Critical Thinking Paper On Islam and Biblical World Views  According to the Muslim faith, the universe originated from a cloud of smoke that was hovering in the space. They believe that God created the universe from this smoke. He created the sun, moon, stars, planets and the galaxies (Islam-Guide.com, 2016). This supports the big bang theory where God made each planet, moon and the sun and placed them on their orbits. According to the Quran, humanity originated from Allah, who created man from the earth and on the earth. This worldview of the Muslims is similar to that of the Bible in that God created the universe. According to the Bible, God commanded the celestial beings to be, and they emerged. The action followed a specific sequence with each of the heavenly bodies having their duties, either to give light during the day or the night. The two world views are also similar in that humanity originated from God and was created for a specific reason. They are also identical in that man was created from the earth. However, they…

Causes and Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic The SARS-CoV-2 will go down as a 21st century pandemic that shook the world after an outbreak that’s currently spreading to all corners of the world. The virus is the cause for the coronavirus disease also referred to as COVID-19, a respiratory disease outbreak that begun late last year in Wuhan China and spread across the world in a very short period. Based on the current scientific knowledge on the disease, COVID-19 outbreak was unpreventable although its spread into a global epidemic and the current status as a pandemic was evitable. In this discussion, we develop a cause-effect analysis on factors leading to the global spread of the disease and what implications it poses to the global society. One major cause for the high spread of the disease is the global unpreparedness for such a pandemic, which was bound to happen based on an historical account. In a 2015 Ted Talk, Bill Gates, co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation addressed his fear on global preparedness for a flu epidemic that would be more…

Eid al-Adha celebration feast Eid al-Adha is an Islamic festival that symbolizes the willingness of Ibrahim to obey Allah when he was requested to sacrifice his son through Allah’s command. The celebration is also called the festival of sacrifice, and celebration occurs once per year. Allah provided a sheep after Ibrahim had accepted to sacrifice his son, and we slaughter animals, which represents the sheep that Allah provided to Ibrahim. The celebration started on august 11 to August 15. I celebrated the festive Islamic holiday, during the festival I prayed and attended sermons at Altawhet mosque During the festivities, Eid al-Adha prayers are performed any time after the sun ultimately rises to just before the entering of zuhr time. It is time we reflect on how Ibrahim was not self-centered as he wanted to sacrifice his only son and how we should devote ourselves to issues concerning other people. Participation in the event made me feel close to Allah and helps me feel there is joy in giving than in receiving. The Eid al-Adha season has helped me grow spiritually…

Humanity and the Paper Balloons film review The film Humanity and the Paper Balloons analyzes the lives of Unno and Shinza and the struggles in the crumbling job market at the time. The stories of the characters are run at the same time and capture the struggle of both characters in understanding their hassles in life. Unno, the samurai, looks for work and opts to visit the father’s former employer Mouri. However, Mouri gets tired of being bothered by him and asks his men to stop him and refuse to invite him to their house. On the other hand, Shinza continues with running an illegal gambling practice and is stopped by the pawnshop owner. After several failed attempts to reach Mouri, Unno starts drinking. After the wife learns of the failed attempts and reason for his drinking, she kills him and commits suicide. Shinza is also killed during his fight with Yatagori. Although people are shocked by the deaths, suicide is part of the community. The director, Yamanaka, seeks to express the aspect class and wealth gap in Japan, thus…

Covid-19 Response             Over the last three months, the world has been shocked by the spontaneous increase in the number of Covid-19 cases arising from the Corona Virus. However, the most shocking is the response of the United States towards the calamity (Judd, Zaslav and Diaz par 1). According to MedR, there is a thirty-five per cent continuous increase in the number of covid-19 cases in the US. Compared to this, there are only two thousand three hundred and forty-eight ICU beds (MedR 1). MedR predicts a twenty per cent increase in the need for ICU bed. There are only nine thousand ventilators compared to the needed thirty thousand. Despite this, the government does not seem eager to change these statistics by increasing ventilator production This situation s frustrating to health caregivers and service providers who understand the importance of the above equipment (Judd, Zaslav and Diaz par 1). Healthcare practitioners are at a crossroad of putting their lives to risk for humanity due to the negligence of the government or leaving work until the necessary equipment are available. Despite…

DB5: On the Social and Moral Obligations of Businesses  Every business, corporate or an SME has a moral obligation in its social perspectives based on a variety of moral and social obligations sources. There are three major sources of moral obligations: Business law, agreements (promise-based) and moral principles. These measures evolve from different aspects and require adaptive measures to establish social needs and ethical issues in need of addressing in the society of business operations. The concept of social and moral obligations, however, adopts different views mainly due to the changes in the global aspects and the variety of issues for consideration within it. In business practices, what perspectives should an organization draw its social responsibility principles to serve a compelling moral obligation? Many corporate organizations consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a guide to a practical moral obligation in society. However, there exists a difference in how the organizations perceive the concept, with some developing their CSR strategies as a marketing practice. Kimberlee (2019) establishes four types of CSR strategies that may meet the moral obligation of businesses as…

Drama Analysis Essay Student 4A-Answers to the questions The protagonist in the play is Manny, the repairman of Maypole. In this play, the main character’s main conflict is about an obsession with the washing machine, the struggle with perfectionism, and seeing the essence of life. The hero learns that despite his love with the perfectionism of machines, human affection is more valuable than any love for the machine. The time setting of the play was in the 1950s when the washing machine was perceived with awe and admiration. The scene-setting of the play is in a small town called harmony in the US Imagery has been used to describe the washing machine and the drier and leave a lasting impression in the audience’s mind The major symbols in the play are the washing machines and the drier The writer of the play is driving the message of the significance of appreciating imperfection in the people we love The dominant theme of this play is the imperfection of human beings The main protagonist tries to balance between love for perfect machines…

The Concept of Freedom by Isaiah Berlin            Freedom is a vital concept in today’s world. The world itself is a powerful one by all definitions. By using this word, revolutions and influential movements have been started, showing how important the word is in the world’s politics. Interestingly, most people positively view freedom, and what is freedom according to other people does not qualify to be freedom for other people. This shows that there could be different types of freedom or that people could actually be coerced to believe in the name of freedom. These two concerns were behind the inspiration of Isaiah Berlin to develop what he called “Two concepts of liberty.” Berlin debunked the belief that all freedom was positive, and hence; as a result, he subclassified freedom into two- positive freedom and negative freedom. The two concepts of freedom, according to Berlin are vital in explicitly understanding what freedom is and why humanity had for long been wrong about the entire concept of freedom. According to Berlin, negative freedom is a freedom that is derived from interference…

Analysis of Spring Awakening On the 25th of March 2020, my friends and I went to watch a film, Spring Awakening, and the Annual Patnum county spelling bee is a 1981 film that explores several themes, most of which are associated with the experiences that teenagers come across once in a while. The CU sold the tickets: Annual Patnum, and I had bought mine two days before. The place was filled, and that is when I learnt that most people enjoyed these films and social experience. To most people that I interacted with during this moment were mainly here as a standard fare where they got the chance to change the environment and have a different experience. Ideally, watching the Spring Awaking was enlightening in terms of its themes, elements of performance, the music that was used and the design of the film. The theme of sexuality is evident in most parts of the film. Frank employs the use of sexuality as a theme in this film in attempts to engage in the minds of the audience. Ideally, the viewers…

A dead end for humanity Introduction When we think about humanity, we risk being prisoners of our souls by losing some of our cultures without even knowing what it has been. The rate at which cultural diversity and biological destruction are happening in the 20thn century, people fail to recognize the technological innovations that have taken place in this era a hundred years to come. This research essay will focus on the topic of end of human diversity, based on the articles obtained from, the globe mail, the Toronto Star and BBC, all who discuss on human diversity and environment. Thesis statement A dead end for humanity is a fact if anything that harms the environment in the current world will rally contribute towards the loss of our humanity and could affect the incoming generation. To mitigate this, we need to make sure that future generations will meet their needs if we restore our culture and live our life. Body According to research more than one million species have become extinct for the past twenty-five years. We tend to concentrate…