For this essay‚ I have chosen to take on the prompt that covers the hypothetical scenario in which my sister is the person being hooked up to the violinist in Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist thought experiment. I will begin by discussing my thoughts regarding this scenario and what advice I would offer my sister. I will then go on to take a more general look at this topic and try and establish whether my reasoning could be used as basic moral code for this issue or is there more complexity to it
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Categories of Drinkers In my experience as a bartender‚ I have learned that a general rule of thumb is that if you think that someone’s drinking is problematic / abusive‚ it probably is. I’ve noticed three types of drinking behaviors in the customers that I wait on. People who drink alcohol can be classified into three major categories: social‚ problem‚ and alcoholic. First‚ let us consider the social drinkers; a person who usually only has drinks on occasion. For example social drinkers may consume
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POEM ANALYSIS The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife‚ and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker‚ after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey‚ by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ and alliteration)‚ fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the
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St. Judith/Jutta St. Judith of Kulmsee‚ also known as St. Judith of Prussia‚ was born circa 1200 in Thuringia (central Germany). She died on May 12‚ 1260 at Kulmsee in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Order. Judith imitated the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary‚ who was the Duchess of Thuringia during her youth. Not much is known about her youth‚ but it is known that Judith was married at the age of 15 to a nobleman and bore his children. She raised her children in a contemplative and mystical
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the critical analysis‚ “Trauma Theory.” The poems‚ “An Irish Airman Foresees his death”- W.B Yeats and “The Death Bed”- Siegfried Sasson share various qualities and differences. The similar qualities that the poems share includes a complementary theme of war‚ thoughts of a comrade in the war and the thoughts that run through the soldiers mind before death. The differences in the poems are the forms the poems are written in. The comparison of the poems to the critical analysis‚ Trauma theory
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One of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists is Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi‚ who we simply know as Donatello. He was born in Florence around 1386. He was the son of a Florentine wood carder‚ Niccolo di Betto di Bardi. How he began his career as a sculptor is undetermined although it is known that Donatello was educated in the residence of the Martelli Family and got his first artistic training at a goldsmith’s workshop and from one of the sculptors working at the cathedral of Florence in
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Poetry offers a new way to look at familiar situations. Judith Beveridge does this in three of poems. “The Domesticity of giraffes”‚ “Fox in a tree stump” and “The Two Brothers”. Through the use of repetition and personification she incorporates her feelings about cruelty towards animals and humans. She uses these techniques in all three of her poems. Poetry shows the reader a new way to look at familiar situations and in her poem “The Domesticity of Giraffes” she uses repetition to show the cruelty
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Judith Beveridge is an Australian poet well known for her skill in illuminating humanity through the means of the natural world in poems such as The Two Brothers and Fox in a Tree Stump. Beveridge uses techniques such as personification of nature to show the contradictions of how innocent yet destructive humanity can be. As a feminist poet‚ Beveridge commonly expresses the characters in stereotypical roles in a manner of females being innocent and kind whereas males are destructive and harsh
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Yet‚ the story of Judith is only a part of the Hebrew bible and mentioned in the Catholic Old Testament. It is not recognized in Protestant Christianity‚ the religion that requires women to be subservient to the men in their lives; “Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness
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Judith – Old English and Vulgate Versions Upon looking closely at the Old English and Vulgate versions of Judith‚ one can catch a glimpse of how culture was during the time they were written by comparing and contrasting the elements of the story that are presented and modified. The distinct differences that can be found between the Old English and the vulgate versions of Judith provide a clear view of what the Anglo-Saxons considered to be important‚ and what they felt required respect. When comparing
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