The man, Bob, has invested his life savings into an old, rare car. Although the car means a lot to him he has been unable to insure it, therefore he must be very careful with it. Bob not only greatly enjoys driving the car, he plans on selling it once he is retired and plans on living off of the profits for the rest of his life. One day Bob decides to go park down on the railway siding and take a walk. As he is going along, he notices a train coming wildly down the tracks and it is heading straight for a child.
One day, Jack and his crew were hanging out, when they decide to siphon gasoline from the _________ car, they are a poor family with extremely antisocial children that live in poverty. Jack suggests this idea because he thought it would be fun, but in actuality it was a way of getting back at Dwight and acting out in order to find a way to stop feeling like Dwight’s victim, and instead prove a
Peter Singer was a man with good ideas. In the seventies, he wrote an essay on Bangladesh war refugees that were poverty stricken and starving. When one loses his/her ignorance to some critical issues in the world around them, often times their eyes are open. Upon learning about the refugees, Singer presented some ideas to help these people out that probably “stepped on some toes.” When we, in our world see someone with a lot of money, it is a natural thought to wonder what it would be like, what could we do for ourselves, how could we help our families and friends and other loved ones with this treasure? However, do we ever take the time to think of how we could help others with our fortunes?
The central flaw is that Singer uses a bad analogy of how the global economy actually is, it assumes that the child has somehow appeared there of his own devices and that a simple act will save him. Many of Singer’s key principals, such as the importance of impartiality and the irrelevance of distance are very strong and I find it hard to disagree with them. Whilst I do not agree that to adopt Singer’s solution will cause actual harm to me it is not convincing as the most effective way to solve the problems of poverty. To follow Singer’s principal will amount to everyone else jumping in the water and drowning to some small degree. I believe that while Singer develops his argument by claiming that while people in rich states can survive without luxuries; those in poorer ones where most are manufactured could not survive, as their economic base would fall apart.
In this cut throat and disproportioned world, we see imbalance like no other time in history. Children are starving, while athletes play a sport they love and get paid fortunes to do it. We live in a world where people drive 13 cars to where people can’t afford shoes to walk miles every day just to get water for their family to live. Once a symbol of international pride and the love of fair play, sport brought countries out of war to come together to test their skill ("United nations," 2008). Now it is a get rich scheme where the rich get rich and the poor will stay poor.
Dear Mr.Singer, I here write to tell you how impressive your article, The Singer Solution to World Poverty, is when it successively brings people’s attentions on charity issues. Nevertheless, although I concur with you that people who have spare money should donate some to save poor children’s lives, I find myself quite hard to agree on that money is the only way to help them. Some people might spare their $200 to have a fancy dinner, yet you do not see the fact that they spend every precious Saturday to teach, to sing, to company the homeless children in an orphanage. Irrefutably, in a self-centered era like this, people should be alarmed that how their unnecessary prodigal behaviors can “murder” a child. People around us always do such
He feels that Dora made the right choices in her situation. As for Bob, Singer doesn’t believe that he made the best decision and feels that he should be punished for his actions. Singer thinks that the actions of both Bob and Dora are the same as the result of people in this world not donating money to help needy children. Singer states how easy it is to help a child by donating, yet so many people turn the other cheek and only think of themselves. According to Singer, it takes only $200 to save a child's life, and yet so many people are able but not willing to donate.
He might have figured that if he'd been there to protect Johnny in the park, Johnny wouldn't have killed Bob. He might have been thinking that if he'd gone into the church to help Johnny and Pony, then perhaps they would've gotten out sooner, and the burning timbers wouldn’t have fatally injured Johnny. What do you think? Should we look at Dally's death as suicide? Before all this though Ponyboy used to think Dally was some tough punk that gave no one love and Pony makes it clear early on that Dally really is a criminal.
Helping to End World Poverty Peter Singer, an Australian author who is famous for his ethical beliefs writes in The Singer Solution to World Poverty. American families in the United States spending all their monthly earnings on unnecessary things when instead they could be helping out people who are less fortunate than they are. Singer says, “I do not believe that children are more worth saving than adults, but since no one can argue that children have brought their poverty on themselves, focusing on them simplify the issues”(372). Children have nothing to do with the outcome of decisions made by adults. In fact, children who live in poverty are usually homeless with no place to go, and as they get older no one to fend for them but themselves.
This ideal displays the apathy for accumulation of material goods. This is best expressed by Henry David Thoreau, “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it” (Henry David Thoreau). McCandless reflects this ideal when he aggressively reacts to his parents after they offered to buy a new car for him. Also reflected when Chris says “Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around my net meal” (Christopher McCandless, Into the wild).