Essays on Dehumanizing

Slavery was a part of the American culture for almost a whole decade (1776-1865), and during that time, many people had to suffer inhumanly for the only solid reason of being a bit different from someone else. There is no way of wiping the past from the memories of those who have struggled, which means that the terror of slavery will always be a part of the human history. As the experience shows, world history is far from being pretty. It has presented its evils so many times that merely counting them would take ages. Every major society, every ...

Colonization is a process in which imperial power systems dominate a region and its components. It features, among other things, cultural domination, political subjugation, religious assimilation and economic exploitations. The colonists used these measures as tools of winning control of the helpless people. Colonization has a close link to massive exploitation and assimilations of new cultures and it further involves actual or threat of use of force. The colonizers were formidable icons and commanded loyalty through aggression. In light of colonialism, established cultures disintegrated. On the case of Britain emperialism,Tarique noted that, “as one of its legacieshas been ...

Modernity refers to the approaches, behavior, and ideas of the post-traditional period. Originally, modernity can be defined as a critique of tradition, and a movement toward a new point of view rooted in new paradigms and insights. Recently, modernity has embodied present-day thoughts and present-day lifestyle. One important aspect that arises from this definition of social change and its impact on human experience is the formation of a newly constructed self-image and identity. In essence, the concept of modernity differentiates the modern person from the traditional individual. Such newly founded freedom in connection to modernity involved an experience and ...

The Irish Way

Analysis of Chapters The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett describes the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. The author of the book has structured it in a very interesting manner. To show the various interactions of the Irish immigrants, the book has been subdivided into sections namely, The Parish, The Street, The Stage, The Workplace, The Nation and The Machine. This essay however focus on two of three sections that is, The Workplace, The Stage and The Nation as well as the introductory part ...

Introduction

The House of God is a hilarious novel with information on everything doctors do not want patients to know. The author based the story on his experience at the Beth Israel Hospital. The novel caused a scandal when it first appeared. The work glamorized traits of dehumanizing and unprofessional attitudes towards ailing patients, which are a set of very unethical issues. Such include a sadistic and dark humor such as how to “turf” patients to other specialties. Another idea is that GOMERs go round. The text promotes a detachment from the patient, which causes them to act in ways that may prove unsafe ...

Introduction

The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett is a masterpiece written to describe the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. Widespread insecurity, callous English colonizers and the ghost of great famine still lingering on and on in their lives, made this ethnic group be convinced that home was longer a home anymore. They descended in United States of America in large numbers. James R. Barrett in his book notes that these people were the first group of immigrants to settle in America. According to him, there were a ...

In American history, the middle passage refers to a voyage that took place in period between 1600 and 1800 when slave trade dominated the economic activities along the Pacific Ocean. It was termed as the middle passage because it was the second leg of a voyage which took place in three phases that begun and ended in Europe. The first passage entailed a voyage carrying cargo such as iron, fire arms, brandy and gunpowder which was taken to the African slave coasts. The cargo was traded for Africans. Departure from the African slave coasts marked the beginning of the middle passage from ...

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried tells an anthologized story of a platoon of American soldiers throughout the Vietnam conflict, demonstrating just how significant the effect of the war was on everyone who experienced it. Drawing greatly on O’Brien’s own experiences as a soldier in Vietnam, the stories are greatly extrapolated from his recollections of being there, though they do not necessarily cover strictly accurate events in the life of O’Brien. Instead, the mood and atmosphere of O’Brien’s experiences is projected onto this semi-autobiographical group of characters, creating a stylized world in which people, places ...

Talking about dehumanization there are many definitions of this term and nobody can come to the final exact meaning of it, but it usually goes associatively along with discrimination based on stereotypes we believe are true. We judge people only by these and not by the person`s values of any kind and treat them accordingly. For example, there`s a great stereotype in all over the world that every Muslim person is a terrorist and is going to blow your house away, killing you and your family etc. It really sounds silly, nevertheless many people are afraid of them because ...

Compare and contrast situations in war

Understanding the reasons why men fight, why they endure emotional, physical, mental torture and death in war are complex, uncertain and even thought to be unanswerable. Despite lack of a single unifying theory to explain motivation of soldiers in combat, military leaders have to find methods to motivate their men in order to achieve victory. Historians have established several methods to inquire the motivation for war. Content analysis is widely used by several historians and war psychologists to reveal the motivation of soldiers in the Second World War and the American Civil War. What is most noticeable about both wars ...

English

Euthanasia is simply a “euphemism” for death (Johnston). Many cases of people being euthanized are not being reported with the assumption of killing in the name of mercy by offering ultimately, good death (Pereira; The Telegraph). Whether it was part of the person’s living will or death wish, even with family members’ consent, termination of life prior to natural death is often due to long agony or continual suffering brought about by ‘dehumanizing’ factors such as vegetative condition, terminating illness, debilitating disease, long-time comatose, and so on. Given such a scenario, pro-euthanasia group advocates for the basic human rights ...

Narrative of Frederick Douglass

This narrative offers a unique firsthand account of American slavery as narrated by a victim. Through his many experiences as a slave, Frederick saw the institution of slavery as a cruel and dehumanizing social injustice that people should reject and abolish. He argued that slavery put the oppressed victims at a disadvantage both educationally, socially and religiously. Slaves suffered abuse and deprivation from their masters and Frederick shows how they were treated as property or animals. This was the basis of the oppression and dehumanization of the then slaves who their considered as having no rights at all. This essay brings forward the nasty ...

Edward Said Orientalism is commonly read as a book about power, cultural differences, science, global politics and anthropology. However, Orientalism most resists a late twentieth-century readers’ effort to pardon Said from the accusation of talking about imperialism, colonialism and racial prejudice. Indeed it is clear that prejudice is a central element in the book. Said imbues her text with components that require a differentiation between fiction and transient pleasures that arise from common Anglo Saxon cultures, particularly those delights associated with the kind of self-centered and ignorant attitudes towards the ‘Other’ (a term referring to alien people or people of other races) as exemplified ...

Torture is an act of deliberately imposing ruthless physical pain on an individual who is under arrest or physically restrained and is unable to protect himself or herself against the pain being inflicted. This paper is going to synthesize Christopher Hitchens’ essay titled , “Believe me, it is torture” and David Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster”. It is not an easy task to judge Hitchens’ point of view of categorizing water-boarding as inflicting physical pain and the underlying contention on the fact that no human being should be subjected to torture (Hitchens 3). I am in support of this ...

INTERSECTIONALITY

Intersectionality is the meeting place, and overlapping space among different disenfranchised groups. More specifically, it is the study of these interactions as they apply to each other, to the society as a whole and the effects of these multiple systems of discrimination and oppression. It is also the methodology used in study of the relationships and subjects. Some individuals are members of more than one disenfranchised minority. Various groups that may or may not share members are nonetheless subject to the same forms of discrimination. The theory of Intersectionality seeks to examine how these various biological, cultural and social categories ...

Introduction

The goal of any form of technology is motivated by the need to create a machine or system that can perform all the duties of a human being, only more self sufficiently. The use of technology is the only way human beings can manage not to work, but continue to progress. Human beings in the most typical case are collectively lazy, and often go to great lengths avoid any real type of work. This is where the development of technology in our society has played a key role in our evolutionary success. The technology we have evolved to use help maintain a more ...

Existentialism can be explained as a philosophical theory that insists on the existence of an individual as; a person should be free as well as determine their own development and destiny through the actions of their will and feelings. According to the theory, a person begins with the feeling of confusion in a life that seems meaningless as well as hopelessness. It is confusion that an individual makes personal discovery and accepts life the way it is while working hard for their development. During the late ninetieth century, with the word war and other happenings of the time, philosophers tried to reflect in ...

HIST 1301

Roy Quick III Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass “The narrative of the life Fredrick Douglass” is a story about Fredrick’s life as an American slave which he wrote by himself (9). Fredrick’s place of birth was Tuckahoe located in the county of Talbot, Maryland (9). Fredrick did not know his age and neither one of his colleague slaves knew their age as it was the intention of the masters to have them ignorant (9). His mother was Harriet Bailey and the father was unknown to him (9-10). “My father was a white man. He was ...

Introduction

The line between good and evil is removable, permeable, and perceived to be an illusion. Evil acts entail exercising power with intentions of influencing people psychologically, physically and perpetuate crimes against humanity. However, human beings have the inherent nature of being responsible; responsibility could be a situational force in behavioral contexts that influence people’s way of thinking and behavior. The rhetorical and social situation analyzed in relation to the given parameters in this essay is bullying. Therefore, aggressiveness and hostility in human character (bullying) is a coping mechanism of individuals faced with threatening and dehumanizing conditions in their surroundings.

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People, particularly young people, are often inextricably affected by their experienced in confined institutions, such as British boarding schools. In the search for one's sense of identity, as well as the skills they need for the rest of their lives, the social and educational experiences gleaned in these institutions are thought to be heartless, cruel and confining, permitting only a limited perspective on life as opposed to the freedom of interacting with the outside world, and the strict bureaucracy of the faculty and staff. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go demonstrates a science-fiction spin on the institution of the British ...