Roleesha Rodwell and I, ironically, did the same nonprofit organization, The Salvation Army. However, our topics are very different. Roleesha pictures voices The Salvation Army as a whole, which is giving back, but my paper voices the awareness of domestic violence of the organization. Her concept of her paper is the organization is giving back to society, volunteering, and donations to support the ones in need. Both of our pictures express pathos, however, her picture makes people want to give back to the community, and my picture aware others about domestic violence.…
Peter Singer is the author to the “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” article. Singer 's essay argues that there is basically no reason why Americans should not be donating their extra money to those in need. Singer addresses the urgency to donate by appealing to the reader 's sense of ethos, pathos, and logos.…
Maggie Doyne’s efforts have been highlighted in the news as of late due to her upstanding willingness to make change. She was 18 on a backpacking trip before college when she stumbled deep into the Nepalese hills. She witnessed first hand the effects of the insane poverty, and the ruins of a civil war, and knew she had to help. Doyne then went on to fund this small community’s push to survival. She used her college savings to buy a piece of land and built a school for these kids who had no further access to education. In a span of less than 10 years Doyne educated an entire community as well as adopted over 15 children who she raised as her own. At age 18 Maggie Doyne’s plan was to return home from a backpacking trip across Asia but found…
In his article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Peter Singer outlines his argument for helping those in need in the global community. His main argument is that humans can stop suffering based on our moral decisions.1 Singer calls for the definition of ‘charity’ in our society to have moral implications. People should give governmental and privately. all need to give to charity and all at the same time.…
Oprah Gail Winfrey is a very strong and independent woman in today’s society. Oprah Winfrey went through many tough times throughout her lifetime, but being the tenacious woman she is, Winfrey became very successful. Oprah has helped many people get through their own personal struggles by being a role model to the twenty-first century. Oprah exemplifies what it means to be a hero by her ability to pull herself out of poverty by her hard work, becoming a strong woman after years of abuse, and helping others in the world by speaking out about her past.…
Jon Sobrino and Peter Singer share with readers what it takes to live ethically in a world in which 22,000 children die each day from poverty-related issues. In The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross, Sobrino emphasis that people must no longer turn a naked eye to the problems of the world and they should start living their life according to the gospel of Jesus Christ. In The Life You Can Save, Singer stresses the importance of an increase in monetary donation in attempts to cease poverty in the world. This paper will first address Sobrino’s methods for living an ethical life, according to the gospel. Additionally, it will focus on Singer’s approach to tackling world poverty by his advocacy for greater donation of…
For those who frightened much to abandon their life, goals, projects and interests in order to save one’s life, say goodbye to righteousness. In “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”, also in “ the life you can save”, Peter Singer tries to show that we human beings have a moral obligation to give far more than we actually do for excessive and tragic situations such as famine and disaster relief. According to singer, Giving, sharing and helping the needy is more than moral happiness and inner satisfaction, it is a moral duty. As he state his argument in three premises, “1, suffering and death from the lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad, (2), if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening,…
Jon Sabrino and Peter Singer share with readers what it takes to live ethically in a world in which 22,000 children die each day from poverty-related causes. In The Principles of Mercy, Sabrino emphasis that people must no longer turn a naked eye to the problems of the world and they should start living out the gospel. In The Life You Can Save, Singer stresses the importance of giving more money. This paper will first address Sabino’s methods to living ethically, awaking and living the gospel. Then it will cover Singer’s approach the advocates for greater donation of the public.…
Jane Addams played a significant role is shaping the Human Service profession. Jane Addams work in developing the settlement house movement has had lasting effects in our field even today. She was successful in changing the overall attitude toward welfare. Before the late 1800’s, there was still an attitude of the “worthy” poor vs. the “unworthy” poor. This negative attitude would cast continuous judgment on all people receiving assistance. Upper-class community members would accuse people who were in need of being lazy and not willing to work. Addams believed prior systems were heartless and not concerned about the individual. In our textbook, the author describes the settlement house movement as “different from the traditional charity organizations, in that it had as its goal the mission of no longer distinguishing between the worthy and unworthy poor” (Martin, 2011, p. 26). The change in attitude is still developing today as we encourage people to a global thinking from an “us vs. them” mentality.…
Oprah’s claim to fame did not come easily. It was in fact a very difficult trip up the ladder of success for Winfrey. She grew up in Kosciusko, Mississippi (Waldron 13). Oprah’s troubled life began almost as soon as she was born, as her parents were unmarried teens and were stricken with poverty. However, the unfortunate circumstances did not stop there; Oprah was also the target of numerous cases of sexual mistreatment and assault, by male relatives (Waldron 28). However, these hardships and unfortunate situations only made Oprah stronger.…
Oprah Winfrey, for one, grew up in an abusive household where male relatives of hers would repeatedly molest her, which took an emotional toll on Oprah. She was an unsettled teenager who appeared to have no future ahead of her, considering the cruelty and harm she had undergone. After Oprah moved to Nashville to live with her father, where she could have easily been absorbed in the same life style she perused in New York, constantly surrounding herself with promiscuous behavior. Instead, she cleaned up her act and won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant, got an on-air job at WVOL, and also won a full scholarship to Tennessee State University. From there she continued her career as a radio newscaster, and eventually had her own radio show. With continued persistence, Oprah gained her own television talk show and is now the highest-paid performer on television. Oprah’s ambition was what drove her to continue her fight through her hard childhood, and make a positive, healthy life for herself. If Oprah lacked the ambitious qualities that she had and gave up, she would likely be trapped as a damaged and troubled woman who let her past experience define who she…
Joseph Campbell’s criteria for a hero can be a useful way to understand what the idealization of one is. Mother Teresa possesses many of these characteristics. She underwent an epiphany and gave her life to “something bigger.” In addition, she had a moral objective and a capacity to serve, achieved monumental goals, and brought “solar light” into the world. In these aspects, Mother Teresa is a heroine. But in the eyes of the poor, she was a beacon of hope and a helping…
We all know the name ‘Oprah’. It is a name that has been in millions of households for twenty-five years. Oprah Winfrey is an internationally recognized, award winning talk show host, actress, producer, and humanitarian. She has helped lives of less fortunate in many selfless ways; what many don’t know is that Oprah was once poverty stricken as well, and rose to overcome many obstacles that came her way.…
Some celebrity have done some great things for the less fortunate. Mr. Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie who are two famous celebrities, became hero/heroine by giving $6.4 million worth of grants, and also established the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation in 2006, to assist with humanitarian crises around the world. In comparison, Dr. Phillip Goudeaux, who is a great hero, and a father figure, constantly assist people in need of personal management and even in salvation. The hero and celebrity becomes famous when they participate to improve the community in some ways. Like the fictive hero “Superman,” who is always on the look-out for trouble disturbing the peace of his community, they contribute their effort to better the world without thinking of a…
Angelina Jolie is arguably the most well known actress in Hollywood, but her acting/directing career is not what is catching the public's attention lately. Since the filming of her action adventure movie “Tomb Raider” in Cambodia, Jolie has dedicated her life to helping developing countries create more infrastructure. Including her mission work in African countries Jolie has also taken orphaned children from the countries she has visited and adopted them. What motivated her to join the United Nations Refugee agency (UNHCR) was seeing the poverty and destruction of countries, which led to her being one of the biggest advocates of many charities that she created herself.…