One Piece is a Japanese comic, or manga that is written by Oda Eiichiro. The plot line is base around a young boy, Luffy, who have the power to manipulate his body as the same properties of rubber. His main goal throughout the magna was to be the pirate king and to have his own crew. His ability to stretch his body into whatever shape also resemble the idea of freedom. The concept of the storyline being based off of the golden age of the pirate era has a common ground on the ideal of freedom. The whole idea of being a pirate is to go out into the sea to find your own adventure. No law, no boundaries, it is all in the unknown. The story focuses on Luffy finding his way to a new island with his crew. During the process, he liberated countries …show more content…
and free people who were oppressed. The world government prohibit slavery but the plotline shows many area of the world especially wealthier city, do owns a lot of slaves. The slaves are often does pertain to humans but a majority of slaves are made of other species such as fishermans, giants, long-legs, dwarves and etc. The story shows how history repeats itself due to the fact that slavery and persecution always resurfaces itself even when it is abolished. Fisherman owns human slaves as a form of aggression toward human for mistreatment from the past.
In one of the manga scene, the fisherman captain, Arlong, despised human because Arlong believed that the fisherman race is far superior than human, he proclaimed , “We fishmen are “evolved humans” who have gained the ability to breath in the sea, we are beings of a higher order then you puny humans”(Chapter 71). The reason Arlong is arrogant toward human was the treatment the fishman has received from human. Fishman are smart and strong. Arlong take that to the extreme to realize that what he is doing is the no better, he just replace human with fishman. The consequence of the enslavement of one species allowed that enslaved species to retaliate by enslaving the very species that enslave them in the first …show more content…
place. The Noble do not like to be associate themselves with the poor/slaves because people without wealth have no value.
The noble only see the slaves and poor human as trash (Chapter 586). In the noble views, the value of a live is based on the economic power that one behold. This is a set of mindset that is adopted by many wealthier classes throughout history. The rich only want to be seen with wealth. In the manga, there was a scene where the inspector from the world govt is coming to the city of Goa Kingdom. The city have wall that segregate the poor from the rich. The Noble decided to burn down the section where the poor lived in order to wipe out any “trash”. A boy from noble has the mindset to allow the burning of poor area because of how he was taught about the poor, quoted “Without that horrible trash heap, this country will be truly pristine!”(Chapter 586) The noble thinks of the poor as a sickness. While in irony, later in the story, a noble child explained how the noble mistreating the poor was a sickness (Chapter 586). To both sides, there is no right or wrong, it is just the mindset you grew up to that allows the way you see the world in your
view. One Piece reflects on how history repeats itself with immoral idea such as slavery and persecution. The story shows how history can declared slavery as no more, but only to shows that it is still present under a different name. In the 21th century, using the term “slavery” is outdated but it still exists in the form of third world country factory worker to child worker all the way to sex slave. Oda use the main character as a way to inform reader to think about the topic of slavery under different name to help the mass realize that history often repeated itself right under our nose. “Another evil remnant of history is the culture of slaves and the human trade.”(Chapter 586)
To most people, animals are merely things for us humans to use as we see fit, for food, fashion and etc. This opinion of animals is not only insensitive and apathetic but also false. In addition, scientists and philosophers are saying that we humans are avoiding the thought of animals feeling the same pain that we do. In "Hooked on a Myth" by Victoria Braithwaite claims that fish are just as much liable to pain as humans are and raise an much doubt about whether or not fish should be treated with more mercy. As human beings who're capable of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain such as suffering, it may be time to treat marine life with more compassion as we do with other animals. It's unacceptable to just unashamedly ignore that fish "more than simple automata" (14). I think it's important to take into account Braithwaite's argument to find more humane ways to lock up the approach with captured fish if we were to continue to apply them as most people do now.
To conclude, three sets of views existed in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries regarding the destitute. In the 1400's, the poor were treated with sympathy and charity. In the next century, the poor were regarded with suspicion and hatred, which occasionally led to abuse. By the 17th Century, charity had resumed through private citizens and religious orders, though the wealthy still regarded the idle poor as worthless and undeserving of aid. These three often-conflicting sets of views had a profound effect on the lives of the European poor: they determined how the destitute were treated and socially regarded.
Economic injustice and oppression occur because someone benefits from them. It is in the interest of someone to create and perpetuate oppressions (pg. 17). If these groups of people that are oppressed were not pitted against one another, an uprising of phenomenal proportions could occur. This is exactly what the rich, white, male, Christian, heterosexual able-bodied society (a.k.a.: The Norm) does not want to happen! Racism, sexism, and classism are necessities for the survival of The Norm.
No matter the walk you take in life at the end of the day are you rich with love, respect and honor. Or, are you poverty stricken simply because you choose not to allow love, respect and honor to shine through. Not only on yourself but, also on those around you. In life a hard lesson needs to be learned and we can only learn this for ourselves, be rich because of who you are and not what you have because in the end people will not remember the house you had, the material possessions you bought or gifts that you gave, what they will remember is if you held your head high, even through the rough times, the respect you gave and most importantly, the love you
ultimate theme of 'The Fish" is that the carelessness of how we treat others and
...oes not show emotion to either side, which truly makes a difference. I am astounded that the slum dwellers of Annawadi are doing what they can to make it through the day, attempting to fulfill Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs of the Western world. This development into a Western country was short-cut ridden, the result of corruption and social structural factors that cause widespread poverty. The other side of greed is apparent within this non-fiction text, a moving text published by Katherine Boo.
In Herman Melville’s world-renowned tale, Moby Dick, the crew aboard the Pequod sail the seas in order to hunt, capture, and kill a mysteriously terrifying sperm whale named “Moby Dick”. For centuries, humans have used technological advances to protect their elite status in the animal kingdom, at the unfortunate expense of species ignorantly perceived as being too weak or unintelligent to fight back. Moby Dick illuminates one of the most historically cruel instances of selfishly-oriented, industrial engineering: whaling and hunting animals for sport. Humans and animals are the only living creatures with a similar state of consciousness and this cognitive interconnectedness binds the two species together in ways that can only be speculated and
In addition, the poor are overburdened they always have been, especially in 2014. This is owing to the fact that the middle class is close to disappearing, which is forming a large gap between the poor and the rich. Furthermore, banking can be more expensive for nearly all poor people, who are usually put in extreme circumstances where they are required to pay more taxes. And the poor are usually shut out from society and left on the street as if they were a piece of garbage, which is why it is particularly difficult to attain a job as a poor person. Not many people in the world care about the poor.
James Joyce's use of religious imagery and religious symbols in "Araby" is compelling. That the story is concerned somehow with religion is obvious, but the particulars are vague, and its message becomes all the more interesting when Joyce begins to mingle romantic attraction with divine love. "Araby" is a story about both wordly love and religious devotion, and its weird mix of symbols and images details the relationship--sometimes peaceful, sometimes tumultuos--between the two. In this essay, I will examine a few key moments in the story and argue that Joyce's narrator is ultimately unable to resolve the differences between them.
According to Nietzsche, what was meant by being good fell directly upon the noble, the rich, and the privileged, “The judgment ‘good’ does not emanate from those to whom goodness is shown! Instead it has been ‘the good’ themselves, meaning the noble, the mighty, the high-placed and the high-minded, who saw and judged themselves and their actions as good” (Nietzsche 2:396). And what was meant by being bad oriented upon the commoners, the poor, and the undesirable. When determining good, bad, pure, and impure, it opens a door for the people living “undesirable” lives to subsume “ressentiment”—or resentment. Resentment is built from hate and aggression towards the poor man’s opposition, the noble man. In the face of hardships, the noble man believes he lives a generally happy life he thus lives presently, rid of anxieties; the noble man hardly sulks in disparities, but he also hardly learns from them. The poor man is forced to fester in his misfortune which also forced him to grow smarter than his counterpart; he cannot evade from present realities. Subsequently, what the noble man calls “good” is what the poor man deems “evil”. Such concepts fall into what Nietzsche considers the “Slave Morality” and the “Master Morality”. In a basic sense, the concept of the Slave Morality in relation to the
In order to improve the economy and raise the poor standard to higher economic status, we must not ignore the poor. We must understand them and leave the punitive attitude in the past.
...ve them this upper hand over another human being? Hare says even a good human will exploit the people who are under them just because they possess the power to do so. Not only that, but Hare and other utilitarians know for a fact that if both an animal and a slave are a man’s property, and both receive the same punishment, the damage is always much worst on a slave. This is because slaves have thoughts, feelings, and responsibility – he is the same species as his owner yet he cannot escape.
This view, that humans are of special moral status, is constantly attempted to be rationalized in various ways. One such defense is that we are not morally wrong to prioritize our needs before the needs of nonhuman animals for “the members of any species may legitimately give their fellows more weight than they give members of other species (or at least more weight than a neutral view would grant them). Lions, too, if they were moral agents, could not then be criticized for putting other lions first” (Nozick, 79). This argument, that we naturally prefer our own kind, is based on the same fallacy used by racists while defending their intolerant beliefs and therefore should be shown to have no logical merit.
One can argue that since the slave owners of the South viewed the slaves more as property, that they were just for chasing down the slaves in order to regain their property. The Southerners in power during that time found that notion of slaves being property just, whereas now most of us look at slavery and that notion of justice being in fact unjust towards the people in slavery at that time. The same analogical principle can be used for many social and economic issues that the world currently faces. What’s practical and what is deemed by most to be moral are usually not acted upon simultaneously. For example, a utopian type of society where everyone has enough food to eat, enough water to drink, and are able to have all of their desires fulfilled may be seen as a mostly moral society by some, but is it practical in the modern era, or especially in the time of this discussion among these historical characters occurring ? I would argue that it is not obtainable nor is it sustainable due party to humanities’ independent, diverse desires and
means destroying others lives. On the other hand, the poor are those who battle to survive