Get a Widget for this title
What is wrong with this world?
Article ToolsWhat is wrong with this world?
The answer can be given in a short, succint, one word answer. Greed!
The root of every war, every attrocity, every injustice, every inequality or grievance, can ultimately be tracked to acts of selfish greed, whether it be by an individual, a group, or an entire country. Even many so called natural disasters and extreme weather conditions have been brought about by long term ramifications of human greed.
The need to compete and be dominant is a natural instinct in nature, and although humans have evolved to a level of philosophical intelligence that allows us to recognise that it is morally wrong to take advantage of those who are weaker than we are, the instincts to gain an advantage over our competitors in life is still present in everything we do.
Learn more about this author, Robert Stephenson.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.
Below are the top articles rated and ranked by Helium members on:
What is wrong with this world?
-
1 of 123
When contemplating what plagues the world, two issues immedietly come to mind: The persistent decrease of human empathy,
-
2 of 123
by Dale Hoskin
What is wrong with the world? An interesting question, but one that is difficult to answer because of its obscure form.
-
3 of 123
Fear of choice is what is wrong with the world, the fact that we have increasing choices and yet continually choose not
-
4 of 123
by AMERICAN MAN
PRESERVATION
The truth may appear to be so clear when it sounds like a familiar story problem being the truth of our reality
-
5 of 123
by Gary Maclean
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD
There will always be someone complaining about something; we will never please everyone all
View All Articles on:
What is wrong with this world?
Add your voice
Know something about What is wrong with this world??
We want to hear your view. 
Write now!
Helium Debate
Cast your vote!
Do German reparations as restitution for the Holocaust place a burden on the wrong generation?
Click for your side.
- Is four-wheel-drive needed in areas that encounter winter weather?
- Items every winter driver should have with them
- Tips for driving in the snow
- How to remove yellow tartar from teeth
- Fixing gaps in teeth: Your cosmetic dentistry options
- Which dental decision is better for you
- Christmas gift ideas for your boyfriend
- White elephant gift exchange ideas
- Appropriate Christmas gifts for your boss
- Do-it-yourself Christmas party favors
- Best ways to keep your house warm on a winter's day
- Christmas 2009: Christmas gift ideas for your girlfriend
- Quick Christmas tree ornaments kids can make
- Christmas 2009: Hottest electronic gifts for college students
- How to tell if a girl likes you
- Poetry analysis: Night of the Scorpion, by Nissim Ezekiel
- Poetry analysis: To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
- Interpreting Plato’s Cave
- Top five books everyone must read and why
- Literary analysis: John Keats’ poetry
- Best Hanukkah books for children
- The best of 2009: Books
- Literary analysis: Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Poetry analysis: Sonnet 75, by Edmund Spenser
- Book reviews: The Greatest Personal Success Tips in the World, by Brian Larcher
- Poetry analysis: A Noiseless Patient Spider, by Walt Whitman
- Holden Caulfield’s psychological problems in The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
- Poetry analysis: Death, Be not Proud, by John Donne
- Literary analysis: Crusoe in Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
- Fun art projects for teens
- The different types of art
- Literary analysis: Dominant themes in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
- Poetry analysis: Blackberry-Picking, by Seamus Heaney
- Literary analysis: 1984, by George Orwell
- English as a global language, a good or bad thing?
- Symbols in Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
- Literary analysis: Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- Character analysis: Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
- McCarthyism and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
- How to write a reflection paper
- Literary Analysis: The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell
- Literary analysis: The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
- Poetry analysis: Acquainted With the Night, by Robert Frost
- How to use the word "were"
- Literary analysis: Symbolism in Miss Brill, by Katherine Mansfield
- Literary analysis: Color symbolism in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Poetry analysis: Upon Westminster Bridge, by William Wordsworth
- The Divine Comedy: Types of punishment in Dante’s Inferno
- An examination of Mayan calendar predictions for the year 2012
- Poetry analysis: My Papa’s Waltz, by Theodore Roethke
- Poetry analysis: Telephone Conversation, by Wole Soyinka
- Poetry analysis: On His Blindness, by John Milton
- Poetry analysis: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot
- Tips for writing in the third person
- Poetry analysis: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, by Randall Jarrell
- Poetry analysis: ‘I, Too,’ by Langston Hughes
- Literary analysis: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie
- Literary Analysis: The use of symbolism in ‘The Necklace,’ by Guy De Maupassant
- Poetry analysis: Hope is a thing with feathers, by Emily Dickinson
- Analysis: A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
- Poetry analysis: I Wandered Lonely as a cloud, by William Wordsworth
- Poetry analysis: My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning
- Examples of metaphors and how to use them
- Poetry analysis: The World is Too Much with Us, by William Wordsworth
- Poetry analysis: Sonnet 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Literary analysis: The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Poetry analysis: Sonnet 18, by William Shakespeare
- Story of Medusa in Greek mythology
- Aristotle and Plato, a comparison of philosophies
- Poetry analysis: ‘My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun,’ by William Shakespeare
- Effects of the French Revolution
- Poetry analysis: Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Robert Frost
- Poetry analysis: The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
- Literary analysis: Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s portrayal of women
- Interesting facts about Mark Twain
- Literary analysis: A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
- How to write a personal narrative essay
- Evaluating the Rosetta Stone approach to foreign language study
- Literary analysis: ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est,’ by Wilfred Owen
- Literary analysis: The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe
- Poetry analysis: Easter 1916, by William Butler Yeats
- Poetry analysis: Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare
- Symbolism in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
- Symbols in A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
- Poetry analysis: Ex-Basketball Player, by John Updike
- Play reviews: Fences by August Wilson
- Poetry analysis: Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Book reviews: The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
- Literary analysis: The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass
- Short story reviews: Good country people, by Flannery O’Connor
- Literary analysis: Macbeth’s ‘tomorrow’ soliloquy, by William Shakespeare
- Poetry analysis: Snake, by D. H. Lawrence
- Poem Analysis: The waking by Theodore Roethke
- Interesting facts about Julius Caesar
- Poetry analysis: The Unknown Citizen, by W.H.Auden
- A look at 1900s’ men and women roles
- Poetry analysis: The Sun Rising, by John Donne
- Poetry Analysis: The Chimney Sweeper, by William Blake
- Literary analysis: Barbie Doll, by Marge Piercy
- Literary analysis: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Literary analysis: Happy Endings, by Margaret Atwood
- Poetry analysis: Island Man, by Grace Nichols
- Gift ideas for photography lovers
- Why is Of Mice and Men often placed on banned book lists?
- Poetry analysis: The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
- Poetry analysis: To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell
- Poetry analysis: The Tyger, by William Blake
- Poetry analysis: In a Station of the Metro, by Ezra Pound
- Poetry analysis: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Coleridge
- Literary analysis: The yellow wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Poetry analysis: Birches, by Robert Frost
- Literary analysis: Controversial themes in Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- Poetry analysis: Home burial, by Robert Frost
- Analysis: Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
- Plot summary: Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
- Analysis of pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments from primary sources
- The most famous medical advances of the 20th century
- Literary analysis: The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
- Poetry analysis: Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats
- Literary analysis: Scrooge’s redemption in A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- Poetry explication: Because I could not stop for death, by Emily Dickinson
- The American dream and the Great Gatsby
- Poetry analysis: Morning Song, by Sylvia Plath
- How to write a killer TV show pilot script
- American history: The outcome of the Civil War
- Literary analysis: Sweat, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Literary analysis: Comparison of the characters Othello and Desdemona
- Poetry Analysis: Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff by A. E. Housman
- Poetry analysis: Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti
- The pros and cons of socialism
- Poetry analysis: A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinson
- The controversy surrounding The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
- Food of the Revolutionary War time period
- Effects of British imperialism in Africa
- Concentration camps during the Holocaust
- Plot summary: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
- Short story reviews: A world is an apple’ by Alberto Florentino
- Poetry Analysis: Out, out -, by Robert Frost
- Poetry analysis: Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Poetry analysis: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
- Poetry analysis: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
- Poetry analysis: I Hear America Singing, by Walt Whitman
- Poetry analysis: Nothing’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika
- Analysis of The Hollow Men, by T.S. Eliot
- Literary analysis: Assessing imagery in Sharon Olds’ poetry
- How to analyze a short story
- The rise of labor unions during the Industrial Revolution
- Literary analysis: A Doll House, by Henrik Ibsen
- Poetry analysis: Huswifery, by Edward Taylor
- Poetry analysis: Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Character analysis: Christopher McCandless & Alexander Supertramp from ‘Into the Wild’
- Poetry analysis: Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star, by John Donne
- Poetry analysis: When I Consider How My Light is Spent, John Milton
- Short story reviews: A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner
- Poetry analysis: In the Waiting Room, by Elizabeth Bishop
- Literary analysis: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Literary analysis: Why I Went to the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau
- Literary analysis: The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- Literary analysis: Araby, by James Joyce
- Literary analysis: The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane
- Poetry analysis: The Man He Killed, by Thomas Hardy
- Key themes in Robert Frost’s ‘After Apple Picking’
- Tips for writing up an interview into an article
- An analysis of Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address
- Literary analysis: Two Kinds, by Amy Tan
- Symbolism in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Short story analysis: The Jewelry, by Guy de Maupassant
- Poetry analysis: If, by Rudyard Kipling
- Literary analysis: Dr Heidegger’s Experiment, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Poetry analysis: What Were They Like?, by Denise Levertov
- Poetry analysis: Not my Business, by Niyi Osundare
- How to write a pantoum poem
- Biography: Minnie Louise Haskins, an inspirational British poet
- Poetry analysis: E. E. Cummings
- Book Review: Symbolism and Theme in ‘The Company of Wolves,’ by Angela Carter
- Character analysis: The function of the inspector in An Inspector Calls, by J. B. Priestley
- What was the role of women in medieval society?
- Literary analysis: The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin
- Poetry analysis: On My First Sonne, by Ben Jonson
- Literary analysis: Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Literary analysis: Symbolism in Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- Literary analysis: The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Literary analysis: Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Poetry analysis: The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, by William Raleigh
- Literary analysis: Hills Like White Elephants, by Ernest Hemingway
- Literary analysis: Love and marriage in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- How to cry on cue
- Poetry analysis: To My Dear and Loving Husband, by Anne Bradstreet
- Longest word typed with only the left hand
- Literary Analysis: A Clean, Well-lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway
- Literary analysis: Irony in ‘The Cask of Amontillado,’ by Edgar Allan Poe
- Poetry analysis: We Real Cool, by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Modernism in literature and history
- Poetry analysis: If We Must Die, by Claude McKay
- The reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire
- Literary analysis: O Captain, My Captain, by Walt Whitman
- Poetry reviews: A Dream within a Dream, by Edgar Allan Poe
- Top 10 Supernatural romance novels
- Poetry explication: Holy Sonnet 10, John Donne’s address to death
- Biography: King Leonidas I of ancient Sparta
- Poetry analysis: ‘Easter Wings,’ by George Herbert
- Poetry analysis: The Eagle, by Alfred Tennyson
- Story analysis: The lady in the looking Glass, by Virginia Woolf
- Poetry analysis: Hitcher, by Simon Armitage
- Poetry analysis: The Wasteland, by T. S. Eliot, as a critique on sexuality
- Poetry explications: Design, by Robert Frost
- Poetry analysis: Presents from my aunts in Pakistan, by Moniza Alvi
- Poetry analysis: Anne Hathaway, by Carol Ann Duffy
- Poetry analysis: This Room, Imtiaz Dharker
- Poetry analysis: Death of a Naturalist, by Seamus Heaney
- Poetry analysis: Blessing, by Imtiaz Dharker
- Marxist criticism: 1984, by George Orwell
- Franklin Roosevelt versus Ronald Reagan and the American Heritage
- Literary analysis: Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’
Featured Partner
Takes All Types has partnered with Helium, giving you the chance to write for a cause. Browse Takes All Types' f...more
Helium, Inc.
200 Brickstone Square
Andover,
MA
01810
USA
hide