...“The wisdom of religious teachings cannot be ignored when making decisions on medical ethics.” The most important issue to consider when evaluating the ethical issue of abortion is the concept of sanctity of life which holds the idea that all life is precious and sacred therefore all life must be equally valued and respected. Natural Christian theologists Aquinas and Aristotle along with Schweitzer believe that as all life has the same value we shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions regarding abortion and we should let all forms of life continue to live regardless of any circumstances. However, philosophers such as Warren, Thomson and Glover argue that people have the right to decide on medical ethics as it is revolved around them (personalism) they believe that people should consider the embryo or foetus isn’t actually a person, therefore we have the authority over them and can agree on what we feel is the right thing to do with it. I disagree with this claim because as people we are exposed to many ethical situations which can have a great effect on us and we should have the first and strongest opinions on what we feel about situations even if this means not following religious principles such as the sanctity of life. The idea of potentiality is based on the pre- embryo has a potential to be human, then it should be given all the significance and respect of a person. This derives from the idea that all life has intrinsic value and people making an ethical decision on terminating...
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...The matter should only involve the two people who conceive the baby. I personally am not against the idea of abortion. However, my stance is depending on the circumstances. For example, I feel like if a baby was a product of rape and if the women carrying the child decided to have the baby was too much to ask from her. I wouldn’t look her down for it but give her moral support for if she were to keep the baby; it would only be a constant reminder of the occasion. I understand people believe in the ideology that the baby is not at fault so we shouldn’t keep it from living. But we should understand those who had to live through the act don’t want to suffer through the undesirable consequences. I also agree on the idea of abortion under the same circumstances as many religions do. If by bringing the baby to this world it causes health issues to the mother and its required to be terminated than it should not look upon as a sin. For if the mother dies while giving the birth to the child the child would suffer the emptiness of not having the love of a...
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...About five years ago, eight-year-old little girls played with Barbie’s, baby dolls, and made mud pies in their back yard. In 2017, you can find an 8-year-old girl on her couch watching Disney channel or playing candy crush on her mom’s phone. Over the year’s technology has negatively adjusted the way humans act. Similar to today, the society in Anthem has been affected by technology because they put technology in charge which has resulted in them losing value of human life. The book Anthem, is a great representation of what could happen if technology kept growing the way it is today. If one takes a step back and looks at people today compared too people twenty years ago, they would notice that we are losing our humanity just like the people...
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...murdered every day, a fetus or blob of tissue. There are those are pro-choice and those who are pro-life. I am pro-life. No child should be taken from the chance to have a life. A baby in the womb does have basic human civil rights. Who do parents think they are if they make the choice to end their child’s life. Abortion is legal in the United States and has been since January 22, 1973. The problem of keeping up to date with specific changes on the abortion scene was dramatized by the Unites States Court decision of January 22, 1973. That ruling allowed for a drastically altered the legal situation in the...
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...The desire to reproduce is at the core of one’s biological being. The aspiration to pass on genetic makeup through offspring is perhaps the most innate evolutionary urge that is shared among all animals. The ability to pass on one’s DNA through offspring is one of the most basic, evolutionary and universal trait that is shared among all species and one that has stood the test of time. It is a natural form of ensuring that a part of one’s legacy will remain long after one’s passing. Regardless, of whether or not one is afflicted with the biological urge to conceive, one cannot underestimate the societal pressure that is placed on having children. Everyone, at one point or another, has to face the inevitable question by family or friends: “When are you planning to have kids?” or “Why don’t you have children?” Society views having children as a rite of passage and is a universally shared expectation of individuals. Therefore, naturally it is quiet distressing when one is unable to reproduce by natural means. In today’s contemporary society, man is so used to controlling its world and has devised many ways to overcome the constraints set forth by nature. For example proper family planning often involves the use of contraceptives in order to avoid an unplanned pregnancy, and when people are ready to have a child, they sometimes discover that achieving conception is not as easy as they imagined. According to World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Center of Health Statistics...
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...BRISTISH COLUMBIA BAPTIST COLLEGE ABORTION, AN ACT OF MURDER A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO PASTOR JUSTIN WAMSLEY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE ENG 101 COLLEGE WRITING BY MARIA KRISTIANNE PAGALUNAN SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA 10 DECEMBER 2014 THE OUTLINE I. Thesis Statement Abortionists are guilty of taking the life of an innocent, unborn baby prematurely; completely disobeying the commandment of the Lord. II. Main Idea #1 Genesis 1:27 The Bible said that human beings, us, are made in the very image of God. Psalm 139:13-19 “…for I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” a. Abortion destroys and interferes with the work of the Lord. b. Abortion disannuls the plan of God. c. Concluding with the thought of ‘Children are a blessing from the Lord”. III. Main Idea #2 Exodus 20:6 The Bible repeatedly condemns the killing of the innocent. It is an act of murder which goes against one of the commandment of the Lord. “Thou shalt not kill”. Deuteronomy 27:5 The shedding of the innocent blood a. Abortion promotes killing. b. Abortion promotes child abuse. c. Abortion devalues life. IV. Main Idea #3 Isaiah 30:18 The Bible talks about a God being a ‘God of Justice’. a. The Bible said that we are to love unconditionally and show compassion. b. Abortion shows a lack of natural affection and faith in God. c. How can you kill without caring? d. How can you kill someone and think nothing...
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...On the Night You Were Born II Kings 17:6-14 and Luke 15:17-24 Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque August 29, 2010 Beloved of God, do you know, have you ever wondered what happened on the night you were born. My family story holds that somewhere around the end of August in 1956 Dr. E.L.C. Broomes told my Mother not to get her hopes too high. After all, this was her fifth pregnancy, and though she had finally moved beyond the 30 week mark, she still had many weeks to go and she should not get her hopes too high. There was no guarantee this baby would make it. But then, on the evening of October 30th, sometime after dinner, something within my mother moved, something within her said, it is time and all the world stood still for my parents, all of the world held its breath. I do not know what thoughts ran through my mother’s mind or my father’s heart in those hours before I was born; but I know once I had arrived, once they held me in their arms, they began to rejoice. Nancy Tillman, in her book On the Night You Were Born, gives voice to the rhythm of words that might have been spoken on night you and I were born:1 On the night you were born the moon smiled with wonder. The stars peeked in to see you, all safe and tucked under And the night wind whispered and called you by name And said with a sigh, life will never be the same So enchanted with you were the wind and the rain They too whispered the sound of your wonderful name. Your name sailed past houses, high on the breeze Over oceans and mountains...
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...A06-97-0002 Crosswell International It is August 4, 1995, and the Mathieux brothers, Doug and Geoff, were concluding a summer-long effort of developing the Brazilian market for Crosswell International (U.S.). Crosswell’s president and CEO, Hector Lans, is convinced that Precious Ultra Thin Baby Diapers will be a big seller in Brazil. In their role as brokers for Crosswell, the Mathieuxs have been exploring a number of different distribution channels in the Brazilian market. To date, the distributor response to Precious diapers has been enthusiastic, particularly in light of Precious diapers’ superior quality compared to locally manufactured alternatives. The problem, however, is the price. Brazilians base many purchasing decisions — at least in regard to disposable diapers — on cost, not on quality. The Mathieuxs find that distributors do not believe they can compete in the market with the relatively high prices offered by Crosswell, even with higher quality diapers. After much debate over how to improve the price competitiveness of Precious diapers, the Mathieuxs believe they may have found a solution. Their proposal is to combine extended credit terms to local distributors with Brazil’s high domestic interest rates to effectively lower the diapers’ price to Brazilian consumers. The Brazilian Diaper Market Until the latter part of the 1980s, most Brazilians had never heard of a disposable diaper, and not surprisingly, the disposable hygiene market in Brazil...
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...A06-97-0002 Crosswell International It is August 4, 1995, and the Mathieux brothers, Doug and Geoff, were concluding a summer-long effort of developing the Brazilian market for Crosswell International (U.S.). Crosswell’s president and CEO, Hector Lans, is convinced that Precious Ultra Thin Baby Diapers will be a big seller in Brazil. In their role as brokers for Crosswell, the Mathieuxs have been exploring a number of different distribution channels in the Brazilian market. To date, the distributor response to Precious diapers has been enthusiastic, particularly in light of Precious diapers’ superior quality compared to locally manufactured alternatives. The problem, however, is the price. Brazilians base many purchasing decisions — at least in regard to disposable diapers — on cost, not on quality. The Mathieuxs find that distributors do not believe they can compete in the market with the relatively high prices offered by Crosswell, even with higher quality diapers. After much debate over how to improve the price competitiveness of Precious diapers, the Mathieuxs believe they may have found a solution. Their proposal is to combine extended credit terms to local distributors with Brazil’s high domestic interest rates to effectively lower the diapers’ price to Brazilian consumers. The Brazilian Diaper Market Until the latter part of the 1980s, most Brazilians had never heard of a disposable diaper, and not surprisingly, the disposable hygiene market in Brazil was virtually non-existent...
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...Fagbemi 3 Esther Fagbemi Ms. Abudayyeh AP.Language and Composition 22 December 2013 A Child Monster How can a baby be considered a monster? Many might argue how an innocent newborn can be compared to something as gruesome as a monster. In the novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley, writes about a monster and its creator. The creator who was Victor Frankenstein, just like any person went to college and studied, natural philosophy, chemistry, and alchemy. Later on during his studies, he tries to figure out how to bring alive a body, that is cut from a dead persons’ corpse. After his creation, he becomes very overwhelmed and scared of such a horrid creature. After the creation, the monster brings nothing but sadness, sickness, and destruction into the life of Victor Frankenstein. Now, how can a child be considered a monster? And what led the monster to go bad. The monster had characteristics that were opposites of a child. The monster is said to be unlike a child because of its appearance and creation, lack of parental guidance and abandonment, and it became dangerous because of his rejection by his creator. The birth of a child in today’s society is perceived as a very memorable moment. The beauty of the child, the joy of the parent is what makes that moment more memorable. However, in Frankenstein, the birth of the monster is not what one would expect, to be a way a child is born. The monster that was created by Frankenstein took body parts from dead corpses...
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...Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost) VS. I Used to Live Here Once (Rhys) Jason W. Miller Ashford University ENG125: Introduction to Literature Professor Patricia Lake December 3, 2012 Death and impermanence is always full of sorrow. I have chosen Death and Impermanence as my theme to discuss, not because of tragedy I’ve experienced, but instead because it’s an interestingly complex theme. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “I Used to Live Here Once” could not be no more different in their visual form than they already are; however, they both represent the theme through common emotions and mood of the literary works. Throughout my essay I will explain the relevance of the two works, and authors, as well as the differences. The formalist approach will be my choice of critical analysis of the two works, which will aid in forming my comparison and contrast of both works as well. “The poem of the Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is discussing the beauty of life’s wonderful but short-lived treasures, as example chasing dreams and spending time with loved ones. It is illustrated by Frost those treasures in the world related to the nature through the use of metaphors, imagery, diction, and allusion. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” helps open one’s eyes to the harsh realities of nature’s path and although we must all succumb to the laws of nature, it is these unbreakable laws that make life so treasured (Shmoop, 2010). On the other side the literature “I Used to Live Here...
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...Time is said to be eternal. It is said that it has neither a beginning nor an end. Yet men are able to measure it as years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds. They have also given meanings to the words – past, present and future. True, time has a meaning. It moves. What was yesterday is not today. What is today will not be tomorrow. Yesterday is gone. Today is and tomorrow is yet to come. Yet time is said to have no holiday. It exists always. The entire creation moves on according to a time pattern. There is birth, growth and death. There is time for everything. Plants flower and give fruits. Seasons come according to time. A child is born, grows into boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and old age according to age and time. Every movement of creation is linked with time. One cannot grow paddy in a month nor can a child become an adult in a year. Everything is fixed to a time-frame. Time is a free force. It does not wait for anyone. It is commonly said that time and tide waits for no man. Time is money. A minute not usefully spent is an eternal loss. You can never get back the lost minute. One has to strike the iron when it is hot. The time flies and never returns. If you waste time it wastes you. ‘Time is the best medicine’, says Ovid. It is said that time heals all wounds and it even heals what reason cannot. All human beings are emotional. When negative emotions like fear, anger, envy and jealousy overtake them, they lose reason and act in haste leading to serious...
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...THE EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME KATRINA HAMRICK SOUTH UNIVERSITY MY FIRST HATCHLING EXPERIENCE “Beep! Beep! Beep!” went the alarm clock in a fury to wake me up. For the first time in my life, I barrel out of my bed and immediately into the next bedroom. Almost falling on the cold, hard-wood floor I pounce on Mollie’s bed, somewhat like a cheetah. She rises up out of her cozy bed and says “Really? Is it already 6:00 am?” “Yes!” I screech like a thirteen-year old cheerleader when her team is scoring points. “Get up! It’s almost time to leave!” I say. The day has finally come for us to go to Oak Island, NC and aid in the hatching of baby sea turtles. “Alright, give me ten minutes” Mollie replies. I run quickly down the stairs, bursting open the refrigerator. “Hmm…what should we eat?” Anxiously scanning the refrigerator and freezer, my eyes stop at Pillsbury toaster strudels. Not just any toaster strudels, but with strawberry and blueberry flavoring. “Sounds good to me!”, so I pop a few in the toaster to let them cook. After a minute and a half, I hear “Ping!” and the food is ready. I yell at Mollie to come downstairs and eat before we head out. Mollie, like a snail, slowly maneuvers her way down the stairs. “Good morning sunshine!” I yell, she smirks at me and sits down. We both decide to get one of each flavor of toaster strudels. They are so yummy! Delicious and sweet, berry-flavor explosions. “So what’s the schedule for today?” asks Mollie...
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...between Australia and the Northern Hemisphere. Then there was a chemical warfare. In less than a year the dust will hit Australia, than those living in Australia might die. Then it goes into talking about Lieutenant Commander Peter Homes of the Royal Australian Navy waking up and spending a normal day with his family. Then it goes into home going to go get the milk that he gets twice a week for his child. It also describes his creation of a trailer for a bike, he made. He used motorbike tires for a little pull along trailer that he made because they do not use cars in Australia because they no longer get the gas from the Northern Hemisphere. It also describes how nice and caring some people were trying...
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...Was lack of space for God in the heart of the people? We, as believers, are once again being fondly invited to the banquet-table of a Redemptive Incarnation and in the garden of our heart there unfolds, like the fragrant December Lilies, a full bunch of reminiscences of this historic event. As we engage ourselves in creating cribs, setting star-lights, lining up, in newly sewn attires holding burning candles, at the church-courtyard for the midnight-holy ceremonies and preparing delicious edibles, let us pause a while and ask ourselves: Is there a little space available, in our heart, for the Baby Jesus? The effulgent flame of the Blessed Birth of the Lord is one that throws beams of light upon contradictions of manifold kind. We, fragile humans, can only stand amazed at each of them: the’ Millionaire-God’ becomes a ‘bankrupt-human’!; the Sacred One assumes the form of a profane transgressor!; the sole Sustainer of the entire universe, renouncing the riches above, takes birth in a mere manger!; the Son of God becomes the Servant of servants!, and above all, as the Gospel testifies, the First-born Son of the Creator-God is deprived of a little space to be born in, even in an inn (Lk. 2:7). Bethlehem, that day, was exceptionally noisy with the preparations for Census. Roads and rest-houses grew overcrowded. No one there wished to be a host to another. Everyone had amply rehearsed to pretend to be a stranger to the other. Was it not for the same reason that Joseph, a poor country...
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