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¶ … People Starve in a World of Plenty
The title of this Note is derived from a statue that is positioned at the more prestigious universities in the world. The statue is meant to highlight the position of inequality that exists in the world among different classes -- a problem that is growing significantly worse to this day. The distribution of resources in any society, and how these are allocated, can usher in a discussion about morality and justice. The author of the Note first defines these terms and then gives examples of different scenarios to highlight different positions that people may take. Some positions are quite obvious, such as saving the drowning child or sacrificing your Ferrari for another child who is bound to be hit by a train. However, others are not quite as clear -- such as sacrificing your coffee budget to help a sick child. Furthermore, justice can be an equally vague concept that is completely...
Justice is also dependent upon inequality because of its relevant nature. The Note makes a case that law students should consider more than just their salaries with the companies that they may work for, they should also consider the moral implications of the work that they will be doing and if they can actually promote justice.
The argument that is presented in this Note is compelling on some levels but I believe that it is too focused on the role of the individual as opposed to the institutional level. If one person is choses to act morally in their careers, then this can have positive implications for society. However, the efforts of individual will often fall short of curing all of society's ills. The level of deprivation and inequality that is present in the world today will likely take more than the effort of one person and their personal decisions to address. For example, it seems…
But while wishing to be strong is noble, forgetting the past leads to others repeating mistakes of the past in different contexts -- genocides continue to reoccur. It is this that has proved the most significant lesson of Balakian's work regarding my perception of the world. I will never look at the signs to 'Save Darfur' the same way, after reading The Black Dog of Fate. Like myself, Balakian grew
It was during the middle of the 1980s that the Soviet Union first decided that a pattern of renewal was needed for the country. Of course, that was not something that could take place overnight. The country would have to weed out economic problems, along with issues like corruption and alcoholism that were further weakening the country and its economy. The position that the Soviet Union held from a global
" (Young, 1792; as cited in Readings of European History, 1906) Young states that he has even see a 'poor' child run over and killed by the young rich nobility who ride at fast speeds and carelessly in the streets of Paris. Young however, speaks of the countryside as an ordered and lovely place as he states: "A succession of many well-built, tight, and comfortable farming cottages, built of stone and
2). Air Cargo, Inc. only flew cargo from December, 1941 (when Pearl Harbor was attacked) through November, 1944. At that time, Siddiqi explains that individual airline companies authored their own freight services, and on page 2 the author of this article notes that in time the major passenger airlines began offering freight forwarding service and that pretty well eliminated the need for a whole fleet of airline companies that just
Eating Disorders How the Perception of Beauty Influences Eating Disorders With everything changing in this society, the aspect of beauty especially when it comes to women has kept changing, sometimes desperately to the extent of individuals adopting extreme behaviors in the pursuit of the ideal 'beauty'. Instances where different kinds of media communicate the significance of physical beauty in the contemporary world and the means of achieving such traits are widespread. The
The Lord will lead one to safety always. One can simply believe in something higher to get the meaning of this; it doesn't have to be Jesus. Psalm 127, contrarily is confusing because it states that unless the Lord builds the house, it is built in vain. This seems to be more literal, but I do get the idea. Unless the people building the house are doing it with