Disgrace Research Papers Samples For Students

Feminism in Mahfouz's Palace Walk, Nadine Gordimer's None to Accompany Me and J.M. Cotzee's Disgrace

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Naguib Mahfouz, J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer are three African Nobel laureates who depicted feminism by showing their central women characters transgress tradition. If Amina, the protagonist of Palace Walk, transgressed tradition by going out on her own to the mosque for prayer, Lucy fought tradition by claiming her right not to take a part in the system of oppression and enters into an impossible relationship of her time by marrying a black man. Vera plays the role reversal by being the party who betrays ...

Many people with disability have observed and experienced substantial change to cultural approaches towards disability in their lifetimes. People with disability experience serious difficulties of misunderstanding and discrimination. Society attitudes towards disability are emphasized by the accepted terminology used to define people with disability. The people view the person with his or her impairment as a person having the impairment. Due to the exposure of the modern world, it has become so complicated to understand different cultural backgrounds. The couple may belong to different social or racial backgrounds, and the diverse cultures may be represented among the kids and parents. ...

Introduction

Rosa Parks was born on 4 February 1913 in Alabama. Parks grew up in Pine Level, Alabama, on her maternal grandfather’s farm. Parks had to experience racial discrimination early in her life, with race divided schools in Alabama. As a child, Rosa suffered from poor health, especially her sore throat. She was also weak for her age and used to be bedridden with her sickness. Rosa grew up in segregated South where she had to live in an environment that rejected African Americans to enter segregated hotels or restaurants (McDonough, 2010, p. 1-12). Her long struggle toughened her ...

Fighting among men is associated with masculinity. Most of them fight to inflict pain and humiliate their opponents and gain control and power over them, thus enhancing their concept of masculinity. Their opponents receive the painful beating and humiliation as they get beat down harboring feelings of emasculation and humiliation: scars that haunt them for life. This paper will focus on a unique fight club within the San Francisco Bay Area that has different goals as compared to humiliating win-and-lose fights.
The Gentlemen’s Fight Club for me is a beneficial part of the San Francisco Bay Area providing an ...

Introduction

Humans are peculiar creatures endowed with ability to think, reason, socialize, and make rational and logical decisions. This aspect differentiates human beings from other animal species living in the universe. Unlike animals, human beings have formulated and enacted laws that guide their daily activities. Nations across the globe have formulated and enacted criminal laws through the act of parliament with the aim of maintaining status quo and social order (Engdahl, 2010). Although criminal laws differ across nations, they remain effective in deterring crime; promote coexistence and unity among the people. Under the provisions of the constitution, members of the ...

Germany, together with her allies, i.e. Austria-Hungary and Turkey, lost the First World War to France, Britain, United States of America, Italy and their allies. They began the war very strongly, winning several battles, for instance, against Russia. However, the miscalculations of their generals and her allies’ weaknesses proved costly. Moreover, the United States of America join Britain and her allies against Germany. In the end, Germany lost and on 11th of November 1918 she signed an armistice to end the First World War. In 1933, when Adolf Hitler rose to the helm of the German leadership, Sir Winston ...

Introduction

Perhaps one of the most influential forms of media proliferating nowadays is the television. Many households nowadays use television as a form of entertainment, due to the extensive range of programs that it can offer. For example, children and the youth can enjoy animations that are geared specifically to them, while older people can either enjoy drama or variety shows depending on their tastes and preferences. All in all, it can be said that television can provide a wide variety of shows from audiences from all over, thus contributing to its popularity among modern society.
One of the shows ...

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Smoking and nicotine addiction is one of the issues that has been widely discussed and blogged globally. There are several divisive issues with regard to the effects smoking and how the problem should be dealt with globally. The public health officials use empirical evidence to prove that smoking causes problems like lung cancer, sexual impairment, and depression. The cigarette manufacturers on the other end oppose the idea that smoking can be directly linked to any of the three mentioned problems. The responses to such issues include various empirical studies trying to prove the health implications of smoking. This paper ...

China has always had high immigration numbers. In the past, unskilled men typically left to find jobs abroad and then sent the money home and returned when they made enough to sustain their families (Skeldon). Over the last several decades China has been experiencing financial, governmental and demographic changes. China has the highest number of people of any one country and they are experiencing tremendous levels of migration both in and out of the country. In 2010 China was ranked in fourth place in the area of immigration that took place around the world (Skeldon). In the mid 1960’ ...

Great Expectations is a coming of age story written and set in England during the period of the Industrial Revolution. With the endowment of a secret benefactor, the main character, a country orphan named Phillip “Pip” Pirrip, sets out to attain the necessary accoutrements of Victorian gentility; education, money, and social acceptance. The novel exposes the immorality and hypocrisy of the Victorian Era’s socio-economic class system. When viewed through the author’s depiction of prevalent social issues such as child welfare and development, criminal justice, and social mobility, Great Expectations’ is a poignant indictment of the corruptive influence of money on moral ...

THE DEITY AND HUMANITY OF CHRIST

Introduction: A Theological Mystery
That Jesus Christ is God and, in the same time, man is an idea many people do not believe in. To some, Christ is just a normal man, who became a great religious leader of Judaism and Christianity. For instance, the heresy of Iconoclasm that started during the Byzantine Empire taught that Christ the God could not depicted, and that the pictures of Christ can only show Jesus the man and so were not suitable objects for faith and worship. To some, God sent His spirit to possess a human being already born on earth. For many ...

In the history of human civilization, stories always had educative role. In the literary works of fiction, authors use diverse images and symbols in order to trigger a particular reflection from the audience. On the other hand, some authors use traditional images in new contexts in order to stimulate a different reaction and challenge the audiences’ perception of traditional images. In other words, authors often argue that the same images can have different meaning and perception in different cultures and different times. The best example of this is a perception of monsters in different times. The aim of this paper is to ...

Introduction

Throughout one's life, conflict plays a major role. Conflict is a kind of discord, argument or disagreement arising within the self or a group. This is what is known as internal and external conflict. Internal conflict occurs in the mind of an individual when they face two opposing issues or alternatives or when they find fault with their own actions or character. External conflict, on the other hand, happens between one person and another or group. Conflict can also arise between what is imagined or apparent, to what is the reality. For example, the characters and the text present this form of ...

Antisocial personality disorder and criminality

Societal expectations from rational humans are often viewed as demanding, but high tolerance is exercised on the situations that depict some form of deviations, which do not last for long. When the variance from the expected norm is extreme and last for relatively long, the affected individuals are said to be suffering from antisocial personality disorder. A psychiatric condition characterized by adamant behaviors, which tend to exploit, manipulate and violate the liberties of humans, animals and other societal elements, antisocial personality disorder is one of the factors that motivate the engagement of vices in the society. Persistent disregard to ...

INTRODUCTION

A lack of time is one of the most common problems people face in 21st century. The average people who have nine to five jobs piled on top of personal stress of life, is carried around on their shoulders all day. When they get home they want to be able to relax after work and be entertained. In today’s media driven society that means spending more time in front of the TV. Because of this, the entertainment industry has been more and more focused on the idea of producing TV shows that will claim their attention and keep ...

Adolf Hitler certainly had the power to mesmerize people when he took to the microphone and his writings have also influenced a great many people which facilitated his rise to power. A typical example would be a speech Hitler gave in September 1938 when addressing a party rally in Munich;
‘The cultural evolution of a Volk resembles that of the Milky Way. Amongst countless pale stars, a few suns radiate. However all suns and planets are made of the same material and all observe the same laws. The entire cultural work of a Volk must not only be geared for the fulfilment of one ...

Everyone suffers from guilt sometime in their life while some people suffer these bitter feelings for a lifetime. Guilt is a bothered conscience that occurs when a person commits an offense, crime or violates a moral standard or code. It is associated with the beliefs of what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A person’s guilt not only affects his/her own life but also the lives of everyone involved. This particular emotion is the subject of my analysis in which I have chosen to evaluate the novel, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” written by a Colombian writer, novelist and journalist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): An Introduction

PTSD is a well-known acute anxiety syndrome that is created after an experience to any incident which is considered as threatening and causes psychological distress. Normally, the PTSD is created following the exposure to a horrifying incident or trauma in which grave bodily harm has taken place or was endangered. The distressing incidents that can activate PTSD consist of violent personal physical attacks such as rape or robbery, natural as well human-created calamities, mishaps in military warfare. PTSD can be at times turns to be an extremely disabling condition.
These traumatic events may invoke the risks of death to oneself ...

For many years, transgender people often faced discrimination when accessing public accommodations particularly bathroom facilities in schools, offices and restaurants where most of them became victims of verbal and physical violence. For transgender people, finding a safe access to bathroom is a continuous struggle in which they believe that deprivation of its access denied them of full public life involvement. A student may not be able to finish school due to inadequate safe bathroom access or a transgender employee may quit or be fired from their jobs due to bathroom discrimination in the workplace. Bathroom issues and safety are the most common ...

The primary purpose of this paper is to explore how trauma patients can receive counseling in an effective way. It will describe the methods that counselors in Pakistan are recommended to take. Counselors have to be sensitive to the physical, social, psychological and spiritual dimensions of the trauma experienced. The paper will take into consideration the context of the clients and challenge to find ways of reaching out to these women and provide such effective support, as may be found in other countries in the region such as India and Bangladesh. In this way, the aim is to examine ...

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence refers to the pattern of behaviors that involve the abuse from one partner to another with whom there is an intimate relationship such as cohabitation, marriage, dating as well as in a family. It is a pattern of behaviors that happen in a relationship and is used by a partner to maintain or gain power or control over the other partner. The violence may either be sexual, physical, emotional, psychological, economic or even threats through actions that may influence another individual. These actions include those behaviors that intimidate, frighten, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, blame, injure, humiliate or wound an individual. It is ...

Introduction

In Columbia, men of the middle and upper class have always been protective and paternal towards their dependents. They have also been conscious of sheltering their wives and children from undesirable influence that might come from outside their family teachings and values. However, the poor families have not been left behind in maintaining honor in the Columbian society (Anselmi p. 32). Women’s activities in Columbia are severely circumscribed since the men are majorly concerned with protecting virtue and honor of their unmarried daughters and wives. In the ancient Columbian society, women were not allowed to do any work ...

Nietzsche’s Attitude to Religion

Introduction
The German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is one of the greatest thinkers of the humanity, who inspired school of thoughts, philosophers, psychologists or writers in their work. His philosophy includes remarks to various social, political, economic or religious aspects. Regarding Nietzsche’s religious philosophies, the most prolific are those regarding the Christianity. This research paper proposes to capture a qualitative analysis of Nietzsche’s attitude to religion, with a specific focus on Christianity.

Body – Literature Review

According to Nietzsche’s perception, there are various attitudes on religion, depending on the social status. As such, the rulers see religion as a strategic approach to ...

Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon

The squabble between Achilles and king Agamemnon is of great significance as it marked the beginning of a new chapter in the Trojan War. Prior to the argument, the Greeks and the Trojans had been in war for around ten years (Pope, 7). After the argument, the war lasted less than a year. This argument precipitated events that played a major role in the changing the focus and reason for the war. Its significance is attested by the fact that even though the true cause of the greater war is not clearly highlighted by Homer, but the poet attributes the end of ...

There are two aspects of life, one when we are right in front of others, the other one when we are right in. Sometimes our behavior, mentality, wishes, dreams don’t match with others. This doesn’t mean that we can take away their right to live their own life. If under one roof if someone creates a disgusting environment to live in, that is called domestic violence. It may be anywhere in your own home, in your office, in society anywhere.
Some projects and plans are implemented for victims to save their life and to keep this bug ...

Introduction

World War II was the most destructive period in our history, with Adolf Hitler and Germany at the center of it. It was fought with “unparalleled ferocity using weapons of previously unseen destructiveness in unsurpassed numbers” (Marshall Cavendish Corporation 12), and finally culminated in the atomic bomb being used. The fighting lasted longer than it did in World War I and had a truly global scope, with the fighting involving millions of troops.
This war resulted in the deaths of about 56 million people from 1939 to 1945, with 60% of them being civilians (Marshall Cavendish Corporation 12). Although ...

One of the social institutions that play a very vital role in the Oddessy by homer is the family, the importance of the family and home are highly emphasised in this work of art, and the main character Odysseus really demonstrates the role of home and the family. The main theme in this epic novel is reunification of the family and this is illustrated by the attempts of the protagonist to return home and reunite with his wife and son. The entire novel highlights various examples of families (Stubbings 89). There are good families that prosper and there are bad ...