Summary: The essay “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle” by Peter Singer is about global responsibility‚ absurd conception of success and circle of ethics. The essay begins by asking students the questions about what they do if there was a drowning child. The essay later goes into detail that we shouldn’t limited ourselves to problems within a local area and that we must be focus on problems affecting the global community. Towards the end‚ it talks about society’s want for material thing
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Albert Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a lyric baritone during the 1900s. A German native‚ Fischer-Dieskau‚ had a large voice full of resonance. He lived a long‚ successful life and would come to be known as the most influential singer of the 20th century (Sadie 6: 614; Kettle). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born in Berlin‚ Germany on May 28‚ 1925. At a young age‚ Fischer-Dieskau enjoyed making music. His mother taught him how to play piano‚ and he continued to play all throughout
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On September 5th‚ 1999‚ Peter Singer wrote an article for the New York Times newspaper titled The Singer Solution to World Poverty. He states that residents in developed countries should donate to charitable causes aimed at reducing poverty. In the past‚ some of his works have been controversial‚ and this extends to his works on the relationship between charity and the public. He points out that it is wrong for people to enjoy their wealth and live in luxury while majority of people are suffering
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In the article “Opinion: Can artificial intelligence be ethical?” published by Project Syndicate‚ professor Peter Singer tries to persuade his readers that with how AI has progressed‚ with its advantages and its unknowns‚ it could result in immoral consequences so we have to try to teach machines how to behave ethically. Singer states that “AlphaGo was designed to win by playing a huge number of games against other programs and adopting the best strategies that proved successful” (par. 3) saying
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atrocities from taking hold in our world. In his article‚ “Talk is Cheap: Getting Serious about Preventing Child Soldiers”‚ P.W. Singer suggests that the best way to prevent child soldiers would be to prosecute recruiters in an international court of law‚ and impose harsher legislation on non-state groups that forcibly enlist and voluntarily employ
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My Teacher- My Hero In my 16 years existence in life‚ other than my parents‚ she is the one who thought me that nothing is impossible if I just believe in it that’s her‚ my teacher-my hero. She is the one who thought me to be strong in times of failures and never give up the things I wanted most in life‚ my dreams. There is one phrase‚ given by my teacher that I will never forget “keep looking forward”‚ that phrase encourages me all the time and reminds me to continue looking forward whatever
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of people die from starvation each day and millions of people are hungry. In 2010 alone 925 million people went hungry. Today poverty remains one biggest issues the United States faces. Peter Singer specialises in applied ethics and approaches the dilemma of poverty in his New York Times article‚ The Singer Solution To World Poverty. He affirmatively asserts that individuals should donate money to overseas aid organizations to help the impoverished. But in the utmost respect this seemingly simple
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my idol is my mother In our lives ‚ we came across many people . We see new faces everyday. Many of them remain anonymous ‚ some may be acquitances‚ some will become our friends but from that ‚ only one person will become our idol. What makes an idol? In the words of Oxford Learner’s Dictionary‚ idol is person or thing that is loved and admired very much. I supposed that everyone of us have their own idol either a pop‚ singer ‚ Prime Minister ‚ or football players. For me‚ my mother‚ or ’mak’ as
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Peter Singer and John Arthur By Amy Gallaher The fact that we can afford to provide for ourselves even beyond our basic needs bring an important question. Is it then our duty to provide financial assistance to those who do not have enough to provide for their own basic needs? Peter Singer‚ in his piece‚ “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” would argue that we ought to prevent bad things from happening without sacrificing something of equal importance. Here is the argument Peter Singer presents
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Peter Singer and Jim Mason have written a book entitled The Ethics of What We Eat. Pages 241-248 of this book discuss the idea of whether factory farming is ethical or not. For this short reflection paper I will discuss the ideas that they brought up about the ethics of factory farming‚ while at the same time bringing in my views of factoring farming and the ethics behind animal treatment. The first issue that they bring up is that‚ “Factory farms are designed on the principle that ‘animals are
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