Anomie

7.2.2 Accommodation. Hitler’s modest living quarters prior to the 14-18 war have been noted above. On leaving the army he rented a sparse two-room apartment in Vienna which he would stay in between 1920 and 1929, by which time he was a significant political figure. At this point, Hitlers asceticism changes to becoming more grandiose. In 1929 he bought with party donated funds a luxury apartment , the Nazi party eventually buying out the whole building. This is the apartment where Geli was…

Climate change is affecting the world in different forms and increments. In the last century various parts of globe have seen the impacts of global warming, green gas emissions, and flooding. These natural disasters cause massive amounts of damage economically, politically and socially leading to competition for limited resources, upheaval and chaos on both the local and national spectrums. However, many are quick to dismiss the impact of climate change when its horrific effects do not hit…

In 1964, the United States witnessed one of the most influential murders to affect the field of psychology. Kitty Genovese, was raped and murdered on the streets of New York, but that wasn’t the most horrifying part. What stunned everyone was that over 30 people watched and heard the murder, but chose not to help. This situation puzzled psychologists, as they and everyone else asked the obvious question—why didn’t anyone help? Thus, psychologists came to discover the now widely known bystander…

In the first chapter of Putnam’s Our Kids, he brings forth his main argument and uses his own home town to back up his claims. Putnam argues that while racial inequality has dwindled, class inequality has dramatically increased. He impresses upon his readers that this increase in class inequality has directly influenced a growing gap in equality of opportunity, which threatens the very American Dream that the USA has been founded on. He attempts to prove his point by using the small scale…

Resistance and Contemporariness in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow Introduction African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of,…

Robert Milton’s Anomie Strain Theory is centered in the belief that society has a dominant and accepted set of norms/values and goals and those values direct us in the acceptable avenue of achieving said goals. Milton adapted his theory from Durkheim, who theorized that strain was due to a breakdown of society’s inability to control the goals and aspirations. Milton’s tweak on Durkheim states that social strain is created when the gap between socially approved goals and one’s ability and/or…

The Orange Sun, Bioethics and Praxis of Systemic Annihilation in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow ABSTRACT From the quasi-oral form, African Literature has cascaded through systemic phases in less than two hundred years of contact with the Western written form. It has migrated from that dark romance portrayed by western writers to contemporariness of self-reappraisal. The primary inclination of these texts has been the ultimate question. What have we achieved with our independence? The unsavoury…