Heroine College Essays Samples For Students

People can be blind to love, truth, or reality in general. The reason can be strong emotions or an intention to escape a traumatizing situation. At the same time, the outcomes of such blindness are usually tragic. Euripides was a master of creating dramatic plays that encapsulated the strongest emotions of a person by engaging them into the traumatizing actions and experiences. Particularly, the topic of blindness is particularly vividly represented in Euripides’s “Medea” (Euripides 17). She is overwhelmed with her frustration and anger on Jason’s betrayal and humiliation. In the swirl of a blind rage Medea ...

The tragedy “Antigone” depicts the conflict between the king Creon and his niece Antigone. What is the cause of the conflict? Antigone’s brothers (who were the sons of the late King Oedipus) both die in the war for power. Eventually, their uncle Creon inherits the throne. The new King ordered to bury with honor his nephew Eteocles, who was a defender of the city, while his brother Polynices was claimed to be an attacker and left without burial. Antigone decides to violate the order of Creon and buries her brother in accordance with the laws of the gods.
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Stroszek is a prominent piece of work that has successfully grabbed the attention of the global community. Herzog tells the story of three characters in their attempt to follow their American Dream. Through the film, Herzog challenges various issues that characterized his society. Bruno is the protagonist in the film; however, it is arguable that Eva assumes the central role in the development of the movie. This is in the sense that Eva enhances the development of all other characters including that of Bruno. Through Eva’s encounter and her practices, Herzog explains the vital role of women in ...

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Nobel Prize-winning American author Ernest Hemingway left a powerful and versatile creative heritage. Writer gives deep and talented analysis and recreates the contradictions of life in every short story. Multi-million readerships admire books written by Ernest Hemingway. In addition, the creative legacy of Hemingway is mastered in different forms of literary analysis. Critics highlight writer’s creative style, his work materials, correlate all this and more with the world of literature for a more complete mastery of spiritual attainment left by Hemingway. Reading Hemingway it is easy to notice that selfish cowards, in fact, cannot love. ...

Literature has always had various functions depending on the time when it was written, but it has always had a peculiar feature of diverse meaning and subsequent messages the author would be able to send to the target audience. In this context, literature serves as a means of communication with potential triggering of certain ideas and even actions. In terms of feminist discourse, literature is viewed as means of expressing one's experience and also triggering diverse and often unpredictable and unexpected interpretive experiences of the target audience. One of the best examples of an interpretive literature is a short story "The Yellow ...

The concept of “terrible perfection” developed by Barbara Heldt describes the womanhood depicted in the Russian literature. According to the scientist, heroines were mainly idealized and shown as an overall female image, including the notion of the Mother Russia. Thus, men were unable to meet their criteria and this mismatch led to the unhappy endings in many works by Russian authors. Moreover, Heldt states that males and females are described in a completely different ways as men’s worldview is based on ideas, and women are driven by their feelings. Therefore, they cannot reach the agreement but they complement ...

Gender is a social construct, not tied to sex in any neat, definitive manner and hence, amenable and open to (re)construction in order to challenge power relations. This paper explores gendered power relations in Euripedes’ Medea and Sophocles’ Antigone, in an endeavour to explicate upon how such relations manifest themselves in the text, and thereby, shape, influence and contribute to an understanding of the overwhelmingly misogynist and patriarchal social reality of ancient Greece. The paper also seeks to take issue with the use of language as mediating an elucidation and plurification of meaning/s in the text, and aiding in ...

Introduction

The Hunger Games is the new global teen phenomenon. A previous image of successful film franchises such as Millennium, Twilight or Harry Potter, this is the adaptation of a bestseller, in this case of the American writer Suzanne Collins. The film, which is the third biggest opening of the story revolves around a television program which requires a group of teenagers to kill themselves (Hubbard 1293–1295). Its strong violent content, some critics have described as a cross between The Lord of the Flies and the slaughter of Columbine-has raised hackles among parents, but did not prevent teenagers from forming queues in all major ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is the narrative of a fallen woman whose story is not the result of her own innate character, but of social forces which execute their power upon her and the subsequent transformations that these forces evoke. Thus, the personal opinion of this reader is that Hester Prynne truly is a courageous heroine who, prone to flaws like all human beings, makes a choice, which changes her life forever. Whether it was a wrong choice or a feat any of us would endeavor upon is questionable, because as it was said, it is not so much Hester’s instinctive ...

Offred is the storyteller and the leading role of the novel, and we are narrated to the whole tale from her opinion, recognizing happenings and reminiscences as vibrantly as she does. She narrates the chronicles as it occurs, and illustrates to us the journeys of her mind via flashbacks and parentheses. She is clever, insightful, and kind. She has sufficient liabilities to make her human, but not so numerous that she turns into an insensitive individual. She also entails a sinister sense of humor that is a cemetery wit that creates her accounts of the dreary terrors of Gilead tolerable, even ...

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Offred is a patronymic name meaning Of Fred – referring to the man that the woman is serving. Offred is of a class of individuals who are kept as concubines mainly for reproductive purposes by the ruling class. Offred lost her autonomy to her husband by indoctrinating into the life of a handmaid.

Since Offred’s main purpose in the life of the commander was for reproduction purposes, and the commander was sterile, she strikes a deal with the commander’s wife to have sex with her driver in an effort to get her pregnant.

Offred who is the protagonist was separated from her ...

The story of Eudora Welty introduces the exemplar of a truly selfless woman who is ready to sacrifice herself for the sake of the ones she loves. Thus, every time when she goes to town for the remedy for his little grandson, Phoenix Jackson virtually burns herself like the magical bird she was named after, and every time when she gets the remedy she hurries back to her grandson who is waiting for her (Welty, 1991). Furthermore, Phoenix simply cannot let herself die, since she is the only close person to that little boy. With that, until she is ...

The concepts presented by Japanese animation including have provided one with the information on the identity of modern women in Japan. Various cartoons, are extremely important when studying a culture of some country. Especially one may perfectly see the difference between the Western and Eastern worlds, regarding the subject, themes, and style of depiction of the characters in their animations. Japanese animation, it is possible to say, is useful when studying the role of female in society. Popular culture helps to reflect and observe the change in the society of Japan, with the help of consideration of the changes and ...

There are many elements of romance in Gaiman’s short story ‘Chivalry’. The author uses most of the basic techniques of creating a romantic situation, for example there is Sir Galaad’s quest to find the Holy Grail, and then there is the presence of Sir Galaad himself which means that being a knight his character is one that is generally associated with romance and also there is the presence of magic in the gifts which the young knight bears Mrs. Whitaker and the magic lamp of Aladdin which the old lady spots in the thrift shop in the ending scene. ...

Introduction

Fables and fairy tales have various inexplicable origins and they have been aesthetically transformed over the years to suit the cultural representations of various countries which have added their patina to it. They seem to be slices of life, and have some core values as well as mythical elements in them.
Cinderella is one such tale which has seen its circuit across the world. The women in the talks seem to take multiple roles such as ‘maiden, matron or crone.’ In this tale itself, you have the various representations - the step mother is the crone, the elder ...

The speech of the characters in the works of Jane Austen is always deterministic and somehow is like a mirror of their behaviour. Objectivising her narrative with the revelation of the heroes in their speech, the author selects the voice contacts for the characters, in which they, most distinctly reflect its essence, and thus reflects the subjective perception of the artist’s world (Anderson 367-382). Thus, no matter how the author was hiding behind the objectivity of the narrative by means of voice the relationship of the characters, the idea that seems her insignificant, unacceptable or evil and what ...

If you happen to be out at a trendy bar one night and a bachelorette party happens to wander in, you can just about always pick out the bride-to-be. She often is wearing a tiara (often emblazoned with the word “PRINCESS” just for good measure), and her friends are plying her with Cosmopolitans, Prosecco, or even shots of Rumplemintz liquor as she is working her way through a night of debauchery, before she enters life as a wife. Even in our own modern era, when women have access to just as much education as their male counterparts and a ...

Aliens Films (1979-1997)

What is the significance of events in films? Are all the bits and pieces in films intentionally included by directors? These are some of the questions I asked myself as I set out on a comprehensive analysis of the audience message in the Aliens Films (1979-1997). According to film analyst Greg Smith, different events in films are not to be treated as accidental encounters of random occurrence and spontaneity. They are instead purposefully planned series of events with cause and effect and with nothing left to chance (Greg 128). Greg explains that Hollywood films are inadvertently one of the most ...

STUDIO/DIRECTOR _______Lee Daniels__________________________

- 1. PLOT (Ideas that drove the film).
- 2. HISTORICAL SETTING
- 3. STATUS OF RACE RELATIONS DURING PERIOD
- 4. RACIAL ISSUES PRESENTED IN FILM
- 5. HOW WERE THESE ISSUES RESOLVED?
- 6. WAS THE STORY REALISTIC, OR MYTHIC?
- 7. HOW WAS THE PROTAGONIST IN THE MOVIE PORTRAYED? IN A NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE MANNER?
- 8. WERE ANY RACIAL STEREOTYPES OR IMAGES PERPETUATED IN THE MOVIE? IF SO, WHAT WERE THEY?
- 9. WAS AN IDEOLOGY EXPRESSED?
- 10. WHAT IS OR COULD BE THE SOCIAL ...

This paper will look at love, sex and gender within the backdrop of postmodernism, existentialism and orientalism in the novels The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar, Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian and The Lover by Marguerite Duras. In the novels love/ and sex are shown as something that a woman has no control over, something that destroys due to its intensity, and something that forever changes a person, respectively. While gender is seen as being something that disenfranchises women in a male dominant, unequal society and something that can destroy a man if ...

Zero Dark Thirty is a film that has sparked a great deal of debate. The debate centers around the ethical and moral issues it presents, which will be discussed. The film is a darkly realistic unfolding of the events following the September 11, 2001 attacks. The film climaxes with the discovery and killing of the sponsor of the September 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden. The film is presented from the inside point of view of the CIA agents involved with the gathering of information. The thought-provoking film forces us to question government secrecy and counter-terrorism. The main focus of ...

The Japanese term ‘shojo’/‘shoujo’ is translated to English as ‘a girl’ or ‘a young girl’ (Anime-Planet, “Shoujo Anime”). The word is widely accepted in Japan in purpose of one anime genre’s description. This word is in use when we talk about Shojo culture – genre of Japanese art of animation with the young girls as the main characters in manga comics and anime movies. Shojo culture was created at the beginning of the previous century and it went through some changes from its beginning. Shojo art pieces might be based on the fantasy or reality; some are ...

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Bipolar disorder is one of the various clinical disorders that affect millions of people worldwide. There is no known cause for the disorder though genetics and environment play a significant role in exacerbating it. This paper examines the journey of one Carrie Mathison, a CIA agent who suffers from bipolar disorder. Like other patients with bipolar disorder, Mathison experienced frequent maniac episodes. She also exhibited high-risk behaviors, which are characteristic of bipolar disorder patients. That behavior was evident in her lack of inhibition and excessive drinking. Mathison also exhibited psychotic behaviors, particularly when she saw herself as a heroine ...

Coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street composed by Sandra Cisneros represents a mosaic of various events that shaped life of Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero. Due to the writing style and vignette form this novel presents reader with vivid but at the same time incomplete pieces of memories that are aimed at conveying particular emotion rather than facts. It should be mentioned that inspiration for writing this novel was Cisneros`s life along with stories from people she knew or met. With this in mind one may observe mixture of semi-real and semi-fictional stories that reveal reality of ...

Gustave Flaubert’s debut novel Madame Bovary is a work of literary realism in which Flaubert brings out the provincial life of the protagonists in a little french village. In the novel, Flaubert moves away from the romantic literary traditions of his time and writes a tale that is rooted in reality. In the novel, Emma’s romantic nature and actions become a stark contrast to the very normal existence of her husband Charles. Although the novel centers around Emma or Madame Bovary, the role her husband charles plays in her life cannot be underestimated. Emma grows up reading ...

Before I watched the adaptation of the eponymous novel by Jane Austen, I had the opportunity to know directly the product. I love syllable of Austin, her brushwork, irony and subtle English humor, behind which lies the limitless depth: the philosophical view of things, the principles of steel and tender feelings, capable of sacrifice. Her works are distinguished by a certain purity and innocence. It is touching for me, the representative of pampering generation and frankness in the relationship between men and women, invisible thread between Emma and her chosen one held in the exciting voltage.
Jane Austen is ...

Films like Tootsie (1982) and Victor/Victoria (1982) belong to genre that is called gender farce which is a subgenre of comedy films. More often than not they portray people who have to pretend to be someone else, most of an opposite sex, in order to overcome some life obstacles. Thus Tootsie and Victor/Victoria present viewer with light and entertaining farce that depicts the silly situation with cross-dressing and living a double life. However, besides witty and humorous remarks lay serious topics of gender identity and roles which are dressed in irony and sarcasm. Moreover, both directors manipulated and played ...

Irrelevance of Marriage: Debunking Patriarchal Values in “Pride and Prejudice”

Introduction
Marriage is irrelevant in the modern society. It has become an atavism of the patriarchal concept that is no longer important today. Marriage is the remnant of the past, which a lot of people confuse with one of the standards characterizing good life. Moreover, while a lot of males pretend they are scared, confused, and resistant to tie the knot, marriage was constructed only for the sake of men. In the past and today marriage is still presented as the main goal and dream for women, implemented in numerous vague sitcoms, romantic movies, and symbolism of the pop ...

Epistolary novel The Color Purple, composed by American author Alice Walker, illuminates life of African American women in the South parts of the US during 1930-s. This novel is considered to be one of the most controversial and censored literary work of Walker due to its explicit scenes of violence. Thus, in her letters to God main heroine, Celie, reveals true horrors of her life. Being, uneducated and poor fourteen-year-old African American Southerner, Celie faces constant physical and emotional abuse first from her father, Alphonso, who beats and rapes her and later from her husband, known as Mister. (Walker) ...

Everyone likes to be a hero, but being a hero is not a simple process. It is a journey of life from simple to complex; from simplicity to hardship and from ignorance to knowledge. For gaining real knowledge and enlightenment, the hero has to undergo many situations in which his physical abilities, his morals, values and principles are tried by the destiny. The hero’s hardship and ultimate success are portrayed in Western and Eastern Epics. Ramayana is one of the heroic epics in Sanskrit composed by ancient sage Valmiki. It is a story of high idealism and the ...

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The Sonny’s Blues story begins at the point when a narrator, who remains unnamed in the story, but was identified as an algebra teacher reads the arrest of his brother who had been charged with selling Heroine. The teacher is therefore deeply perturbed and the thought of his brother keeps reminding him of the students in his class who also face the realities and the possibilities of the hostile world. The narrator again fails to pay a visit to the brother for a very long period until the time of the tragic death of his daughter. At this ...

Wuthering Heights, the story of Emily Brontë, is one of the most mysterious phenomena in world literature. Mostly overlooked by Brontë's contemporaries, the novel greatly amazed the opponents of academism in literature, and later became one of the best novels in the world. Furthermore, Wuthering Heights reflects the complicated philosophical beliefs of Emily Brontë. The story is peculiar for its image of creation which is a common characteristic of the author's art. What is more, the story is free from orthodox religious orientation. The main characters, Heathcliff and Earnshaw, deny the power of church and the common concepts ...

The literary Arab world and that of Western do not cross over much, and it is evidenced that the literature of the Arab world is not known in the west. Western people who write about the Arab people are at times referred to as fringe and cult writers. Western people then undergo costs that are related to this Arab literature. This is because literature is an important thing that acts as a bridge between two cultures with so many odds. Whatever is seen from the Arab world often come from news, reports of war and other issues of madness. ...

English Literature

Introduction
Charlotte Brontë, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather created heroines who deal with issues of love and marriage. For the most part, men play a central part in all of their lives. The narratives are told from a variety of perspectives in the three novels. The endings differ substantively as well. Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 as a kind of autobiography. Jane is plain looking but filled with good sense and bravery. She triumphs over her cruel guardian and an inflexible social class order. When Jane becomes the governess in Edward Rochester’s house, she falls in love with ...

Sula was Toni Morrison’s second novel, and was started in 1970, when second-wave feminists insisted on female solidarity; when labor market demanded women both in the workplace and at home, and when the position of women had not been as polarized by domestic ideology since the Victorian Era. It was a time when feminism ceased to be a middle-class privilege and women from all ethnic backgrounds took up their pens to voice their dissatisfaction. This novel may be considered a product of Morrison’s own curiosity towards female relationships, as she wonders in the Foreword to Sula: “What is friendship between ...

Kate Chopin was born in Missouri and she has represented the rebellious spirit of her era. She led an unconventional lifestyle, which was depicted in all her writings and was the kind of woman who dared to stand up for her true beliefs and ideas. According to her biographers and literary critics, ‘Kate Chopin’s writing style was a result of her passionate love for the writing style of Guy de Maupassant.’(1996, Le Marquand). Chopin was influenced by Guy de Maupassant who wrote about people’s everyday lives, but she went a step forward. She created her own unique way ...

Adah the heroine of second class citizen is portrayed as an intelligent and ambitious young girl who had to fight against substantial odds to achieve education in Lagos. As a child, she had to inject herself into the class of the friendly neighboring teacher before she was enrolled in the School. This is so because her parents had fears about sending girls to school. Life became tough for Adah when her liberal father died shortly after her registration at the school. After a life of object misery and exploitation as well as hard work and proper self-motivation, Adah was able to ...

There are four major classifications of drug actions on the human body. These are stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and narcotics. These are the four main classes of drugs used in most parts of the world (Walsh & Schwartz-Bloom, 2007).
Stimulants, just as the name suggests, “stimulate” or “increase” body activities and processes. Some are legal and widely used in the world. However, all stimulants are addicting. Heavy use of stimulants has both short term and long term effects. The short term effects include depression, headaches, exhaustion and apathy. The short terms effects include addiction, irritability and feelings of hostility and ...

William Faulkner is acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. What has appealed most to his readers is his mastery in depicting the identity and legacy lying in the North. North is seen on behalf of Faulkner as a geographical and cultural independent field which has always affected Americans greatly. North has always been regarded a place of mythical power, carrying its unique character of its people, their mentality and their difficulty in coming in terms with their true selves and / or the progress of the worldwide community, which finds itself under constant changes and progress. These ...

Donald Barthelme was born in the year1931. So the Barthelme was born nearly a little less than a century later than the time the term feminism was coined. But he died in 1989, a time when the concept Feminism had taken root and was an established movement which has thousands of supporters from both genders.

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On the surface his writings were filled with bizarre incidents but there was always an underlying theme or idea that would try to explore the boundaries of the world as people knew it, in that time and age. Barthelme's world has a framework that revolves around a disturbing level ...

Introduction

Virgil was an important poet in the Roman Empire. He was born in Italy, but finally got settled in Rome. Virgil was a favorite amongst the patrons in his time and gained a lot of wealth, fame and emperor’s favors simply because of his writing. Virgil lived through several tumultuous wars and regime changes (one of Octavian’s regimes as well, who was also called as Augustus later). Always being in the good books of the emperor Augustus, Virgil started working on his most famous book the Aeneid, which also immortalized the reign of Augustus. The Aeneid is the story ...

Alcott's Little Women and Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" seem to express very different attitudes toward the expected role of women in the 19th century. Analyze what you think are the main differences and similarities.
Nineteenth-century heroines in the literature realm were characterized by different and exact social desires, including conduct and qualities. Female leads exemplified the desires of society and were flawless illustrations of the perfect women. In Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, the customary perspective of ladies is smashed and always supplanted by desires closer to those of the current period ...

The abuse of drugs is on the increase in most countries in the world with the antidrug campaigns bearing no fruits in most cases. The illegal trade is carried out by men and also women involvement in drug trafficking has been on the increase in the Mexico-US border. The number of female inmates in the Mexican prisons increased by 40% in 2007 due to drug-related cases. Efforts to prevent drug trafficking have been enforced in many countries, but it does not stop the trade since more stringent measures need to be enforced. Most of the drugs distributed in the ...

Jane Eyre is one of the most famous novels written by Charlotte Bronte. This novel is widely popular among all kinds of readers even today despite that it has been first published in 1847. The book has become especially popular among girls and young women because it illustrates the character of a strong woman who bravely faces the injustice and inequality of the world with a head held up and knows how to be a descent human being. Jane Eyre demonstrates the power of personality giving young ladies around the world a good example and an ideal of a woman to aspire (Peel 28). However, ...

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Substance abuse and addiction have been classified as a psychological condition as based under DSM-5 classification. Substances are classified according to categories under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which the US Congress specifies under Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. This paper will concentrate on the discussion of opioid use disorder and how it gradually develops to be included among the substances commonly abused. Aside from delving into the discussion of the disorder, this paper will start by tracking down the history of use of the substance opium. At the same time ...

America's "Cinderella"

The stories that elicit the theme of “from rags to riches” have become like American creed from early as 1860s. Millions of these stories have been produced and sold worldwide. They have given hope to the poor boy that they can be a president, or a poor girl can become a president wife. Authors such as Horatio Alger, Luck nickel and Pluck, have perfected this theme in their children fiction stories from the early age. Therefore, the Cinderella story is not strange to this believe (Yolen, 2001).
However, the Cinderella story which has been in existence for more than thousand years, ...

Imitation of Life is a drama film directed by Douglas Sirk in 1959 and recognized as one of the pinnacles of classic Hollywood melodrama. The plot is set in New York. The main character is a young widow Lora Meredith, whose dream is to become a Broadway actress. So she saves money and comes to New York with her six-year-old daughter Susie in order to try her fortune in acting. One day at the beach the paths of Lora and Susie cross with the paths of Annie, a colored woman, and her light-skinned daughter Sarah-Jane. Lora resolves Annie to live at her apartment, ...

Toni Morrison’s Sula and Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” are two texts that explore the African-American woman’s quest for sexual and social autonomy, in that both texts contend that the African-American woman’s construction of a sexual identity is primarily shaped by the women who raise her, as well as societal expectations and traditions. The process by which an African-American mother or mother figure teaches a young African-American female about sexuality is often laden with religious indoctrination, accusations of licentiousness, personal anecdotes about male duplicitousness, and fearful warnings about chastity. Both texts illustrate how the enforced standards and multiple instructions ...

Introduction

War on drugs is an American terminology, meaning a campaign of turndown on drugs, military equipment’s and invention, with the only purpose of reducing the illegal drug trade. United States has spent large amount of financial, military and other resources on the war on drugs. The effectiveness of the war on drugs has been argued in a manner that such high expense on this war have not yet ensured elimination of illegal drugs so this war should be ended; however, the opponents view is that if this war is ended then the situation will only get worse. The war on ...

This reflective account is towards a twenty-year-old girl who has been troubled with drug addiction. She is from Italy but currently lives in Slough in the United Kingdom. She moved to the U.K six months ago and has been staying with her sister in London. She has a problem with heroine addiction. She has been through rehab and was clean for some time. This changed when she moved in with her boyfriend in Slough. She started using drugs again, but now with the influence coming from her boyfriend. She had a job in London but gave it up when she moved. In ...

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The Trainspotting is a Scottish novel authored by Irvine Welsh. The novel was released in 1993. It features a collection of short stories that are written in Scottish English, Scots or British English. The main theme in the novel is addiction. It revolves around individuals who reside in Leith, Edinburgh. These residents either use heroin, have befriended a core group of people who use heroin, or take part in destructive activities that are similar in function to heroine and are therefore implicitly depicted as addictions. The novel has since revolutionized Scottish fiction especially after the success of its film adaptation, to almost ...

There were various biases in the history of human civilisation. People were judged and differentiated on the basis of their skin colour, sex, face features, height, cultural differences, even age and accent. Although the contemporary civilisation is based on the principles of democracy and the supremacy of human rights, various biases still exist. On the other hand, unlike before, they are not based only on human differences but also on perception of these differences in diverse cultures. In this regard, the actual differences become biased by a particular historical context. In other words, issues like race tolerance and gender equality ...

3 Sociology Essay Questions
1. Given that Paraphilias are informally broken into two categories: coercive and non-coercive, do you believe we should eliminate the non-coercive paraphilias as sexual disorders and only keep those that are or can be coercive under the category of Sexual Disorders?
I believe that either paraphilia should be kept as a disorder into the category of sexual disorders, which includes both categories, coercive and non-coercive paraphilia, or both should be taken out of the that categorization. I believe so because the underlying condition which leads to sexuality outside of the norm of what is ...

America as a country has a very rich history of people who dreamt of achieving great things, then woke up to accomplish them and in so doing changed America and the world for good. Many of their accomplishments outlived them and even got better with time. Margaret Sanger is one of those polarizing significant Americans’ who is either seen as a heroine or a nuisance depending on who you speak with. Today, women see birth control as an opportunity to be smart with her body in making the right choices. However the story was different just a century ago when it was not strange ...

First question: This piece of literature poses a challenge to the traditional notion where the women were not given chances to be the protagonists in the play. In this drama the heroine was murdered an issue that greatly affects the conscience of human beings. This drama is a mythical since it brings out the perception of women in the society and the various roles that they play despite the fact that they are believed not capable of performing some tasks and responsibilities just because they are women. The author has tried to make some contemporary issues irrelevant or of less importance ...

Response Paper 3: Wild Seed

Power dynamics is essential in understanding myth as most mythological stories depict power dynamics not only in the stories themselves – in their context, in their characters, and their story cycles – but also in the message being portrayed by the story and even by the background of the author who writes the story.

For example, in Wild Seed, the author Olivia Butler is a female African author and this in itself tells something about power dynamics or the shift thereof. This is as highlighted by Thaler who pointed out that myth-making and science fiction used to be a white genre (Thaler 2) ...

This essay deals with William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” in which the author utilized numerous symbols to buttress his main themes, which are tradition clashing with the need for change and the power of death. The symbols used by the author and explained in the following chapters are Emily Grierson’s house, the bridal chamber, dust, the strand of hair, pocket watch, the stationary and the rose. The author’s intention in creating this story was to give homage to Emily, a fallen Southern belle, and to all others who are unable to develop themselves in ...

Compare the young girl’s thoughts on gender stereotypes in ‘Boys and Girls’ to the discussion provided by Stevie Cameron in her essay ‘Our Daughters, Ourselves’ how do both authors regard “being female” in their given circumstances?
There are huge differences between these two texts: one is fictional and first published in 1968 and set in an even earlier period (the 1940s when Munro was a young girl), while the other is about a real incident and published in 1990. These differences in genre and date are important and need to be explored, not least because Cameron is writing at a ...