Essay on "Narrative Argument"

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Narrative Argument

From a general viewpoint, the world has been subject to many crimes of hate, passion, and the sheer fever of possession. It seems that human beings today are somewhat possessed by a need to not only improve technology, but also the world around us, and in the process, our income and financial strength. The question is how far has this drive deteriorated our humanity and our sense of caring for each other? Has this world simply become a habitat for entities that function on an individual level, with every person functioning on his or her own, to see how much he or she can accumulate during a lifetime to leave to children who are similarly inclined? I like to believe that we are better than that. I like to believe that the human spirit remains stronger than its individual parts.

One of the most poignant cases in point for the evolution of the goodness in humankind is business. At the beginning of the 19th century, for example, bosses regarded their workers simply as another cog in the machine of money making. Today, workers are recognized as human beings. It is also recognized that human beings have certain needs in terms of job satisfaction, their home lives, and personal considerations. In general, the corporate world is much more tolerant of the humanity of its workers than it was just a century, or even just 50 years ago.

Also, humanity itself has become much more tolerant and loving within itself as a paradigm. There are many more people today who are understanding of the plight of others. People seem to have returned to a sense of values that has been denied by the corporate world and indeed the world in general for centuries.
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