Centrality

another area of Willesden, into the bedroom of a young man named Felix and his latest infatuation. Felix, a black filmmaker-turned addict-turned hardworking mechanic, feels less complicated than leading ladies of Smith’s novel. His relevance to the centrality of the book doesn’t reveal itself until near the conclusion, (which is as mystifying as the rest of the book) and his interactions with bizarre characters like the aging Russian dancer…

Same-Sex Marriage On 26 June 2015 the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down statewide bans on homosexual marriage that existed in 14 of the 50 states. This was the culmination of a decades long controversy for the American public. With gay marriage supporters hailing the decision, and many gay couples promptly flocking to obtain marriage licenses, the reaction was swift. No less on the other end of the political spectrum; the backlash from Christian conservatives was immediate…

CONCEPT OF SEPARATION OF POWER The doctrine of separation of power is a vital principle in constitutional law. Basically, doctrine of separation of power deals with the mutual relations among the 3 organs of the state which are executive, legislature and judiciary. This doctrine can be traced back to Aristotle which classified the functions and the power of the states into 3 categories named continuous executive power, discontinuous legislative power and federal power. The clearest explanation…

This chapter focuses on planning for how to teach. If a plan is not made then it is easy to just let it go or forget, but having a plan in place helps to guide the teacher. Planning becomes extremely important the higher the competitive level that the coach is coaching. Athletes demand the very best that they can get from their coach this is just one example of coaches giving their athletes their all. Planning is very beneficial but it can be hard to find time to plan. When coaches make time to…

The components of blackness can never and will never be defined in a single sentence. Since the early ages, there has always been a sense of separation in between white individuals and individuals of color. Although looking at someone's skin can determine what they look like, there is no way to actually determine who they are and where they are from. But, who is to say you are who you are because of the color of your skin? Individuals from various different cultures and social classes come from…

When Bread is old, moldy and smelly, society tends to throw it out or feed it to the birds. If we ponder a little bit, the idea of bread is really old. From a religious point of view to modern times, food is in every culture and social circle. Bread varies from shape and usage all over the world. A loaf is considered a myth, included in folklore, a symbol in many religions and is otherness to another social status. These keywords all have a similar sense of (old age) mystical/importance feeling.…

The doors of the subway closed before our eyes, separating us. It was only my mother and I. My father and my three-year-old sister were now on the train without us. It was our second day in Canada, without a word of English, or even a dollar in her pocket, my mother decided we had no option but to sit and wait where we were, hoping my father would come back for us quickly. I recognize this moment as the epiphany of the struggle of many new immigrants, just the first of many obstacles to be faced…

childbearing is viewed as a deviant act solely because it is a minority population that represents teenage childbirth, also called statistical deviance. As the issue of teenage childbearing began to rise, alongside it came the public concern of having a child out of wedlock. As stated earlier, no one cared what age you had a child, as long as it was in wedlock. However, when individuals began to weigh the consequences of raising a child on their own and having the stigma of having a child out…

Wang Aihe’s Cosmology and Political Culture reexamines the relation between cultural heritage of cosmology and political heritage of the Chinese empires through Shang to Han dynasty by taking a closer look into the transition from sifang 四方(“four quarters”) to wuxing五行(“five phases”) cosmology. In this ambitious book, she effectively argues that Chinese “cosmology and political power were mutually constructive” (p. 210) instead of being static and self-existing, and in so doing, successfully…

prevalent themes; such as death, imagination and women. This essay will be looking at the theme of women within Cría Cuervos which is interesting because the film seems to challenge the Francoist ideals and the values of Spanish society by providing centrality to female characters, which gives them subjectivity for roles other than those perceived by society of the time. ‘Saura’s film works to undermine the Francoist rhetoric of what a woman should be by portraying women who either function in…