Introduction The Great Chinese Famine was the period in China during 1959-1961‚ in which poor economic policies produced the largest famine in human history . It can be clearly seen that massive agricultural policy changes during the “Great Leap Forward” were the key factor in causing the famine. As well as this‚ numerous secondary factors also increased the severity of the holocaust. The unfavourable weather during the Great Leap Forward intensified mass crop failures‚ contributing to the food
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Jenny Pierce Prof. Duffy ENC 1101 1/25/2010 Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality In his article “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality“‚ Peter Singer says that humans have an obligation to the poor and starving; based on the assumption that suffering and starvation is bad. The assumption‚ that there is something morally wrong with having human beings starved to death should make one question whether they have a duty to the poor. Peter examines whether an affluent society like ours has any moral
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Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality Peter Singer Philosophy and Public Affairs‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 3. (Spring‚ 1972)‚ pp. 229-243. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-3915%28197221%291%3A3%3C229%3AFAAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 Philosophy and Public Affairs is currently published by Princeton University Press. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides
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UNIT 1 DIVERSITY IN THE LIVING WORLD Chapter 1 The Living World Chapter 2 Biological Classification Chapter 3 Plant Kingdom Chapter 4 Animal Kingdom Biology is the science of life forms and living processes. The living world comprises an amazing diversity of living organisms. Early man could easily perceive the difference between inanimate matter and living organisms. Early man deified some of the inanimate matter (wind‚ sea‚ fire etc.) and some among the animals and plants. A common feature of all
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A Review of Peter Singer ’s Famine‚ Affluence and Morality PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning 8 July 2013 Singer ’s goal in the article Famine‚ Affluence and Morality is to try and get people to understand their moral obligation to help those in need. He uses a refugee camp as an example that people are starving to death. But when you look at the article as a whole‚ he is trying to show an even bigger picture. There are people suffering all over the world
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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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In Peter Singer’s “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality‚” he argues that when people abroad are suffering or dying from lack of food‚ shelter or medicine‚ it is wrong for people here to spend money on morally unimportant things rather than giving money to help (Hughes). This means that we have a moral obligation to do what we can to alleviate the stress of poverty abroad if it does not do any harm to us helping them. If we are able to benefit people abroad‚ we should do so. Food‚ shelter‚ and quality
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The issue of moral obligations towards the global poor has always been a contentious affair to be discussed for fear of problematic resolutions that may affect academia on a personal level. Peter Singer‚ most notable for his authorship of “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” and the drowning child analogy‚ presents the rather uncommon normative view that affluent persons are morally obligated to donate more resources to humanitarian causes than the present standard. Singer’s perspective on these seemingly
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Although a blight affected the potato crops of Ireland during the 1840’s‚ the mass starvation was the result of British governmental policy‚ that forced many Irish to immigrate to America. Their immigration had many positive and negative effects on the American people and the economy. Ireland was a country of poverty and nearly half of the families in rural areas were living in mud houses with no windows or furniture. According to the Constitutional Rights Foundation‚ Ireland was not an industrialized
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Another view is that of the article “The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933” by Dr. Mark B. Tauger. Tauger is an American professor at West Virginia University‚ who has written multiple works on famines and agriculture‚ writes in his article about the famine in 1932-33. He states that the Soviets did not cause the famine on purpose‚ but that in fact the famine came about due to a combination of bad harvests in these years and bad planning by the Soviets. He does not deny that the Soviets caused
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