To Whom It May Concern: My name is Jennifer. I am student at Brunswick High. I know you are thinking of having students wear uniforms next year. I think this is a terrible idea. Many students don’t like to wear uniforms every day‚ and there might be some students that have allergies with the material of the uniform. When students have to wear the school uniform‚ they can’t express themselves through their clothes. We students need to wear normal clothes so we can express ourselves. If we have
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I HAVE A DREAM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED 28 AUGUST 1963‚ AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL‚ WASHINGTON D.C. CONTEXT SOCIAL CONTEXT This speech was Martin Luther King Jr.’s most iconic and influential speeches. Delivered to a large gathering to civil rights marchers‚ this speech’s purpose was to press the US government for racial equality. At this point in history‚ "black" Americans were strongly racially targeted particularly in the southern states. Laws in these particular states forcibly segregated
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Annotated Bibliography Scholes‚ Robert. “Hope in Memory in My Ántonia.” Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: My Ántonia‚ Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase Publishing‚ 1987. 31-35. (#18 a selection from an anthropology) In this article by Robert Scholes‚ it talks about the hope and memory in My Antonia. He says the characters find themselves by looking back at the past. He said “we are reminded of this past constantly: by the Bohemian customs and culinary practices of the Shimerdas;
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Peter Singer‚ believes that people who are wealthy‚ and live a luxurious lifestyle should donate their money to overseas aid organizations‚ and although Singer believes “the formula is simple”‚ I disagree. When Singer states that giving away money is an easy thing task‚ I believe that even for the prosperous it is not. Not for the fact that they don’t have the money‚ but for the fact that the need for food and medicine is far too great‚ and dispersed around the world that not everyone would receive
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1. The essay claims that human nature is not sufficiently selfish to make it possible that many people will sacrifice so much for a stranger. The facts of human nature which was clearly described by the author using two stories about Dora and Bob. Singer effectively argued the ethical distinction of right and wrong between the acts of Dora who sold a child to organ peddler but later realized and corrected her action‚ with the action of Bob‚ who chose to save a valuable old car than the life of a child
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Writing Assignment 1 Singer: All Animals Are Equal Peter Singer‚ a Utilitarian‚ believes in the maximization of happiness of humans and extends this thought to the nonhuman inhabitants of Earth. Singer‚ believes that all animals should be granted moral status‚ similar to that of the human inhabitants. He presents his argument in a modus ponens form. His conclusion of‚ that nonhuman entities should be given the same amount of moral consideration as human entities is reached though his presentation
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small hands? They probably need our help to rescue them out of danger. “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”‚ which is written by Peter Singer‚ is a solution to save children’s lives. Singer persuades the reader to participate in helping children who lack food‚ get many diseases‚ and do not have good living conditions. His argument is that all of us should contribute to saving the children’s lives According to “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”‚ this solution totally has the ability to be done
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“The Singer Solution to World Poverty” Singer begins his essay by describing two scenarios. The first scenario is about Dora. She was told she could make $1‚000 if she brought a homeless boy to an address. With the money she made she bought herself a television. Later on she was told the boy would be killed and his organs sold. Dora knows that what will happen to the boy is wrong and goes to get the boy back. The next scenario is about Bob. Bob is going to retire soon and invested the majority of
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What do you think about the Singer article? Do you think he’s right? Are we really morally obligated to give to relief efforts and other means of ending suffering until the point at which we would be giving up something of comparable moral worth? Why or why not? I think Singer has hit the nail on the head. Charity‚ or as he calls it‚ duty must be something to which everyone commits. Reading the article echoed what my mother used to say at the dinner table‚ "You know people in Africa would
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Exegetical Peter Singer states that citizens of affluent nations are behaving immorally with the way they react to moral issues like helping those in need and our moral conceptual scheme needs to change. To do so‚ we need to be morally obligated to prevent bad things from happening if it does not require sacrificing something of comparable moral significance. His argument includes this principle where proximity or distance should not be taken into account when deciding whether to prevent something
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