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To begin, a great novelist, poet, and author once said “At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world—to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.” which gives us an image of being a good samaritan, and how even sometimes, the best of people can fall into selfish hole but it's those that come back up and show the world positivity that are true heroes and meant to heroes. In the short informative news article, “Can the Law Make Us Be Decent”, “Jay Silver Sterling” leans toward the decision of there …show more content…
Silver’s proposal is appropriate,reasonable, and sensible. Bystanders who refuse to help a person who is endangered should be prosecuted due to the fact is they are standing there watching another being suffering with not even a minimal amount of help. Next, Bystanders not only show a lack of compassion, but likewise/similarly, they show cruelty towards others who are in grave danger. In the short story, “And of Clay We Are Created”, by “Isabell Allende”, she shows a visible image in the reader’s head with her story by putting in page (22)“ He went to the Army field tents to offer relief in the form of vague promises to crowds of the rescued, then to the improvised hospital to offer a word of encouragement to doctors and nurses worn down from so many hours of tribulations. Then he asked to be taken to see Azucena, the little girl the whole world had seen. He waved to her with a limp statesman's hand, and microphones recorded his emotional voice and paternal tone as he told her that her courage had served as an example to the nation. Rolf Carle interrupted to ask for a pump, and the President assured him that he personally would attend to the matter.

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