Essays on Patriarch

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Introduction Conscience is one of the most commonly experienced psychological faculty of an individual, but is also one of the least understood. For many years, little attention have been given towards understanding conscience; particularly on how it is shaped and who influenced the modern understanding of this concept. Nevertheless, conscience is an important phenomenon that requires significant attention primarily because it impacts all human judgment. The manifestation of conscience delineates man from other animals species as conscience is proof of man’s self-consciousness; an attribute that is only observable among human species. As a learned psychological faculty, ...

Washington Street, penned by Henry James, is a work of realist fiction, which takes on the cliché plot line of a traditional romance. In essence, a plain, naive, and inherently good young woman is pursued by an older man with ulterior motives. From within this traditional plot structure, James explores the nature of relationships, with a particular interest in marriage. Overall, he presents marriage as a troupe established for social purposes and essentially forming a simplistic social contract, with romance removed, or ruined by the interplay of social demands and questionable motives. This can be directly contrasted with the ...

CHAPTER THREE: MAN AND ARAB MASCULINITY

As Carabí and Armengol (2014) show in their study, Arab masculinity is a hybrid concept entailing adherence to traditional patriarchal values held for centuries in the Arabic world and supported by the religious component of Islam; however, it also “allows liberal values” which might contradict this traditional patterns. Cultural and societal representation of Arab masculinity is thereby rather complex and might emerge in a variety of contexts including family and society on the larger scale. In these representations, stereotypical images of man in traditional Arab context might enclose controversies and correlations between liberal-secular masculinity and conservative masculinity image entrenched ...

Marquez’ worldwide reputation of a prolific and outstanding author is undeniable. His international recognition reached its peak in 1982 when he got the Nobel Prize in Literature. Because of the poverty of Colombia, Marquez experienced and witnessed economic and social inequity that was one of the most dramatic on the Latin American continent. Marquez employs national history to produce plots that surprise readers because of the writer’s ability to combine techniques of the fantastic and realism. To be more exact, Marquez was the master of a style, which is known as magic realism. It helped the author to ...

Fidel Castro was the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Cuban politician, leader of Cuba and president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008. Castro was adored and hated, praised and despised. It is widely believed that his death will become the worst moment for the Cuban population. The main idea is that Fidel Castro followed his policies, despite the strong opposition of the U.S., without any outside help. There is not much information about the life of Fidel Castro. Special services of Cuba carefully hide his details of biography and private life. Even the exact date of his birth is ...

The research problem will be to investigate whether the patrimonial political systems of Singapore and South Korea are democracies that surpass their liberal Western analogues in terms of national growth and even democratization in some ways. It appears that, contrary to the popular misperception, democracy is not necessarily a lack of restraint and complete discretion or at least a range of freedom like the right to media. Sometimes, states like Singapore being low on resources and facing external threats decide on less liberal norms and behaviors bordering on authoritarianism in specific aspects. Regulated merit-based selection practices and disciplining norms ...

Paintings serve as the visual records that provide the 21st century with important information regarding the structure of the society, culture, styles, and the ideologies that prevailed in that period. Aside from providing aesthetic beauty, paintings made by artists such as Degas, Greuze, and David did not only educate the scholars of the styles they used but it also exposed a brutal realism of the destruction of the family bonding amongst its members. The purpose of this paper is to connect the paintings of these artists and examine their context as relevant to the growth of familial isolation and ...

Introduction

In The Anxious World of the Slaveowning Patriarch and The Effects of Paternalism Among Whites and Blacks, written by Kathleen Brown and Philip Morgan respectively, it was put forward that the patriarchal authority was as a necessary element in maintaining the slavery institution. The patriarchal society was a tradition that was brought forth by the European colonizers, and this system has been the basis by which to impose the code of practice, not only in the family, but also in the societal, political and legal institutions in Virginia during that time. In her essay, Brown denotes that the master’ ...

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Chinese entrepreneurship is known to be influenced by historically traditional and cultural characteristics. The concept of Chinese businesses that the family patriarch critically manages them continues to hold true, although in the modern world as opposed to two decades ago, it has slowly changed. However, much of the management is held by a male member of the family, whether they operate a business upon their property or if they lease or rent the property. The tradition of a Chinese family-run business retains its discernible mark in worldwide business.

As motivated as they may be maintaining past practices for the sake of ...

Isaac sacrifice vs. Iphigenia

Most of us are familiar with the story of Abraham and Isaac from the bible. In contrast, many may not be acquainted with the Greek myth of Agamemnon. This is the brief recap of the two stories: in the old testament of the bible, God commands Abraham to sacrifice his only son that he got at an older age after God had promised him. It is a paradox story in that the same God who blessed Abraham and Sarah with the child is the same God that wants Abraham to sacrifice Isaac his child. Abraham obeys God but in the ...

Kimmel's book ‘Manhood in America: A Cultural History’ is about the history of the male experience in America. It is not a study on what the men actually did since the birth of the nation but is about what they were supposed to be like-what they were supposed to think, feel, act and do. Kimmel gives a scholarly account of how American men have been defined and described in the popular culture since the country came into being. Kimmel talks about the three stereotypical men of America- ‘the genteel patriarch’, ‘the heroic artisan’ and ‘the self-made man’ (Kimmel 16). The genteel ...

1. What are the “stages of social development” that Finkelstein and Silberman suggest are necessary for the Pentateuch to have been written.

Archeologists contend that the bible is such a complex book that it could not have been written during the primitive times described in Genesis and other early stories. As a consequence, bible scholars are questioning the authenticity of Biblical stories in terms of where and when the stories were written. It is plausible that the Bible as we know it is the literary product of scribes and other writers of a period in history when it was possible to document historical accounts of the patriarchs.

Finkelstein and Silberman argue that much of the archeological evidence available from biblical excavations reveal artifacts that ...

The ideal and real roles of women depicted in the plays The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Women have been the subject of greater literary interest since times immemorial. They frequently serve as the means to replicate contemporary society. During the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, women were largely portrayed as the victims of a patriarch society. Modern feminism was nonexistent until the 19th century and female voice was completely subdued. “Feminists’ scholars regarded the 18th century author Mary Wollstonecraft as the original harbinger of feminism, a ...

“A Raisin in the Sun” is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry. It tells the story of a 1950’s African-American family, the Youngers, living on the South Side of Chicago. As the play begins, many themes could arguably be considered the most important. Each one speaks to an important part of sociology, and even American history. Dreams are coming to fruition for many members of the play, and the characters show how important it can be, throughout their discourse, to follow those dreams. The importance of family is also evident throughout Hansberry’s play, as we see Walter Younger struggle ...

Did Arthur Miller Believe in the American Dream?

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I. Introduction a. Arthur Miller as an author b. His beliefs towards American Dream II. Arthur Miller a. His family and childhood b. His political stance and belief in the American Dream III. Miller’s famous plays and stories a. All My Sons i. How did it convey his political stance. ii. How was the American Dream portrayed in this work iii. How did it affect his success as an author b. Death of a Salesman i. How was his ...

Avvakum was a country priest in Nizhni Novgorod, born of religious parents and orphaned at a young age. He is known for his support of the old ecclesiastical ways brought by the zealots. Avvakum was a preservative of the old strict rules of fasting, praying and ensuring proper moral behaviors. His support for the old ways was against the ideas of Nikon, a Patriarch whose support was for the religious ways of the Greek Orthodoxy. Avvakum was the leader of the preservatives, while Nikon led the other group adopting new religious ideas. According Riha, the differences between the two groups that led to ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

The play “The Glass Menagerie” presents the memories drawn from Tom Wingfeild, the narrator and protagonist of Tennessee Williams. The play is significant in literature application since it covers the fundamental aspects of life in the society. In the play, Tom and his sister Laura struggles with their mother to make things work. They are subjected to severe challenges in coping up with life mainly because the society is generally unfavorable to allow women flourish in their day to day endeavors. Based on the feminist criticism, this paper will analyze the play to find the various aspects of misogyny ...

The Great Church in Captivity

Diverse scholarly monographs dedicated to the Orthodox Church history during the reign of King Ottoman have recently been published. One such scholarly work is that of The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence by Steven Runciman. Sir Steven has successfully penned down the patriarchate history by chronicling the events during the Ottoman rule. It is indeed a detailed and a lucid piece of work which displays the research conducted on language relevant to this theme. However, the book gives a detailed account of ...

Bible Interpretation Using Various Types of Critical Disciplines

Introducing the old Testament The Bible can be interpreted using various types of critical disciplines. This is done through interpretation and explanation that is critical of text especially texts of religion. In ancient times the term exegesis, which is the critical expansion and understanding of the religious text, was the primary interpretation of the Bible. Therefore, “Biblical exegesis” is applied in a wider context in the religious text. Exegesis is a combination of a broader perspectives that are critical and disciplines. When we focus on biblical textual criticism, the inquiry of the history and originality of the text, sometimes exegesis it ...

They can further be classified in two categories: western and eastern religions. This classification is majorly due to historical development (Lectures, p. 41). Western religions comprise of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism whereas eastern religions consist of Buddhism and Hinduism. These religions have been in existence since the pre - 1500 and as such there certain facts synonymous to these religions. These facts are to a great extent similarities or common features of these religions. This is so despite the variance in the individual beliefs and teachings of each of the religions. One key fact is that all these religions ...

Compare sections of Gould’s Book of Fish and 100 Years of Solitude

Introduction Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of 100 Years of Solitude, is a novelist of Columbia origin. He is also a screenwriter, short-story writer and a journalist. He is a decorated author and considered a very significant author of the twentieth century. Hs literary works have been recognized with various awards; one of them being the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972 and the Nobel Prize in Literature ten years later. The author left law school to pursue a self-directed career and education in journalism. In his lifetime, he has not been inhibited in criticizing both foreign and Columbian politics. The author is ...

In the American cultural memory, the idea of a “cult” conjures up an image of a group of weak-willed adherents following the every move of one individual with some crazy ideas. The concept is often linked with wanton violence, excessive drug use, and manipulative sexual activity; people with no experience with cults often assume that individuals that get sucked into cults are weak or unintelligent. However, cults are complex social groups, formed by the same social bonds and social imperative that drives people to form clans and communities. Cults, clans, and communities are all driven by the same human need: the ...

Victorian era saw many social, political, economical and religious changes. French and industrial revolution changed the whole cycle of this era and this massive metamorphosis is visible in the novels and essays of this time. The Bronte sisters, Dickens, Jane Austen and Eliot portray the effect of these changes on the lives of the people quite aptly. Bleak House by Charles Dickens is not only a story about passions, unfulfilled love and heart break but also about the major differences and clashes between the upper class and lower class. Similarly Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte shows the love of ...

What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, or fester like a sore? This is the line from the Langston Hughes poem that served as the inspiration for the play and movie “A Raisin In The Sun.” The title is about dreams, but the story is about family; the structural and functional internal conflicts and the solid front it presents to the world. The solidarity of the Younger family is tested when the opportunity presents itself, in the form of a $10,000 life insurance payment. The way this money is viewed by the different ...

I. Introduction

The noir tradition in film and literature offers a singular perspective on the power struggle between men and women in a patriarchal society. The femme fatale, an icon of the genre, is often an ambiguous figure, seeking control over hard-bitten male authority figures who often have little more to recommend them than their masculinity. Being male, they hold the upper hand by default but circumstances render them vulnerable, eroding the de facto power they hold as men and giving their female counterpart an opening. The femme fatale uses that vulnerability to gain leverage and play the angles. But being female, she ...