A Room of One's Own

In Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose, there is a group of jurors in a jury room that are deliberating a First-Degree Murder case. This trial takes place in New York and some of the jurors have biases that affect the case immensely. Throughout the book, the different jurors say different things that help the case move onwards towards a verdict. All of the jurors have different reactions to the case. It is evident that the author leaves many things about the case details and the verdict out for…

warfare and elections. Both involved protracted struggles for power, strategizing, fundraising and research. Political campaigns in the U.S. even borrow several terms from warfare, further demonstrating their congruence. Campaigns strategize in “war rooms”, put their fundraised capital in their respective “war chests”, “mobilize” campaign members and confront their opponents in “battleground” states. The results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election were shocking to many, as the polls…

ability to fit multiple responsibilities into their day and the ability to solve everyday problems. This need to be the “supermom” and juggling various roles in order to satisfy both her career and family usually results in the mother ignoring her own…

advocates that “in wilderness is the preservation of the world” (Cronon, 471). Environmental activist Gary Snyder believes wilderness to be “a person with a clear heart and open mind can experience the wilderness anywhere on earth. It’s a quality of one’s own consciousness” (Cronon, 495). Author Bill McKibben believes there is no wilderness and “we must accept the fact that no area on earth remains pristine or fully free of human influence” (Waller, 545). Finally, environmentalist Aldo Leopold…

ranging from Northern Africa to Asia. Rome’s success as empire was for various reasons including their exceptional military, ability to integrate other cultures, and their ability to keep a stable system. Not all these ideas were one’s that the Romans developed on their own rather some borrowed heavily from the Greek city-states including: a strong military, democracy, and cultural adaptation. The Roman empire experienced a shift from paganism to Christianity starting with the Edict of Milan.…

intervention. Divine intervention has been in belief ever since religion came to be. It is the belief that God or Gods come down to meddle with the natural order in order to save someone. Divine intervention is not fate but rather the ability to choose one’s path in life. Divine intervention has a rich history in religion and has been used to explain the unknown and great. The story of Noah’s ark is a famous example of divine intervention. God despises the wickedness…

Nineteen Eighty-Four that propagates mistrust so severe that parents cannot trust their own offspring and have to be careful about what they think or speak in the presence of their children as children are also used as spies by the Party under the organization called Junior Spies, who monitor adults for disloyalty to the Party. (PaperStartercom, 2015) For example, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Parsons was turned in by his own daughter for committing thoughtcrime as he was talking in his sleep saying…

mothers of soldiers by the Motherland, the people of Russia and the government. Throughout the story of Zinky Boys the sense of betrayal is the central focus of the testimonies and it demonstrates the importance of one’s international duty. Expanding on the ongoing theme of betrayal and one’s international duty in Zinky Boys, the article, The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia written by Jane Zavisca analyzes the perspective of nationalist activists and intellectuals, war…

Critics agree that military stories are wrought with psychological concepts and applications. With the forefather of psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, offering the theories of one’s unconscious and its roles critics are able to analyze stories in a deeper, more psychosomatic manner. Phil Klay’s short story “Frago” is one in which that offers an intense opportunity to analyze characters in profound psychological turmoil and distress. Freud’s theories presented the key ideas of the unconscious mind and…

In general, depression is considered as a disease no matter the level is minor or major. Depression is a disease that happened in one’s mind, it always comes quietly and it is hard for people to recover from such disease. I believe the worst part of depression is the uncertainty of its existence, just like Merwin state in his essay “As though from under a floor it is heard, as though…