14th Dalai Lama

According to the Buddhist, obviously Death Penalty fulfills preventive functions but it is also a form of revenge. Due to the execution of person, he is deprived of opportunity of change and to compensate. The 14th Dalai Lama indicative of thought of Buddhist told that I believe that everyone has potential to improve and it remains possible to deter criminal activity without having resort o death penalty. But without one official teaching on the death penalty, that monks are typically divided on…

The 14th Dalai Lama once said, “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive” (BrainyQuote). This quote explains that without the essential characteristics that make humans human, humanity will be lost. As evidenced in the dystopian novel, 1984 by George Orwell, once the government denies people the right to have their own thoughts and feelings, they lose their humanity. Also, in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, the Government through the misuse…

Although the Vedas, and other Hindu texts have remained the same, the interpretations of them have changed and will continue to frequently change. For example, the Bhagavadgita and the Upanishads were both interpreted differently by different scholars and thinkers. For example, Sri Shankaracharya saw them as a representation of monotheism, while Sri Ramanujan believed that they justified monotheistic belief. Revelations and Interpretations of Hindu texts will continue change, as human thought…

This case gave women "a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy," and that "This right of privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman 's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." (“ Roe v. Wade”) Roe v. Wade was put under the 14th amendment which stands for equality of all citizen of the United States. Because the rules for abortion were so broad from the case of Roe v. Wade, before 1992 doctors were allowed to perform what is commonly known as late term abortions. The…

Stage One: Your reading history and practice Besides what you had to read for school, how much did you read growing up? I did have any habits of reading. I have not done that much reading when I was growing up, even in French. As I mention before, I started learning, speaking, reading, and writing in English on the second of September 2014, when I went to South African. Even before that, reading was not something I really like to do. My reading experiences are from the past two…