Essays on Women

The world of fairy tales is a world of black and white, good and evil, where the villain is perceptibly malevolent, his actions mirroring his wicked soul and he is eventually punished, righteously so in the end. Simultaneously, heroines are the ones who enjoy the symbolic protection of the fairy tale universe and it is this that proves to be their salvation, and not their own survival skills. However, one heroine rises above all of these passive damsels in distress and takes her fate into her own hands. At first, Gretel is obedient and passive, listening to her brother’ ...

In Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard, a woman "afflicted with a heart trouble" learns over the course of the story that her husband is dead. The story follows the progression of her emotions from shock and horror to a feeling of liberation and freedom, as she feels relief of the burden of being wife. A very controversial story when it was first published, Chopin's tale (like many of her works) deals with the unexpected ability of women to liberate themselves and operate separately from men (Jamil, 2009). This theme of ...

There are different styles employed in writing literally works. These styles go a long way in making the piece interesting. Over time, literally writers have perfected their art, which makes the writing even more interesting to read. The essay below looks at some of the styles used in literally writing.

Reading Reflection

‘The Welcome Table’ as written by Walker (1970) is a narration about the last day in the life of an old colored woman. The interesting thing about the story is the manner in which it employs different styles to bring out the message. The article is a clear illustration ...

Part I:

Interpersonal sensitivity is much more stereotypically present in women than in men; in essence, they are able to remember people's appearances much more than men do. This particular cognitive ability deals primarily with how accurate or appropriate our perceptions of others are; with respect to this difference between men and woman, discerning people's appearances is where this ability is most centered in this discussion. In modern culture, women are culturally conditioned to care more about appearance, as they are expected to keep up their own appearances in order to attract men. Furthermore, social expectations of female competitiveness ...

“Cathedral” is a small, intimate story, one which effectively revolves around two characters – the narrator, a regular average joe, and Robert, a blind man who is an acquaintance of the narrator’s wife. One fateful night, invited over for dinner, the narrator attempts to understand Robert and his way of life, as well as his relationship to his wife. In the process of this, he begins to understand things about himself, life, and Robert that he could not imagine otherwise – this level of understanding is the ‘sight’ that is discussed in the story.

There is a direct discussion of ...

Gender stereotyping involves simplistic generalizations concerning gender attributes, individual roles and differences. These stereotypes could result into negative or positive impacts on one or both genders. However, stereotypes are not the true or accurate reflection of what they communicate. They are mainly composed of gender assumptions with no evidence to support. There are different stereotypes for different genders. Stereotypes have changed over time as human beings and society evolves and research has rendered some of the stereotypes null and void.

Female stereotypes are those unproven beliefs about female members of the society. In most societies, the stereotypes begin as ...

Instructors:

Section one

Georges (2012) carried out a research to establish relationship between varieties of religious experiences and manifest hate. In his article which was published in journal of religion and society data was collected in different states of USA. The data on level of religiosity was collected and grouped into three categories i.e. high religiosity, moderate religiosity and low religiosity. In determining whether one belongs to any of the group the researcher considered person’s belief on existence of supernatural being. Then manifest of hate index in each state was calculated. A regression analysis which was carried out showed: ...

1. In just ten short years, the discourse about immigration reform and legislation became more hazardous and restrictive. In 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) permitted seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants to have amnesty given good circumstance, and all illegals who had entered the United States before 1982 (and who still lived there) were granted amnesty as well. However, just a decade later, the much more restrictive Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) would right away be deported for a period up to ten years (if they had stayed in the United States for more than ...

Culture is the overall manner of life which includes customs, language, beliefs and other material things. Hence, global culture is the overall way of life of people in the universe. Despite the increasing diversity in the world, sociologists have been able to identify key aspects of various cultures that are common in the 21st century (Crothers 125). Globalization, on the other hand, defines the global integration which is as a result of increased human connectivity and exchange of ideas and culture.

The process of globalization has resulted in several effects on the global culture. One of these effects is ...

Poverty simulation is an experience which clearly shows people the truths regarding, poverty, difficulties of navigating ways in which governments in the world provide services to the people. In the simulation process the participants take up functions of different families which may up to twenty-five which are encountering poverty. The importance of this poverty simulation is to identify the reasons why it appears that some families find it hard to liberate themselves from poverty. It also helps to assist people who have always wanted to help but have no idea how to do it (Crisis assistance, 2012). It helps ...

The issue of how different genders regard the treatment of animals is a very interesting one; the way in which we may or may not be hard-wired plays a crucial role in determining just how we interact with animals. The prevailing wisdom is that men treat animals more harshly than women do, and therefore hunting is much easier for them. However, the line between domesticated animals/pets and wild animals is often blurred for many, and women tend to be more predisposed to anthropomorphize and humanize animals in their minds. The differences ...

Quindlen (218) narrates about the battle on poverty, describing it as the battle that has not yet been won. She starts the narration by indicating that Lyndon B. Johnson declared the war on poverty in 1964, arguing that America was capable of overcoming the problem. True to this, the people acted and the poverty levels were decreased by significant levels. This was attributed to the statement that the 1 out of 5 Americans was living in poor conditions. However, in the following years, the egocentricity of the people took over and the ratio of the poor people rose again. ...

1. The National Football League has already identified a key way in which it can target its marketing research when it comes to attracting the interest of women. The two identified pillars for the NFL are football and the community. The partnership that the NFL has developed with the United Way since the 1970’s has built it a considerable amount of goodwill. Many women enjoy watching football for football’s sake – if you go to any sports bar on a football Sunday, you’ll see many more women, proportionally, there who are engaged in the game than you ...

1. While I am open to the idea of karma and believe to some degree that what goes around does come around, I think that this belief – especially when tied to religion – can be misused and abused as is the case with the Tamil Tigers.

As with everything, I believe in moderation and that freedom comes with responsibility. As such, I think that people should be allowed to practice their religion only for as long as nobody is harmed. I think that the United Nations plays an important role in this. It has representatives from every country, which ensures ...

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 ...

I fit in the initial phase, which is “embryonic leader” phase since I have not developed the potential to lead others. I am still nurturing my leadership skills by observing and learning leadership skills from mentors. In the next three years, I will have transitioned to the “evolving leader”, as I will be able to develop the skills and ability to motivate, influence, and empower followers (Lockwood, 2006). In order to make this transition, I will ensure that I attend more leadership courses and attending seminars organized by influential leaders and motivational speakers. Experience in ...

Othello, a play written by William Shakespeare begins in Venice, a powerful center of banking and commercial activities and also known for its military prowess. The plot of the play revolves around Othello, a black Moor who is also an army general, Iago, his aide, Desdemona, his wife and Cassio who became his lieutenant. After Othello marries Desdemona, her father is opposed to it and takes the matter to the Duke. It is ruled that what Othello did was wrong and he is sent to war as a result. His wife accompanies him to Cyprus as well as Cassio ...

I am a black woman. In a world where the color of one’s skin gives people the first impression of an individual, this has influenced my life. Racism is still evident in the society today. Being in a country where black is seen as inferior and less attractive by the majority of the population, this identity has shaped my beliefs and self-concept an immense deal. History and the media have contributed to the worldview of black women that is sometimes contrary to individual experiences. A controversial article by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa that appeared in Psychology Today on 15th ...

1. Liberalism and Feminist theorist 

Central to the theory and practice of Liberalism is the freedom of individuals to make choices that will result to social outcomes. This particular school of thought believes that “the purpose of society is the advance of freedom, equality, and human happiness” (Auster, 2007, LA reply section). It is important to note though that when one person chooses not to respect the freedom and rights of other people, this violates the concept and therefore could not be considered under Liberalism. The various forms of liberalism: economic, social and political, adopt the central tenet, albeit ...

End of life palliative care can be a stressful, even traumatic time for not only dying residents, but also for families and the medical staff working with them. Fortunately, there is much staff can do to alleviate stress. In my own experiences as a Health Care Assistant in a nursing home, I have helped residents, families, and other staff members deal with this difficult segment of life through palliative care, and I have learned much from them as well.

Working and Interacting With Others in Palliative Care

Making sure that dying residents and their family have as stress-free an experience as possible is extremely important as a ...

Jean Rhys’ I Used to Live Here Once, is an unusually short story. However, it is also unusually memorable, which is always a sign of an effective piece of work. Through the use of point of view, symbolism, imagery, and other narrative techniques, Rhys explores a delicate theme in a subtle yet powerful way.

I Used to Live Here Once is a rather shadowy tale of a woman who appears to be a ghost calling on her childhood home. The narrator trails the woman on her walk from a near river ...

1. Shinpa melodrama is one of the most prevalent and pervasive forms of Korean literature and media, both in television and film form, and has had a profound effect on Korean culture. Shinpa means "New Theater", and consist of tear-jerking, highly emotional stories that typically involve romantic relationships played up to an incredible degree. At first, when the Japanese form of melodrama arrived in Korea in the early 20th century, it was mainly a theatrical endeavor; kino-films, filmed scenes, would accompany them. Eventually, plays themselves would be filmed, turning the audience who still enjoyed the theatrical/film mix "low-class" (Lee ...

Gender refers to the range of characteristics of masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, the defining characteristics range from social roles to sex and gender roles to gender identity. It defines the socially constructed roles, activities, behaviors and attributes that are deemed appropriate for both men and women. On the hand, sexual orientation refers to a pattern of attraction usually, sexual, emotional, romantic or combination of all these to an opposite sex, same sex or both sexes and the genders that associate with them. It combines an individual’s sense of private and social identity based on the ...

Nobody hates looking at women’s funny character in movies. Something that mulvey well put across. The conditions of watching a move in the cinema gives authority to a voyeuristic spectatorship. All spectators are chirping characters taking pleasure and watching others while they remain unseen. In other fields, feminists have identified voyeurism as violence that is because of gender. The chirping character is most often a man-watching female without her knowledge. Most of the funny erotic scenes, you find a woman fully exposing her body and private parts but never will you find a man doing so. The power ...

Robert Hass born in 1941 in San Francisco is a contemporary American poet and has more often been referred to as a California poet; because sometimes his poems tend to have a West Coast based aura and theme. This poet has been recognized as the most celebrated and widely read contemporary English poet. His works don’t only include original writings, but he is also known as a critic and translator for the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and the Japanese haiku experts Issa, Buson and lastly Basho. His translation of Czeslaw Milosz from “Hymn” goes on to say: “There ...

During the 1930s, the Great Depression affected many states leading to major changes in most sectors of their economy. One of the countries that became a victim of the Great Depression was Canada. Owing to this, the issue has attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of this review is to examine the work of one such researcher, Katrina Srigley, in her book, Breadwinning Daughters: Young Women working in a Depression- era City, 1929-1939 (2010). The Great Depression era affected the live patterns of young women in Canada. They experienced a great shift while trying to ...

Starting from 1920 RCA had been an electronic giant produced radios, and later, televisions, located in Philadelphia, a city of Camden. Aiming at profit maximization the company moved the parts of operating process several times inside of the US, and then abroad seeking for cheap workforce.

The major reason for moving a significant part of RCA operations is that the company intended to save labor costs by hiring people in rural areas, poor, young, uneducated, single, female and immigrants. Another fact that gives the evidence of this tendency is that RCA moved its plants several times during seventy years ...

In Virginia Woolf's literary essay "A Room of One's Own," the author explores themes of feminism through the viewpoints of a narrator who has a unique and principled view of how women are represented in the world. Throughout the text itself, Woolf denotes many things that have held women back from holding positions of power and wealth, as well as granting them agency in society. This then extends to the limited and restricted body of work that women are allowed to have, seemingly due to the inequalities presented by a patriarchal society. This text sheds some light on feminist ...

The yellow paper is a story that is usually said to be horror. This is due to the mistreatments that were accorded to the women during the period. The fact that people see the mistreatments being abnormal makes the people to refer the stories as being a horror. Gothic on the other hand is a story that combines both matters relating to romance and horror. Most of the characters in the story have the characteristics of horrors. What the stories show is that the women were taken to be the weak creatures during the period when the stories were ...

Introduction

It is rare to witness maternal infanticide in the United States. However, cases of maternal infanticide still come to pass. Postpartum mental illness contributes to a high proportion of maternal infanticide cases. This paper will focus on the contemporary, legislative and historical psychiatric points of view on infanticide. The paper also gives a discussion on the ways of promoting appropriate treatment of women committing infanticide out of mental illness and ways of improving the prevention of infanticide (Barak, 2003).

There was an history of psychiatric disorder in Mrs. Yates. Her first reported psychotic incident came after the birth of ...

A personality disorder is a behavioral pattern that deviates from what is regarded as normal and causes the individual emotional upsets and problems in relationship with others and he or she cannot change it. This kind of behavior is not caused by a drug, illness or an injury to the head. DSMIV has classified several disorders and the number of them is almost a dozen patterns of behavior (Tyler, & Shefner, (2011).

In human history, there have emerged from time to time individuals whose behavior patterns are conducive for being regarded as personality disorder. These individuals may consist of famous ...

The ethical quandary in Robert F. Ladenson’s Friends and Lovers presents a situation in which one member of a group of three friends, Claire, must make a decision about how to deal with information she has received intimately concerning her other two friends, Tony and Beth, who are engaged to be married. Tony has revealed he had a brief affair but asked Claire to keep the fact a secret, and Beth has asked Claire if she thinks something is “going on” with Tony. Claire’s decision on how to deal with the situation will differ depending on what ...

Waheed is a 47-year-old male from Pakistan. Trained as a structural engineer, Waheed has worked hard for the past fifteen years to build a future for his wife and two sons, aged 8 and 5, whom he says he loves very much. Waheed is actively involved in parenting his sons, taking them to swimming classes on Saturday mornings and attending school functions wherever possible. Exercise is something the family has enjoyed together, with long bike rides on weekends.

Prior to the Global Financial Crisis, Waheed had obtained approval from his bank to construct a large home in a town ...

1. Monteverdi and other musician were treated as performers to the wealthy families at that time. For the case of Monteverdi, he used to perform for the members of Gonzaga family who lived in Mantua area. The families were opera mania, so they had to hire performers for them.

2. Historians recognize Monteverdi as a composer who performed the first work of mastermind in the timeline of opera. Coincidentally, L’Orfeo, performed around February 1607, was Monteverdi’s first piece of work, which shows the dawn of the Baroque Period in Music. The piece of work offers an affluent ...

1. Final Stages of Formulating and Implementing Health Policies

Policies are basically a body of principles governing decision making. Thus health care policies can be defined as collaborative measures by the government and other stake holders directed at maintaining and improving the populations’ health status. This basically states long and short term goals as far as the health sector is concerned. It is thus clear that formulation and implementation of health care policies is multispectral and is a concerted effort of many professionals working collaboratively. Any policies (health policies included) generally have the following cycles: first is recognizing, defining ...

INTRODUCTION

The health care policy plays a big role in the improvement of health globally. The creation of awareness on these policies and encouraging major health sectors to participate in their formulation is henceforth necessary. Since 1970, the feminists’ movement has made every effort to influence the legislation, policies, programs and services mainly in the areas affecting women’s reproductive health. These areas include birth control, abortions, security for the battered women, rape crisis centers, sexual identity, as well as economic independence. The campaigns incorporated by this feminists’ movement led to the agreement on the need to make health centers ...

The English dictionary describes a wife as, “a woman married to a man”. However, being a wife means much more than being just married. The important role wives play is captured in this memorable quote, “Behind every successful man is a woman, and behind her is his wife” (Marx, 2). More often than not, the mention of a wife brings to mind the roles associated with the status of being a wife. The roles of a wife are more compounded when a wife becomes a mother. At this point, the woman is expected to fulfill ...

John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentoville, London. He was the first-born son of James Mill and Harriet Burrow who got married in 1805. His father was born in Scotland but had to move to London to advance his career in economy as well as in philosophy. John’s father and his close friend, Jeremy Bentham, played a pivotal role in equipping him with the knowledge that he would require to lead a successful life.

John began his education at a rather early age. He started learning Greek at the age of three. When he ...

In Berger et al.'s "Aspirin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Women and Men," the researchers performed a meta-analytical review to determine whether or not there was a gender-based difference in the risks and advantages experienced when aspirin is used to treat cardiovascular disease.

In this study, a number of studies from the MEDLINE and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases were analyzed, in addition to bibliographies of the selected trials and major scientific reports. The inclusion criteria included those studies which were randomized and controlled trials of aspirin therapy for those people who did not ...

Da Vinci’s ‘La Joconde’ better known as Mona Lisa has captivated the hearts and minds of millions for several hundreds of years since its conception. It is truly a great work of art in that it is basically simple yet its true life approach makes it one of the most desirable paintings ever to grace a collection of great masters.

Principally, La Joconde contains a visual expression of a woman in the height of her prime. Her staring gaze is undeterred by what is going on around her; she almost seems to be completely fixated with what is ...

In her writing, Sandra Cisneros (204) pays much attention to the issue of discrimination against women. In her article entitled ‘Only Daughter’, the author dwells heavily on the issue of women being seen as second class people after men, with even parents seeing the girl child not as valuable as the male child. To illustrate this, the author takes the reader back to her younger years where the reader learns that she was brought up in a family of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother. Discrimination was evident in that the girl could not play with her brothers ...

Introduction

The current paper is designed to consider the issue of domestic violence towards women in several different aspects. There are three contemporary studies analyzed in the scope of this research. Each study contains different information regarding domestic violence. Thus, Flake and Forste (2006) researched the issue of the reasons of domestic violence in Latin America, Crempien, Rojas, Cumsille, and Oda (2010) paid attention to the correlation between pregnancy and domestic violence occurrence, Green and Kelso (2010) considered punishment with regard of committing violence towards women.

The research aims at analysis of the reasons of committing domestic violence towards ...

Purpose

Over the past few years it was really upsetting to tell someone that you met your partner online. Our main purpose of the dating website is to let our clients have fun with other people or some sort of virtual entertainment and strive to see that persons with related events would surely be appropriate to begin a fruitful relationship. Others may decide to date casually while others commit into them willingly. The site should be able to help some or all of our clients get married or get into real relationships.

Why we need this site

One main reason for the need to have ...

Johnson, Renee and Cottler (2002) sought to understand the various factors that influence the rate at which African American women are susceptible to HIV AIDS. They claim that the disease has adverse effects on the African American community, especially on women where the women comprise of over two thirds of all the women affected by the disease. The study is ...

ABSTRACT

The abstract does not provide a brief description of the problem under study but rather gives the objective of the study which is to summarize longitudinal research regarding physical health and health behaviors on women’s subsequent alcohol use. The research does not conduct experiments with participants but rather uses databases from Medline/PsycINFO to yield its results. The database yielded ...

Question 1

Erving Goffman claims that a man is only completely at peace with himself when he fits an extremely exact mould of ‘what is acceptable’, whilst Mary Pipher claims that girls also suffer from experiencing a demand for impossibly high standards. In today’s society, it is increasingly the case that individualism allows for men and women to look and behave how they choose to, but arguably, those ‘sub-cultures’ are still heavily loaded with high expectations and ...

Life is a process that entails continuous learning not only through difficult and horrifying moments but also through continued our past successes. This learning process remains throughout our lifetime and only disappears when we take an eternal slumber never to see the rising sun again. This paper intends to focus the learning moments in life by exploring the lessons learnt from both the worst and darkest moments and also through the different successes achieved in life.

Focusing on the worst darkest moments that I have experiences in life, my mind flashes back to the summer of 2009 when I ...

1) In her essay "The Five Sexes," Fausto-Sternling (1993) argues that there are multiple intersexes that exist between male and female. As opposed to the Western idea of having only two sexes, there are different groups inbetween; hermaphroditic and intersexual people exist and must be acknowledged. In the case of Levi Suydam, an intersexual man who wished to vote in 1843; since he was considered a woman, he was initially barred from voting, since women could not vote at that time.

Fausto-Sternling's primary argument is that there are many biological instances of the intersexual body that exist in the ...

We have read such a wide variety of texts that it hard to pick out with confidence those that have influenced me the most or had the biggest impact on me. On reflection though, I have realized that there are some texts which I will remember for a long time – and those texts are ones which use language in a significant, interesting and original way.

So for me a very memorable text is Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman” which uses fairy tales elements – even in the words she uses – and yet also manages to evoke a modern setting ...

The novel’s setting is the racist south during the civil rights movement. The characters interaction in the novel try to bring out the situation as it was during the civil rights movement. Key to note here is that various people had the responsibility of uniting the people while some like Dr, Martin Luther king Jr. had the responsibility of fighting for the rights of his people. The rivalry that was there between the white and the black camps had created so much tension among the two groups creating enemies as a result (Harken 57). There was to be ...

In Plato's Justice from the ``Republic,'' Thrasymachus believes justice is ``really the good of another, the advantage of the stronger and the ruler, and harmful to the one who obeys and serve (Westphal 45).'' This was because he believed that a just man doesn't profit as much as that of an unjust person. A just man follows the law and does good but he ends up being at the losing end if compared to an unjust person who in simple terms end up the one getting the guns, the gold and the glory. That is why he ...

Part I

Six months back, due to transfer of a colleague, a new person joined in my team. The team in which I work comprises of four people and we work very closely and share responsibilities. Due to shared projects and responsibility, we had developed an understanding to assist each other if the work is pending with anyone. However, the transfer of one of the team member and introduction of a new colleague disturbed the dynamics of our team. The day we were introduced to our new team member, I noticed him looking apparently disinterested in initiating conversation. His conversation with ...

In the course of this assignment completion I have noticed a lot of interesting things. The fact that I had to analyze my impressions of unfamiliar person helped me understand, in which spheres I am too much influenced by various schemas. Analysis of my relations with a familiar person helped me see one more time how I can form wrong impression, even not realizing it at first. In this paper I am going to describe what factors are the most important for me when forming my impression of people and due to what reasons I sometimes make mistakes in ...

Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Raven" is one of literature's most well-known stories, depicting the slow deterioration of the protagonist's mental state at the hands of a talking raven. Mourning over the loss of his lady love, his depression grows more gradually into madness, as the persistent isolation and the repetition of the raven's call "Nevermore" distress him even further. There are many similarities to this story and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in which a timid housewife is prescribed a rest cure by her physician husband, involving ...

First and foremost Stanley Kowalski is a son of a Polish immigrant who lives in Elysian Fields in New Orleans in some room in a shabby settlement of the French. He is married to Stella the sister to Blanche Dubois. And they appear happy from their marriage contentment even though they live in strange and desolate shanty. Just moments after Blanches arrival Stanley comes in with duo friends Mitch who stays with his sick mother and Steve who lives with his partner upstairs. Stanley is less hospitable to Blanches as he expresses descent humor and apparent accommodation that is ...

1. Introduction

The incumbent for the At Large Position 2 Houston City Council cannot run for reelection. She has reached the charter limit of three 2-year terms. This gives Jenifer Rose Pool a good opportunity to run in an open election with no incumbent in the race. Her chances for a win are better (as is true for everyone in general) because she won’t be running against an incumbent. In an open election that is city wide public exposure is a key strategy for voters to “get to know” Jenifer. Paul Wellstone’s campaign in Minnesota is a ...

Introduction

Madea Goes to Jail is just one out of a series of films produced and directed by Tyler Perry. These films have many things in common. For one, they are immensely popular largely because they draw on a pool of familiar black female characters; the title character being Madea herself. They also owe popularity to a host of other factors – including the shortage of quality black movies.

Madea is the quintessential black matriarch. She is large, she is loud and her language is foul. While she does have a good heart, her rants play straight into the stereotype ...

Today modern society is accepting more and more homosexuals. However there are still people who are against these relationships. In the case at hand, two men are living together and obviously have s feelings for each other. I think they are moral. They do not hurt other people. The most interesting fact is that they are common people and the others around them didn’t even notice that there is something “wrong” with them. They look like heterosexuals and behave as such. But at home they are different. They do not want to demonstrate their feelings and show off. ...

iCelebrity and Evolving iCons

Women have made great strides in the society but they still suffer exploitation from varying quarters. The advancements in technology such as internet and the invention of social networking sites to improve friendship are some of the hallmarks that have changed the status of women in the society. Social networking sites enable people to acquire many friends but the friends exist almost virtually and it is impossible to interact with them. It is true that the friends in social networking sites may end up leaving one lonelier than before and contribute to less stable relationships.

The media have aided ...

Morality is one of the most contested, criticized and discussed issues all across the world, and this is especially based on the fact that it is one of the aspects in life that dates from as back as man became a civilized being. However, over centuries, there has been a lot of changes in the way morality is viewed, and through changes and evolutions such as the definition and drawing of moral lines between what is good and bad in the society, a lot has changed morality especially with the development of values, loosing of traditions and globalization. For ...