...ABORTION PRO CHOICE OR PRO LIFE April 11, 2013 PROFESSOR DANIEL HAYNES PHI 103 INFORMAL LOGIC Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy and expulsion of fetus from the uterus resulting in or cause by death of the embryo. The debate over the legal and ethical viability of abortion has been complicated by the lack of consensus in defining whether the developing embryo can be equated as human life. Many people are constantly debating whether or not abortion should be allowed or not. I believe in Pro Choice which believes that woman should have the right to decide if she wants to abort a baby or not. In this paper, I will look at abortions critically and express why abortion should be legal and be left us to a woman to decide. The goal is to point out reason why one might choose abortion. While one is Pro-Choice in the case of abortion, and feels that is should be legal and the choice of a woman. Upon reading the statement on what is pro-choice and how and when abortion is legalized. I will go over why I feel that abortions should be legal. Unwanted pregnancies can be very stressful for woman. Whether or not the woman has the right to have an abortion or not is a controversial subject. Prolife members believe that abortions are seriously wrong and killing a fetus is killing a person. However, woman should have the right to have an abortion for several reasons. Woman should have the right to make decision for their own bodies. Woman should be able to have an...
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...RUNNING HEAD: PRO CHOICE 1 Pro Choice or Pro Life? Richard W. Emmendorfer PHI 103 Dr. Stephen Carter 28 October 2013 Abortion, sometimes viewed as a permanent solution to a temporary problem, should be or remain legal for specific cases involving victims of rape, significant medical conditions that would jeopardize the safety of the birth or guarantee severe birth deformities. Unwed adolescent parents are who are deemed unfit or who would not be able to provide adequate care should also be determined as a qualifying circumstances. Victims of rape would have a constant reminder of the experience weighing heavily on their mental health and would hold prejudice toward this child versus other children. An article from The Nation (2009) details that Regina Alves, a psychologist at a domestic violence center in Brazil, insists that when it comes to working with a victim of violence, “what matters is what she says.” (Sokoloff-Rubin, 2009) A testimony from a woman who was made pregnant from a rape when she was 15 accounts how different the child resulting from the rape is compared to her other children. "My first husband verbally abused her. I never have had, and still don't have, the maternal feelings for her that I have for my other kids. We're good friends and I so love her, but it's like we're sisters. I wish she could have had a more normal life.” (Meehan, 2013, p. 33) The mental stability of the victim and how the victim sees the child is through...
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...In every form of artistic expression the human life and how people spend our existence is explored. Our Town is one such exploration of life choices and consequences. Every single human being assumes they have a unique perspective on life. Like snowflakes, no two lives are lived exactly the same. However, the constant of life is that people are all born, live ,and die. The when, where, why, and what of life are the variables that determine our passage through earth. In a scene from Hope Floats (Whitaker)the mother says “beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most.” In the beginning, people are born blissfully unaware of the choices to be made. As people grow in awareness of what life is demanding...
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...Life Choices There are about 6.9 billion people on this earth at any given time, and that being true it surprises me that in most instances of danger many would not lend a hand. It’s scary to think that if you were in the city and being attacked that most would not try to stop the attack or call 911. Everyone has had a time in his life were he wished he did something, but didn’t because of fear or hope that someone else would do something. Two years ago I witnessed a bullying incident and I wish I would have spoken up to help. Two years ago, it was any other day at school. Woke up at 6:45 a.m., showered and was on the bus. First and second period went by like usual, slow as molasses. I am the type of personal that cannot stand when someone decides to bully or pick on someone that has a mental or physical disability; most of the times they didn’t have a choice to choose the way they are. Second period had just ended and as I walked into the hallway I saw all the kids pile out of the classrooms into the hallway. I see the usual people walking together, people pushing each other and of course everyone looking at their phones to see what happened during that period. I’ve seen the student before with Special ED teachers and I have talked to him before. This student is walking down the hallway minding his own business like almost everyone does that isn’t walking with their friends. Then, I watched with my own two eyes one of two seniors take his hat off of his head and throw it...
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...ABORTION; PRO-LIFE OR PRO-CHOICE Some people believe that abortion is immoral and some people don’t. Morality is an interpersonal conflict over a decision between right and wrong (“Morality”). The question is what reasons people have for their beliefs for and against abortion and whether those reasons are reasonable or not? There are two main groups of people in the case of abortion, pro-life supporters and pro-choice supporters. On the one hand, pro-life supporters, those who think abortion is not right, consider a fertilized human egg a human being from the moment of conception. Therefore, they refer to abortion as murder. On the other hand, the pro-choice supporters, those in favor of abortion, have a different perspective. They believe that a fetus is a human only after birth. The moral difference between these groups encompasses one issue. That is “At what stage is a fertilized egg considered a human being?” According to Peter Singer, there are four general stages that the pro-lifers and the pro-choicers argue about in terms of the standing of a fetus. They are: “birth, viability, quickening and the onset of consciousness” (138). The arguments made by the two groups for and against each of these stages causes the standing of an embryo to be upgraded to that of a child in the long run, as Singer suggests (138). Thus, this paper will examine and analyze the four moral junctures for the status of the fetus -“birth, viability, quickening...
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...by the age of twenty-four. But today, many people are waiting until later in life to make critical life decisions such as starting a family, getting married and establishing a career. Consequently, by delaying such choices until a person's thirties, many argue that it may have an adverse effect on how a person's life turns out. Emphasized are the dilemmas twentysomethings face surrounding uncertainty; uncertainty of where to live, who to marry, and what career path to choose. However, the most favorable decade to make such decisions is during a person's twenties. The choices people make in their twenties do profoundly influence and shape their lives, by choosing to establish a career early on will enable a person to attain financial security comfortably and start the family they desire with stability promptly in life....
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...Kenechukwu Igweze Mrs. Armstrong-Sanchez English 110 9 September 2011 Life, who makes the choices? you or the media Most people think that they are completely in control of their own thoughts, emotions, actions, basically their whole lives and the way they see other people. However, in actuality, they are not. In the society we live in today, we are all brought up on stereotypes and expected to fill the supposed roles of the child, the woman, and the man. All we see on TV, in commercials, magazines, and on the internet is the stereotypical person. The big strong male figure, the mother or the sexy and thin female figure, these are some of the types of characters portrayed in everything that we intake from the media. The media is a massive information network that connects people to the world, which is beneficial, however , it also misrepresents different groups of people which in turn warps the minds of its audience. It forces us to prejudge, and we grow up on these often false representations of the world. The representation of women in the media has changed a lot in the last couple decades, Many of us would agree that some strides have been made in how the media portrays women in movies, TV and magazines, and that there has been an increase in the presence and influence of women in media. Nonetheless, female stereotypes continue to expand in the media we take in every day. Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women's bodies are used to sell everything...
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...Identify the cultural/ethnic group you have selected The ethnic group that I have selected for my discussion is the Latino people. Summarize significant findings about this group that inform attitudes and preferences around end-of-life care Generally, Latinos often have a strong belief that living with uncertainty is an essential part of life. This mindset shows in their health beliefs and behaviors in major ways. Latino patients are more likely to believe that having a chronic disease like cancer is a death sentence. They may prefer not to know if they have cancer, and may believe that cancer is a punishment from God .Due to their mindset, Latino patients may be less likely to pursue preventive screenings and may even delay visiting a doctor until symptoms become severe. They may avoid effective therapies for cancer and other chronic diseases, especially radical new treatments and invasive procedures (Cateret, n.d). What are the challenges in ensuring those patients (or their surrogates) understand their rights and that their consent is truly informed? The article “Whenever We Prayed, She Wept,” shares the experience of Ms. C, a woman from Central America, who was diagnosed with an acute form of leukemia during her 34th week of pregnancy. Fortunately, she was able to deliver a healthy baby girl, receive chemotherapy after delivery and go into remission. Unfortunately, six months after being in remission, she had a relapse and the cancer resurfaced (Smith et al , 2009)...
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...The Ambiguity of the Impact of Life Choices By Stacy Tohar In the Road Not Taken by Robert Frost the reader is left with ambiguity about the personal impact on the traveler of choosing one road over the other, and therefore ambiguity about the impact on a person from making one life choice to the exclusion of another, as this poem is of course a poem about life choices. The definition of the word ambiguity is doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.It is unclear whether the subject of the poem, the traveler, feels contentment, regret, or both about his choice of roads. However, from the poem’s conclusion, it appears that the author intended that the ambiguity remain without resolution, just as is often the case with life choices and the impact of those choices. In the Road Not Taken, the traveler stands at a fork in the road and must choose one road over the other. Of course, this is a metaphorical fork, symbolizing life choices and paths. Knowing that he must choose one road over the other, the traveler attempts to look as far down the way as possible in an attempt to see where each road will take him. This is as in life, where we must attempt to visualize the impact of choosing one life choice over another. However, as with life choices, the traveler cannot see the consequences of one choice over the other with any certainty: “And looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.”(4-5). The traveler can only see that one road...
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...title. It made me think of many crossroads I have come to throughout my life and what could have been if I had chosen a different path. Before I started reading it I wondered if Frost was writing about a specific path he had chosen or just life in general and the different paths one comes to in their life. Life is full of many decisions and the struggle to choose the correct path ,but a decision must always be made. I will now try to unfold the story and try to find out what Frost may have been trying to say. In the first line a traveler comes across “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” which tells the reader that he is at a crossroads in his life and he is now about to have to make a decision. He is unable to take both paths and must make a decision on which path to chose. He then states “And sorry I could not travel both” and seems to be somewhat unhappy that he could not take both. It is always difficult to make decisions because one always wonders what may be missed if one decision had been made rather than another. He realizes that he cannot travel both roads and now has to make a difficult choice. Attempting to make the best decision he “looked down one as far as I could,” trying to see the future of what each decision may bring. Both paths have unknown endings and although he attempts to see how both may go he cannot see where they lead. It is the way he will choose that will determine where his life will go. After choosing his path he “Then took the other, as just...
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...the results of the investigation. Part Four, Definition of Terms, presents the operation and conceptual meanings of the important terms used in the study. Part Five, Delimitation of the Study, specifies the scope and coverage of the study. Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study “After college, what’s next?” It is the foremost question faced by college students especially the 4th year graduating students. The students are still confused on where, when and what job to apply after graduation. The great part of an individual’s life is spent in his career or vocation and usually satisfaction is made through his occupation or career. His ability to make something work or valuable contribution to his society by success or achievements. Education is a continuous process. It begins at the cradle and ends at the grave. Therefore, careful and wise choice of career is a necessity to our students today, because a wrong choice of a career sometimes results in misplacement, unemployment, and dissatisfaction. Work produces satisfaction. It should be congenital to the...
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... Blascoe 2 Kevin G. Blascoe ENGL102 Professor Terri Washer 11 June, 2011 As the world gets older and people reflect the decisions of their lives, there is one thing perfectly clear in each individual: there is no correct interpretation in regard to the choices that each person has thought and acted upon as it relates to their own live’s and circumstances. Outline of Literary Analysis I. Introduction A. General theme and background B. Introduce “The Road Not Taken” C. Re-address thesis statement II. Description of the literal scene and situation 1. Mood 2. Metaphorical or symbolic implications 3. Analysis of title 4. Rhythm patterns 5. Scansion and technical methods 6. Theme and methods used to communicate theme III. Conclusion A. Summary of poet’s existentialistic philosophy Blascoe 3 Life constantly provides humanity with a great opportunity to reflect and tread about the choices each one has made in life. Is there a person who is exempt from the almost every day routine of reflecting about life’s questions “What if…?” and the “How come...?” If there is such a person on this planet, how did they get that way? It would have to be as a result of some genetic abnormality because everyone...
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...Security…………………………………………………………………………………………..1 Police Officer……………………………………………………………………………………..1 Firefighter…………………………………………………………………………………………1 Advancement Potential……………………………………………………………………….1 Police Officer…………………………………………………………………………………….1 Firefighter…………………………………………………………………………………………1 Conclusion and Recommendation……………………………………………………….1 References……………………………………………………………………………………………1 INTRODUCTION At a young age we are asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Later on in life that decision becomes more and more important. Career decision-making can be complex but once the right choice is made it can benefit you for the rest of your life. Open Options is here to help you gain a better understanding of which career is a match for you. We have taken the two top careers of your choice, Police Officer and Firefighter, and did the research to help you decide. Both careers are great choices that have similarities and differences with positive and negative aspects. This report is a compilation...
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...model in the way that she handles relationships, addictions, and her attitude. Kristina’s judgment is shaky and her boy choices tend to lead her into trouble. Also, her addiction proves a valuable lesson of how one choice changes everything. She does nothing to try and control herself even though she is hooked. She was bad characteristics including selfishness, disrespectful, easily-persuaded, etc. making her life a warning to growing teens on how their lives can drop rapidly right in front of their eyes and they cannot do anything about it. Kristina shows bad judgment throughout the novel dealing with her relationship. First, she begins dating Adam who opens up her eyes to the drug scene in Albuquerque while visiting her dad. When she returns home, she is now a whole new person, “Bree”, and soon finds herself interested in Brendan. From the beginning, Kristina knew that Brendan was no good for her and all he wanted her for was her body. However, she continues to interact with him because then she would get drugs and alcohol until eventually Kristina gets herself in a bad situation and Brendan rapes her. Months later, Kristina discovers that she is pregnant with his baby. The way Kristina deals with her new found addiction should be a warning to young teens. Her addiction shows how people have their whole life ahead of them and they ruin it with one choice. In the beginning, Kristina never expected that she would be as dependent on meth as she thought. She also begins to try...
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...brings up when he was to make a tough decision. That with all the evidence was gathered up, it came across as if he had regretted the outcome of the decision along with he is curious as whether the other choices could have been any better. While it is a such an intellectual poem where it could leave many in suspense. When reading “The Road Not Taken” for the first time you might of never been able to tell, weather if Frost was actually regretted the path he had chosen, or the fact that he was truly actually grateful for the path he had taken. It really all depends on how someone is to read Frost’s wording. I believe that the inspiration of this poem had come from the walks he had with his friend, Edward Thomas, of England. In 1914, when both Frost and Thomas lived in Gloucestershire, they had frequently had taken long walks through the countryside. While Thomas would have choose the path he mostly had thought might show his American friend a kind of special interest. Even so when he had gotten to the end of the walk, Thomas would regret his choice. When he would “sigh” over the decision he made is because he thought he might of taken the “better” direction. Frost has always tease Thomas for all of those regrets that he would have. When Frost takes ...
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