We Are the World

As we live our daily lives, we are only concerned about our own problems and forget about what the rest of the world is going through. We disconnect ourselves from the reality and focus on what only affects us directly. We hear stories about how there are people all around the world who do not have food to eat, water to drink, a bed to sleep in, and how animals are going extinct because of humans. Although hearing situations like these will make the audience feel some amount of empathy,we still…

The world is in chaos and only falling further into its downward spiral. We have people who are rapist and murders and drug addicts. Our economy has fallen apart. We are becoming more and more divided every day. It seems as though everyday a new battle to fight arises. One day it's LGBT rights, then it's women rights, and then minorities rights. For a world that is free we seem to have a lot of very unhappy people. The main question is where does god land on all these topics? We can't fight the…

Anya Reed Mr. Slegers English Honors 10 April 8, 2024 Have we become a trivial culture preoccupied with entertainment? It's nothing new that most people don’t like to be left alone with their thoughts, but prefer to be distracted from their feelings. Just like in Brave New World, our today’s society needs to be entertained or somehow distracted. How people spend their time has a major impact on their sense of well-being, either negative or positive. While reading can develop the mind, the…

For the last few decades, we have known a reality that is about to change. This reality that we got use to is about to become past, and there is no way we can avoid it. This modern world that we all live in, the world that considered to be a western made world, is about to change drastically. in my humble opinion, this century, the twenty first century, is going to be much more different. more and more powerful non western countries are rising nowadays, and soon America will no linger be as…

nonhumans were given, was the Earth and we have a responsibility to protect it. In fact, the main the difference between indigenous knowledge and modernized knowledge is our relationship to the environment. It is also apparent that as our world changes, it contributes to this detached bond. In, The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram describes the time he spent with the shamans, people who were considered…

in the world as unique to that of a writer, scientist, philosopher or musician. The act of painting – the physical relation of the painter to the world – is detached from the direct demands of life. Within seeing and painting the painter’s eyes and hands discover a skill to which the painter gives himself over to drawing from the world. Before we go onto investigating the nature of painting, we must first understand what it means for a human being to be in the world. This being in the world must…

#National: In the national evidence, we will compare Vietnam to Singapore. First, in our opinion, we could say that Singapore is a developed country, it has a lot of sectors those interdepend to industry like technology, chemicals and financial services. Singapore is at the 5th place of 10 richest countries in the world. Vietnam, the developing country, Vietnam also have a lot of industry jobs as you can see on the local evidence part. Now, these evidences will have us to compare Vietnam…

are we putting Earth under complicated issues? What can we do in order to achieve long lasting sustainability in Earth? Earth has become an issue all throughout the world and has been the number one problem due to the lack of attention we put on it. Many might not consider it an issue because we see the problems everyday thinking it’s normal, however it affects us along with the Earth. This has an impact on the world because we are the ones who come across problems involving the Earth and we…

Lucretius, as influential philosophers, present their arguments and ideas of how the world ought to be and how humans should exist within it. Both philosophers present their point of view, which directs and answers the questions humans face about the world, not in the sense or in the way that religion would answer certain questions, but in a way for people to understand their existence. Satre’s view of the world is different from the view of Lucretius on many levels. However, there are many…

as a way to change the world we live in. In Herrera’s short story “The Objects”, he writes about a rat and a louse in a world of classification. He uses these characters to tell his audience about the truths of this cruel and unjust world we live in today. In his story, he refers to the world as a building and the higher you are in this building the more powerful you become. In our world today it is the same way. When you see someone with nice clothes or nice objects, we as people classify…