Striving For a More Peaceful World

Much of society uses technology for many tasks that include communication, school, jobs, etc. Most people think that using technology has its negative effects such as physical and emotional. Those can be generally related to the biography, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot due to the fact that Henrietta’s family was not acknowledged about using the cells of Henrietta without their permission or Henriettas. Another example from Unit 3 would be Prometheus: The Friend of Man which shows that when Prometheus, the main protagonist, spends time on Earth helping man give them the fire from the god, Jupiter. The two units The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Prometheus: The Friend of Man both support the following idea about the responsibility people have developing new technologies.

With the development of society, people's values are changing quite a lot. People tend to focus more time and energy on pursuing economic benefits and material satisfaction while ignoring the importance of morality. Here, my point is that no matter what technology we develop, no matter how much contribution and improvement this technology will bring to people. When we develop this technology, we have to obey ethical and moral rules. For instance, in “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, Rebecca Skloot recounts that doctors and scientists

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. This quote by Christian Lous Lange, summarizes the story of the veldt, its morals, and most importantly, society’s views on technology itself. The line where this blurs is one we fear, and usually do not recognize at first. Whether you agree with this quote or not, it is a disturbing perspective on the advance of knowledge. Imagining a world where technology engulfs the mind of the children, poisons them with thoughts of rage and revenge is a world where the next generation is corrupt. When an innocent pure mind becomes so damaged to where a child wishes their caregivers dead, that is the death of an empathetic, working, society.

Author Neil Postman’s main argument in his book “Technopoly: A Surrender of Culture to Technology” is not between humanists and scientists but between technology and people. In today’s society technology has become accepted as a friend, a helper, something needed. Postman argues that “the uncontrolled growth of technology destroys the vital sources of our humanity. It creates a culture without a moral foundation. It undermines certain mental processes and social relations that make human life worth living Postman XII).” Technology according to Postman, creates a culture with no moral foundation, a culture that undermines certain mental processes and social relations that make human life interactive. Technology is a friend but, it can also be

How have the principal teachings on peace in two religious traditions guided their contribution to the achievement of both inner and world peace? Christianity and Islam have a common origin as religions of peace and each has peace as a foundational element of its beliefs. In the sacred text of each, peace is regarded as a virtue. Both teach peace as key parts of their principal beliefs.

Firstly, Haidt consider ‘care’ as moral foundation. It came from making vulnerable children. It builds foundation between human and would reduce the conflicts among individuals. This suggests that morality can reduce the conflicts of various culture and might enable multiculturalism more realistic. He considered care and harm but it’s not economically effective because he ignored the economic behavior of individual. “Nothing is free in today’s world; someone do need to pay for it”. The political system should be based upon economic standard because at the end of the day it is the economy which reflects standard of living. Then he considered ‘Liberty’ as moral foundation, people should have freedom from domination. It suggests that people

It is well known that entertainment texts have a natural tie to health topics, which is evidenced by the 90+ medical drama television series. One example of an entertainment text is through the script of ABCs hit television series, Grey’s Anatomy. While the whole series of Grey’s Anatomy bears great relation to health communication study, a more discrete version of the script is seen within particular episode entitled “Give Peace a Chance,” Season 6 Episode 7, which can be directly related to health communications and narrative paradigm. This specific episodes plot and script focuses on one of the medical professionals becoming the patient and, in turn, observing how he takes on the patient role and how the other health care professionals balance between their roles as health care providers and friends. In this episode, Isaac, a well-known and well-liked hospital lab technologist, comes to Dr. Derek Shepherd with a consult. Dr. Shepherd scanned over the scans given to him and states that the diagnosis is a massive spinal cord tumor which had overtaken the spine and the blood supply and that he would love to operate, but would have to cut the spinal cord to remove the tumor. Dr. Shepherd then asked Isaac who the doctor on the case is, to which he replies “You are. These are my scans and I want you to remove my tumor.” Throughout the episode, Isaac continues to encourage Derek to operate, even if it means paralysis below the hips. Over the course of the episode, Derek

Agents of Peace are not afraid to be seen as different. In my opinion, they are not afraid to go sit with the kid who is sitting alone. They are happy to help others. And while I believe they have their own forms of beliefs that can be polarizing, they do not force their beliefs on anyone. Instead of spilling hate due to religion and values, they come from a place of love and care. Keeping this in mind, to be a peace agent, I am not afraid to be myself. True, not everyone will like who I am as a person, nor will they agree with all my beliefs. However, in my experience, being myself will bring more peace than hate. As an Agent of Peace, I am not worried about being seen as weird. Peace is keeping everyone included without causing fights. I

Bailey Tart Honors English IV Mrs. Joyner 1st Block 16 December 2015 Morals of Technology Ethics of human society are questioned when studying deep into the unknown. People feel that certain things shouldn’t be studied even though the technology needed is available. Also, even though the technology is available, it does not establish the moral right to study a subject. Becoming obsessed with the work and research of a studied topic can cause people to lose sight of the important things in life.

The assigned readings for this week were both not only interesting, but equally depressing. Attacks on cities or war itself is never an event that people like to read about because of the destruction and death people face. I thought the use of language in Ernie Plye’s columns were so vivid that I could picture everything happening as I read it. I thought the first column was bittersweet because although Plye is longing for peace, he thinks the night London was attacked and burning in flames, was the most beautiful sight he’s ever seen and mentions he even feels shame for saying that. I realized people might find thrill in terror and uncertainty but also bittersweet beauty in remembering the raw emotions amidst chaos. I think Pyle’s thinks

World peace is a topic chosen to prove that there is currently no possible way for us, humans, to achieve peace between all the nations without us having to deal with current problems we have now. The study of the topic has been quite hard, but fascinating as the research forehand has to lead me to discover more unknown problems that are likely to be preventing us from world peace. With evidence from credible articles, the paper determines that a solution to a war-free world without any problems is quite impossible. The evidence in the paper includes overpopulation effects, current arguments that can be possibly leading on to fatal war, and the design of the human brain which may be the direct cause of the violence that goes on in the world today. The evidence gathered will help assist that World Peace will not be happening in the world anytime soon.

Haidt makes the claim that there are 5 basic moral values that all humankind shares. The 5 values are care over harm, fairness and justice, respect for authority, group loyalty, and lastly purity. What differs between people is the importance of these values. People with similar values come together and form groups and tribes. It is in these groups that mankind is able to accomplish great things. The problems come into play when the groups reach a decision that confronts their morals. According to Haidt this is part of the issue with the political system. There are two tribes the conservatives and the liberals that have conflicts about their morals. These conflicts make it so that they are not able to work together. Haidt states however that

We are freemen of Scotland, not slaves of England. Our enemy plunders our lands and harms our people, however, we can just watch it happen for the reason that we want peace? I am William Wallace, I am honored as a Scotsman. I fight, I fight for our country, our people and our nation. I used to wish that peace will come to us, I did not want to fight, killing is not easy. However, my everything was destroyed because of my procrastination, my father and my wife have paid the alternate price. I have become bitter, heartbroken and angry. I feel England has to pay for what they have done and I finally realized that it is impossible to have peace unless we fight for it. There may be little hope, they can torture me, they can kill me, but they cannot

What is peace? Although there are many word definitions of peace Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines peace as “freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions.” Often times the best way to begin exploring what something is, is to begin be stating what it is not. Therefore, I shall briefly expound upon peace by examples of what isn’t peace. Many times in life we find our mental state of being to be tumultuous. Everyone has a myriad of experiences and dispositions that make life hectic. Life is very unpredictable and the circumstances in which one is placed in in life are all the more out of any man’s control. For example, a college student could state this his life is full of studying for classes late at night and waking up early in the morning to attend lectures, a salesman could say that his life is full of rushing to financial meetings and stress from worrying about meeting a sales quota, even a child could find himself lacking peace in his life because he may be perturbed by not being permitted to do something his parent deems unfit at the moment. All of these are examples of the antithesis of peace. However, the question still remains: What exactly is peace? Many philosophers have tried to answer this question throughout history and even scientist have hypothesized what peace is by analyzing the brain activity of an individual who are “at peace.” In this essay, I shall define what peace is by the definitions set by a few notable philosophers, scientists, and

What has been noted by Historians and scholars has been the effect of WW1 on World Peace.