Essays on Misery

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations are all supporting documents that were drafted by exists and technocrats drawn from all active member states and subsequently unanimously upheld as binding treaties. The major mission as contained in the two documents is to emphasize on the recognition of every human being as equal and insistence on a peaceful and harmonious existence. Although most of the information as contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations seems to converge, some articles and chapters are implicitly conflicting. Safe from ...

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The nature of "The Cherry Orchard", in terms of the genre has always been controversial. Often the play is defined as a "tragicomedy", or an "an ironic tragicomedy." However, it is vital to understand what genre the play is as it defines the code of reading the play and the characters. What does it mean to see elements of tragedy in the play? This would mean to a certain extent agree with the characters’ originality, their sincere and true suffering. However, it is impossible to see any strong trait in characters that are "weak-willed", "aching", "whining", and have "lost ...

Coming into Language is an autobiography by Jimmy Baca that is used to depict the power of being literate. The author illustrates the life of a young illiterate Hispanic male who had to struggle through life in school, at work place and even unable to be stand up for his right to freedom. He compared his life when he was illiterate and when literate and shows the obvious benefits of being literate against the disadvantages of being illiterate. This is a story of hardship and gloom that ends in a triumph as the character is able to overcome his ...

The short story Those Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin explores a strong ethical issue and poses an important question of the value of human life and happiness which does not have obvious answers. In the presented situation, several groups of people can be picked out as stakeholders. They are the child in misery, the town government who imprisoned the child and keeps him there, the one or ones who have set such terms and enforce their consequences, and all other inhabitants and citizens of Omelas who know about the issue. Obviously, the main ethical issue ...

I selected ‘Nature of God’ from World View Chart as it is the key factor of religion. Here the word ‘nature’ means the perception of God in different religions, not the relation between God and his devotees or how God is espoused to act or behave in relation to humans as per different religions. How different religions theorize the nature of God is important. Without studying this factor we cannot understand why there is a conflict between different religions and whether this conflict is natural or misconceived.

What is religion?

Before we analyze different religions we need to have a coherent view ...

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was in a time when Germany was experiencing a grim political and economic condition. The economic depression that hit the world economy during the 1930s had adversely affected the country, that extreme poverty leads the people to near hopelessness. This was in addition to the still fresh and humiliating defeat of the German military in WWI, and historians claimed that the defeat became the fabric that propelled Hitler’s political and military agenda. People were near the brink of helplessness that they believed anyone who convincingly talked about getting them out of their ...

Beth Helen's crime of the heart narrates the story of three Magrath girls, Babe, Meg, and Lenny. The story is surrounded by a sad aura, which forces the sisters to depict their complicated relationship of love and resentment. The plot is based on the sisters showing love, conflict, and reconciliation with each other given the circumstances each of them finds themselves. At the beginning of the play, Meg has just shot her husband, and Lenny celebrates her thirtieth birthday alone in the kitchen with a candle and a cookie. Meg is also seen making many wishes about her aspiration ...

Keurig Green Mountain was founded in 1981 as best coffee and coffeemaker company in the United States of America, initially named as green mountain coffee roasters. It specializes in making best beverages imaginable at homes and workplaces. The company contributes a prominent market share in the coffee industry. The paper highlights the financial department of Keurig Green Mountain and focuses on the assets, liabilities, annual income statements, inventories, stocks, and other financial related concepts. The income statement of Keurig Green Mountain indicates that company is performing well for past few years. The revenues generated by the company are the ...

‘Richard Cory’ by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a simple poem about Cory which conveys the idea that money cannot buy happiness. It also throws light on misleading outward appearances of people which can easily make us draw wrong conclusions about situations. The poem relates the story of Richard Cory, who was a very wealthy man. He lived the life of a king: rich, elegant, and graceful. Whenever Cory passed by pavement dwellers, he appeared to be godly to those poor people who had seen nothing more than misery in their lives. They could not even earn their daily bread ...

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Born in India, on the territory of present-day Nepal, Buddha not only influenced Indian culture and spiritually, but has also become one of the world’s most appreciated systems of belief. Buddhism emerged at a very specific moment in the history of India, when the changes in the political and philosophical realm coincided with the different problems in the society (Begum 2013). Buddhism, which emerged as a new and surprising religion, contradicted many of the Brahmanical beliefs which people in India shared in the 6th century B.C. The Buddha’s concerns and the vision on the society, which is ...

Frankenstein is a novel which deals with immortality and human nature to achieve it with the help of science. It was written by Mary Shelley and it got published in 1818. This novel belongs to the genre of science fiction and it deal with the dark side of human nature and the fact that people are interested in creating life in order to be God-like which leads to failure. The story begins with Robert Walton who is at the North Pole where he meets Victor Frankenstein. Walton gives him shelter on his ship and he is told the story ...

Hester is the hero of the novel. She is portrayed as an energetic, lovely, lively, and glad lady. When she is initially introduced in the story, there is as of now an embarrassment joined to her name that is symbolized by the red letter "A". She holds her head high and stays in full general visibility without shedding a tear when she goes to jail. Her soul is likewise reflected in her brightening the red letter with gold string. Hester's quality of character out in the open, is truth be told, her method for steeling herself against her inward ...

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 ...

At least 9 million people die because of hunger and malnutrition, sadly 5 million are children. In a world of plenty, a huge number go hungry. The biggest percentage of the people who go hungry live in the developing countries. Three-quarters of all the hungry people in the developing countries live in rural areas, mostly in the villages of Africa and Asia. Despite this worrying trend, food wastage in the developed countries is very high. For instance, in the United Kingdom, close 40% of food is never eaten, in U.S., 40-50% of all food ready to harvest is never ...

Water is an important element in this world that brings with it freshness and purity in the lives of human beings, animals and plants. Its importance in the lives of human beings cannot be underestimated. In Robinson’s novel, Lila constantly comes into contact with water. The author has used the transformative healing characteristics of water to depict change in the life of Lila. Through the characters and scenes, the reader is able to learn the varied struggles of Lila with fear of love; faith, family, and domesticity with clarity through water which symbolizes change all which Lila interacts ...

The poem “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold was written in nineteenth century, when the new era of industrialization and progress began and the usual world started to change. The social order and values became more dependent on the historical processes of Victorian era, while the religion and faith faced crisis. The historical background of the author caused the focus of his poetry on the themes of decay, alienation and depression. Facing the changes that were happening, seeing how two absolutely different worlds clash have stimulated Arnold to write “Dover Beach” that expresses the attitudes and moods of English population ...

Frankenstein is the main character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s gothic novel also known as Modern Prometheus. She is influenced by ideas and a dream from a summer holiday in Switzerland. During the summer holiday, she and her companions had shared and read German ghost stories, and then one of them, Bryan Lord suggested that they have a competition to see who would come up with the best horror story (Mary 15). One of them had suggested that corpses could also be re-animated, this brought to Shelley’s mind the idea of galvanism. During one of the nights she ...

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 ...

Visual Art by artist Barbara Kruger

Abstract This paper is an introspection of the works of the visual artist Barbara Kruger. She is a conceptual artist and had access to art and advertising spaces that are public. Therefore she decided to the weapon of advertising against itself. Through her work, Kruger brings everyone’s attention to topics of consumerism, feminism. They are a depiction of revolt against a flawed culture, where one cannot feel they exist without purchasing loads of products that they might not need. To introspect the topic in more detail, we will go through three artworks of the artist and try to ...

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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 ...

Ursula Le Guin begins her story by depicting the beauty of Omelas. Omelas is a town located somewhere on the coast – it is a happy and prosperous city. Everything is good there – the crops always have sufficient yields, it is neither hot nor cold there. The science and arts are developing in this city; it is some kind of how many imagine paradise but real. Happiness is everywhere in the city, the smiles of kids and adults are everywhere. Omelas is full of light and shines with glory. The people, however, in this city are not different from us, ...

Social conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory, which argues that individuals and groups (social classes) within society have differing amounts of material and non-material resources (such as the wealthy vs. the poor) and that the more powerful groups use their power in order to exploit groups with less power. The functionalist perspective, also called functionalism, is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. It has its origins in the works of Emile Durkheim, who was especially interested in how social order is possible or how society remains relatively stable. Functionalism interprets each part of society in terms ...

It needs to be reckoned that literature goes on to mirror the society and the culture. Innumerable examples can be cited where the authors have delved into the socio-cultural or socio-economic factors of the world around in their texts through their creative eyes. Now, after the Second World War, the literature of the world saw the responses of the creative artist catering to the needs of the post-war era that encompassed human existence with all its surmounting effect. One can take into consideration the works of the stalwart poet, T.S. Eliot, who engaged in exploring the socio-political dynamics during ...

Angela Davis’ analysis of the naturalization of the prison system within American society puts it open that for the most of the time, the multiple ways the prison system permeates our daily lives (morally, economically, ideologically, etc) is not considered (Davis 78). However, we consider it and we do think about it because we are so removed from it. We only understand the prison system in terms of what we see in popular media. In my essay, building from Davis’ notion of the naturalization of prison and her attempts to “denaturalize the prison system” (Cecil 1), I explore the ...

Angela Davis’ analysis of the naturalization of the prison system within American society puts it open that for the most of the time, the multiple ways the prison system permeates our daily lives (morally, economically, ideologically, etc) is not considered (Davis 78). However, we consider it and we do think about it because we are so removed from it. We only understand the prison system in terms of what we see in popular media. In my essay, building from Davis’ notion of the naturalization of prison and her attempts to “denaturalize the prison system” (Cecil 1), I explore the ...

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Summary of Saskia Sassen’s “Women’s Burden: Counter-geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival” and its Relationship to Current Events Saskia Sassen’s article discusses the “variety of alternative global circuits” for “making a living, earning a profit and securing government revenue” (523). The writer notes that these “incorporate increasing numbers of women” (Sassen 523). Sassen pointed out the most significant of these “global circuits” are the “illegal trafficking in women for prostitution” and “regular work,” “organized export of women as brides, nurses and domestic servants,” and the “remittances” of a growing “female ...

Seventeenth Century Problems in the 21st Century: An In-depth Look at Modern Slavery through the through the Work of Fiction “Zanzibar Chest” by Aidan Hartley

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The research would aim to delve into the intricacies of modern slavery that victimizes innumerable people from various corners of the globe. This is a qualitative study that goes on to explicate some statistical data as well for the purpose of substantiation of the claim. Indeed, an element of quantitative study would dig deeper into the work of fiction by Aidan Hartley. This author’s work, the Zanzibar’s Chest is a reminiscence of ...

Outlining Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy, a brief discussion on the definition of tragedy can be delivered. According to the Theory of Tragedy, it is a kind of literature that presents replication of several serious actions of different magnitudes compiled with each brand of artistic as well as linguistic embellishment (Jeong-Hyok Seo). In addition to that, the literature has been divided into many parts in the form of continuous actions sometimes not descriptive. At the end of the play, the several incidents create distinct misfortune and fear that ends in accomplishing grief. Considering the tragedy as a literary genre, ...