Distinction

Altruism, exchange and stigma Within ourselves we have certain moral obligations. Feinberg (1980) outlines the following: 1. Indebtness: one feels obligated to owe something to another 2. Commitment: a duty owned to a third party 3. Reparation: to pay back for the harm that was caused Ultra-obligations are those where one feels obliged on a general sense of moral principles. These are not exactly individualized but as being part of society we have other obligations. According to Titmuss (1970),…

At their core, fiction is false and non-fiction is true. Nowadays, the gap between the two is getting uncomfortably shorter. If you interpret both the same way, you aren’t getting out of it what the author intended you to. Authors use fiction as training wheels for viewing our world, whereas non-fiction is a recounting of actual events not under the guise of a story. This difference in purposes should force the reader to think about and interpret each genre differently, though most don’t use…

What are the human consequences of the collisions between two cultures? When both social and personal distinctions clash between the two groups, the consequences affect the religion, agriculture, and judicial system. However Chinua Achebe uses these social and personal distinctions to portray how the two groups let outside forces change their ways of life. In the novel “All things fall apart”by Chinua Achebe uses Social and Personal problems of the two agricultures: Umuofia people and Colonists…

from his clothes to the striped pyjamas, in Shmuel’s point of view, “It was almost as if they were exactly the same really”. While Shmuel is thinking of this, it is actually the whole general situation. The striped pyjamas symbolise nothing. The distinction between the Jews and German is arbitrary, they are all human…

In ‘’The Mass Society’’, Charles Wright Mills discusses the differences between a public and a mass. He considers that these two concepts are on opposite sides of the spectrum and that, to begin to understand how they diverge, four distinctions must be considered (p.302). In the first place, Mills notes that the ratio of people who voice their opinion versus those who receive them differs greatly (p.302). Moreover, the public and the mass don’t have the same power " […] of answering back an…

the difference between men and women. Berger maintains a distinction in the social pressures that exist for men compared to those that exist for women. Paramount to his argument is the form of art known as nudity. Berger presents an idea of nudity as another form of dress worn by women as a method of becoming an object. In contrast to this is definition of nudity, there is a rarer form of art and self being called nakedness. The distinction between nakedness and nudity is one of subtly; yet, it…

reputations. The first essay within Hanawalt’s book is titled “ ‘Of Good and Ill Repute:’ The Limits of Community Tolerance”, which discusses the “legal context in which communities functioned, and the types of distinctions that communities used in defining behavior and establishing the subtle distinctions between the good and bad”. The second chapter called “Rituals of Inclusion and Exclusions: Hierarchy and Marginalization in Medieval London” discusses the “the processes of law that include…

symbolism that associated otherness with blackness, wildness, and the monstrous” (pg. 16). The middle Ages sprouted the idea of racial distinction, this may have been an idea that floated around but it was never solidified. During the Greek time period discrimination was based on intellectual differences. There was a distinction made between Greeks and barbarians; this distinction did not involve appearance. The middle ages built the foundation for racial discrimination based on skin color,…

defined. I question whether my attraction to this line is then magnetic even though it should be opposites that attract. I ask if this line is simply between the things we understand and the inventions we can't yet fathom, or if that line is the distinction between the pursuit of truth and deception. Either way the line contains a mystery worthy of investigation. Having an avid love for science and an epic affair with fiction, I've always been motivated to explore the intermingling of both. At…

also shown in both stories. In the story and poem “There Will Come Soft Rains,” there are numerous differences addressed as well. For instance, it is demonstrated in the poem that nature is valued above mankind. In the story the most prominent distinction is the consequence of excessive use of…