Life Is Worth Critical Lens Essay

The value of one's life has been set from the first days of one's birth till this day as the values and beliefs are slowly changed. The United State government has put a set currency on everyone's lives when they die. When an individual passes away a close person in their life will get that amount of money. Although having a set amount of money on people's life seems unfair. Everyone should get an equal amount of currency on their life. For the government to decide how the money is deducted. The money on a person's life should only get deducted if they have committed a serious crime. Then government will decide how much money will be deducted depending on the crime. Although having a set amount of currency on people's life is wrong the government should have an equal amount for everyones lives and only be deducted on the horrible crimes they have committed.

Should people put the value of life into monetary value or should life be kept solely as an emotional quantity? People and societies throughout the ages have been trying to answer the problem of putting the value of life into terms of dollar bills. The ancient Egyptians buried their dead with all of their worldly belongings. They believed a person’s monetary worth on Earth was over, and they should take all of that earthly worth with them to the afterlife. Modern day Americans are different from the Egyptians. Today people believe that the families of the dead should be compensated for “their” loss.

Should we as a society set a monetary value on life, or let it exist on an emotional level? Are the accomplishments we achieve and the money we make throughout our lifetime the only things that determine what our life is worth after death; or should it be based on the value that the individual put upon their own experiences. In contemporary American Society, this question remains to be asked when someone loses their life. In the excerpt from Chris Jones’ “Roger Ebert: The Essential Man” The struggles which Ebert Endures, and the high value he remained to keep on his own life was revealed, which displayed his own personal value of life and how it is precious throughout the conflict. I agree with this mentality completely, because one’s circumstances may outweigh another’s, meaning that there is

`Where did we come from?', `Why are we here?', `Where are we going?'. These are questions which surface, centre stage, at some point in most people's lives. For philosophers, and others, they constitute the core problem known traditionally as the Meaning of Life.

It is not right to assign value to the life of a person, even a man with training could not help but be bothered with how wrong that is. Compensation for a death would be rather problematic, distinctions in the compensation would only fuel the hurt and grief of the survivors knowing that their family was worth only a certain amount.

238,900 miles away, the earth’s moon is one that is truly unique. With a given age of about 4.5 billion years the Earth serves a major role in real life and in the book Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. When catastrophe strikes, Earth takes a turn for the worst and great natural disasters occur. Thousands die, but there are a number of survivors. If there are survivors, how beneficial is the moon actually? What would happen if the moon had been destroyed? How necessary is it for human survival? The Moon, is a great benefactor to human survival because of the benefits earth gets from it.

“When it comes to healthcare, ‘bad people’ are as equal as the rest of us” (646). When someone is sentenced to execution it is decided by the criminal justice system, not the medical community. The justice system views these peoples’ social worth as so low that they deserve to die for the crimes they have committed. “The

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly", was once said by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. This is an accurate quote to live by and refer to daily since following your instincts is usually the best decision for yourself. It leads you to do exactly what you want to do, instead of anyone getting to your mindset. This quote can also be shown in literature-characters go through hardships within there own minds. But when a third party expresses their own opinion of the problem then the character becomes confused and eventually withdrawled from what they really want. Accordingly, two works of literature that best show how following your heart(mind) is the better decision would be Tennesse Williams play The Glass

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film The Lives of Other’s (2005) is set in East Berlin during the socialist reign from November 1984, up until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The political context plays a significance role not only in the film’s subject matter but also in its cinematography, which exploits the voyeuristic tendencies of the audience, reflecting the surveillance of the Stasi Secret Police officers. The film follows a loyal socialist and playwright, Georg Dreyman who becomes subject (along with actor girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland) to extensive Stasi surveillance due to his association with subversive artists such as Paul Hauser and Albert Jerska. Hauptman Gerd Weisler is the accomplished Stasi officer assigned to

According to the Human Life Calculator, our value is based on the amount of money we will make in our lives and nothing more. It depends on the money we make, how many children we have, and how much we spend on ourselves each month. Some people find it fair to actually compare the value of life to the dollar amount they are worth. They might even look into it so much that people choose their partner according to their monetary values and not the emotional attachment. Therefore the majority are

Is it morally correct to put a price tag on a life? Your initial thought was probably no, lives should not be categorized into a monetary value, but take a moment to dive deeper into all of the research on this topic, it soon becomes apparent that it is necessary to apply a price figure for each of our lives as some people are essentially worth more than others. Since the beginning of time, people have been debating this topic, taking longer than normal, after all, it is a sensitive subject. Due to the sensitivity of this matter, it has taken us a plethora of years to find a balance between what is morally correct to give someone for their late loved one and what will not put the government into a deeper debt.

     I can remember as a child always asking myself the “why” questions of life. What is the purpose of life? Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Why do certain things happen? And is there really a God? I had always kept these questions to myself and eventually pushed them out of my mind altogether. I was raised in a Christian household and you just were not allowed to ask questions of that nature and doubt the faith. The world is the way it is because God made it that way and that is all there is to it. I was really excited to take this class because it would finally give me the opportunity to exercise my personal thoughts and beliefs. I have come to agree with Socrates that “the unexamined life is not

Just a couple week or before, I was hovering around the streets of Kathmandu and was gyrating around a top of my house with a heavy brain box. Every of those 24 hours of my days used to be spent on finding the meaning of life, death and the reason I am here on this planet. After those rigorous searches inside the book ‘Nirwad, ‘The Alchemist’, and inside my own heart, I finally got the answer.

The Meaning of Life, our very reason of existence, something that all of us have tried to obtain but very few have ever claimed to achieve, our purpose, our meaning. Perhaps it’s our ambition that blinds us, our selfishness that holds us back. Maybe we all know the path to the true meaning of life, but have never decided that we should follow it. At all points in our lives, we are given the option to follow the path, but all we can do i think about ourselves when in fact, we should be doing the opposite. I believe that to find our true meaning in life, we must live a life of happiness and peace with one another as a community and to live past death.

In the Italian comedy-drama, “Life is Beautiful,” directed by Roberto Benigni, it displays how the main character Guido responded to the terrible hate crimes and tragic events that affect him and his family directly in WWII. Guido uses his positive outlook on life and his upbeat attitude to protect his son when his family is imprisoned inside an Italian concentration camp. Guido takes on the role of a superhero protecting his son from the horrific turmoil that is World War II and the terrible hate crimes that they were victims of. Guido comes up with distractions for his son; therefore Giosue, Guido’s son, does not experience a loss of innocence. This also means that Giosue’s innocence is preserved instead of taken away from him. Roberto Benigni’s intent with this film is to show what it takes to protect the ones you love most. Benigi’s demonstrates how adversity can affect the human spirit through Guido’s actions with protecting his son.