Enemies of War The sky glowed with live ammunition. Paul was racing through a field and he plummeted into a dank trench. Moments later Paul was startled by a French soldier who fell into the trench with him. He instinctively stabed the man three times until the man fell to the ground. Paul was over...

The definition of humanism is "A philosophy centered on the values, interests and potential of human beings" (Webster's Dictionary 1984, p. 340). In the play, A Man for all Seasons by Robert Bolt, Thomas More is a humanist as he knows his own values, interests and potential, and ...

Where have all the Heroes gone? Modern mythological heroes in print In ancient human cultures, myths were used to systematically explain the things that they did not have the scientific knowledge to understand. Heroes in these myths were used to teach people about right behavior, honor, mo...

Cloning ALL CONSTRAINTS UPON CLONING SHOULD BE LIFTED Cloning has been a very controversial topic since it affects moral values of human beings and other living things alike. In February 1997 scientists in Scotland announced the birth of the first cloned sheep named Dolly, this heralded the...

Starting All Over The Martian Chronicles By Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chronicles is a futuristic story about space travel, invasion and planet colonization. Analyzing characters in this twenty-eight-chapter novel is extremely difficult because every chapter includes ...

The famous American author, Louisa May Alcott once said that, "Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more that we can potatoes." Humans rely on money for a better life as much as they rely on water to live. The world does not...

What do we try to achieve in life? Why do we try so hard even though we know we are going to die in the end anyways? These are the questions that I had never thought to ask myself before my death. After dying in World War I, God saw that I had not been taught the many lessons that I should have ...

The idea that there would be no moral law without the belief in the existence of a higher being is utterly ridicules. Each day that passes more and more people are converting over to the atheist beliefs that there is no higher power and that this life is all we have. Do you see them going out robbin...

The idea that there would be no moral law without the belief in the existence of a higher being is utterly ridicules. Each day that passes more and more people are converting over to the atheist beliefs that there is no higher power and that this life is all we have. Do you see them going out robbin...

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 27 A-B, the people are given the traditional release of one prisoner. They have a choice, the just man Jesus Christ and the "notable" prisoner Barabbas. When asked which prisoner should be released the people responded, "Barabbas." (convinced...

So your walking down the street. There is nothing "abnormal" about this. When all of a sudden you get this strange urge that someone is strange urge that someone is staring at you. You turn around to check on your hunch, and your right, someone was staring at you. Why did you feel the...

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 27 A-B, the people are given the traditional release of one prisoner. They have a choice, the just man Jesus Christ and the "notable" prisoner Barabbas. When asked which prisoner should be released the people responded, "Barabbas."...

All Men are equal In the past, in the present and in the future, this problem has and will trouble all human beings, but why? Don't we know that we are all made of the same "substance"? That a skin color or a physical incapacity makes no difference to us? That by thinking or being ...

The famous novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque relates the terrible experience of the First World War, its disasters and cruelty, from the perspective of a nineteen year old soldier, called Paul Baümer, who fights on the front accompanied by his former schoolmates. ...

Philip Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' is an interesting though complex piece of fiction that criticizes the influx of technology in our world through the use of robots. Androids in this novel are robots that appear like humans but lack the capacity of empathy and hence...

By referring what has been studied and learned about aggression, it can be understood that children or even adults will show aggression when they feel threatened. Children from divorced homes have issues with low self-esteem and social competence because they are left out from one or both parent...

Humans and animals have similarities and differences, which make human beings unique in their behavior. Unfortunately, not all of these differences are positive. According to Eric Fromm, in his book Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, humans have what he calls "malignant aggression," where t...

When C.S. Lewis compared Animal Farm with 1984 Lewis "found Animal Farm the more powerful of the two [novels]" because "wit and humor" are absent from 1984 while these crucial elements of storytelling "are employed with devastating effect" in Animal Farm ("Animal F...

It is said that going back to school is a journey to a new world of enrichment. It is a garden where the classroom grows one's thoughts and dreams. It is a school building where one constructs new plans for the future. And it is a tower of learning where one can climb as high as one wishes. Thus, t...

I believe that my brain is the determinant of my personality. So in that sense the "self" that I experience every day does reside in my brain. In terms of spirituality, there are those who believe there is a soul with an existence apart from both the body and the brain. I however do not ...

If Ross and Rachael are examples of positive interpersonal relationships, and their communication is an example of true interpersonal communication, the human race is in serious trouble. Ross and Rachael are clearly in love with each other, and have been for some time on the hit show Frie...

Creslaw Milosz's American Ignorance of War is a critique of America's obliviousness to the fact that there could exist differences in social orders and values, which could be as natural as the American way of thinking and life. It is important to note here that Milosz goes to great length ...

"When a health care worker makes a mistake, someone can die." Although human beings are fallible and will always make mistakes no matter how competent they are, the consequences of certain errors are more severe than others and therefore should be punished accordingly. Health care workers ...

Emotions have helped humans evolve and survive by changing the way we react to and think about our environment. Positive and negative emotions create patterned responses in both individuals and in whole societies. Emotions can help people understand the world, including other human beings,...

Dignity Our human dignity can is something that was given to us by God. Dignity is something we should accept from God as a privilege. There are many different types of ways of hurting our human dignity and how we can help our human dignity. There are many media programs, songs, and stories o...