Vice

order to show society how serious plastic pollution is. Throughout the documentary, the VICE team documents the plastic that has polluted the Pacific Ocean. The main argument that is used in the documentary is that most Americans do not think about plastic pollution and its devastating effects. Plastic is used every single day by Americans and has become a very large industry. This means, according to the VICE crew, billions of plastic items per year are released into the ocean. Another argument…

Actor Ryan Guzman who plays 19 year old Noah Sandborn in The Boy Next Door clearly represents Jeffrey Cohen’s first thesis from “Monster Culture: Seven Theses”. Cohen’s first thesis states that monsters are always symbols and representations of a culture. They are brought into being because of certain places or feelings of a time period. Monsters are “an embodiment of a certain cultural moment” (Cohen 105). Noah Sandborn represents gender roles in today’s society. A cultural problem that Noah…

order, causing him to be some one full of vice and a threat to society. Lastly, a second religious symbol is seen in Crime and Punishment and it’s the story of Lazarus. This is symbolic to Raskolnikov because he will mimic what happened to Lazarus, by being…

come to ruin, while a ruler who is effectively able to manipulate the seeming vices of stinginess and dishonesty will retain his power and respect. Humans, which are doomed for fallibility, must become masters of vice in order to prevent being overtaken by them (406). In expanding upon this claim, Machiavelli states that a ruler must not fear the tarnished reputation which follows from exercising characteristics of vice; in actuality, society’s attitude of the stingy ruler who does not take from…

Those who see that the vices will not aid them in pursuing the idea of justice and goodness but instead stop them from becoming True philosophers, who will refuse the temptations. The wise thing for the true philosopher to do focus on themselves. At this point the realm is left open, for those who wish to further tempt and manipulate. Creating more vices in which to further more corrupt this already corrupt world. We are left with an abundant…

What would a normal student do if their vice principal called them to the office, took their bags, and searched through them thoroughly ,without the student’s permission? This, normally, is thought of as being wrong. Americans would not normally think of this as being okay. And yet this case has been brought to the Supreme Court of America. T.L.O. may have had illegal items in her possession, but the search conducted by the school was unlawful, unreasonable, and violated two Amendments in the…

is because it is an aretaic ethic, it emphasises virtues (strengths) and vices (weaknesses) of character. The question is not what should I do but what kind of person should I be? “We are not concerned to know what goodness is but how to become good people” told Aristotle who played a part in the development of Virtue Ethics. At the centre of Virtue Ethics are virtues and vices, we should aim for the virtues and avoid the vices which can be deficiency or excess. By doing virtuous acts we…

the worst of the forgivable sins, pride. It may seem strange that pride is the worst, but as C.S. Lewis stated in Mere Christianity “the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind…” Pride here is purged through the carrying of huge weights upon the shoulders of the prideful. These…

world, and he wrote The Great Gatsby to comment about it. Within The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald posits that proximity to wealth causes vices such as carelessness, hypocrisy, and corruption, eventually ruining lives. One of the qualities that Fitzgerald connects to wealth is carelessness. The prosperity of characters such as Daisy and Tom is intimately related to that vice. The most obvious evidence of this comes right out and says, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up…

about by its unrighteous twisting of God’s moral order, an act of rebellion that makes the collapse of any earthly city inevitable. In vain do critics counsel making conciliatory appeals to idols. The Christian faith is the antidote to the gods and vices of the earthly city—an antidote that offers hope to build personal moral character, to sustain a just society, and to find eventual fulfillment of man’s deepest longing--the final end of the conflict and eternal peace realized under God’s rule…