Despair College Essays Samples For Students

English

Once there was a woman,
Who held a deep and dark despair,
The house she lived in was wooden,
And black as the night was her hair.
A knocking at her door,
thump thump! thump thump!

A man stands there stranded,

A face she’d seen before.
“Please help me miss! I’m lost!”
Said the man with a face full of mud,
“The rain has got me tossed,
and the cold is freezing my blood.”

Blood, she thought,

What a grotesque source of food
But “Of Course!” She implied and brought
The man in to his doom.
The ...

Erikson was very much interested in psychoanalysis. He attended many meetings of psychoanalytic society and received their training, part of which was provided by Anna Freud (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
Erikson, accepted Freud’s theory about the unconscious, psychodynamics, and psychosexual development. His focus was on ego and its adaptive function in forming the personal identity. Very early in his career, he decided to extend the Freud’s theories by clarifying the roles of the social environment and culture on development of the ego. He is often referred as ego psychologist. The primary contribution of Erikson was the ...

"Araby" can be said to be a complex short story written by Joyce as a reflection of the life of a young boy growing up in Dublin city. The narrator, a boy, is not named, and Joyce, the author, uses him as the first person; though the narrator appears to be more mature than the boy referred in the short story. Araby, focuses on fantasy and escape; revolving around despair, darkness as well as enlightenment. The story is retrospective of Joyce's life and looks back of his past life as well as his constant struggles (Smith 10).
This story, Araby, involves a couple ...

Introduction

Through the years, theorists use a variety of theories in attempts to explain human development socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually. Among the most used theories are those of psychosocial development; the main contributor is Erik Erikson. His theory on psychosocial development is one of the most influential personality theories; he focuses on the belief that a human being develops in stages. The occurrences at every stage develop the person’s psychosocial abilities; Erikson explores the influence of social experiences throughout a person’s lifespan (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields, 2006). The development of ego identity is a significant element in Erikson’s stages; ego identity refers ...

As one of the most important writers of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway provided many innovations in the way poems and prose were written and read. One of the most important theories that have been developed by Hemingway in his writings is the ‘iceberg theory’, or ‘theory of omission,’ which alludes to his minimalist, almost workmanlike prose, which nonetheless manages to obscure a great deal of thematic depth below the surface. The iceberg theory is found throughout his works, as Hemingway’s prose just discusses what is right at the plot surface of the events unfolding in his stories, but ...

The story ‘A clean well lighted place’ written by Hemingway is a story discussing an old man who is a regular customer in a café. The story revolves around the conversation between two waiters in the presence of the old deaf man. The old man sits down drinking his brandy as the waiters discuss him and life in general. One of the waiters is impatient and wants to leave the café to join his wife in bed. He dislikes going home late. The other waiter seems to sympathize with the old man. The old man then leaves after the impatient waiter refuses ...

This play by Alexander Pushkin is by all dimensions a colorful and deeper reflection of the kind of society people lived in the early years. Looking at it keenly, it tells you without doubt that in the early centuries, knowledge, ability and quality of leadership were not very vocal in determining the leader. However, when we relate the life in the play with the current trend where democracy is sweeping the whole world, then as scholars we are able to discern the great lengths the world has taken in order to make it (the world) more just for everybody (Carl, ...

Literature possesses a vast territory for expressing meaningful human feelings, abstract emotions, or themes. Desperation and comfort is a common theme in literature, encompassed in short stories, poems and dramas and reflected differently through the mechanisms of each literary genres, the style of each literary piece or the personality of the authors.
Various literary genres like short stories, poems or dramas, possess their unique mechanisms for reflecting the theme of desperation and comfort. Looking at Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”, the poet uses techniques specific to poetry space for transmitting his desperate adversity to resisting ...

Central America citizens have recorded the highest rate of crossing an international border in history by sneaking into the United States of America in their thousands over the years. With a financial crisis and hope of recovery in most of the Central American nations such as Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, the immigrants make the deadly decision to illegally relocate to America. The immigrants can no longer rely on their national governments for providing them with employment opportunities and security to manage their families comfortably. It is therefore, not the citizens' responsibility to improve their respective nation's economy but to provide ...

Introduction1

- China Blue1
- Bitter Seeds1

Overview of China and India1

- similarities2
- Differences2
political economy,3
- economic reforms,4
- Resistance to exploitation5
- Living standards5
- Sweat shops6
- Rural urban migration6

International trade ethics7

- World Trade Membership7

China Blue vs Bitter seeds

The main reason we choose to discuss this Jasmines China Blue story is the immense effect it had on young Chinese women. Lured by the urge to be involved in the promising “New China” reformation economic plan, they are leaving their rural villages in their millions and flocking to the cities of especially southern China. What ...

Introduction

In the essay we shall be discussing facts from the film, Casablanca that suggest that it is more of a love and romantic story than it has been thought to be otherwise. The movie has been considered by many to be a collection of movies. This is because of its historic significance and the fact that it combines a number of elements into one. The aspect of love and romance has been revealed in certain instances such as sacrifice and desperation because of love. The plot has been set in a country and place that was considered a haven for both refugees and foreigners. ...

Compare and Contrast

Introduction
Marriage is an essential component of many societies, as it involves the union between two people in love with one another who would eventually create a family. As a form of social organization, marriage has become the subject of several controversies, with some outside of the purpose of romantic union. Notable pieces of literature attest to that fact, and this study aims to construct an analysis between two literary works – The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov, with both literary works establishing that marriage, as a social practice, has found associations with ...

The film “Maria Full of Grace” takes place in a small Colombian town, where most people are poor and young people have no opportunities to improve their lives. The film presents a detailed image of the isolated Colombian town, which is located in the middle of a deserted landscape. In the film, Maria, the protagonist, moves in a space that seems to be completely unfit for her independent and spirited nature. While following Maria from one key community space to the other, such as the factory, the church and the open air disco, the viewers may become aware that ...

Surrogacy refers to an arrangement whereby a woman carries a pregnancy for another person, especially for individuals who cannot give birth. The rapid rise in outsourcing surrogacy has raised concern among people around the world. Some of the issues that develop from the practice include ethical concerns on women who offer themselves as surrogates, the women paying for surrogacy services, the agencies that contract such women, the government authorities, and the medical practitioners who build their practice around the practice. It is essential to identify the factors that contribute to the rise of surrogacy and outsourcing surrogacy, especially in less developed ...

Application of Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory

Application of Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory

Introduction

Erik Erikson’s’ views make significant contributions to the field of psychology; this is particularly in the understanding of personality development and related factors. An understanding of his own study of personal development creates an understanding of development of his psychology (Fleming, 2004). Most of Erikson’s psychology work became evident in the post-Freudian era. It was between the 1930s and 1950s; being one of Freud’s students, most of his work exhibit the influence of Freudian views and theories; this was mainly in the field of personality development. However, dissimilar from Freud’ ...

Research Essay on the story "Behind the Law"

According to Jean-Paul Sartre, no God is responsible for creating human beings in tune with a conceptual divination. In his work on existentialism, Sartre wrote, “Existence precedes essence” (Jill, p.6). This basically means that each of us human beings has their philosophy about life. That what we are or become in life is due to the personal choices we make in our lives. We are wholly in charge of our lives, and we cannot just follow the choices and thoughts of others blindly and let them define our lives. Essentially, we define ourselves through our attitudes and perceptions we have ...

The Stages of Grief in “A Grief Observed” by C.S. Lewis
“A Grief Observed” by C.S. Lewis is an unusual novel written as an interior monologue or in a stream of conscious mode. The writing had been triggered by the mournful destiny of Lewis’s wife, who died from cancer. The book is written on the theological issues as others writings by Lewis, who was an apologist. However, C.S. Lewis was not always strong in his believe. Due to the way he had been educated he first adhered to the atheist position, but on the later stage a teacher ...

Remember the coal miners ordered to war in Manchuria,

the land of the Rising Sun’s “East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”;
remember the factory workers who joined the resistance in Vladivostok,
relocated at gunpoint by Stalin in ’37 to Kazakhstan.

Remember the “Comfort Corps” raped forty times a day,

the woman screaming who could not scream because she was on fire.

In Cholla-namdo we used to break the bones of corpses’ feet

so their souls would’t walk back from the other world, but would you walk back?

Once the guards forced us to watch a comrade being sinned alive.

Later they bludgeoned prisoners to death to save bullets.
What won’t we do to each other?
After liberation I saw a frenzy of reprisals against former collaborators.
An old man—guilty or innocent?—lashed to a grille of barbed wire.
...

The title in itself makes us aware of the direction that the article takes at ‘Desperate And In Debt: 30% Of Millennials Would Sell An Organ To Get Rid Of Student Loans’. In a survey which asked the fresh out of college youth about how far they would go to pay off their college debt, the results were eye-opening. 55% accepted the going away of their debt at the cost of being followed by the very-present paparazzi, 38% said they would contend in a research study where there may even be health concerns while 30 percent said that they ...

“Desperate Passage” is an exciting yet at the same time disheartening book written by the acclaimed author Ethan Rarick. The author has a vast wealth of experience in writing, having authored books and articles on politics, crime, business and other spheres of life. The book was originally published in 2008 by the Oxford University Press. With three hundred and four pages, it is a fast-paced historical, non-fiction that retells a story of the donners, reeds and other parties in their torturous journey to the west.
The book is a fascinating read that explores the themes of survival and endurance ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Kate Chopin is known best for her lyrical writing, as well as the metaphors within her stories. Freedom and longing are often represented by windows and clear skies. The weather can also have a significant meaning in her work. Women often desire something so badly they come close to death, or die at the end of her stories. More obviously are the struggles the characters go through with Chopin’s tales. For example, a common theme shared between Chopin’s, “The Storm,” and, “Story of an Hour,” is the desire for change. While there are many other themes present throughout each ...

The French Revolution is typically the main historical dividing line between the ancient European regimes and the modern world. It marked the transition from the traditional social order to a democratic system. Nevertheless, the transition process was long and violent which eventually led to Napoleon Bonaparte rising to power in 1799 through a military coup d’état. Even though much of its impact was confined to France, it spread to other parts of Europe and the rest of the world. It marked the beginning of the revolutionary wars in the world over. The French Revolution marked the first occasion whereby a democratic ...

Letters, in the past, do more than just share a message. These written words often carry the being along with the message; as if presenting one’s self to the one for whom the message is intended to be given. In this activity, a letter from Helen Keller dedicated to those who might like to donate for the cause of helping out deaf-and-blind individuals like herself shall be given particular attention to. Determining the response to the questions, what does this letter tell about Helen Keller? What result could a letter like this specifically bring about in relation to the goal that ...

Theodore Gericault’s The Raft of Medusa is a canonical piece of art created in the early 19th century – in the wake of Romanticism in France. Romanticism was not a style, nor was it a manifestation of a singular idea. Instead, Romanticism was a movement, characterized by artists’ transfer of personality and mind onto their painting, including social criticism in the best way it could be presented in an art work.
French Romanticism closely followed the Neoclassical movement, which explains Gericault’s being strongly influenced by Michelangelo’s work (Durbin). Many critics also stated that the painting was influenced by the work of ...

Introduction

The War on Drugs has been a controversial topic for as long as many people can now remember in the U.S.A. It is for this very reason that the war must be viewed critically for its effectiveness as there are now generations of people caught up in the war. The purpose of this essay is to look beyond what we believe the war on drugs to be from media reports and uninformed opinions. Instead the film ‘The House I Live In’ makes the viewer critical of the war and to look at it from a sociological perspective. The purpose of this ...

A road trip can be defined as any journey by road, regardless of destination or stops en route. Characteristically, road trips in the contemporary society relates to long distances by automobile. Road tripping is typically about dreams; it encompasses dreaming on landscapes and cities and looking forward to exploring them. Road tripping and also entail hardships, paddling down rivers, slogging though thick canopies, confronting suspicious people, testing ones adaptability, exploring hostile places and anticipating for some kind of revelation. Both John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange engaged in documenting what they saw on their road trip, one through books and ...

A discussion of story of job and Kubler’s grieving stages

Abstract
Loss is inevitable. Every life is faced with several losses from losing jobs and money to losing our loved ones. Though some losses are irreversible and the trauma might extend for longer period of time as compared to other losses that can be replaced with other options. Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced a theory of some stages of grief that a person goes through. The modern theology and spiritual healthcare recognizes her school of thought for counselling and comforting a grieving person.
The following essay discusses the theory presented by Dr Ross and compares this theory ...

Life is full of uncertainties and it’s never obvious when one is to lose a loved one. Coping with death is not an easy task even though people have been bereaved since time immemorial and have generally recovered. Every loss is unique on its own kind. Besides, every individual is unique, thus grief experiences varies remarkably from one individual to another. While some people experience normal grief reactions and cope well, others experience more severe grief reactions and may take too long to recover. This paper focuses on the grief experience of Ruth Fuller, a 34-year old mother of three, ...

Ethic is defined as a system of moral values or a set of principles of right conduct. Every society, including institutions and professions, has its ethics. Besides, individuals set rules that govern their own behavior. In every society, dishonorable behavior is unaccepted. Whether you are the one behaving dishonorably, or the one facilitating the behavior, both are culprits. In “The Shadow Scholar,” a good number of individuals have behaved dishonorably. The clients, Ed Dante, and the company Ed works for, have all engaged in unethical activities.
In academic institutions, it is unethical for students to cheat, whether in their assignments or ...

The Reader, a movie directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg, David Kross as young Michael Berg, and Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz, is an unusual film because unlike most pieces that tackle the shocking subject of the Holocaust, it deals with the lives of ordinary Germans at the time. Additionally, it brings the film into the modern day, showing the effects of the war on German lives almost half a century after the time of the atrocities.

The movie’s form is that of a retrospect. It opens in Berlin in 1995 with Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes), a ...

‘A Man Escaped’ is a powerful and thought-provoking movie, which was directed by Bresson. The movie ‘A Man Escaped’ supposed to the most crucial in the lifeline of the Bresson’s works, and is admired to be nominated as a masterpiece. The movie focuses on the struggle and suffering of the people, who are in the prison. They are searching for the opportunity to escape from the prison in order to end with these unfair suffering and killing surrounding (‘A Man Escaped: Quintessential Bresson’). The movie pictures people with different worldviews and perspectives. Besides, the director wants to express ...

Introduction

Development is a word that describes the process of growth, adaptation, and changes that people undergo during their lifetime characterized by personality, physical, cognitive, socioemotional, and language developments. The work of developmental psychologists helps the society to understand different developmental theories and how they influence life in various stages of life through various development theories. Development theories describe various factors that influence the development pattern of an individual that include hereditary and environmental factors. On the other hand, other psychological experts argue that development is controlled by nature and nurture that combine to influence biological factors. However, psychological developments ...

Introduction

David Foster Wallace was an American writer whose work includes novels, essays, and short stories. He is a professor of creative writing. His most famous work was his novel Infinite Jest, and The Pale Cream. He has been recognized by various institutions and persons for his elaborate work in the development of English literature. Wallace work include both fiction and non-fiction work. His work is mostly concerned in moving beyond the metafiction and the irony that is associated with postmodernism. Some of his other nonfiction works include the John McCain 2000 presidential bid and the September 11 attacks. We ...

"Requiem for a Dream" is a psychological drama which was directed by Darren Aronofsky. The movie depicts the life story of four main characters: Sara Goldfarb, her son Harry Goldfarb, Harry's girlfriend Marion Silver, and their friend Tyrone C. Love.
Sarah Goldfarb is an old widow who lives alone in her apartment on Brighton Beach Brooklyn, spending the majority of her time watching television. Her son, Harry, shows up at her house to steal different things, including his mother's favorite TV, and sell them in order to get money and buy drugs. Sarah buys all the things from pawn ...

Overview

The UN Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving and receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation” (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2004).

Several statistics on slavery reveal that:

There is an estimated 29.8 million living in slavery today;
The income from slavery annually is about $ 32 ...

Abstract

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established to address chronic rural poverty during the Great Depression in the US. A string of known and unknown artists was hired by the organization to capture the images of poverty and lives of rural farmers, with the hope of garnering support for them. The essay describes FSA briefly and then goes on to select a social documentary photograph from an FSA photographer. It evaluates the photograph and how successful it is in expressing the hardships faced by countless rural farmers and migrants during the 1930s. The essay discusses the selected photographer Dorothea ...

Introduction

Human trafficking is the trade of persons, usually for sexual exploitation and slavery, for forced labor or for commercial use for the financial gain of the trafficker (UNIDC, 2011). Almost every country in the world is affected by this crime. The most common form of human trafficking is the sexual exploitation of women. The other forms are forced labor and slavery-like servitude and organ removal. Almost 8 out of 10 of the victims of human trafficking are women and children sold as sex slaves (UNODC, 2016). Human trafficking can be conducted by an individual with a few victims, or ...

Satz has considered the many dimensions to selling organs, and while they have gone over the many different dimensions of organ donation, specifically kidneys, it appears they are in favor of it. Much like the sale of guns, Satz realizes that even if harsher restrictions are placed on selling organs, they are made illegal, or those who sell organs are penalized more severely, the desperate will always find a way. Those selling organs are likely poor, and in desperate need of the money. Those who are forcibly taking the organs from individuals probably do not care about the crime ...

In Dreams

During the Cold War period, the popular music and mass culture were to produce a sedative effect, somewhat easy painkillers to divert people from their deep traumas. Babyboomers consumed new types of dance entertaining music and its representation (rock'nroll related records and shows usually encouraging sexual emancipation), which, in means of culture, presupposed a transition between a pre-war puritan mass culture with moral and civil imperatives to hippies free happenings. Thus, on one hand, there was a high level of anxiety and paranoia, a fear of Nuclear war with communist Russia (this spectrum of experience was mainly expressed in ...

English

Very often the books that we read may touch upon the same problem, even though they have a different plot, were written in different time and have some other considerable differences.
We are dealing with two ingenious pieces of American literature that have different plots, but that are similar in some ways. These books are “Iron John” by Robert Bly and “Way of Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman. Both of these books touch upon the issues of self-development, manhood and making dreams come true.
“Iron John”, a work by an American poet Robert Bly, was written in 1990 and ...

Things happen…Indeed, they do happen when you are not waiting for them. And the worst is that bad things happen to you when you are not waiting for them at all, when you are disarmed, they like stab you into your back with a knife, like a traitor…the next feeling is devastation, despair and darkness. These three ‘Ds’ overwhelm you like a big wave and it seems that the world has collapses.
Not so long ago I’ve had these very feelings – my world stopped functioning for me. Its engines broke down and the whole system of ‘worldbuiling’ collapsed – ...

Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development have been debated and argued since they were proposed. They offer a look into the human psyche, as well as into what we are capable of when faced with the greatest challenges and questions of our lives. Most frighteningly to many, they do not offer a permanent solution to morals, but rather a grey area in which we will act after we reach a certain point within our development. They stare at the innermost parts of us and ask, “What would you do?” were we faced with such a difficult decision. We cower from these situations, hoping ...

Amiri Baraka performs his poem "Something in the Way of Things (In Town)" with The Roots in their 2002 album Phrenology. This album is full of issues reflecting love and fight for social justice. The album collects various issues that affect people in the underground fighting to have their rightful position in the world. In this song, Amiri Baraka and the band use stomp like hip hop beats to express their view on inequalities in the American society. The title of the song comes from Baraka’s poem “In Town” and he raps the lyrics from his poem where ...

WINTER’S BONE (2010) -REALISM
Realism, as we know, is all about being truthful, and a realist will strive to preserve the point that their film is devoid of manipulations, and mirror the actual world. They try to engage amateurs to play the characters, use existing buildings or outdoor locations, and develop a theme based on everyday life. Historical movies are normally shot in black-and-white to elicit authenticity. The snippets of the World Wars, sets an example for these realists to corroborate such techniques into their movies, so that they too, breathe realism. Having said this, it does not surprise ...

Introduction

One of the longest wars that America has involved itself in was the Vietnam War. This war, which took place between 1959 and 1979, was a prolonged struggle between the United States and North Vietnamese nationalist forces who were trying to unite the country under a single communist government. Unlike many wars where America has emerged victorious, the nation was however defeated in this war and communism took over in Vietnam. Many Americans opposed the war and today, this war is often used as benchmark of what America ought not to do when it comes to foreign conflicts. In my efforts ...

The American dream is an ideal, an aspiration that is embodied in the pursuit of happiness and self-satisfaction that has been the banner of the United States as personified in its philosophy of freedom. This ideology wants people to believe that everyone can achieve prosperity and success in the land of the free provided that one strives hard because there is very little barrier that would deter one from accomplishing their goals of a better life. Although the specificity of the American Dream varies and changes over time, the general concept remains the same—that anyone who works hard will ...

[Institution Title]
The different social structure theories perceives that societal, financial, and social arrangements or social structures are among the prime cause of deviant and criminal behaviors. Given this effect, it has been significantly noted that because of this society is placed at the mercy of it these institutions to help preserve order and help protect the integrity of man’s basic human rights. Many believed that crimes had only been conceptualized when the world began embracing “order” and started formulating social institutions in the likes of government and trade. While these institutions are believed to be the ...

1) The internet is a part of our daily lives. Discuss how the internet is changing the way we think today and in the future.
Had there been a voting, which innovation in the 21st century had the greatest impact on the daily lives of the people; it is no doubt the Internet technology. As a result of phenomenal growth of Internet, its application has significantly impacted lifestyles of the people all around the Earth. Now, it has become parts and parcels of our lives. The Internet had caused significant great ease to education, vocations, and almost every aspect of human ...

Morgan Freeman playing Congressman Martin Trumbul give the impression of an experienced and qualified man taking charge and control of the worst possible situation. As the authoritative speaker of the House in Olympus Has Fallen, the speaker is an excellent type of a representative character (Ying and Kuo, 127). This paper aims at exposing the elements of Martin Trumbul's character that support his representative role.

Representative character

According to Ying and Kuo, a representative character embodies traits that represent a specified group. Martin Trumbul's action to take over command in time of crisis portrays him as the last final alternative that the nation relies ...

English: Essay

Response Essay on

The short story “The Old Man at the Bridge” is written by Ernest Miller Hemingway and describes the story of an old man and a storyteller during the Spanish Civil War. The writer himself the narrator of the story relates his experiences of working as a war correspondent for North American Newspapers Association. For this particular event, the writer preferred to write a short story instead of writing a report. In this paper, an effort has been made to write a response essay covering the major themes of the story.
The story deals with an event during the Spanish Civil ...

Introduction

Emily Bronte provided perhaps one of the vivid works of romantic desperation in the form of her novel Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights, being one of a kind due to the immediate death of Bronte shortly after release, features the story of the owner of two manor estates told by his housekeeper to his tenant, apparently intrigued by the mystery brought by the stormy countryside and the manor he is renting. Much of Wuthering Heights focused on events that happened within and between the two manors owned by the protagonist – Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, both separated yet nevertheless located within ...

T.C Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain has been described variously as the most controversial yet timely novel of the current times, at least in the context of the American situation. The novel, which revolves around cultural, financial and social differences of two families, is a manifestation of the themes of poverty, illegal immigration, class conflict, xenophobia and social strife. Boyle wrote this book before 1996, and got it published by Vikings press at a time when California had voted on and the rejection of what was referred to as Preposition 187 – a bill that would restrict illegal immigrants’ access to some public ...

This poem is about sadness and solitude. The tone throughout the poem is a melancholic and desolate one. Frost is wandering through the night in a very depressed state. It seems at the time that he wrote the poem he was experiencing tremendous sorrow and isolation. The entire poem shows lack of joy and enthusiasm in the poet’s life.
Owing to this depression in the life of the poet, everything around him looks negative to him and he seems to be living in absolute despair. The poet seems to be narrating his own story and is not talking about ...

The Wilding of America by Charles Derber presents the reader with the notion of “wilding,” but does the average person know what it really means? In order to explain, the author provides information on the term’s origin: a history of wilding even before the term was coined, describing the life of the immoral tribe Ik in Africa and the development of American wilding. According to Derber, wilding is the result of socially prescribed and promoted striving for enrichment and chasing the American Dream. Since the Reagan presidency, wilding has penetrated into all levels and spheres of American life – from ...

Judith Butler provides a rather interesting understanding on gender. She recognizes how women's subordination to men has been common in most parts of the world. This has been accompanied by oppressions, exploitations, discriminations and humiliations. Women have received discrimination in several areas that form a crucial part of their life mainly because of their gender differences, though gender is realistic only to the extent in which it is performed. "Sex is considered a fact - one is born with either male or female genitalia. Gender is considered a social construction - it grants meaning to the fact of sex. Conversely, it could be ...

Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is an excellent piece in terms of its organization, thematic representation, and character development. This paper seeks to examine the character development of the older waiter in Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. This paper will explain how Hemingway gives him depth – even though he is a static character. To realize this task, this paper will focus on explaining the techniques – details, thoughts, speech, actions, other characters, etc. – that the author uses to create the character’s complexity for the reader.
First of all, Hemingway is able to develop the character of the ...

Introduction

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall was a physical barrier that kept West Berlin and East Germany separate for 28 years from 1961 to 1989. After World War II came to an end, the allied powers comprised of the Unites States, Great Britain, Soviet Union and France divided the vanquished Germany and Berlin into four zones each and each of these zones was occupied by either of the allied forces. Soviet Union was a communist country while the other three allied forces were democratic and capitalist countries. Soon their relationship soured with the Soviet Union, resulting in the bifurcation of Germany ...

According to Otek p’ Bitek, culture has been misunderstood being an externally visible behavior and manifestation, rather than an internal or philosophical reality or way of life (China Blue). From this argument, this paper analyses the limitation of the concepts of happiness as reflected by the ‘China Blue” movie. The movie highlights lack of happiness form the perspectives of the employees of a factory where their maximum obedience is expected (Odera 269-273). They are forced to work for longer exhaustive hours with little compensation as pay. They cannot pay for their bills from the pay they receive from the factory and ...

Did emily kill homer?

In “A Rose for Emily,” lonely spinster Emily Grierson kills her discreet and distant lover Homer Barron, a murder that is revealed only long after the fact to the town in which she lives, shocking its residents. The reasons are never explicitly mentioned in the story, but the isolated environment of the town, the townsfolk's poor and judgmental treatment of Emily, and Homer's own ambivalence toward his relationship with Emily all drive her to kill. Death is a persistent symbol throughout the story - tracing the steps back throughout the town to determine just what led to ...

Explain how a particular theme is developed in the novel

The free will seems to be one predominant theme of the novel “All Souls: A Family’s Story from Southie”, written by Michael Patrick McDonald. The story focuses on a Boston ghetto that gathers the largest population of impoverished Whites in Unites States and presents the everyday life of a community, with the troubles that people face (drugs, organized crimes, suicides), but also points out the large sense of community, the unity and shared ghetto values, strengthen by the shared struggle. In a world like this, becoming a victim of drugs, getting involved in the actions from “the streets”, losing the sense of ...