Essays on Domineering

Q1 (a) Adichie’s essay presented two basic examples based on the concept of feminism that exists in the minds of men. At first, she illustrated that how she preferred to wear clothes that were less feminine while going to her graduation school. The example gives an impression to the audience that men in the society think that girls are a weaker entity. It also provides an idea that girls have insecurity. Therefore, they tend to look manly to prove themselves as stronger while making a public appearance Q1 (b) Another example that Adichie’s essay has provided is ...

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Types of Nonverbal Communication There are different ways through which individuals can communicate nonverbally. Gestures, physical distance/personal space, facial expressions, and posture are examples of non-verbal communication techniques (Burgoon & Guerrero, 2013). Gestures can be touching behaviors, agreed-on signs, or signs that accompany verbal communication (Burgoon & Guerrero, 2013). Also known as proxemics, maintaining personal space and physical distance when communicating plays a critical role in passing a message. Proxemics also determines the settings and environment under which people communicate, for example, public, social, personal, or intimate spaces (Burgoon & Guerrero, 2013). Facial expressions can be used to communicate happiness, sadness, disappointment, ...

1. The most striking examples not learned in adoptive families but linked the siblings are British twins, Daphne and Barbara, who have the same giggling pattern behavior that did not have their adoptive families. Also, they have identical face expression in a stressful situation and both tried to avoid conflicts. One more example is “Jim twins”, who had a habit of chewing their fingernails down to the nubs. 2. I consider that domineering attitude towards women that developed Oskar and Jack was not a hereditary result and not genetically determined a trait. Their authoritative behavior was a result of ...

Domestic Violence

Introduction Domestic violence or domestic abuse is a situation whereby an intimate partner exerts control or dominance to his or her partner through physical, sexual or psychological harm which eventually results in physical or emotional pain to the victim. Some other forms of domestic violence include violence during dating and stalking. Domestic abuse exists within all ethnicities, income levels, education levels, sexual orientations and age groups. Domestic violence occurs between married and unmarried couples, dating couples, former lovers and even same-sex couples. The victims of domestic violence can either be men or women; although, evidence shows that a majority ...

What I learned about myself

After undergoing the self-assessments exercises, I discovered a lot about myself. I am a much-focused person with the desire to exceed in everything I participate in. From the assessments, I demonstrated a sustained passion for achieving success. I could go to an extent of making personal sacrifices, if it would mean that triumph, whenever faced with significant challenges, I composed myself and instilled hope and confidence to members who were afraid of such situations. Throughout my life, I have always been an advocate of setting high standards and opposed move that expected us to settle for less. My team ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was a man with a great ambition. He killed so many people, a number that never seen before and not to be seen again for a long time. This can be said he did so for his own satisfaction. He rose to power after turbulent years of French revolution and he had the intention to bring in change. A change of a moderate authoritarian regime/government. Napoleon valued secular thought, conquest, an individual’s potential, equality, reason and freedom. All of these were granted to a citizen of his country who was subordinate to him and his ideas. ...

Domestic violence is a willful behavior where one person controls the other, which can take the form of abuse, intimidation, or assault. This behavior is systematic that can sometimes include psychological or objective violence. In domestic violence, the pattern of control and power is always perpetrated by one intimate partner against another, but the severity and frequency of the violence may vary dramatically. It is an epidemic that has affected persons of every community, whether they are from different country, have different ages, sex, religion, gender, economic status or sexual orientation. It has been observed that the victim has ...

International Baccalaureate

Introduction “The Joy of Writing”, a poem by Polish poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is an engaging piece that uses vivid images and everyday language to provide new meanings about the creative art of writing. The poem seems to centre on three questions about a commonplace character, related images created with written words and setting. The poem mentions of a doe that hounds the woods in order to drink water from a spring and lifts its head on hearing some ominous sounds. The initial images that Szymborska uses on paper as a writer using her mind and pen set her ...

The book, “Venus in fur,” tells a story about love, dominance and slavery in a person’s feelings. It is based upon the imaginations of Server in, who is weirdly in love with a statue of Venus, the goddess of love. The fur in this case symbolizes power and dominance, where the narrator identified with the cruelty and power in a woman. The character meets Wanda, with whom he falls in love. The character is in love to the point of delivering himself to become a slave. At first, he does not look at Wanda in a sexually taken way because he still has the ...

It is not always smooth all the way at the family level when it comes to making decisions. Every family member has their interests and perceptions of life, which help them, make personal choices and decisions. The same can be said about Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. While reading the story, it is natural that the story can elicit feelings and thoughts in similar situations in real life cases just as events unfold in the story. The two brothers, Sonny and the narrator have different paths that they have chosen in life, just like it can happen to ...

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The setting of this film is in Cuba, which was experiencing the “special period” in the mid-1990s. This period in Cuba was characterized by shortage, a great degree of social change and disillusionment. These negative features came up as a result of the collapse witnessed in the Soviet Union. Therefore, this meant that they would not get supplies of basic commodities and thus they were faced with serious shortages. Consequently, Cuba was in dire need of hard currency, which was initially not the case when they were still beneficiaries of the Soviet Union. Eventually, Cuba resorted to tourism and this was ...

The tragedy of Macbeth that was termed as Macbeth is a tragedy that was written by the renowned William Shakespeare, and it was produced in Scotland. The play dramatized the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when the malevolent is opted for as a way of fulfilling and attaining the wishes of those that wanted power (Howell, 2008). In the play, a Scottish general by the name Macbeth dreams of becoming a king something that will force him to kill with his wife’s motivation and help the dream to come a reality. As a result, it was reflected as one of the darkest as ...

A leader is a person who has acquired a mandate to direct a group of people to achieve a certain goal. For individuals to qualify to be good leaders they should possess leadership qualities since not everybody can lead people as the achievement of that position is much like a calling. It is traditional for societies to select one person who could guide the rest of the people for a common goal, and the societies without leaders have never succeeded to achieve their objectives. Many are times that the societies have selected people with poor leadership qualities thus leading them into serious problems such as ...

Domestic violence is also identified as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, and family violence, can be said to be the pattern of behaviors that entails the mistreatment or ill-treatment by one partner to another. In order for the act of ill-treatment to be termed as domestic violence, the partners ought to be in an intimate relationship for instance marriage or cohabitation. It is imperative to note early on that domestic abuse may be in the form of physical attack, threats, economic dispossession, coercion, and domineering. Evidently, the abused partner undergoes through a lot mentally as well as physically the same way ...

It is beneficial for the management of an organization to keep check on the employees’ morale by asking and listening to their employees as to how they can boost their productivity. The following are some ways to help motivate employees positively: - Management should give more control to the employees over their work experience. This makes them feel less helpless even in the times of uncertainty. - Rewarding and expressing gratitude to employees makes them feel appreciated which fosters in them the desire to continue producing good results. - Leaders should keep the lines of communication ...

Benjamin Franklin, in many ways, represented the essential American character that the newly founded nation was to acquire over the succeeding centuries. From the epoch-making years of the American War of Independence marked by an all-pervading sense of great destiny that awaited us, emerged great personalities like George Washington, the astute general and irresistible leader of men, Thomas Jefferson, a man of over-riding principles and grand concepts, John Quincy Adams, sagacious strategist and many others who together gave voice to the collective aspirations of the thirteen colonies who threw off the yoke of British domination. If they were all building ...

The United States has often been labeled as being exceptional as far as international politics are concerned. Exceptionalism is the belief that the U.S. is different compared to other nations because it is tasked with the specific world mission of spreading liberty and democracy. This rooted belief in America’s exceptionalism has been echoed by President Obama’s persistent utter that there could be no contradiction about American exceptionalism. However, growing opposition from various interest groups has attracted criticism on whether there is still much hope about American exceptionalism. Presently, interest groups play the most domineering role in modern ...

‘The Man Who Loved Children’

Christina Stead’s novel The Man Who Loved Children is one of the most eccentric, painfully honest and humorous novels of the 20th century. Its underlying feminist theme is embodied in the character of Louisa, an overweight and unattractive young girl, whose desire for her father’s love and acceptance is undermined by his childlike persona and abusive, controlling manipulations. She resists her father’s mercurial ideas and psychological browbeating, finding solace in her diaries, poems and a language of her own invention. After the family’s dissolution, which includes Henny’s suicide, Louisa survives and escapes her tortured environment.

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Our nation takes great pride in maintaining freedom and disdain of persecution. However, oppression and freedom are not always clearly defined. Bessie Head investigates the involvedness of freedom in "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses." She shows that the clear causes of oppression are not always the most significant, or even as domineering as further, more indirect, devices in a community. In addition to the obvious symbols relating to the main theme of oppression, Brille’s sight, and resultant glasses, provide significant symbolism and meaning to the story. Although Brille is short-sighted, his adept perception of other people ensures that the ...