Essays on Obscurity

Judith Butler wrote the article “The Values of Difficulty” as a response to the article “Language Crimes: A Lesson in How Not to Write, Courtesy of the Professoriate” written by Denis Dutton. Butler defends her position in her essay and states that academic writers need to use complex terminology in order to express themselves and to shape the meaning in the right way. She believes that there is a connection between the language and the meaning and that a term could be misunderstood if simple language would be used. I agree with Judith Butler because she proves her point ...

Introduction

For years, women have always considered men to be their protectors; particularly those they are engaged or married to. As long as there has been delinquency, there have been women who are fearful of criminal acts and certain crimes that turns them into victims. Some people think that if a person grows up in a rough part of town or even live in a bad neighborhood, they are able to stand up to just about anything or anybody; completely immune to any unlawful misconduct that takes place in that neighborhood. Parenthetically, men and women are susceptible to the same ...

Assignment

800-1200 words

Sociology: Visit to a Religious Event

Structure While visiting my hometown, Iceland, during the Christmas holidays I decided to pay a visit to the Pentecostal Church in my neighborhood, Reykjavik, on December, 29th 2011. It is a cozy place of worship and well attended by a fairly distributed congregation of men, women and children. The audience was engulfed most of the time worshiping, calling on God loudly for help and offering adoration at the same time.

Appeal to senses

Upon approaching the building a light headedness took over me. I was not sure that others in the around me felt this way since people ...