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gives meaning to life. Nagel champions the belief that death, a state of permanent posthumous nonexistence defined as “unsupplemented by any form of conscious survival” (769), is an occurrence that harms us. Nagel’s first argument for why death is bad is that it deprives us of life, of which contains various goods that make life valuable. Nagel supports his argument by saying that “if he [the man] had not died, he would have continued to live it, and to possess whatever good there is in living” (772)

Question 5: Some characteristics of each character that review them in good and bad terms can be symbolically expressed in many ways. For example, Mama is a hard working women that has seen a lot of hardship in her life that truly reflects on what she knows and how she uses that knowledge to pass on to her children. This idea can be expressed from the book stating that Maggie knows how to quilt, which was taught to her by Mama and her parents or Maggie’s grandparents. Mama also shows how hardship

I think the sport can be so entertaining to watch and you get so into you don’t really think about the players, you forget that they can hurt. And if you're a hardcore sports fan, your reaction will probably be like, “Get up, He didn’t hurt you too bad, Just walk it off.” And sometimes those people aren’t wrong, sometimes in other sports they get tapped on the shoulder and then they fall on the ground crying like they can’t even go with the game but next 3 minutes, they are perfectly fine, without

who will hurt you. Still, trust them but be careful.”-Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This can be hard to our civilization today. Society judges people based on what they did, and their actions, and not trust who they really are. Many people in this world do bad and are really good, they just express their emotions through anger and hate. In the short story, Thank You M’am, by Langston Hughes, the protagonist Roger, tries to steal Mrs. Jones pocketbook, and instead of taking him to jail, she saw that he was

Bellipotent during the last decade of the 18th century, after being impressed from the previous ship he was on “The Rights of Man”. He was seen as a “handsome sailor”, and was loved by his old crew. He was also innocent to a fault. This man could not see the bad or suspicious in someone at all. In the context of this novel, he was the purest good in this ship, which could also be seen as a microcosm of the world as it was. Billy as a whole is seen mainly as a man without fault. He could do no wrong in his world

The complexity behind humans’ relationship with technology is further revealed in the portrayal of the spaceship, “Mother.” The spaceship is considered an organic item because it seems to have a mind of its own. The crew calling the spaceship “Mother” also attributes human characteristics to it. It is organic because its own decision-making betrays the crew. First, it changes the course of the route and leads them to danger. What was supposedly a distress signal was soon revealed as a warning signal

comfortable home is extremely important. Unsafe homes often expose kids to bad habits and behavior. Unfortunately, John has been exposed to abusive drinking and behavior his whole life. It has become his normal, he and his family, all alcoholics. John even discloses that, “Bore got a big kick out of it when I was ten years old and I’d go around emptying all the beer glasses lying around the house” (Zindel 94). Of course, kids see bad things everywhere, but when a

Rationale: the following assignment is based on the book “The curios incident of the dog in the night-time“ by Mark Haddon. The book narrates how the life of Christopher John Francis Boone (the first character) changes, since he found his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, murdered in front of the neighbor’s house. At the beginning the murderer was unknown and the curiosity of Christopher to find the killer of Wellington started to grow. Therefor Christopher commence a strategy to come upon the criminal

In the world of health one well-known controversy is whether or not caffeine is good for you or if it has any nutritional value. On the pro side of the argument, many doctors have performed new studies showing that caffeine has a lot of positive effects on our health such as reducing the risk of skin cancer which was confirmed in an experiment done by Erikka Loftfield MPH. Based on my research I’ve found that studies also show that caffeine “has been shown to enhance both physical and cognitive performance

Many people may say that Pro-labor is the way to go because they want people to get fair wages, health care, and good working conditions. Doesn't that sound amazing, and wouldn't you think that would have to be made a law because how our country runs. You can say you don't live in the same country as me, but you live in a country that there is such things that keep you safe when you go to work. This is by the law, we the people take for granted how much the government does for us and how we should