The media heavily influences the public’s opinion in both positive and negative ways on sports personalities. Seeing a good sports personality on television and in newspapers makes them a role model for people to look up to as an inspiration. Sports shown on the TV generate more sponsorship education as the media brings the sport to people who may not normally get to experience it, this can encourage people to get involved in coaching aid as watching a professional on the TV can help you see how a technique should be performed which could help your performance. The media has so much influence over our opinions because we know essentially nothing other than what we hear from them. It is mostly negative because at the end money is a huge contributor and the media tweaks the truth to have an angle for the sake of profit. Sports stars often complain of too much attention being paid to their private lives demands and are often exploited. The media is the basis upon which we hear news regarding most everything that is going on in the world. There are many ways that the news is presented to the public such as television, the internet. We are really only hearing the point of view that the media presents to us. Unfortunately, sometimes it is biased. The media can put pressure on the organizers of sporting competitions to make the viewing experience better for TV audiences.
This detail exemplifies the larger theme of the futility of human efforts to dominate nature. The entire novel revolves around that theme - whether Ahab as a human is capable of dominating Moby Dic, which is a whale and thus a representative of nature. Nature seems to be winning constantly and humans are ultimately unable to conquer it because nature is unconquerable. <span />
The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics and psychology, involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. Opinions on the ethics of each scenario turn out to be sensitive to details of the story that may seem immaterial to the abstract dilemma. The question of formulating a general principle that can account for the differing moral intuitions in the different variants of the story was dubbed the "trolley problem" in a 1976 philosophy paper by Judith Jarvis Thomson.
