Essays on Oppressor

Africa has traditionally been a continent of mixed fortunes, where real-life stories of hope and despair abound. African traditions, values and customs have been slowly influenced by colonization and eventual globalization that has turned the world into a global village. The novel, Things fall apart, is a reflection of the extent to which Africans were tied to their beliefs and customs, as a violation of those customs was regarded as being disrespectful to the gods. Resistance to the new values and beliefs as brought by the missionaries are resisted since the communities regard them as inclined on disrupting the ...

Introduction

Many philosophers have identified various branches of egalitarianism. One such branch is the luck egalitarianism philosophy, which recognizes distinctive interpretations and critiques. Elizabeth Anderson formulates a distinctive branch of egalitarianism that opposes luck egalitarianism, namely the democratic equality philosophy. This essay will first delineate the main points of Anderson’s opposition to luck egalitarianism and democratic equality. After this review, there will be applied an insightful analysis of the presented principles, which will be opposed. For a balanced presentation, there will also be provided a response to the identified objections.

Section 1

Elizabeth Anderson is one of the major critics of ...

Main Street is both a physical place and an idea that has been developed and passed down from one generation to the next and into many cultural, political and social spaces of other societies in the world. In the book Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization that is written by Ryan Poll, the United States is the Main Street of the world because its political, cultural and social values have been adapted throughout the world while those of other nations have been discarded. According to Poll, he takes up a Marxist perception ...

- COMEDIES OF FORGIVENESS - humanum genus: The 'oppressor,' one who requires forgiveness by the end of the play - inherent evil of humanity/possibility for good a constant presence in these plays - Originates from medieval dramas, pre-Shakespearean plays and desire for forgiveness in drama - Christians seek forgiveness from God; Shakespeare extends that to receiving forgiveness from family/loved ones/humanity - Shakespeare's comedies of forgiveness underline the inherent evil of humanity as well as their need for forgiveness; as man will always sin, they will always need to be forgiven

- SIX COMEDIES ...

Sexual harassment in the workplace entails any unwelcome sexual conduct that manifests itself through hostility, intimidation and offensive working conditions (Lightle, Juliana & Doucet 3). Moreover, sexual harassment may occur to both men and women. Notably, in the workplace, men may sexually abuse women, and women can sexually harass men as well. Statistics, however, show that women are more likely to fall under sexual harassment from men in the workplace. Certainly, sexual harassment is a common problem in the workplace that needs efficient reporting and prevention strategies.

In essence, there are certain steps that an individual may need to follow ...

Defining Art: Set 1 1. How can we define art?

It is the application or expression of human creative imaginations and skills mainly in a visual state such as sculpture or painting. 2. Is there one definition that sums up the meaning of art? Art is the in-depth conception, discovery and establishment of elementary ideologies of nature into adorable forms essential for human usage. 3. How was the term, Fine Arts first used? The term fine art was first used to refer to a piece of art developed and primarily intended for aesthetic purposes rather than utility. It entails many forms of art pieces such as paintings, sculptures or ...

The aim of the essay is to analyze the literature work «Othello, the Moor of Venice» and to find out what topics and problems are described in this work. In addition, it can be said without doubts that those problems are actual nowadays. The task is to understand how and in what situations. Moreover, it is essential to understand the main idea and topic of the play, and what the narrator wants to claim through the characters and their actions. The essay includes the summary and characterization of the events and protagonists. Othello, the Moor of Venice is a ...

Abstract

This paper illustrates in detail on the effect of the enlightenment and colonialism on education in the country of Brazil. Historical issues, events, institution and its current practices in higher education are enumerated in order to help the reader have a hint on what is happening in the education system of Brazil. The relevance of the paper is illustrated and the purpose of the topic on issues related to the study of higher education in Brazil as having advanced, based on the fact that it was the last country in South America to have a University. There is also the synthesis ...

Religious studies

Most of the events of the movie take place in the crumbling, yet beautiful hilly city of Nablus. Nablus is a city in northern West Bank where Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli security forces exchange gunfire on a regular basis. Nablus is at the heart of Israel- Palestine conflict and Abu-Assad, the director of the movie, was right about shooting the movie in Nablus. The film focuses closely on the process of recruiting the suicide bombers and the tactics used by terrorist groups to prepare people to carry out the suicide attacks. The film highlights the deception and faulty arguments ...

Social Contracts as proposed by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau

Numerous psychologists have contributed immensely to the field of psychology and human behavior and a few famous such psychologists are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau, among other who have contributed largely to the field of psychology. All the above mentioned psychologists are exemplary thinkers as each one of them has grappled to an exceptional extent in discussing the problem of origin. Considering Locke, this encompasses the origin of the psychic body of the individual; and while with Hobbes, it encompasses the origin of the social organization of the humankind. The theory of Social Contracts as proposed by Thomas Hobbes ...

Philosophy of Love

Owing to the centrality and influence of love in human experience, women and men throughout the ages have had a compulsion to write verse, sing songs and tell stories. Essentially, the human experience of love reveals that it is a mysterious and ineffable force, which leads people to depths of despair and peaks of felicity. Love is the principle that underpins all human activity, the cause of human striving, which naturally results in the need to examine it judiciously (Plato, Nehamas and Woodruff, 1989, p. 6). Because of the complexity in the nature of love, Plato tries to explain its dimensions ...

The concept of oppression is the main idea that this writer intends to tackle in this paper. The root cause of such concept is the belief of oppressors that “they have greater moral worth than others” (Hodge 89). Three main sub-points of oppression are further discussed here. First, oppression is manifested at two extremes. Second, identifying the source of power identifies where oppression begins. Finally, a person can belong to both the oppressor group and the oppressed groups. This writer initially believed that persons can be considered victims of oppression only when they are regularly at the receiving end ...

Summary Report

Chapter 3

The written language is responsible for the transformation of the world. Through using words, there is action and reflection. Words bring meaning to the concept of living. Human beings exist in the world through using words. This is achieved through dialogue. Dialogue is essential as it allows humans to be substantial in their own right and as such exercise their freedom to associate with other individuals. Dialogue is not viewed as the dominion over others rather it is the liberation of humankind as it focuses on the truth and not oppression of individuals.

Conditions or factors that contribute to the existence of Dialogue

Most importantly, for dialogue ...

Racism is a system of human waste that spoils the oppressed as well as the oppressor. It is like the spineless/boneless Ameoba proteus that can change its shape depending upon the situations and circumstances. It can range from interpersonal interactions to institutional practices. The United States is a multicultural nation in which profound and persistent racial/ethnic differences in socio-economic status, educational/occupational status, wealth and political power do exist. Racial classifications have been stipulated in the legal and social systems thoroughly. Despite the white consensus on the decline of racism, many ‘colored’ men and women face extensive racial discrimination in their daily ...

Higgins in his book, Understanding the Chiapas Movement seeks to bring to view the Zapatistas as part and parcel of the Mexican history in regard to the encounter between the Mexican and Maya. He concentrates on the fact that the problems existing between the Mexican state and the Zapatistas were foreseen and therefore meant to happen. The state never really recognized the indigenous as important. The state assumed that the Mayans were primitive and less important something that never went down well with the locals. Higgins major concern is the fact that neoliberals is at stake and should be ...

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed is a book authored by Paulo Freire. It is a book that clearly and articulately entangles theories of philosophy, education and politics. The book outlines theories of oppression and the possible sources of liberation today. The author believes that liberation can only be achieved when there is an awakening of people’s thinking processes and critical awareness. This is why Paulo Freire is regarded as a prominent thinker in the field of education. He believed in a system of education that would create a strong partnership between students and their teachers. He also believed in a system that would heavily empower ...

SOCIAL IDENTITY AND PRIVILEGE

Introduction Modern society is composed of individuals who originate from different races, religions and even geographical regions. In addition, these individuals uphold cultural and social practices which vary vividly from each other. For instance, the united state of America is composed of individuals who can be linked to be a white American, black American, Native American, Hispanic or even a Latino. Though they might have integrated together to have a common language of communication, their physiological features remains a distinct element of identification. For example, a black American can be easily identified from a white American through use of the skin color. These social ...

In the early years of the industrial revolution which was before the civil war, women used to be laborers. This happened before the end of slavery. Women used to work under very poor conditions in the textile mills. According to this case, the women had been treated as factory laborers and slavery prevailed in this era. The industrial revolution which attracted a lot of women to go and work in the textile factories started in 1820 in the New England and ended in the year 1850. These factories where the laborers worked on were in between the Merrimack and ...

Part 1

Euripides’ Medea puts up a very strange and ambiguous idea of morality and justice. Even though Medea commits horrendous crimes we are made to question who exactly is the villain in the play. It makes us question the set patterns of justice. She is a witch who to some may only have lured her husband to herself through witchcraft, however because of the dramatic action that is taking place one is continuously forced to think about the other side of the story. Isn’t Medea being driven to do what she does? Wouldn’t most people simply collapse if they were ...

In this important essay, Martin Luther King identifies three ways of meeting an oppressive situation which was the case where the Negroe was suffering in the Deep South of the 1950’s and the 1960’s. He is circumspect and direct about the terrible situation faced by the Negro in the states of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana as typical examples where arbitrary violence and oppression apart from humiliation was the order of the day where the negroe was concerned. King identifies three ways in which one may meet this oppressive stance, the first is to do nothing and acquiesce ...

An Analysis

The theses and argument of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘Three Ways of Meeting Oppression’ is straightforward and very clear. He analyses three ways of attacking oppression and trying to change the system that allows oppression – the racial segregation and inequality that existed in the American South before the success of the civil rights movement of the late 1950a and 60s. King’s analysis rejects the way of acquiescence – playing along with an oppressive system because it is easier to have a quiet life and not challenge the status quo; he goes on to reject the second way – that so ...

In the introduction to Hunter's Shakespeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness, the author announces his intention to combat oversimplifications that have arisen over the past few decades with regards to the scholarship of Shakespeare, wherein the attitude of Shakespeare itself at the time of his writing would actually reflect the politics and intent of the work itself (e.g. King Lear having a sad ending indicating Shakespeare being despondent at the time of its composition). "This study...will be an attempt to investigate one feature - the denouement in forgiveness - which is common to five of the later comedies" (Hunter 2). ...