creature’s gradual fall into an abominable character as a result of his hostile environment and scarring interactions. The creature himself only becomes this repulsive monster we hear and read about because of his prolonged exposure to violence, neglect, and abuse throughout the novel during what would be considered the critical phases of his cognitive development, concluding that personalities are affected more by nurture than they are by nature. From the instance the creature was conceived he…
“The result of sex-selective abortions, infanticide and neglect of baby girls, according to the United Nations Population Fund, is more than 117 million "missing" females in Asia alone, and many more around the world. And for every missing woman, there is a surplus man who will never establish a family. "Men are…
The Great Depression is referred to as the time in history between the 1930s and mid 1940s. These were the years of a severe worldwide economic depression. Which all started with the collapse of the stock market in 1929, which resulted in a 40 billion dollar loss. Plus an unstructured banking system has been just enough to create a chain-reaction of events to occur, which by 1932 had the economy spiraling out of control. As stock prices dropped, banks requested more loans and by mid-November an…
country, he shut down the entire nation’s schools and called for a mass assemblage of the country’s youth. Mao forced millions from the cities to labor in the countryside and students formed armed militias known as the Red Guard that preyed on China’s elderly and intellectual population, accusing them of embracing bourgeois ideologies. Due to Mao’s dynamism,…
women in the Holocaust were treated has been overlooked and still is today. Horrible occurrences took place against women and their children. Gender played a big role in how someone would be treated. Women were subjected to discrimination and overall neglect. Doris Bergen, author of What Do Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Contribute, presents that “a collaborator grabs the child and throws him into the already burning building”. This happening is just one of the many tragedies that women…
We never miss a person dear to us when they are there, but only when they are gone. I read a book by Margaret Haddix called Turnabout. In it, a group of elderly men and women from a local nursing home undergo a procedure to reverse their aging. Every year they turn back the clock an entire year. Two women leave the nursing home to experience this new life, independent of the agency that performed the procedure…
This neglect must stop. Youth feel alienated from politics and politicians, lowering the voting age will include them in the process. The words spoken before the Senate Judiciary Committee supporting lowering the voting age in 1971 are as true then as they are…
Those of the minority group have been subjected, for a long time, to brutality by those in law authorization in the United States. This kind of savagery is an immediate portrayal of police fierceness, which regularly prompts to death. Police fierceness has been an issue for a long time, and it remains a noteworthy sympathy toward those of the minority community.Over the previous five centuries, black individuals have persevered violence in various ways. Today, cops utilize fatal, exorbitant…
his book, The Narrative Life of Fredrick Douglas, portraying the dehumanization slavery brought to slaves and slaveholders. Douglas uses powerful imagery throughout the book to arose his readers. His voice acknowledge the unjust life of abuse and neglect of slaves and the dehumanize factors slave holders possess. It is fairly easy and obvious to recognize how slaves were…
When discussing the successes of development in Third World countries, subjectivity plays a key role in its determination . What a person in a First World country considers development and that of a person who lives in a Third World country will vary greatly due to their individual ideas of what constitutes development. In its planning, “poverty,” “education,” “[gender] equality,” “environmental sustainability,” among others, are listed as goals to be met (United Nations MDG Report 2014). These…