealing many of her real-world experiences,(including a trip to a NAAFA convention, an outlook change in accords to dieting, and discovering the most beneficial way to becoming a healthier human being), but also by providing seemingly factual information to support her opinions about the way in which others view overweight people in our society(Worley, 163-167).…

Introduction When one hears the word Rasta or Rastafarian, certain images surface for some; dreadlocks, Bob Marley, reggae music and marijuana. As the movement has become more globalized, these iconic images have become main stream. However to understanding Rastafarianism, which some label a religious and some label a social movement, is to realize at in its simplest form it is an ideology that gives the participants a behavioral and spiritual guideline for life (Chevannes 1994). At the core…

process of Sanskritization for being a part of the dominant castes having a higher ritual ranking. To describe the concept Sanskritization is “A low caste was able, in a generation or two, to rise to a higher position in the hierarchy by adopting vegetarianism and teetotalism, and by Sanskritizing its ritual and pantheon. In short, it took over, as far as possible, the customs, rites, and beliefs of the Brahmins, and the adoption of the Brahminic way of life by a low caste seems to have been…