The world's population has grown more in the last 50 years than it had done in the previous 4 million years[1]. This quantum leap in the human population has put severe strains on the finite resources and the fragile environment of our planet. What is more, the present rate of the galloping...

Corporate business ethics has sparked one of the most controversial, concerning, and notorious issues in our world today. Business ethics refers to how people and institutions behave in the world of commerce, including factors such as exploiting its workforce, negligence for the environment, and the...

The Effects of Population Growths on the Environment With world population skyrocketing, where is man-kind headed? The current world population is over six billion with the United States population alone numbering over 264 million. Studies on population growths project that by the year 2050 A.D....

In Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in the United States, Laurie Kaye Abraham argues that the health care system in the United States has indeed failed miserably, specifically in treating poor people. As Abraham portrays it, the system has not only failed, it seems to have ...

The Destruction of Our Earth It is a well known fact that our planet is time and again being attacked by those who dwell on it. The human race is constantly playing with nature, as though it is our play thing, our toy. This continual raping of our Earth has brought about consequences that many...

In order to properly critique the quote "Reason is the slave of the passions", by renowned philosopher David Hume, we must first examine the definitions of what we perceive as reason, slaves, and passions, and why we perceive them as such. Each term takes on an automatic, assumed quality by most ...

Educating America Rachel Carson's Silent Spring compares to environmentalist Barry Lopez's views of how we are presently ruining the land today. She writes about how our use of DDT to kill insects is also having an effect on the land as well as ourselves. In her book, she points out...

Technology is changing the world as we know it. Not all of these advances in technology are viewed as positive. One of the breakthroughs that have received mixed responses is the issue of cloning. There has been much debate on this topic, and the debate is certain to rage on for many years to come. ...

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. ...

Cloning There is one thing in the world today that separates us from God and that is the ability or power to create another human. Cloning not only goes against the ethics of a human being but also against the difference between God and man. There are many reasons that I feel we should not ...

Cloning Human cloning for reproductive purposes is a highly controversial and widely misunderstood issue that must be carefully examined and decided upon. The media has promoted ignorant responses to this issue by bluntly attacking the possibility of using cloning and paying little attention...

A Man's World How many times have you turned on the television and heard about a violent episode involving a young man? This seems to be the trend these days. Why is this? There are many different factors that could be the cause of these incidents. Is it race, poverty, neighborhood, famil...

Using Nature Efficiently Man's relationship and treatment of nature, in terms of the outdoors, has changed dramatically over time. This change has been almost directly related to how man relies on nature to survive. The problem has been deciding if our treatment of nat...

Earth's Endangered Wildlife Since the beginning of man there has also been wildlife. There are the animals, the wild plants and also the ocean creatures. For thousands of years animals have made almost every inch of earth their home. Now that man has exceedingly populated, the numbers of a...

The oppression has been an issue that has affected human life for a very long time. Man has always seen himself as separate from nature. Nature is not something he is a part of, but a resource that he can do whatever he wants with. The plants are for use to eat, the forests are a source of lumber f...

Paradox Scientists and the rest of the human race is finally beginning to realize that it has a tendency to try to destroy itself. Scientists are discovering that many of it's creations can and have caused the deaths of many individuals. Studies have shown that many mechanisms and improved materials...

Cloning, Ethical? The cloning of an adult sheep and the possibility that human cloning could soon follow has raised some serious ethical questions. Some people object on a purely ethical level while others favor cloning solely for the scientific advances it will produce. In the debate over cloni...

This paper endeavours to delineate the discourse concerning the necessity of animal experimentation. Using the utilitarian approach (cost-benefit analysis), the benefits of animal experimentation (vivisection) to society, especially in the field of medical research, outweigh the unavoidable costs. W...

In the essay, "The American Indian Wilderness", Louis Owens presents a personal story to show a dramatic change in his point of view. His story revolves around a mind-altering experience in which he uses himself as the straw figure, allowing us to effectively see how he came to choose his ...

"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson is a passionate and scientific look at the harsh reality of the effects of chemical pest controllers otherwise known as pesticides. Released in 1962, this piece of Carson's writing history would become the founder of the modern environmentalism and start a social mo...

The debate on whether abortion is right has remained a longstanding source of contention among members of the various fronts of our society. On one hand, proponents claim of the view that making abortion illegal is a contradiction to the ability by women to enjoy their right to life and freedom of c...

Death with Dignity Should Be Legal In the article, "Euthanasia Can Never Be Justified," author J. Budziszewski defends why euthanasia should stay illegal. The basis of his argument comes from his idea that all bad things come from good things that have been "spoiled". To relat...

Do humans have the natural inclination to fight? Do we as humans are born with the desire to hate, destroy, and kill? Or are we born with the ability to love create and nurture? There are two theories that help us understand our behaviour to certain situations, the first that I will be discussing i...

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Euthanasia is defined as painless killing of a person who has a painful, incurable disease or incapacitating order. When someone is faced with a dying loved one, these issues become more than mere exercises in ethical philosophy. This subject can and does become horrifying predicaments that may see...