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No Man is an Island
Summary: Attempts to prove the truth of the statement 'nothing human is foreign.' References personal experience, poetry, and a quotation by Terence.
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." Few have spoken truer words than John Donne when he coined this phrase that forever intertwined men to each other, proving that, indeed, nothing human is foreign, as no man is not part of another man. In connecting us all, disallowing isolation from our peers, Donne says a fair bit about humanity and its inherent familiarity, speaks volumes on the fact that it is not a foreign entity.
As humans, we are perpetrators of obscene acts, only some of which society considers taboo, many of which it does not. Consider that it is acceptable, within an Islamic culture, to stone a woman to death for adultery; in American society, we applaud a man for having lain with as many women as possible. Who are we to judge...
This section contains 447 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |