We Are the World

be like causes. If we reject that idea, the very basis of Paley’s argument fails and so the entire of Paley’s Teleological Argument fails. There are many examples of things looking designed but are in fact natural phenomena such as, for example, the Giant’s Causeway. Hume continues this criticism by stating that…

The article that Peter Singer writes brings up some major ethical concerns. He has some interesting points of view he wants to share with the world which he does in his book Rethinking Life and Death. In this, we learn what he thinks a human being is and a person as well as their differences. There is also a lot of implications of his work that we should address. All of this will be discussed as well as my opinion on what he is talking about. Singer starts out by defining what a person is. He…

Picture a world where technology has changed the way we live our daily lives through the way we act and think. Well, you are living in it. Sixty four years ago, author Ray Bradbury wrote a book on what he imagined the future would look like. Fahrenheit 451 was a book of predictions. Most of his ideas on what he thought the future would look like have came true. In Ray Bradbury’s point of view, we are currently living in the future, and we now use technological tools that help us in our everyday…

how we came to be on this earth. To find out whether our life has any meaning after death or how we were brought onto this earth I will be looking at two different religious groups such as secular humanists and catholics to see what they believe on the existential questions. Question one - Secular Humanists: What happens after death? Secular Humanists believe that when a person dies there can be no further existence of the dead person, they believe that we only have one life and once we…

them.” -George Santayana. As a person, when we make mistakes, we are told to learn from them to keep ourselves from repeating them over again. Some of the world’s worst mistakes are events that have happened multiple times, but instead of learning from it, we have chosen to forget about it, and we have had to rehash some horrific times. One time in which we have relived history is when both of the world wars happened. World War II was like a sequel to World War I. Another time that history has…

From the title we can infer that the poet is imagining something "If" it were changed to be a certain way. In each stanza of the poem, he compares the positive in life to the negative to come to the conclusion that if it were not for the negative, the point of life would be empty and everything would be ordinary. In Edward Estlin Cumming's poem, "If", he uses diction, shifts, and anaphora to create a peaceful tone. I chose this poem because I strongly agree with Cummings belief that without the…

post-apocalyptic world of Snowman and Crackers. The story itself is between the marriage of extreme science and capitalism. The post-apocalyptic world of Oryx and Crake is the consequences of a company playing with God. A giant corporation who uses science to the extreme in order to take over God in nature. The idea of perfection is embedded deep within the corporation’s mind. Overtime, the word perfection has been distorted. The perfection that human seeks has changed into a point where we, are…

Stories have been told about Malala Yousafzai, and her quest to improve the world. This inspired me to read, I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. Malala is a 17 year old girl from Pakistan. She was shot in the head by the Taliban while riding the bus home from school. She survived, and then made it her mission to shine a light on the importance of education for girls around the world. She was the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The book is an inspiring tale of persistence and…

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” said Nelson Mandela one day. But if there is no education how can we change the world? Shannen has done a lot of great things to Attawapiskat where Shannen lives. This video made me feel how youth can make a difference. This video inspired me and now I want continue Shannen’s dream to make First Nations education better. Shannen is a very brave girl because she is standing up for her own rights and she has lots of…

Birdie Sidwell , the protagonist of Deep by Susanna Vance and I are not at all similar. We have different views of the world , are viewed by the world in distinctive ways and I would respond in a different way to the central conflict of the of the novel. Therefore , I believe given the chance , we would not be friends. My novel is about a thirteen year old girl name Birdie Sidwell. Birdie is an intelligent young girl and she is the only child. Although she has been through a lot nothing bad has…