...Who Should We Blame for Sin? Cransheka Emery This paper was prepared for British Literature, Instructor: Thomas Bullington. Literary Work Analyzed John Milton’s Paradise Lost That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awak’t, and found myself repos’d Under a shade on flow’rs, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how. Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issu’d from a Cave and spread Into a liquid Plain, then stood unmov’d Pure as th’ expanse of Heav’n; I thither went With unexperienc’t thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth Lake, that to me seem’d another Sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat’ry gleam appear’d Lending to look on me, I started back, I started back, but pleas’d I soon return’d, Pleas’d it return’d as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love; there I had fixt— Mine eyes till now, and pin’d with vain desire, Had not a voice thus warn’d me, What thou seest, What there thou seest fair Creature is thyself, With thee it came and goes; Who Should We Blame For Sin? Unexperienc’t Thought The passage surrounding Eve’s awakening does indeed raise many questions about how we form our own identity as moral creatures. From a psychological standpoint, I will attempt to interpret Eve’s “unexperienc’t thought”...
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...Black America? Is it the blame for my violent acts? One may ask him/herself these questions while examining the blames of hip-hop, but these questions are a bit unethical. How can hip-hop be the blame for most violent crimes when these same crimes that are being committed was still here before hip hop, this could be an excuse that one use this as an excuse for being caught. Someone that may be a recurrent listener of hip-hop, a fan, may commit a crime that is not related to hip-hop. A fan of the hip-hop genre should not be held accountable for the domestic violence crime if he/she listens to hip-hop. Hip-hop should not be pulled into the fray because hip-hop is just for...
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...idea of people realizing that they are the blame for all of their problems and difficulties. Essentially, Sophocles wanted people to realize that the saddest thing that you can experience or discover is that you are the cause of all of your own problems. As young children, people would blame others for simple things, such as someone else lying about doing one thing or another. However, at that age or point in our lives, we aren’t yet able to realize that this is a bad thing. As we grow up, we realize and discover that what Sophocles said is true; the only person we can blame for our problems is ourselves. For example,...
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...violent, they are careful not to market to children. I also believe the games cannot be blamed for the children being violent. I play violent video games and so does my son, and we are the least violent people you will ever meet. At some point we as parents have to stop blaming games, movies, TV, or any other type of media for the violent actions of our kids. Marketing is everywhere, and no matter how well you control it, kids will see it, especially in this day and age of information. My son and I play video games all the time and some of our favorite are the ones considered violent. The Grand Theft Auto series of games are some of the best if you like video games. It isn’t the best because of the violence but because the content of the game and what you’re allowed to do. You can roam free in this world and explore things and basically do things as you want or you can do specific missions. We will continue to play these games and if they are violent then so be it. We are with the majority of people who understand these are just games and they do not makes us any more violent then we already want to be. The truth is we give our kids access to the internet by phones, computers, tablets, and every other electronic devise, and set them up accounts on Facebook and Twitter, and then want to blame companies for marketing to kids. If our kids act out, it is up to us to teach them how to behave and act. Now I want to be clear that when I talk about marketing to kids, I am referring...
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...Should parents be responsible for their children’s actions? Sins of Their Children: Parental Responsibility of Juvenile Delinquency The rise in crimes committed by minors has many asking the question should parents be held responsible for their children’s actions. Parents are a direct influence on their children and it is their job to teach the child right from wrong. Also, when a parent teaches a child something that is what the child is going to do when they are put into the outside world. Children learn from seeing and hearing things that their parents do and say and parents should teach their children to stop making excuses and start taking the blame for their actions. Parents are their children’s role models, “leaders”; therefore that makes them morally and legally responsible for what they do. Families, especially, parents have a direct influence on a child’s life, and play a fundamental role in forming the values of children. “The first social relationship a child encounters is with their family. This is where children have their first experiences of being treated as persons. The care and attention children receive during their early years of life affect the way they grow up and how they handle the different issues that they may come upon. This could help or discourage the way that children establish ties with people outside the family. When a child grows up in a family environment that enables their needs to be met, children usually turn out well socially and psychologically”...
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...maturity, you are also showing that you are reliable and trust worthy in the work place. The world we live in today, it is easy to become the victim. We have radio lawyers who will be happy to help you sue even if the accident is your fault, there are therapists who will dig into your past and blame your upbringing for poor decisions that you have made, and we can even blame McDonald’s for being fat! Part of the problem is that people feel that there always has to be a winner and a loser. Just because you accept responsibility for your decisions or mistakes does not mean you have lost. It means that you are mature enough to understand what you have done and you can use that as a learning tool to move forward and hopefully not make the same mistake in the future. As children we are programmed to “tattle” and point the finger at our peers, but when we don’t grow out of that it can have damaging effects on us as adults. “It is time to take personal responsibility for our choices and actions and let maturity shine.” (Sue, 2007). Not taking personal responsibility also causes laziness, if we can blame others for our short comings then why should we even try to better ourselves? If I grew up in public housing, parents didn’t go to college, and lived off welfare then why should I do any different? The problem with that theory is that we witness success daily throughout our lives. We witness success from our teachers in school, commercials on TV or just daily encounters. Ultimately...
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...there is more to it than people think about, and there is some others that directly blame videogames for all mass shootings in the country. Violent videogames should not be consider to contribute to youth’s aggression and violence. Videogames should not be banned because they are believe to desensitize players to real life violence, perpetrators of mass shootings played violent games, and because...
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...the richest, most influential countries in the world. And as an example should it not be one of the healthiest too? Maybe it should, but the sad truth is that Americans are some of the unhealthiest people in the world. Even though we are living in a country with great economic power and technological advancement, we are also living in a country with the smallest amount of practical nutritional knowledge. We are living in a land plagued with obesity. Zinczenko offers a solution to a growing problem by advising the fast-food industry to revel the nutritional value of their products to the nation. Rather than keeping the cover over our eyes. There are numerous opinions linked to the cause of obesity, making it nearly impossible to place the blame on just one thing, which professionals seem to be trying to do! Some are making claims that the advertisers are to blame by trying to influence children from what seems like infancy to buy their products. Others are bringing up the point that nutritional information should be provided so we can make an intellectual decision. Another is saying that it is entirely the large corporations fault for making it easier to be lazy. With such stipulations the finger gets pointed in every direction without results, only a handful of people are actually taking charge of what will ultimately reduce the rise of this obesity epidemic. David Zinczenko’s article “Don’t Blame the Eater” shows how children are launching a lawsuit against the fast-food...
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...Juliet there are many people to blame for the death's, but there are three characters I think played a big role of the death's in the story. The people I think who made the biggest impact on the death's are Prince Escalus, Friar Lawrence, Lady and Lord Capulet. These people had the biggest impact on the star cross lovers Romeo and Juliet who were trying to escape Verona and live happily ever after. Romeo and Juliet had to escape Verona because the two families Capulet's and Montague's were in this big rivalry and were forbidden to like each other. Prince Escalus is a major person to blame because if he would have settled things between the Montague's and Capulet's none of this would have...
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...any visible formal system of government, and even if we pretend to have a government, this government is paralyzed, ineffective or better described, the Nigeria government is at the state of apathy; emotional emptiness, where human life has and given no value, where we danced away our sorrows, where we replaced grief with merriment, where our leaders party away while we die in hundreds, where casualty is lied about, and where terrorism is politicized at the expense of human lives. We should expect further less from a country that has been characterized despite its acclaimed democratization with inept leadership, nepotism, electoral malpractices, bigotry, religious crises, dishonesty, immorality, and favoritism among others. The problems facing the Nigerian nation-state are too many to mention but a few, the failure of leadership, unemployment, ethnicity and religious intolerance further disunite us, the lack of capacity to utilize natural resources, corruption which permeates not only every aspect of our political system but also, every aspect of our lives, and not long ago, militancy which leads to kidnapping, bunkering, and recently terrorism which has caused us more woes than any other. Though, they weren’t borne out of nothing, and it was as a result of causality, the principle that every event must have a cause. We’ve always played blame-game, and while the government, who is supposed to take responsibilities, blames others for it woes, citizens chose to fault the process...
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...When a child does something they wrong, they blame anybody but themselves. As a kid gets older they learn to take responsibility. What are we telling the kids when we let an adults blame insanity? That it’s okay to blame something else on mistakes that was personally made. A person from a young age is told the difference between right and wrong. At that point in life is when you should be able to tell if a person is having difficult understanding. Unless something dramatic happens to them during adult life, it should be determined at a young age if able to comprehend right and wrong. The plea for insanity is just known as a get out of jail free card when certain penalties should be put into...
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...A victim is a person who gives blame to others in a negative situation. Victims usually blame their downfall on everyone else but themselves. An example of a victim would be my boyfriend. He loves to complain about how hungry he is and how I should make him something to eat. When I go over to his house, there’s plenty of food to eat; he’s just too lazy to make it. Then after I make him food he gives me excuses like, “I didn’t think to cook that” or “My mom should have made me food.” A creator, however, is an individual who will take the situation into their own hands and make the best decisions instead of putting the blame on others. I consider my mother to be a creator. She will think about every possible outcome to a situation to get the best one. For example, I ride the public bus to school each day until I get my car. “What happens if your bus is late?” she asked. All of my professors penalize you for being tardy to class, so she came up with the solution that I should leave every day on an earlier bus. Although I’m an hour early for all my classes, at least I’m not...
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...Many people blame today’s fast food restaurants for the obesity problem that society is facing. But is the fast food industry to blame? Are we the ones to blame? Those are some of the questions that we should answer for ourselves, and look for a rapid and secure solution to our society. Not only among adults, but children and teenagers, who are the ones affected from what we can call an epidemic situation of obesity. Doctors, teachers, even first ladies, are trying to educate the population, not just about diets, but a healthier way of life. Life today is not like how it was before. People used to eat foods without chemicals, preservatives, artificial colors and flavors which are known as Fast Foods. Long days of working and training affects our choices for food, a meal from the nearest fast food restaurant becomes an appealing idea. Most of the people who eat junk food more frequent don't know how bad the effect is it has on their body, which can be prevented if they use more healthy alternatives. When growing up, there were not many concerns about childhood obesity. In my youth I hadn’t seen nor heard of so many arguments and shows on TV, such as the big looser, where the participants have to diet and extreme exercise to lose weight in a time frame while the show last. Commercials, where celebrities talk about the growing problem and give some quick advice. Some of the food products that we used to buy were not as studied and regulated because back then child obesity wasn’t...
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...How far do the sources suggest that Captain Nolan was to blame for the disastrous charge by the Light Brigade at Balaclava? Having analysed all three sources it can be said that the sources disagree to a considerable extent that Captain Nolan was to blame for the disastrous charge by the Light Brigade. Source one strongly disagrees with the suggestion of his blame, however this is to be expected as the provenance states it is extracted from Captain Nolan’s obituary, meaning it shall be in favour of the man as it is not likely the writer would disrespect the dead. Due to this fact I believe the source is one sided. “The blame was hastily attached to Captain Nolan” is reflected in an initial inspection of the source but after facts becoming public regarding the charge it is shown Nolan was vindicated of blame as he was only carrying out orders. This belief he is not to blame is also reflected through the writer’s use of terminology. “We are aware” and “It is alleged”, gives off the strong impression that the writer of the source wants us to believe differently. At the end of the source it reads of Nolan’s “excess of enthusiasm”, cross referencing with source 2 where it says that Lord Lucan was influenced by the “eager spirit of Captain Nolan”, showing us that he may have been forceful towards an attack however not realising the outcome that will unfold due to lack of his organisation. This also calls into the question of his suitability for the role. Source two, although also...
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...housing industry. They then build off these mistakes and offer advice for the future to the two main players in their article, the borrowers and the policy makers. The article does a great job of identifying the problems and raising flags on mistakes made by all parties, but in my opinion the authors did not redirect the blame equally. I believe that the general public was not criticized enough for their part in the collapse, as illogical decisions, specifically with their reliance on credit, led large scale loss in the long term. Where the authors point fingers at borrowers and policy makers for allowing ill-fit people to take out a loan, I blame the people for taking out a loan that they should have known they could never afford in the first place, and explain how we can avoid these economic downturns in the future. The two begin their article by discussing the causes of the housing market crash. They pinpointed the main reason for the crash by discussing how a large number of loans being taken out for things such as homes, cars and boats, were being accepted regardless of credit score or down-payment. When a borrower is no longer able to pay for the loan, the bank who lent the money out, must repossess the purchase. This is not too bad for the bank, but as more and more people began defaulting on these loans forcing the lenders to repossess the purchase, the value of these items begin to drop and the lender now loses...
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