After Mulholland’s aqueduct operation was done, the World War I began. Since the United States was busy to settle down and controlled the urbanization, US should had been remained neutral. However, to be prepare the surprise attack, US wanted to be able to protect themselves. During the World War I, it was the best time for US to promote more trade and expanded their market toward the world. To do so, federal governments granted money for developing ports and facilities. According to Josef W. Konvitz, through the expansion of shipping, the great port cities acquired a significant manufacturing sector, including shipbuilding, and met the needs of their growing population for food and energy supplies (Konvitz 293). It was true that it was part…
A common misconception is that only women care about their bodies and how they look in men’s eyes. However, the author Ted Spiker shares his own experience with male body image. His main target is to convince his audience (women) that body image matter to men as it matters for women. In his article he mainly relied on pathos as an effective way to reach his audience. Throughout the article the author used “we” effectively as he is talking from the prospective of men directing his speech to women. His introduction succeeded in defining the problem by simply describing his own suffer from fats and poor body image when he was a child. In fact, the author also used ethos as evidence for each reason he mentioned. For instance, he stated that a recent…
Donald L. Niewyk’s fifth and sixth chapters both deal more with outside perspectives and outside reactions than it does with those who were persecuted. The fifth chapter, “Bystander Reactions,” offers four different arguments as to why bystanders acted they way they did during the Holocaust. The sixth chapter, “Possibilities of Rescue,” discusses three different viewpoints on what foreign governments could have done to prevent the Holocaust. These two chapters conclude Niewyk’s book The Holocaust and wrap up the final sequence of events surrounding the Holocaust and the camps.…
Marc Prensk’s argument is that all textbooks should be banned and we should be using electronic textbooks. This way students and teachers will be able to access them from their iPad, iPhone, Tablet, or Nook. Prensky thinks that this would give the opportunity for more resources, and motivate the student to always read and refer to the textbook instead of just sticking it on the shelf where it would never be touched. “But I suggest that it 's time to go much further: to actually ban non-electronic books on campus.” (Prensky 1) He believed in freedom away from the page, and thinks that a collection of books and ideas in your pocket would be accessed more than books on a shelf. “Digital texts are also accessible anywhere, at any time, while…
The question of should the United States seek to remain the “indispensable” country? Creates discussions for former U.S. Senator Hilary Clinton and published scholar and fellow member of the Cato Institute, Ted Galen Carpenter. Each orator discusses their position with reasons supporting their stance on the matter.…
David Sze (July 7, 2015) posted a column in the Huffington Post entitled, “Money and Happiness? It’s Complicated.” As the title suggests, Sze discusses the link between having money and finding happiness, or “life satisfaction.” He approaches the issue from a post-modern perspective without considering any transcendent categories to evaluate the issue. Leaving a theistic perspective out, Sze struggles to find an adequate explanation for meaning, happiness and satisfaction in life.…
In one of the grand theories of Freud vs. Erikson, I am strongly in favor of Erikson’s ideas as opposed to Sigmund Freud, in the fact that I agree that children’s developmental stages are more psychosocial than psychosexual. For example, I have two children of my own which I can correlate a lot of their behavior to Erikson’s stages. Babies cry in signal to their parents that something is wrong, when they feel nurtured and either the mother or father tend to their needs, such as diapering or feeding then they gain a sense of trust in their caregivers. My two year old son is at the stage now of initiative vs. guilt; whereas he has an adventurous spirit that leads him to “undertake many adult like activities” (Berger, 2014, p. 40). He is strong…
According to Peter Railton we should feel uneasy when fact/value distinction is similar to objectivity/subjectivity and reason/emotion. If we stop viewing fact and value as distinct the facts may be softened while the values may be hardened. Railton is concerned with generic/non-moral goodness or intrinsic value. The philosophical defense of fact/value distinction consists of the arguments from rational determinability, internalism, and the argument from “queer-ness.” Rational determinability are factual disputes that can be resolved by appealing to reason and experience, but facts are hard. Internalism and instrumentalism supports the fact and value distinction. Thinking of goodness can be similarly relative to “nutritiveness,” that all organisms require nutrition but do not utilize the same nutrients. There is no absolute nutrient, meaning that there is no such thing as something being nutritious for all organisms, there is only relational nutritiveness. Railton also believes that someone being good involves what he or she would want for themselves while being free of “cognitive error or lapses of instrumental rationality.” The argument from queerness (which concerns the nature of reality), provides that human motivational system and situations support counterfactuals to characterize intrinsic goodness. Determinates are factors that influence desires we form and how such desires will evolve In response to many changes including one’s own belief, however an actual individual’s beliefs will fall short of expressing full information. Naturalness consists facts about a given person’s “psychology, physiology, and circumstances that are reduction basis” of his or her dispositions to desire. One’s own good can play a role in evolution in their own behavior even without forming an accurate idea of…
As we have discussed before, both violence and oppression manifest in various forms, however the idea of language-based violence is still novel to mainstream society. As the readings this week illustrated, language based violence and physical violence occasionally share a common root in gender-based oppression. Both Solnit and Anzaldúa write specifically about how "language is a male discourse" (Anzaldúa: 78) and how this discourse creates a knowledge among women that "this is not their world" (Solnit 2008). hooks states that the oppression created by structured languages and spaces as intertwined. She argues that activist must make the margin a site of resistance instead of a space of disadvantage, just as we must learn to accept the oppressor’s language as a tool for creating internal revolutions (hooks: 2009, 2004). Finally, Wright connects all three, space, language and gender in her analysis of the Nercopolitics and Femicide in Ciudad Juárez. Wright demonstrates how patriarchal language, such as the term "public women" when coupled with…
In “Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings”, Julian Savulescu argues that genetic enhancement is morally obligatory in order for humanity to live a longer better life. However, this argument is opposed by philosopher Michael Sandel who feels that accepting one’s shortcomings enables us to develop virtues through adversity and giftedness. Another great philosopher W.D. Ross felt that humanity had prima facie (prima facie denotes evidence that – unless rebutted – would be sufficient to prove a particular proposition or fact) duties such as the duty of beneficence, self-improvement and non-maleficence. Moreover, these duties coincide with Savulescu’s argument for enhancement and provide the basis of my argument for…
Obesity and overeating is a topic that is ongoing within the United States, and in many lives of woman today. Fifty percent of woman that live in this country alone are estimated to be overweight. Individuals of our society are always looking for new diets, dietary plans, supplements, and or advice. Every woman would love to be considered physically fit, and beautiful in the eyes of others, but this within itself is a challenge. Everyone perceives beauty in different ways, shapes, and forms. Obesity and overeating in women can be linked to sex/gender roles as well as societies expectations on what the ideal woman should be or look like.…
More men are changing the way they eat and the amount of exercise in order to be more physically fit. A personal story of mine is that my dad started dieting this last spring and also exercising more. He wanted to slim down for my graduation party. He began watching what he ate, and he began to exercise. He ran four miles three-to-four times a week. My dad wanted to look good for some of his friends that had made the long journey to my graduation. In the three months, he worked out he lost twenty-three pounds. Even though he hit his goal for my graduation party, he still continues to watch what he eats to maintain physically…
Worley, an advocate against body discrimination and active member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, shares realistic accounts of the trials of attempted weight loss and the challenges associated with body acceptance, as well as the joy that follows. In her opinion, outward appearance appealing towards societal standards is weighted far more heavily than self-esteem and contentment in positivity towards one’s current body.…
Arguing that our responsibilities are changed because of geographical distance or an empathy for a certain group has value as a clarification of how we are likely to act in real-world conditions, however Singer's argument target what the affluent are morally obliged to do without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance. The nature of providing support to organisations in forms of small proportion of income, as Singer suggested, is the necessary amount and method. This means that it is challenging to raise even any intuitive protestations to it. To do so would be to be one of those petty people who protest about a 1% tax hike, despite the improvements to their children's schools and local roads, for example.…
For this assignment I decided to go with the magazine, “Men’s Health Stronger & Lean”. As the title of the magazine describes the target audience of the magazine are Men. I went for the magazine for two reasons. The first being that the Men’s Health magazine was in my car from when I got the mail and the second reason is that for most women a strong healthy man is almost primate. It goes back to the time when people were hunter gathers and a strong man means a good life. If a man was strong it meant he could hunt for the food and build a sturdy home for a family to live. In this magazine there are countless workouts for men to increase body mass and slim down and bulk up. No only are there workouts but health eating options, different diets that work better for men. Last in “ Men’s Health”, it explains what to do…