Abraham Van Helsing

The concept of emotional labour was first introduced by sociologist Arlie Hochschild in her book “ The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Feeling ”. She described emotional labour as the work performed by an employee in displaying specific emotions with the objective of inducing particular emotions in and responses from customers who avail of the employee’s service. Thus, service employees need to exercise control over their emotions to influence the emotions of the customer and induce the…

A Game Of Thrones is probably one of the most intriguing and exciting books I have ever read. This book goes into great depth concerning politics and each character’s own story. This book is currently telling the tale of House Stark, an honorable family led by their father and house lord, Ned Stark. Ned has been called to King’s Landing, a southern city dominated by the house of Lannister and Baratheon to serve in a political position for his King and former ally in the Great Targaryen War,…

A great misconception about African-American slaves is that they were content with life being slaves, were loyal to their masters and as a result they had no interest in rebelling or were so ignorant when trying to rebel, they failed in attempts to gain their freedom. Some compared them as inferior to Haitian slaves, who successfully gained their freedom by overthrowing the French army.3,7,8 In 1882, James Schouler, a historian from Harvard university, described slaves as “easily intimidated,…

During the Civil War, conflict was at its peak. After four years of bloodshed, President Abraham Lincoln wanted to swiftly end the war. Lincoln ended the war by giving his famous Emancipation Proclamation speech, which freed slaves across the United States. The 13th amendment was later passed, officially signified the end of slavery. Since African Americans were now freed, they advocated for equal rights and the right to vote, which they got in the form of the 14th and 15th amendments.…

The book is about an African American man named Rutherford Calhoun who was stowed away on a slave ship. The following passage in the book is stated by Captain Falcon “Conflict,”... “Is what it means to be conscious. Dualism is the bloody structure of the mind. Subject and object perceiver and perceived, self and other- these ancient twins are built into the mind like stem-piece of merchantman” (Johnson, pg. 97-98). The book is about an African American man named Rutherford Calhoun who was stowed…

Slavery is a key component in American history. Slavery ruined the lives of essentially millions of innocent African Americans. Numerous stories have been told about slavery from the beatings the slaves would take to how each slave lived their own daily life. However, one specific narrative by Olaudah Equiano gives phenomenal insight into how his own life was affected by slavery and his story was one of the most influential in the antislavery movement. In this paper I am going to write about…

positive impact on the listener. This is true for many great speeches such as the Gettysburg Address, President Reagan's Challenger Speech, and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. All three of these speeches come at a time of despair in America. Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. Reagan gave his State of the Union Address the same day the U.S. Space Shuttle, the Challenger, exploded. President Kennedy’s inauguration speech came at a time when the future of America…

Consider the role of the narrator in both Benito Cereno and Bartleby. Follow your leader – three words that echo through both of these texts and symbolise Melville’s role as a narrator in distinct ways. His narrative diction in Benito Cereno and Bartleby is mechanically impressive but speaks volumes as to how he felt in relation to the new capitalist society America was rapidly evolving into and the problem of slavery to which the old America was clinging to. In these texts the lawyer in…

Racism in the White Society In the 18th century America was entangled in the web of slavery. Along with slavery came racism and despotism against the African-Americans. Although Huck and Jim grow closer throughout the story, Society makes Huck prejudiced against African-Americans. Through Huck, Mark Twain shows how deeply rooted racism was in the white society in his book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Having spent a few months with the civilised society, Huck characterises Jim and other…

Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, was a realist writer born in 1878. He endured many hardships in his life, which led to him becoming a complex person. He based many of his characters off of himself. This caused his works to be filled with complex characters as well as critical views of the capitalist American society. These traits of realism are prominent in Sinclair’s writing and life. Upton Sinclair suffered through an unstable childhood as well as independence at an early age,…