Stalin’s Forced Famine Throughout Europe’s history‚ no attack on its own people was as grueling or as cruel to its citizens as Stalin’s forced famine. These victimized people lived on farms in the “breadbasket of Europe”‚ which was a nickname Ukraine got for its fertile land. Stalin used his authority to deprive these people of food they had grown. During this famine‚ present-day Russia identified itself as the Soviet Union and Ukraine was the Ukrainian SSR. Before Stalin’s rule‚ Ukraine had
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poverty Try to imagine when you became a homeless child who is facing death because of starvation‚ would not you want a piece of bread from a kind man? In the article "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" Peter Singer talks about whether we should save poor children or not by donating money. In his article‚ Singer helps us realize our response for the deaths of children in poor families by asking the reader to consider hypothetical situations and put these moral issues into real life. In the
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Philosophers like Peter Singer and Martha Nussbaum bring up issues like this in the film The Examined Life as they associate the meaning of life‚ with how we live our lives within a society. Both philosophers discussed how society uses its advantage to oppress the minorities‚ they also brought up solutions for closing the gap/wedge between the majority
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Great Hip-Hop Singers There are many people that believe that hip-hop music can influence one’s behavior. There are two singers who are more important to me than any other musicians. They are 50cent and Eminem. Although 50cent was born 3 years after Eminem‚ 50cent music can be similar to Eminem. Their life stories couldn’t be more different. Eminem was born in 1972 and had a difficult life. His childhood was turbulent‚ and he was very poor until he became a successful singer. In contrast
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Unrealistic and challenging solution of Peter Singer Can you imagine that if you do not donate to charity‚ people treat you as a murderer? Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher‚ professor at Princeton University and utilitarian‚ who fights against poverty. There is a side of society that often goes unseen by the middle and upper classes—a side ridden with poverty and misfortune. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty‚” Singer calls on the prosperous to provide for
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“If it is within our power to prevent something very bad from happening‚ without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant‚ we ought‚ morally‚ to do it.” Peter singer is an Australian philosopher and would say we have a duty to help the global poor. Many people have more than enough money to make small donations but don’t even though it would not affect them at all. Lots of people are selfish and lazy and don’t think to help the poor even though some philosophers would claim we are responsible
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Nasro Hassan Reading Response 5 1. According to Singer speciesism is the unjustified attitudes and bias towards the interest of members of one’s species or against those members of another species. Singer believes that the basis of equality is if a being can suffer. If a being can suffer than it should have some moral worth. Therefore animals are beings because they can suffer. 2. According to Kant only rational beings are moral‚ animals are not rational so they have no moral worth. We only have
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Peter Singer explores human moralities while expressing his concern towards the little consideration given by the wealthier regions regarding the problem that people are starving in less fortunate places. Although many people have the ability to give enough to aid in minimizing this problem‚ they have chosen to not involve themselves at all. Very few countries such as Britain and Australia have active governments that put aside money to help these refugees. Unfortunately‚ the amount of money they
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Appalachian Musicians And Singers and The Songs They Write Growing up in Appalachia and around its music has made a great impact on my life. I can remember‚ as if it were yesterday sitting on grandpa’s front porch with my family singing along with Hillbilly songs on the radio. Along with entertaining the music eased the tensions of living a meager existence in Appalachia. By relating with these song writers and the stories in there songs we somehow find our life less tedious and more bearable
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that properly distributes the prices of college‚ having tuitions proportional to income will increase availability of education and create a caring society. In creating a system such as this‚ many moral and logistical problems come forth. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” the author questions how much should someone who is fortunate have to sacrifice to help someone less fortunate‚ and if they truly have to
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