Suicide-A morally responsible action? The suicide culture in Japan has always been a prominent issue‚ and is held in a peculiar view by many. 30‚000 Japanese commit suicide annually (McCurry‚ 2014)‚ making Japan the 8th country with the highest suicide rates (WHO‚ 2014). This “suicide culture” stems from Japan’s historical roots— the warrior bushido honour code which justifies one’s basis to committ suicide. Can suicide be considered a morally responsible action this way? Or is it a beautiful death
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John Greavu My Attempt in Living Morally If life had a rulebook‚ it would be written by the Ancient Greeks. Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle built the foundation of how every human being “should” live. Making decisions based off what is believed to be right or wrong affects almost countless moments in each day for us humans. Eventually‚ after much practice‚ making correct decisions would become near habitual. Can you imagine the world today if everyone strived to live ethically? Before you change
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catch fish. The sailor dies and the cook butchers and eats him. Pi and his mother try to stop him. He kills Pi’s mother and throws her head towards Pi. Later Pi fights the cook and kills him in a moment of revenge and self preservation Was Pi’s act morally justified? As moral arguments are best proven by analogies‚ let us consider four people in the same situation but a different setting. Four strangers (namely A‚B‚C‚D) are stuck in a lifeboat. A has a gun and decides to kill B (who was already injured
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Nothing wrong with Cinderella In “What’s Wrong with Cinderella”‚ the writer raised various issues and concerns regarding the physical and mental impact brought upon the younger generations by princess-themed toys. The writer‚ Peggy Orenstein‚ is a self-proclaimed feminist who writes for New York Times and many other prominent publications. The writer claims that the princess-themed commercial products have distressing effects in shaping young female generations’ outlooks as well as their personalities
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the amount of farmers giving up the price for food would go up. In the movie Cinderella Man James Braddock struggles to pay for food to feed his family part of this is because of the effects of the dust bowl. I believe that natural disasters forced Braddock to keep fighting so he could try and afford to put food on the table. Another factor during this time period was how badly the economy was failing. The economy was so bad at this time that it would be known as the great depression. In par 2 of
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This attitude is coming from the Chinese parents living in the Western countries. Amy Chua is one of those parents. She has written an article about the differences between Western parenting and Chinese parenting called‚ “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” She believes in a strict upbringing where TV and play dates are not part of the agenda. An upbringing where grades lower than an A are downright disappointing and the sentences “I don’t want to” and “I can’t” does not exist. There is no compromising
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Lisa Wilson Strick’s article “What’s So Bad about Being So-So?” states that‚ in today’s society‚ people are too serious to the point that no one does things just for fun‚ but only for competition. There are children who are acting like grown adults instead of children because they are so stressed out about being the best in everything that they do. Friendships are being ruined because no one is safe from today’s competitive edge. Strick’s article tries to instill the thought that we need to go back
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childhood. In the memoir‚ Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah‚ the author writes about the support from Ye Ye‚ Aunt Baba‚ and also rising above her abusive childhood. Ye Ye is one of the reasons why Adeline was able to succeed. Adeline’s grandfather stated‚ “‘I ordered the maids to set up a cot in my room at once. While Niang is in this euphoric mood‚ quickly unpack your bag and settle in before she changes her mind about your staying here’”(Yen Mah 148). Ye Ye loves Wu Mei so much that he sacrifices part
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Education is a very powerful force which is vital to our current society and impacts directly on later life. A perfect example of the power that education has over our life circumstances is the autobiography of Ms. Adeline Yen Mah‚ “Chinese Cinderella”. The power of education assisted and influenced Adeline in many ways‚ from becoming an accepted and highly respected individual to escaping her family circumstances and strengthening her self-esteem. Adeline wished to be accepted by everyone and it
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seen so beautiful and lovely creature. I had done nothing this two days during the ball but looked at her all the time. Tonight‚ I talked to her and I can say‚ she is almost perfect to me. But something happened‚ she was rushing and running out in a sudden‚ I tried to follow but could not overtake her. I picked up her glass slipper that she left. Nobody knows where she went. Now‚ I am home. Looking at the glass slipper and my mind is all about her. I miss her and I need to find her. I am so hopeless
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