Analysis of “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” Shannon Carl Michelle Loudermilk PHI 200: Mind and Machine August 20‚ 2012 In Peter Singer’s article “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” there are a few items that require further discussion. Peter Singer critiques our ordinary ways of thinking and in spite‚ very few people have accepted his conclusions. I will discuss Peter Singer’s goal and his presented argument in relation to this issue. In return‚ I will also mention the three counter-arguments
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Lashawnda Frazier In Muriel Kane article‚ entitled‚’’ right- wing commentator: Poor People voting is ‘un-American’. Matthew Vadum claim that registering the poor to vote is un-American
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Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality Notes Peter Singer opens his argument by introducing the reader to a famine in Bengal setting up his first premise that starvation is bad (Singer 631-632). He then suggests for his second premise that if it is possible to stop something bad from happening‚ then we should do all we can to stop it as long as it does not cause something else just as bad to happen. Singer says that if everyone donated five pounds‚ then there would be sufficient funds to help relieve
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The book Stiff by Mary Roach is in a genre of its own in terms of book I have read and I loved every word of it and it has found a spot in my favorite book list. For a book like this‚ it takes time to analyze and process this book for its intended purpose and I believe reading it over a course of several months helped. Despite my hesitance when first approaching the book‚ that hesitance quickly turned into admiration for the book and all the eye-opening information it provided. Every single page
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Helping The Homeless Do you know how many people there are in the world with no home or money? There are millions and millions of homeless people in the world‚ and I want to help put a stop to it. I feel strongly about this because i grew up in Thailand when i was younger and seeing all these homeless people really impacted my life and how i thought about people. The three best ways that people can help the homeless are to help build shelters so that they are safe at night‚ to donate food so they
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Today we face a problem. NO! not the problem of not affording the new video game or shoes‚ a problem that with your help can helped be solved. The definition of poverty is the state of being extremely poor. However‚ it’s more than that. On Average every 15 seconds one child will die of poverty and 3 will get a disease. Right now you are probably thinking wow this is horrible and feeling terrible‚ but it gets worse. You see I know each person in the room has heard about this cause as every year
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How to Help Homeless Children While many countries prosper thanks to the advent of better technology and sound government policies‚ the rich-poor gap in the world has never been worse. Millions of people still live in abject poverty‚ defined as living under one dollar per day. Most of them cannot afford homes or any other form of shelters. To them‚ life may just end tomorrow. The worst part of all this is that many of them are children. When they grow up‚ their body needs nutrition and their mind
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Dear friends and respected teacher… As you all sit before me today‚ you may not think that saving a life is something that is easy. But what if I say that you are capable of saving a life…? And if I say that it would take just 15 minutes of your time to save 3 lives…! Would you give 15 minutes of your time to save those lives…? Every 3 seconds‚ someone is in desperate need of blood. So I’ll like too speak something regarding blood donation… We all need blood to survive‚ but for sick children
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Have you ever been so hungry that you felt like you were going to die? Well that is how 12.9 percent of the world feels every day. You should donate to the Care Dinner Foundation in order to help them feed as many people as possible. CARE Dinner Charity’s mission is to feed homeless families‚ as well as families that are unable to afford food..This charity does not only give to America‚ but it also gives to other places all around the word‚ for example Africa‚ Asia‚ and even Europe.These continents
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Section A - Organ Donation Summary of I’m donating my kidney to a stranger The text is written by Richard Wilson and was published in 2008. I’m donating my kidney to a stranger is about the determined woman‚ Paula MacKinnon‚ who is the altruistic organ donor in Scotland. At first Paula decided to donate her 68-year old mother‚ Kathrine‚ who suffered kidney failure. But Paula wasn’t able to donate her kidney to her mother‚ because their blood groups were not compatible. But Paula would not
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