Learner Journal 4: Famine: The Irish experience 900- 1900. What is the reading about? This week’s reading is a chapter is taken from the book ‘Famine: The Irish Experience 900 -1900’. The chapter is titled ‘Conclusion: Famine and Irish History. The author highlights the state the country was in before famine. Clarkson adds that all Famines in Ireland was a result of hundreds of years of starvation. In this text the author aims to explain the due course up to the Great Famine. The author also aims
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Australian professor and animal rights advocate Peter Singer states this well in this essay “All Animals Are Equal”: The same form of discrimination may be observed in the widespread practice of experimenting on other species in order to see if certain substances are safe for human beings‚ or to test some psychological theory about the effect of severe punishment on learning‚ or to try out various new compounds just in case something turns up” (Singer 6). All major United States cosmetic companies
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Adam Erickson Singer’s Sticky Situation Peter Singer thinks we are too selfish with our money. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”‚ he proposes a solution to poverty in other countries. Singer believes that money that might otherwise be used for luxury goods should be donated to charities that help save lives in poorer countries. He believes that this decision increase overall happiness more than the purchase of a luxury good‚ like new shoes‚ would. While Singer’s argument raises an
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Psy 220 Paradox of Affluence: Are we truly happy? The term "paradox of affluence" explains the disparity that has developed over the last 40 to 50 years in America between material well-being and psychosocial well-being. "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short." It also provides extensive statistical evidence that indices of material affluence and of well-being have gone in opposite directions since the 1950s. We measure affluence in dollars or by other
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of Peter Singer and John Arthur By Amy Gallaher The fact that we can afford to provide for ourselves even beyond our basic needs bring an important question. Is it then our duty to provide financial assistance to those who do not have enough to provide for their own basic needs? Peter Singer‚ in his piece‚ “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” would argue that we ought to prevent bad things from happening without sacrificing something of equal importance. Here is the argument Peter Singer presents
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My Favourite Singer (Michael Jackson) My favourite singer is Michael Jackson. I like his songs very much because they are full of energy and very melodic. I also like the way he dances. There were nine children in Michael’s family. They lived in a small fourroom house. Later he lived in a house which has seventeen rooms downstairs and sixteen rooms upstaires. It stands in 2‚700 acres of ground. Besides the house there are guest houses‚ a golf course‚ a swimming pool‚ tennis courts‚ stables‚ gardens
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countries and global organizations like the United Nations (UN) step in to give much needed aid to countries who struggle? In ‘The Life You Can Save’ by Peter Singer and ‘Domination and Destitution in an Unjust World’ by Ryoa Chung‚ both philosophers propose two different options on how we can address our obligation to the global poor.
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enjoy the types of articles and books that make me feel a sense of thrill‚ or frustration‚ or suspense. However‚ I have yet to read something to make me feel a personal guilt. That is until we read the short article by Peter Singer‚ The Life You Can Save. The philosopher‚ Peter Singer from Princeton University demonstrated different aids for controversy and boasting. But first let me start with‚ if you are one that others would call “weak”‚ why this would make you feel uncomfortable. The article begins
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“The Challenge of Affluence” This article‚ by Alice Rivlin‚ begins by delineating the questions around the sudden growth in the economy due to technological change. She describes that it was unexpected‚ yet one of the causal factors was based on the idea that computers and information technology could be a solution to unskilled laborers in the midst of a tight labor market. Furthermore‚ Revlin goes into detail about the role of fiscal policy employed by Clinton and Bush‚ and the monetary policy
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morally wrong. There are to two sides in abortion labeled as pro-life or conservatives and pro-choice or liberals. As the names imply pro-life supporters are against abortion and pro-choice supporters are for the option of abortion. This debate of morality has been going on for hundreds of years now‚ but gained massive popularity when it was legalized by the United States (US) Supreme Court decision‚ Roe vs. Wade‚ forty three years ago. Abortion is a heavily discussed ethical issue and laws that would
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