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Love For Nature Great Love
581 wordsIn "A White Heron", by Sarah Jewett, Sylvia's great love for nature and animals outweighs her and her family's needs. Sylvia's great passion for animals and nature leads to her great knowledge of the outdoors. Sylvia's expertise of birds including the white heron forces her to make a choice between saving the white heron or helping her family. Sylvia does both of these things because she is close to nature. Clearly, Sylvia's great understanding of the outdoors and animals comes from her fondness...
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Effect Is Felt Columbine Tragedy Lives
377 wordsThe Columbine tragedy has struck another victim last week. If all thoughts were that the tragedy was behind us, no one has considered the effects of the massacre. A student that was injured in the massacre was making progress on recovering, when backlash from the tragedy struck. Her Mother committed suicide in respect to what the tragedy has done to her life and her families life as well. This is the effect that the event has spawned, more pain and more suffering. On looking at this case, we can...
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Mothers Womb Pro Lifers
1,950 wordsIn an essay entitled A Defense of Abortion author Judith Jarvis Thomson offers a number of considerations that would justify abortion in almost all cases without denying the personhood of an unborn child. Thomson's argument is not based on the distinguishing comparison between human beings classified as members of a species, namely homo sapiens, who possess the human genetic code and the actual human person who possesses cognitive consciousness or the ability to know what is going on around him ...
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Prenatal Diagnosis Categorical Imperative
1,523 wordsThe case that I chose to discuss is an article which assesses the argument of whether it is ethically right or wrong to have a prenatal diagnosis of the sex of a child, in order for parents to decide if they want to keep the child or not. Some questions are raised as to whether sex selection through abortion is moral or immoral, and if it were immoral, in what circumstances, if any, would it be justified. Prenatal gender selection through abortion is a legal practice in any country where abortio...
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Point Of View One Person
1,074 wordsIn the article "A Defense of Abortion" Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion is morally permissible even if the fetus is considered a person. In this paper I will give a fairly detailed description of Thomson main arguments for abortion. In particular I will take a close look at her famous "violinist" argument. Following will be objections to the argumentative story focused on the reasoning that one person's right to life outweighs another person's right to autonomy. Then appropriate respon...
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Effect Is Felt Columbine Tragedy Effects
380 wordsColumbine: Cause and Effect The Columbine tragedy has struck another victim last week. If all thoughts were that the tragedy was behind us, no one has considered the effects of the massacre. A student that was injured in the massacre was making progress on recovering, when backlash from the tragedy struck. Her Mother committed suicide in respect to what the tragedy has done to her life and her families life as well. This is the effect that the event has spawned, more pain and more suffering. On ...
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Value Of Human Life Police Discretion
970 wordsThe Law of Self-defense CONCURRING OPINION: We concur with Justice Whites interpretation of Tennessee State law. However, we propose that more restrictive standards should be used by policemen when dealing with imminently dangerous circumstances. The necessity standard that White proposes for governing the use of lethal force strikes the right balance in regulating violence. He insists that the police act reasonably by evaluating whether the felons interest in life outweighs the states interest ...
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