The fabulous button sisters. Resume Karen and Michelle are preparing for a party‚ where Michelle suggests them both to dress up with the theme of chocolate buttons - “the fabulous button sisters”. Michelle has already decided that she wants to be white and Karen should be the ordinary one – the brown one. The night when Michelle and Karen are going for the party are they making an agreement about to meet in ten minutes at the corner. When Karen arrives‚ she sees Michelle wearing some other clothes
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purpose is to save a life. There is a moral difference between selecting for socially desirable traits like blue eyes and blonde hair‚ and selecting for medically desirable ones. Anna was genetically engineered as a perfect donor match for her older sister Kate in order to save Kate’s life threating disease; leukemia. Anna decides to take legal action to be in control of her body. Where is the line with choices? How is a decision determined to be right or wrong? These are some of the questions that
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In Plato’s Apology and Xenophon’s Apology‚ Socrates is facing charges for his actions. This opens a slew of questions about the charges against Socrates. Throughout the books‚ the charges that Socrates faces are failure to know the gods about the city‚ promoting unfamiliar spiritual ideas‚ and for corrupting the youth. This varies from book to book as each book talks about the relationship between philosophy and the city and how it plays a role. It dives into the bigger question: does education lead
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Comparison between Crito and Apology For these two articles that we read in Crito and Apology by Plato‚ we could know Socrates is an enduring person with imagination‚ because he presents us with a mass of contradictions: Most eloquent men‚ yet he never wrote a word; ugliest yet most profoundly attractive; ignorant yet wise; wrongfully convicted‚ yet unwilling to avoid his unjust execution. Behind these conundrums is a contradiction less often explored: Socrates is at once the most Athenian‚ most
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what students are forced to read while in school (The Catcher in the Rye‚ The Crucible‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ etc.). Though it is hard to categorize what does and what does not fall under the literature umbrella as a whole‚ it is more difficult to define the characteristics of literature‚ even if it is supposed to help ease the process
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In 399 BC‚ a famous Athenian philosopher by the name of Socrates was found guilty in two offenses. The city of Athens gathered to hear the trial‚ and The Apology by Plato allows to better understand what was said in Socrates’ defense and sort through the logistics of the case. Meletus‚ the prosecutor‚ charged Socrates with an account of living an impious life and with a second account of corrupting the youth of Athens. Yet‚ I can attest that truly Socrates was innocent in the case of these two accounts
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Jonathan Layne Philosophy 104 March 15‚ 2011 Socrates: The Apology and Crito Socrates believed that his purpose‚ as a moral individual‚ was to achieve true wisdom of virtue and justice. With this considered‚ one may ask‚ "Then why did he accept punishment for crimes he didn’t commit?" Socrates didn’t care for fate‚ because he was only concerned for whether or not he and others were doing the right thing. This belief is shown to be evident when Socrates says‚ "You are sadly mistaken‚ fellow
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encounter one another outside the Athenian version of the law courts‚ where Socrates is about to go on trial for corrupting the youth of the city and Euthyphro is about to bring charges of murder against his father. The two men discussion the natures of both piety and justice. Their conversation ending when Socrates proves to Euthyphro that his (Euthyphro’s) actions are not what he believes them to be‚ and Euthyphro leaves in confusion. The Apology‚ which is a second dialog of Plato‚ represent of Socrates’s
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younger sister‚ who in the movie battles with her parents for medical emancipation. In the movie‚ it touches on all her family members personal struggles with Kate’s illness‚ and the effects it has on their family. This movie shows some medical aspects for Kate as she battles her cancer‚ and Anna who is Kate’s donor. The title of the movie of the movie has a duel meaning for me‚ because the sisters look after each other thru out the movie‚ so one may never know which sister is her sisters keeper.
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South Park’s episode‚ “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” played on many ideas such as racism‚ racial sensitivity‚ institutionalized exclusion of minorities‚ and the pushing political agendas. To summarize‚ the episode featured a man who was called‚ “nigger-guy”‚ because he said the racial slur‚ nigger‚ on Wheel of Fortune. He later went on to feel as if he was being treated badly because everyone was excluding him from events. His son was even affected by the actions of his father and almost lost
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