Category: Humanity

Macbeth, once an honorable character, loyal to his kings and friends. Always praised by everyone around him because of his positive demeanour. However, as the play continues, Macbeth soon falls victim to the witches prediction and suffers from his fatal flaw which is the desire for power and position. Macbeth murders his King who sees…

Start by asking yourself why do I seek to improve? There may be a magnitude of reasons why you seek improvement, perhaps someone has indicated that you need to change, or maybe you just have an idea in your head that theres something about you that needs improvement, the want to improve may even be…

Kazuo Ishiguros book Never Let me Go and Ridley Scotts Blade Runner Film both explore a dystopian world which features its main characters as clones/replicants of real humans. But what does it mean to be human? Is it to obtain the characteristics of human features; skin, hair, eyes, a heartbeat? Or is it to show…

The planet in which we live in, is a beautiful miracle of nature. Ever since we started studying the universe, we still havent encountered another planet like Earth, able to support life. Unfortunately however, our beautiful world is not without problems. The more we learn about it, the more we understand that humans will have…

Media is an important aspect of study as it is contemporary and always changing, the media as a whole has an effect on every individual in a certain way. Joseph Bazalegette, a civil engineer in the 19th century quoted Media studies opens up your understanding on how things work, how people become informed-or-misinformed, and how…

Media is an important aspect of study as it is contemporary and always changing, the media as a whole has an effect on every individual in a certain way. Joseph Bazalegette, a civil engineer in the 19th century quoted Media studies opens up your understanding on how things work, how people become informed-or-misinformed, and how…

According to science, the earliest sign of human existence can be traced to as far back as over five million years ago. Since then, there has been immense development, an increase in numbers, and a lot of division which gave rise to different communities as we know then today. Time has also helped with the…

The necessity of using reason as the determinant for establishing law as implies that reason carries an inherent value in itself and those who possess it. Human beings inherently possess value as they are rational beings and should always be treated with dignity and respect. The humanity present only in human beings gives us all…

Elie Wiesels 1956 book Night and Roberto Begninis 1996 film Life is Beautiful both share very powerful messages about humanity through significantly different styles. Both of these texts show compassion and dehumanization through the characters, the inmates and Nazis and also using different tones and choice of language. Begnini chooses to show more humanity in…

Winston Churchill once commented on the Holocaust, There is no doubt in my mind that we are in the presence of one of the greatest and most horrible crimes ever committed. During the historical period of the 1930s to 40s, Germanys National Socialist (Nazi) regime exterminate the Jews of Europe through brutal ways in order…