The Color of Water is a heart-warming true story about a black man discovering the past of his white mother. The novel goes back-and-forth between James McBride and his mother, talking about their past and how they grew up. The book brings up ethical issues of race, religion, civil rights, and the power of family. Ruth McBride Jordan was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Her father was a rabbi and began a synagogue in Suffolk, Virginia. Her mother was crippled, spoke no English, and was not loved by her husband. Ruth was sexually abused by her father and began to look for a better life filled with friends, a home, and love. The day after high school graduation she fled Virginia to New York to live with her grandmother and aunts. She got a …show more content…
Ruth started out as the daughter of a Jewish rabbi. To outsiders, her family seemed perfectly put together, but on the inside, it was a horror story. She made the choice to leave and begin practicing her new faith of Christianity. The United States is blessed to have the freedom of religion, allowing everyone to decide what faith they want to practice. No one should be judged or discriminated based on their faith. Sadly, during the time of the Holocaust, Jews were not popular in the U.S. and Ruth was rejected by most of her classmates and community when she lived in Virginia. When she came to New York, she did not tell anyone about her past religious affiliations. Ruth taught her children Christianity, but as they got older, a few of them went astray. Her heart became broken for them, but she did understand that they had the right to make their own decision just like she had when she was younger. James grew up in a Christian home, but during high school abandoned its teachings for drugs. After encountering Chicken Man in Kentucky, James struggles with stopping his addiction. However, he learns that the cure for his drug problem is through Jesus Christ and begins attending church again with his mother. He becomes a Christian again and keeps his faith throughout the rest of his …show more content…
He has showed how ethical issues are a part of everyday life and that everyone has a choice. Ruth had the choice to have an abortion, to leave her Jewish family, to become a Christian, to marry a colored man even though she would be mocked. James had the choice of joining the Civil Rights Movement with his siblings, become addicted and stop using drugs, to become a Christian like his mother. Life is filled with multiple choices that we make on a daily basis. Ethics can be defined as the science of choices and how these choices affect our everyday life. Some of the biggest ethical issues today were highlighted in this book. James McBride not only covered how his choices affected him but how his mother’s choices affected her and her
While Ruth was raised in a Jewish household, she is no longer a Jew. She does not like the religion because there are too many rules. She says there are too many things you can’t and must do regarding the faith. She believed following all of the prayers and customs was hard work and she was upset with the lack of “I love you”s her family exchanged.
Summary: • “Listening to women’s voices clarified the ethic of care, not because care is essentially associated with women of a part of women’s nature, but because women for a combination of psychological and political reasons voiced relational realities that were otherwise unspoken or dismissed as inconsequential.” pg. 149 o Women’s voices and experiences are important, hear the differences of women’s lives in comparison to men. • “ Metaphors of voice and hearing… draw attention to human connection – to the relationship between speaker and listener, to the possibility of different language, and thus to the potential for misunderstanding and mistranslation as well as to the ability of people to see and to speak about themselves and the world
“The Color of Water” by James McBride, elucidates his pursuit for his identity and self-questioning that derives from his biracial family. McBride’s white mother Ruth as a Jewish seek to find love outside of her house because of her disparaging childhood. The love and warmth that she always longed from her family, was finally founded in the African American community, where she made her large family of twelve kids with the two men who she married. James was able to define his identity through the truth of his mother’s suffer and sacrifices that she left behind in order to create a better life for her children and herself. As a boy, James was always in a dubiety of his unique family and the confusion of his color which was differ than
Ethics means doing the right action is based on fulfilling rights and duties. Gretchen Peters song “Independence Day”, Hernando Tellez excerpt “Lather and Nothing Else”, and Maura Dickey’s article “Who Will Save the Savior Sibling?” all support the ethics definition of fulfilling rights: duties by killing the father in “Independence Day” because it's virtually justice: by not killing Captain Torres in “Lather and Nothing Else” because it’s virtually sacrifice: By having savior sibling in “Who Will Save the Savior Sibling?” consequently, if the parents didn’t the parents would then have to watch their kids die.
This quote once again displays Ruthie 's courage around others, and her constant need to impress other people. She is constantly trying to make people think she 's more than she actually is, whether because she 's some sort of developing teenager or for other reasons that aren 't quite clear, but she causes trouble through her need to be more than she actually
Examine Your Response: Synthesis With ethics providing the base framework for the way we conduct ourselves on every level from individually to globally, it’s important to study them for a host of reasons. First and foremost, it allows us to analyze our behaviors and determine what criteria is valuable in our decision making processes. Studying ethics gives us different outlooks and perspectives on problems we may not consider when looking at it from our individually engrained default approach. It also allows us to look for shifts and changes in mindsets, attitudes, and values, so we can see how we’re progressing as a society. We’re also given the opportunity to compare and contrast our personal governing philosophies with those of others around us to see where we fit in with our society and measure how well we’re meeting the standards we set for ourselves.
Ruth was abused as a child. Therefore she knew what it was like to be her niece. Sexual abuses seems to run in her family. The fact that her family anted to keep it a secrets was surprising to me. However I understand that she comes from a different family then I do.
Yet, at home, she devotes love and curiosity to her family. This contrasts to multiple other characters, as the relationship between Ruth and her single mother is inspiring. Accordingly, she respects her mother, who provides encouragements like, “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” With pure gratitude, Ruth seeks to apply her mother’s words. When bullies trouble Philip, Ruth can empathise with him.
Malik Charlie Gordon's doctors in the story "Flowers for Algernon" did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. Charlie Gordon did the surgery to become more intelligent and increase his very low IQ. His doctors were proud of their work, and didn't think ethically of the matter of Charlie's wellbeing. Ethics are developed standards of doing what's right over what's knowingly wrong. They have consistent reason for being ethical.
However, it can be encouraged to mould one’s decisions and actions and sometimes an entire ideology towards life. Similarly, moral development can be encouraged as ethical behavior. Such deliberate actions to teach ethics affects and renovates ones individual behavior as well as of those concerned. Erin Brockovich was a brave lady, who was a single mother to three infants; no source of income yet firm on her beliefs, an influencer to those who needed a push to revitalize their moral and ethical believes. Her actions in the early stages were drawn towards the Ethics of Care principle, which later were subjected under the Utilitarian principle, as per which she first, determined the ethical nature of dilemma and then further on influenced others to believe so.
Ruth was a heroism and a brave woman who was the greatgrand mother of King David, an ancestor of Jesus. She was so loyal that, when her husband died, she remained with mother-in-law (Naomi), even though she didn’t have to. The central message of her story is showing the importance of loyalty to fellow human beings, which would make the world a better place. The story of took place during the time of the Judges.
Chapter Summation This chapter begins by comparing the book of Ruth to the story of the “good Samaritan” in Luke. It is an interesting comparison, both the Samaritan and Ruth are foreigners, and come to the aid of an Israelite. Both stories come at a time when the nation of Israel is struggling to remain devoted to God.
This movie “Erin Brockovich” present few number of business ethical issues. This film is based on true story and demonstrates few business ethical issues for their own profit. The movie describes the story of Erin Brockovich who is a struggling single mother who becomes connected to Ed Masry’s law firm because of an unfortunate car accident, and begins working at the law firm out of desperation for an income. As she spends time filing papers as a clerk, she becomes interested in the human nature of the medical cases and persuades Ed Masry to allow her to investigate further. Erin spends numerous hours examining these cases and finds a link to between the community members of Hinkley, CA and a company by the name of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), who have a plant in Hinkley.
Chase Jans Putman Hours:3,5 13 November 2016 Argument Paper Ethics are the principles of doing something that a person goes by. In Flowers For Algernon a thirty-seven year old man named Charlie that has an IQ of 68 gets an operation to make him smarter without knowing very much of what is going on. Charlie Gordon 's doctors did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. In the story the doctors did not act very ethically when performing the procedure.
Morality, principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong, is a characteristic that many people share throughout the world. Every person’s actions are guided by their ethics, but thousands of individuals wonder what influences these certain morals. During the 1930s, citizen’s morals were affected by their religion, as evident in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Within this time period, the main influence of citizen’s ethics is based on religion. The Dust Bowl, the start of the Great Depression, marked the decline of the economy and the end to thousands of farmers lives.