Essays on Humanity

Jonathan Swift’s, Gulliver’s Travels, follows its protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, across a vast array of varied locales as he observes the culture and customs of several outlandish societies. Gulliver’s role as narrator, however, is rather limited due in part to his lack of drive and individuality....

‘Jonathan Swift 1667–1745 was born in Dublin to an Irish family. He spent his time in a gentle pursuit of reading. Swift’s work followed the progress of the study and is a major part of the most important 18th-century English literature, and there is still...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak says a great deal about humanity and its effects on Death. The book shows how humans are capable of so much atrocity. The things we do to one another can be maniacal. At the same time, there are people...

In 2003, the development of Dolly the sheep caused a huge fascination among scientists since it was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Similarly, the acceptance of the first Saudi Arabian citizenship by the android robot, Sophia, has caused huge controversy...

According to Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford scientist, “human nature is extraordinarily malleable, and…that’s the most defining thing about our nature” (Illing). People are capable of inconsistent and unpredictable behavior making every person susceptible to unethical behavior (Sommers). Even moral individuals can be seduced to act...

For millions of years a little flying insect has been pollinating flowers and crops, creating sustainability for us. Our diet consists of 33 % of cross pollinated plants, where 80% is pollinated from the honeybee. Pollination would be very difficult and time consuming without the...

Honey bees have been pollinating plants for 150 millions of years. Bees pollinate flowers, fruits and vegatables to gather nector, in return they give us sweet honey, they also efficiently pollinate a third of the food we eat. This is the only incect that produces...

Environmental ethics deals with the moral and ethical relationship between humans and the nature. In other words it questions a human on its rights on non human world. While ethical issues concerning the environment have been debated for centuries, environmental ethics did not emerge as...

The words of Neil Armstrong echoed around the world when he took those first steps off Apollo 11, and onto the surface of the moon, untouched by man, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ” This quote amplifies the exact...

One of the themes I learn in my humanities class was that being a bystander or remaining natural in a situation is not necessarily a good thing at all scenarios. I say this because being a bystander is really like having a person sit back...