Greasy LakeT. Coraghesan Boyle's short story "Greasy Lake" uses a physical landmark to represent the moral and physical condition of the characters as well as that of the society they inhibit. Boyle uses the setting to give the reader a feel for the characters' lives. By comprehending how the lake...

Strength is not only the quality of being strong. Strength is also the power to resist an attack or stress; it is the ability to maintain a moral or intellectual position firmly. All of these meaning can be seen in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. In real life there are also exceptional...

"No abortion is ever completely safe", says the National Right to Life Committee. Many people are not aware of the serious dangers associated with abortion. Women may suffer many physical effects from having an abortion. In many cases, a woman may also have severe emotional and psycholo...

Abortion Abortion is one of the most controversial issues. In America, two groups are seriously debating this issue; pro-choice and pro-life. While pro-choice saying that abortion is the individual choice of free will to do what they think is right, pro-life objects are morally wrong and are also a...

Murder Abortion is murder and it is wrong. There is absolutely no situation imaginable that can be proved a just cause for murder. This inhumane form of "birth control," goes against all moral codes that society today is based upon. Abortion also goes against the very basis of our gov...

Throughout the centuries mankind has displayed the Western attitude that nature must be conquered. In attempting to vanquish nature, our natural environment has been gradually destroyed. Because of man's attitude toward our planet, the earth's capacity to sustain life is jeopardized. In...

Chillingworth's Desire Although Roger Chillingworth's zealous desire to seek out Hester's secret lover is justified, he crossed the boundary of human realm with his demonic sphere of soul possession. Hester, who is scared of him, asks, "Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the f...

We are living human beings, one species out of a million others that exist simultaneously on this planet. Life is something that has been a mystery to us higher beings since the beginning of our existence. Are we merely living beings, or do we have an afterlife existence? The precision of the bio...

American Academy of Pediatrics. (1997). Adolescents and Anabolic Steroids: A Subject Review. Pediatrics. v. 99, 1-10. Brown, W. (1980). Ethics, Drugs and Sport. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. v.2, 15-23. Burke, M. (1997). Drugs in Sport: An Issue of Morality or Sentimenta...

Are There Any Universal Values? When a person encounters a crisis, a problem, or a questionable situation, they look at experience and decide what action to take. In order to determine whether an action is right or wrong, a person must enter into an ethical experience and consider the motivati...

The Scarlet Letter displays that guilt is venomous and destructive, even more so than physical injuries. Nathaniel Hawthorne wanted to show the result of hiding one's sins and the destructiveness of secrecy and deception. In the story, Dimmesdale is consumed by his feelings of guilt, and in the...

When, if ever, is an abortion the right choice to make? There is no consensus about when abortion is appropriate. More precisely, the question is under what conditions is the abortion morally acceptable? I believe this question cannot be answered. There are many points of view argued by different gr...

Teiresias examines the difference between right and wrong as if the two concepts are two sides of a coin. In reality, good and evil, right and wrong, true and false, are not so clearly delineated. Teiresias does not realize that his observation if applied as a general rule, would create the disastro...

As you may have read in my history article, my school routinely made us listen to teachers and speakers tell us why sex was a bad thing. Now, if you're a Christian proponent of the "no premarital sex" stance, I've probably just triggered you to say, "We don't think that sex is bad! We think that it'...

Man does not know freedom. From the moment man is born through the moment he dies, man abides by the laws laid down by society. Freedom is a notion, a term used by idealistic teens, a term used to describe a political state often equated with democracy, a term used by men and women to break off a r...

Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" is the story of a poor man in Russia whomentally destroys himself of his guilt through pain and suffering. Itanalyzes the mental and physical conflicts brought upon himself by his crime.His complications are put together by the conflicting personalities which hesh...

What if you were never born?Abortions occur way too often. There are so many mental, emotional, and physical drawbacks that the mother and the family experience. Many facts prove that abortion is not healthy or safe. We should abolish abortion because it's killing a human life, it ...

Human Cloning: Is It Ethical? The amazing advances in technologies and sciences today are mind-boggling. Humans have stepped foot on the moon, they can save each other from physical trauma in a wide array of ways, they can separate atoms into smaller quarks, and they have found medicine for multip...

Morality lies in the eyes of the beholder. The concept of good and evil can vary with one person to the next. Certainly, a married woman loving a man other than her husband could be viewed as a sinner -- evil. Yet, someone may ask if her husband treated her poorly, or if she was seduced and it mi...

Cloning: Is It Morally Wrong? Leon Kass writes, "We are repelled by the prospect of cloning human beings not because of the strangeness or novelty of the undertaking, but because we intuit and feel, immediately and without argument, the violation of things that we rightfully hold dear." ...

Shealynn Takash Professor Allen English 20 29 February, 2000 THE BLACK BOX: SYMBOLIC OF DEATH AND FADED TRADITIONS While the setting of Shirley Jackson's, The Lottery, takes place on a clear, sunny, June day, it does not take long for the skies to turn gray as she introduces the readers...

There have been many great civil rights activists in our history, fighting against the oppression of blacks. I think Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in his essay "Three Ways of Responding to Oppression". Mr. King believed the best defense and offense against oppression was the way ...

For centuries upon centuries, the essence of war has shaped and evolved the world that we live in today. There are very few positive characteristics that come out of engaging in war because of how widely detrimental to the world it can be. In the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway takes a...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been known for its array of interesting characters, including the runaway slave protagonist named Jim. Without Jim's help in the story, Huck would have never reached where he was, much less go through everything he did and learn what he did. Throu...

The issue of torture is a rising and very debatable topic in the government and the American public's eyes. The authors Jonathan Alter and Henry Porter have different takes on the topic of how torture should be legal or why torture is against the law today in the articles: "Time To Think...