Bogeyman

In ‘Ma’s anxiety in Emma Donologue’s Room’, Himmah Sofiana Mursyidah talks about the psychological make-up of Jack’s mother. She draws unbreakable ties between Sigmund Freud’s concepts of Id, Ego and Superego and anxiety. She believes that Ma’s anxiety is the direct result of the traumatic, past experiences. She further illustrates how being imprisoned in the room affect the mental state of Ma, making her believe in impossibility of escaping from Old Nick. By keeping her son in the dark about…

rumours and fake news about him. An example of this is chapter 1, page 11, when Jem says Miss Crawford, the town gossip, had told him she woke up in the middle of the night and found Boo staring at her through the window. The town portrays Boo as the bogeyman, a malevolent figure responsible for all evildoing in the town, despite the fact that Boo has done nothing but stay in his house, bothering no one, for years on end. Nevertheless, an example of this is when Jem describes Boo, he says he…

Immigration has played an important role in America 's history; however, what defines an acceptable immigrant, and how to deal with immigration has changed throughout the course of America 's history. Illegal immigration has become a controversial issue amongst the American public, and now more than ever, the pros and cons of illegal immigration are being examined by American citizen across the country. Immigration 's controversial nature, however, is one thing that has always remained true in…

For transgender Americans, the fight for equality is not over. While the recent changes in laws affecting LGBT individuals have done a great deal to improve the situation, the fact remains that a portion of the population is still denied the most basic of human rights. Something as simple as using the bathroom has become the new battleground for civil rights, as many states attempt to pass laws that restrict bathroom usage to the gender on someone’s birth certificate. While the number of…

Indeed, Americans viewed the German economic and political system as some greedy monster which demanded the remaking of the world in its image without alternative. As America prepared emotionally and materially for war, its view of its potential opponent only sharpened and focused into one of disgust and even refined loathing. In order to arrange for the seeming inevitability of future war with Germany, the United States even moved to create agreements with Great Britain that normally would…

government and its foreign policy elites” (p.29). This perspective can also lead news reporting to illustrate the ideals of propaganda. For instance, the conflict in the Middle East saw many western news media outlets present Saddem Hussein as a ‘bogeyman’ figure; this saw $100billion of United States arms sold to neighbouring Middle Eastern nations (Cromwell, 2002). This is seen as the notion of the enemy as identified in the final filter of Herman & Chomsky’s ‘Propaganda Model’. Such…

What Do We Want? America’s Cultural Revolution! When Do We Want It? The 1960s! The United States of America (and in fact, the whole world) has a long history of protest. From Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, to the trans-Atlantic Shakespearean rivalry that sparked the Astor Place Riot, to every workers’ strike from 1877 onwards; history can at times simply look like a long line of people taking action to right what they see as wrong. And yet there is one prevailing period of which the definitive…