Essays on Plight

When Helen Jackson wrote a report for The Bureau of Indian Affairs, on the plight of the Indians in southern California, she effectively controlled her feelings because the document was factual. Ramona, a popular novel, is the place where Jackson found a platform to let her emotions run free. Ramona is the story of a girl whose name is the title of the novel. The half Indian half white girl goes through a multiplicity of both emotional and physical journeys before the book comes to a semi-sweet end. In the book, Ramona is taken in by her foster mother’s sister Senora Moreno. The woman ...

The Views of Disability in the Arab World and Its Barriers

Abstract Disability is a term used to refer to a physical, mental, developmental or emotional impairment among human beings. Some impairment occurs and manifests themselves during birth or during the lifetime of a particular individual. Impairment results in a problem of the body structure and limits normal functioning of various organs in the body. Disability in most Arab countries is viewed as a social upheaval that has generated a lot of media attention more so from the Western media houses. Lacks of a proper awareness program in Arab countries have resulted in neglect and non-concern tendencies among family members in caring for the disabled. The ...

The theme on social change as depicted by Pancake is painted in a form of negativity. The social change in this novel has affected the lives of a minority in the novel. Pancake has used art in writing to sensitize on the issue of disregard of the minority populations. The population in this novel is exposed to ignorance and disregard. The minority population in this novel is facing the threat of losing the main source of their livelihood and their habitats. The aim of the novel by Pancake was well put across and sensitized. The issue of mountain top mining has ...

Introduction

The short story Country’s Lovers by Nadine Gordimer and the poem What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith are masterpieces in terms of their content and the themes that both pieces present to the readers. The overarching theme within both stories is the plight of the black woman in her social life. Country’s Lovers for example explains the vulnerability of the black woman in her romantic life. On the other hand, Smith’s poem explains the social hardships experienced by the black woman right from her tender age. This shows that there are ...

1. While the video “Control Room” focuses on media and the 2nd Gulf War, what does it imply about coverage of international issues in general? The video “Control Room” is a documentary movie which challenges the audience regarding the truth about news reporting. The responsibility of the media in reporting and the authenticity of the news is the main focus in the movie. The movie follows the events unfolding at the Al Jazeera news network for the duration of the Iraqi war. It provides editing of information gathered and filtering of the same into news. The film focuses ...

Critical review of the movie “The Help”

Synopsis of the movie The Help is a 2011 motion picture directed by Taylor Tate and based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller under the same title. The movie’s setting is Jackson, Mississippi which was one of the most violent and dangerous towns for African Americans and consequently vehemently resisted the civil rights movement. The movie is based on the untold lives of African American women in their service to their Caucasian counterparts. The movie’s main characters are Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan and Aibileen Clark. Skeeter is an idealistic young lady who has just returned to her home from ...

Even if a young person looks at his or her own personal family history and genealogy, he or she will find that the lives of their ancestors and their own personal lives are entwined in the history, black history, of America. African American history is rich and expansive. The American black has contributory history, history in plight as well as in triumph and success. There is more to be discovered in the annals of black history than one could fit into eight pages. Thus, this paper will highlight short bursts of contribution, plight and triumph in each era important to ...

The code of conduct thence, build by members of the two different gender namely male and female are given poignant preeminence since they have been inherently cultured to create into women a docile lam like character that places them under some helpless disposition of abuse by their male colleagues. It is this abhorred state of affairs that the writer tries to satirize in the exposition that are eminent in the stories thereof. The writer presents a female character who disabuses the mythology of female gender inferiority and separates with her abusive husband when the marriage life that she had initially craved ...

One of the people who are referred to as heroes is certainly Rosa Parks, whose name is equaled with African American plight for egalitarianism. Her calm and peaceful persona allowed her to accept all the unfairness African Americans were subjected to, but one time she had to step up and remain seated on a bus. This proved to be the catalyst of the already ongoing plight for equality, and after Rosa Parks’ ordeal, the African American community became even more fervent in their struggle for freedom.

True heroes are those who do not hurt others in their endeavor, who persevere ...

Introduction

The urge to survive and feed our families, stretch us to eke out for a living with our flesh and bones. Caught in the middle of all this is women who though physically do not match their counterparts; the males are pushed to a corner where they have to do the similar works to earn a living. The situation is often worsened when ones husband kick the basket and she has to provide for the family, report to the capitalist “bread” factories whose major interest is to multiply profits and then come back home with the “bread” which is sold ...

“Seven Islands and a Metro” and “Bombay: Our City”

The United Nations reported in 2009 that by the year 2030, 41% of the population of India will reside in urban areas. Mumbai is one of one of the 20 largest cities in the world with a population of 2.21 billion in 2011. With almost twice the growth overall of the urban population, urban area slums are growing the most quickly (Reliancefoundation.org 2014). These types of housing conditions created by rapid population growth result in numerous problems: poor health conditions and more diseases, increased crime, lessened access to civic agencies, environmental degradation, increase in slum housing, and overcrowding. It is ...

Introduction:

Since it became an independent country in 1953, North Korea or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been subjected to heavy scrutiny by the international community. The isolated country has always been reported to pressure South Korea into breaking the détente, continue production of its nuclear weaponry and recently, declare war against the United States. While the international community wishes to influence North Korea’s actions, the fact the country is isolated and information is very scarce makes the issue difficult to resolve. If the international community acted haphazardly towards the issue, North Korea may take ...

W.E.B DU BOIS Du Bois grew up in New Victorian England where he flourished academically. He managed to join Fisk University, as opposed to his dream- Harvard University. It is at this university that Du Bois interacted with the children of former slaves. He identified with their culture and the oppression they had gone through. He further witnessed the oppression and racial discrimination while teaching in Tennessee. This made him to resolve to fight inequality and racial discrimination. He resolved to pursue further studies and was lucky enough to secure a scholarship at Harvard. Du Bois was raised by ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

The immigration dilemma in the United States dates back to the time immemorial. Many of those who immigrate to the US do so in search of greener pastures, which they believe to find in the United States. In many cases, people immigrate due to suffering and dissatisfaction with their countries of origin. This may be as a result of war, famine or other inevitable factors. However, many of them end up facing unexpected challenges. Edward Park gives an insight into the dilemma faced by immigrants in the article Friends or Enemies: Generational Politics, in the Korean American Community. The challenges ...

Introduction

In this discussion two articles have been selected for reflection. They are ‘Prisons for our Bodies: Closets for our Minds by Patricia Hill Collins (2004) and Keeping Sex in Bounds by Abby Ferber (2004). First a summary of both articles will be presented. Afterwards an interpretive analysis of gender and intersections will be explained. Thirdly, my personal reflections will be offered and finally an evaluation of how both articles articulate contemporary gender issues will be highlighted.

Summary of Articles

Prisons for our Bodies: Closets for our Minds - Patricia Hill Collins In Prisons for our bodies –Closets for our Minds Patricia Collins ( ...

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 ...

The movie tells the story of the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Oglala in 1975. It focuses on the trial of the three main suspects. Two of them were acquitted on trial while one was convicted of murder. The main focus of the movie is the trial of Leonard Peltier extradited from Canada to face the murder trial and subsequently convicted of the charge. The movie highlights several controversial issues. The primary issue is the race question and the secondary issue is the trial of what the producers believe is an innocent man. These two ...

‘Black Gold’ is film about the production of coffee in Ethiopia which is the known to be birthplace of coffee. It focuses on the plight of the Ethiopian workers who spend endless days and nights harvesting a crop that is their only source of income. The coffee industry is a multi billion industry that has seen the GDPs of International countries rise as the major exporters of this treasured commodity continue to remain impoverished (‘Black Gold’).

My take on the movie

With America being the country that consumes the most coffee in the world .This movie was an eye opener for the way the role of ...

Junot Diaz’s article serves up a criticism of the MFA creative writing program, and the perceived racism in this program. Diaz is an alumnus of the MFA program under Cornell University. However, he takes a swipe at the program, claiming that it is racially biased and “too white”. Despite having attended the program almost two decades earlier, Diaz posits that nothing has changed. He argues that the same absence of diversity in the faculty that was a feature of his days is replicated in the present day. Diaz cites examples of the racism and racial profiling evident in the present day ...

‘Alternatives: Testing Without Torture.’ PETA. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Web. 20 February 2013.

This document is website-based and it provides for alternative testing methods that can be used on animals. It offers better and torture free methods that researches can adopt when using animal in medical, education and general research.

"Animal Testing 101." PETA. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Web. 20 Feb 2013. http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animal-testing-101.aspx This website is an organizational website for advocates of ethical treatment and the rights ...

Introduction

In the most traditional of African cultures, the duties of a woman’s role in society was never deemed as capricious, much less being awarded the honorary title of representation of an ideology known as ‘feminism.’ Yet, the memoir-enriched fictional novel, “So Long a Letter,” (Une si Longue Lettre – in French) by Mariama Ba inspired much hope for African women to convey the collective plight of their positions to the world. The book is remarkable in a number of profound ways. The book is a diary-type of letter written from the female protagonist Ramatoulaye her best friend from childhood, Aissatou. Ramatoulaye is mourning ...

DO WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF MEDIA INFOTAINMENT AND MELODRAMATIC REPORTAGE?

Introduction For the past 4 decades, the role of the media has been in the process of transforming. Traditionally, the role of the media has been purely on performing an informative role concerning various events taking place across the globe. This phenomena is commonly known as the provision of hard news where the reporter presents the facts to the viewers they way they occurred. However, this is no longer the case, as the media is increasingly indulging in the provision of information as well as entertaining the society. The media houses have been shifting from the traditional methods ...

ENTHOGRAPHY

Ethnography in the local area would entail a close look at the lives of homeless people in the vicinity. This is because homeless people are a part of society that everyone seems to have forgotten about. Nothing is done as far as their plight is concerned and they are met with resentment from other members of society who are relatively better off that they are. In order to be successful working with the local community leaders would be paramount. This is because the local community leaders are very fluent as far as the plight of the homeless people within the community ...

Race, Ethnicity and World War 1

World War 1 was one of the largest wars ever fought up until that time. Discussions of World War 1 often include topics such as the sides that different countries were on, their political positions, the economics that played a part in the war, and the weaponry. However, the subject of race relations during that time period has a significant place in the discussion of the Great War. Race relations throughout the world were affected by the war. Furthermore, race relations on a national level within the United States were also impacted by the war. Throughout this paper, I will discuss the ...

Literature

Introduction Since the beginning of the world, the female gender has faced suppression from the male section of the society. This has reflected in the literature, as well. Many authors, writers and poets, have used hard language to point out the wrong done against the women. The tailored language due to the dictatorial system by the mail dominance has been used in the literature works to give a message for the Literature, on the other hand, has been the part of the world since its inception. Right from the beginning of the world, literary works have been proving ...

Question 1

“Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness” (DuBois 13). This statement by W.E.B DuBois captures the power of his book in attempting to change the mindsets of African Americans about their self worth relative to those of people from other races. It is a statement rich in rhetoric because it contains a symbol and simile where black men are likened to flashing fallings stars to indicate the plight of even the brightest of black men. African Americans have fallen prey to rhetoric ...

Analysis of “Riders to the Sea”

The poetic drama Riders to the Sea, written by John Synge, is a wonderfully lyrical and haunting drama about an Irish family and the relationship it has to the sea. Maurya, the matriarch of the family, loses the vast majority of her family to the sea, leaving her clinging to whatever hopes might be available to her that any of her family might still be alive. By making this play so poetic in tone, the presentationalism of Riders to the Sea draws the reader into the plight of the characters. Sunge’s low-key requiem shows the hardship of the Irish ...

During the late 1800s, also known as the “Gilded Age” of the United States, there was a huge divide between the rich and the poor. Unlike the society of today, which admittedly still has a large class and income divide, there were no real programs that existed to protect the poor from the exploitation of the rich; in the Gilded Age society, there was massive economic growth in the United States, but it came at the cost of those who worked for the rich. Today, there are legislative protections and social welfare programs that exist to help the indigent and the ...

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls is a movie produced and directed by Xei Fei. The movie revolves around two families separated by deep divides of economic disparity. This is obvious in the movie where the family of Huanhuan is on one side of economic hierarchy the poor one, and that of the main character, Xiang is on the other side of economic hierarchy, the prosperous one. The movie puts great emphasis on the sad plight of Chinese women under a male dominated society characterized by a feudal ethical code. Feudal ethical code is ripe throughout the movie where it ...

English

Maps can be very instrumental in the description of a given geographical period. The most interesting thing about this description is that it is seemingly limitless. This means that maps can be used to describe a wide range of factors that exist in a given geographical zone for example population or the structure of the land in terms of topography and the general outline of the structures of the land if they are natural or manmade. Thus maps are very instrumental as far as the description of a given place is concerned. The following essay focuses on a map titled anti-Semitic incidents in Europe ...

Introduction

It is a fact that the society in general has attempted to use different strategies to modify the distribution and circulation of movies. Some of these strategies have involved the tweaking of cinematographic techniques to advance the themes and aesthetic aspects of the movie, as a way of increasing film sales. Others have involved modifying the themes in the movie industry to penetrate the market and to conscientize the society towards a desired end. In itself, allegorization refers to the use of symbolic actions and figures or generalizations on human existence in literary works. Normally, allegorization is used to give the themes ...

Introduction

The caudillos of 19th-century Latin American history played an important part in the shaping and molding of Latin America into a state led by charismatic leaders who were able to assert their own considerable will over the people and enact social and governmental change. In the 19th century, the more iconic caudillos such as Simon Bolivar and Porfirio Diaz exerted tremendous energy and willpower to ensure that they shaped their respective countries in the ways they wanted. Even so, more modern revolutionary figures, even in their zeal to overthrow the classist politics of the caudillo, exerted a tremendous and earnest desire ...

Johanna Smith’s letter to her father, from the colony of Virginia in 1660, represents a key primary source of historical value. Its exemplary evidence poignantly records the conditions, and plight of white indentured servants in the period. Johanna is afraid, doubting whether her father had even received her letters. This essay focuses the discussion on the working and labor-class conditions, particularly concerning the plight of whites under the auspices of indentured servitude. Johanna (1661) writes “The plantation grows good tobacco for England. I also tend to the small house garden, the kitchen, and the house. My labors are many” ( ...

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An author with a distinctive style of writing, Susan Wright, is truly an inspiration to many. She attended John W. North High School, California and then won a scholarship to the University of Southern California. In the year 1984, she earned a M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts. Her M.F.A was for Poet and Writers. This program is one of the best in the world for creative writing, and Susan, herself, founded a program for creative writing & writing for performing arts at the University of California. (Straight)She lived in Riverside, Calif, as a kid, and heard the stories of the black community ...

The essay “Never Just Pictures” by Susan Brodo is one that uses objectivity as a style to present cultural criticism. Her reaction to other works such as the “cult of the cadaverous” is her way of showing her criticism to bizarre American cultures. On never analyzing just pictures, it is easy to think of popular advertisements that have influenced the lives of people. Advertising is one of the most popular ways in which manufacturers can increase awareness on their commodities. However, easy it is for advertisements to convince people in the public to purchase things, but they do not appear ...

Over the years, trade unions have been charged with the duty and responsibility of representing the interests and the general welfare of a worker or the employees. The term employee benefits include appropriate wages and human working conditions that the employer should provide while the worker if on duty. At the very minimum, all companies and firms have worker unions and trade unions, which are supposed to articulate the issues and matters of the works to the employers (Clegg, Fox &Thompson, 1985, P. 1919). It is regrettable to note and record that the work conditions and remuneration levels have deteriorated ...

Gender is a social construct, not tied to sex in any neat, definitive manner and hence, amenable and open to (re)construction in order to challenge power relations. This paper explores gendered power relations in Euripedes’ Medea and Sophocles’ Antigone, in an endeavour to explicate upon how such relations manifest themselves in the text, and thereby, shape, influence and contribute to an understanding of the overwhelmingly misogynist and patriarchal social reality of ancient Greece. The paper also seeks to take issue with the use of language as mediating an elucidation and plurification of meaning/s in the text, and aiding in ...

The stock market crash in October 1929 marked the beginning of the great depression (Rothbard, 209); one of the worst economic crisis to rock America, and indeed the entire world too. The great depression lasted for slightly over a decade, during which period economies around the world plummeted. With the declining economy, revenues, profits, and jobs also dropped (Murolo and Chitty, 187). Manufacturing and farming also declined, with the consequence that industries were forced to lay off some workers, and in some cases reduce the wages of the subsisting workforce. Even those with jobs were subjected unfavorable terms, especially in ...

Arthur Miller was born in the house of a Polish Jewish couple in Harlem, New York City in 1915. In his book, “Timebends: A Life,” Miller mentions that the part of Harlem he was born in was quite modern and popular, but the Great Depression had already made its way in Brooklyn by the time was grown up. Since Miller was studying in the University of Michigan at that time, he had to a variety of physical labor to pay for his education. The above mentioned book is the only autobiography that Arthur Miller has ever written, but that is not ...

T.C Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain has been described variously as the most controversial yet timely novel of the current times, at least in the context of the American situation. The novel, which revolves around cultural, financial and social differences of two families, is a manifestation of the themes of poverty, illegal immigration, class conflict, xenophobia and social strife. Boyle wrote this book before 1996, and got it published by Vikings press at a time when California had voted on and the rejection of what was referred to as Preposition 187 – a bill that would restrict illegal immigrants’ access to some public ...

Harriet Jacobs’ narrative demonstrates the life of a female slave. She is able to recount her life since she was a young woman. The narration highlights events that affected the narrator positively and negatively. These events vary from her escape from her cruel masters to how she ended up crippled for life. People are able to understand the dynamics of the tribulations and challenges that female slaves and slaves in general faced during her time. Frederick Douglas’s narrative demonstrates the life of a slave from a male’s point of view. His narrative is less personal compared to Harriet’s narrative. This ...

Movie Analysis

Brave is an animated film based in fictional characters. The film is based in an old setting revolving around Princess Merida. The Princess is born of King Fergus and Queen Elinor. Merida realize that she was to be married of to a man she had not chosen. This was to enable her assume the role of her father as the king after he got injured protecting them from a bear attack. However, Merida flees her home after an argument with her mother. While in the forest she encounters a witch who vows to help her enable her mother to change her mind ...

Film Studies

The House I Live In is a compelling account of the manner in which America’s War on Drugs has devastates families and individuals especially those belonging to the minority community. It has targeted the poor and the jobless. The film portrays touching anecdotes of those directly impacted by drugs – be it the grieving mother to the drug dealer, the senator to the narcotics officer, the federal judge to the prison inmate. The film highlights this as a serious human rights issue and urges people to speak against the injustice taking place in this country. The film in fact portrays ...

Martin Luther was writing this letter from prison, where he was being held for participating in peaceful demonstrations. This is because Birmingham was one of the most segregationist towns in the country. The idea was to create tension in the region and force the leaders of that region to consider negotiations, without having to resort to violence. In the letter from Birmingham jail, Martin Luther talks about the plight of the oppressed in general, and specifically, that of the oppressed and discriminated black person in America. Although the letter is primarily about the plight of the oppressed black ...

Foot Soldiers vs. Commanding Officers

During the World War II, foot soldiers were infantry troopers who fought on foot. Most of the foot soldiers did not hold any official ranks and were mainly comprised of enlisted civilians from the public. The foot soldiers spent a lot their time in the trenches except in situations where their commanding officers decided they could stage surprise attacks on their enemies. According to Massie, the World War II came at time a general feeling of naturalism, patriotism and loyalty was sweeping through Europe (72). In fact when the countries started declaring wars on each other, there were open celebrations ...

The two stories, “Hills like White Elephants” and “The Story of an Hour”, resonate around the feminist and Marxist ideas in unique and interesting ways. The stories are narrated from a third person with the authors keen to bring out capitalism and the ever present male chauvinism. It is this paper’s position that the two stories though within the same context, express different political ideology. The “Hills like White Elephants” appears to support the chauvinist approach in life while “The Story of an Hour” contends and disparages male chauvinism while promoting feminism. This paper shall analyze the political undertones ...

Langston Hughes short story “On The Road” is about a black man who travels across the country on railways. The story shares similarities of motion and travel that is found in Falkner’s short story “Barn Burning.” In “On the Road” we see a character interacting with other characters through the motion of travel. In “Barn Burning” the characters appear from a crowd, through a court system, which is endeavoring to discover who is to blame for it. Then the motion in “Barn Burning” continues to a wagon that moves across the country. In both story, and in the poems, “I, Too” and “The ...

Compare the attempt to escape the miseries of the world in Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium."

Introduction

The different faces through which a person goes through makes them have a number of experiences. This is largely caused by internal and external expectations which could be contrary to what a person can deliver. It reaches a time when an individual feels lonely despite the numerous people they could be around them. After being in a world of their own and realizing that nobody seems to understand to understand their plight, people tend to find ways through which they can escape from ...

Special Interests

Aside from national security, national interest and overall economic capacity of the American nation in both national and international affairs, the federal government also takes into consideration special interests that would aid the country prosper domestically to add to the powerful image the US has already possesses. Things such as labor unions, human rights, civil regulations and the like are just some of the other points of interest for the government to improve on in terms of programs and policies. However, unknown to many, unions and organizations assist and pressure the federal government and its policymakers in making policies ...

As a matter of fact, Eve Ensler is one among the most creative writers of all time. This is something I knew for a fact on the 14th day of February. The vagina monologue, arguably the most prominent of works by Eve Ensler is a play that explains the troubles that, women go through, especially when that are subjected to sexual abuse. The play can be described variously because as a matter of fact, it evokes mixed feelings – laughter, embarrassment and sadness. Well planned, with various actors, both professional and amateur, the message in the play is exceptionally clear – all women ought to ...

Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin instills the pangs of revolution in the hearts of the audience who bask in inspiration after watching the Odessa steps sequence in the film. A film, wherever it is made, has the reflection of the society and history of the community. Habermas has argued in his essay, Modernity: An Incomplete Project, that with the transition to modernism, art has made an endeavor to dissociate it from the social constrictions and become liberated, in the sense that it would be art for art’s sake. The avant garde artist would like to immerse the soul ...

China has long been something of a mystery to the western world. Every time the western media or scholars think they understand the nature of China and the Chinese, something new and different emerges and changes their analysis of China and the Chinese. In reality, China is a massive place; the population, while not as diverse as it is elsewhere in the world, is definitely mixed and multicultural. Since the Cultural Revolution in China, there have been a great many changes to the society, both good and bad. Today, China is beginning to come into her own after many years of confusion, ...

The article of Garrett Hardin entitled, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping The Poor,” talked about the plight of poor nations’ population and the role of rich nations in aiding this population (Hardin 376). The article differentiated the lives of population of rich nations from poor nations (Hardin 376). The author reiterated the important role of immigration to rich countries by people from poor nations to overcome poverty (Hardin 377). - Thesis Statement In "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor," Garrett Hardin use logos and pathos to argue that rich nations should not have to ...

The memorial for the ‘murdered Jews of Europe’ located in Berlin cost 25 million euros at its inaugural during the year 2005. Well-researched and documented history points three groups that endured suffering during the pre-Nazi, Hitler’s reign, and post Nazi regimes in Germany and Europe at large. These groups are the Jews, the Roma/Sinti, and the Gay and Lesbians. Unfortunately, more attention is directed towards the persecution of Jews. For instance, the two recently erected monuments in Berlin for the Roma/Sinti and the gays and lesbians persecuted during the Nazi reign were put up on a modest scale. I ...

Leadership is the way in which a person influences others to work to a particular goal. In most cases the leadership of a company or organization determines the success the company will achieve. In order for leader to achieve the goal of managing successful company, one must put must have various qualities that make him influential. Result oriented leadership follows the ability by the given leaders to understand the flow of cost as well as the available resources, mainly in terms of labor. Maximization of profits is necessary though it is a difficult achievement to come by. Human resource experience entails understanding ...

Question One: From the story, what do you understand by the term utopia? Does Omelas give the definition?

The term utopia means Omelas even though this one is not lifeless as the word may depict. The author notes that the residents here lives luxurious with full of leisure. People here do not believe in discrimination or even believe on destruction and this is indeed the definition of utopia.

Question Two: What is the narrator’s opinion of Omelas?

The narrator is so sympathetic with the people of Omelas and even going further to name the child’s plight as the source of all compassion in the town. The opinion of the author is that it is very strange or rather unfair to give out the happiness of ...

Introduction

The provision of foreign aid to North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is a contentious issue, perhaps due to the negative image of the nation in question brought by its repressive regime and myriad of human rights violations. While the United States of America (US) took on the arduous task of providing foreign aid to North Korea in the mid-1990s, it halted such efforts in 2009, despite the ongoing food shortage there. What motivated the US towards such direction is the regime’s inefficiency in distributing aid, mainly due to its resistance of reforms. Apart from ...

- Montreal is a great city, but needs to improve on some key issues. People cutting line to get on a bus, a lack of understanding and appreciation of our language diversity and finally, motorists ignoring the plight of pedestrians at pedestrian crossings, are some of the issues raised in the article (Goldstein, 2006).

- The primary rhetorical mode utilized in this essay is narration. The author uses this mode to present her case in the form of a story. This mode helps her develop her case progressively, taking the reader through all the aspects of the city she wishes to expose. A ...

Introduction

Apart from the aesthetic value that literary works bequeath humankind, they are of great importance since they help in socio-cultural construction and analysis. The novels, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Pariah exemplify this reality.

Question 1: Analysing How the Concept of Intersectional Identity Is At Work

One of the socio-cultural themes that have been explored in the two novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Pariah is that of intersectional identity. Intersectional personality refers to an overlap of fusion of intersections of biological, cultural, social, political or economic categories in an individual. In most cases, these categories may involve sexual orientation, class, ability, gender, race, caste and even identity. In both films, the concept ...