Beyond Freedom and Dignity

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrative voice is an extremely influential factor in developing many themes in addition to the apparent theme of insanity. Both “The Yellow Wallpaper” and John Steinbeck 's short story "The Chrysanthemums” explore two common themes of identity and gender inequality. Both short stories are set in a time where few women could gain equality in a male-dominated society. In “The Chrysanthemums”, Steinbeck portrays this struggle for equality…

Hope has endured for a quite lengthy amount of time upon or before events and circumstances in one’s life or the world in general. As time has progressed, analyzing the concepts of hope and setting goals has helped us create an understanding of how, why, and what it takes for people to succeed. One example of a nonfiction book that helps make a connection to hope is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink. By connecting hope and Pink’s novel together, hope supports…

The dropping of the atomic bombs on japan by the US government on the 6th and 9th of august 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki may not be seen as the right choice when ethically looking upon the situation that the united states was presented with at the time. Although the decisions of the US were not ethically justified, the circumstances in which they found them selves in made their actions appropriate in the sense of saving their counties name and regaining their power after the Pearl Harbor…

In The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many Puritan Laws are broken. Hawthorns story of sin and buried guilt, becomes a portrait of a tormented courageous women, and an inquiry into her chances of redemption. The protagonist of the novel, Hester Prynne is a young woman who commits many of the law breaking sins which put her in a place of despair and sorrow. It is a story of a woman dealing with her torment and dying to redeem herself. Throughout the novel Hawthorne tells the…

Niqab “I also wear a niqab and according to my prime minister, that’s is all you need to know about me to know that I am oppressed” said Zunera Iahaq. (Zunera, Ishaq. "Why I plan to wear a niqab at my citizenship ceremony." Toronto Star (Canada) 16 Mar. 2015).A niqab “veil worn by some Muslim women in public, covering all of the face apart from the eyes”. (“niqab" Merriam-Webster.com. 2011. http://www.merriam-webster.com ,8 May 2011). Zunera was told to remove her niqab when receiving her oath…

“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress,” said Napoleon Bonaparte. In accordance, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and “Master Harold”…and the Boys by Athol Fugard both consist of dynamic characters who act as oppressors. In The House of the Spirits and “Master Harold”…and the Boys, Esteban Trueba and Harold, respectively, have similar characteristics in the sense that they both lose control of their emotions and take out their anger on others. The House of the…

The Cuban Revolution was the turning point from dictatorship to communism. It was a civil war that lasted three years, beginning on December 2, 1956 and ending on January 2, 1959. The guerilla forces led by Fidel Castro, fought to defeat the army and Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's current dictator of that time. Sailing from Mexico, where he was exiled, to Las Coloradas beach, Cuba, Fidel Castro, his brother Raul, and their small militia shared the goal of conquering Batista. Although Castro and his…

Despite traditional measurement of income and consumption based poverty, it should go beyond to capture about other dimensions such as lack of rights to the fishing resource, bottleneck in accessing the primary health and education, safe drinking water, transportation facility, housing with sanitation facility and power supply, easy access…

article, at least one study has shown that a computerized treatment indicator can predict preferences as well as, or better than family members, correctly predicting those preferences nearly 80% of the time. Many people might argue that person’s freedom would be denied if allowing a computer to make such…

Japanese homes across British Colombia banging on the doors of their homes and telling them to gather anything that they could carry and then were forced to leave. (Marsh, J.H.. R. The Canadian Encyclopedia. (2012). Japanese internment: banished and beyond tears.) In the same way that the Jews were treated terribly because they were observed as a threat the Japanese were treated in the same manor. The government came up with the idea that the best way to keep track of them way to keep them…