Centrality

In 1922, Joseph Stalin rose to ultimate power in the Soviet Union and until his death in 1953 he exercised extreme force to keep control of a revolutionised Soviet Union. He repressed and oppressed his people murdering 26 million Russians. (Bullock, 1998). Stalin was able to maintain power throughout his rule even though he wasn’t always liked by the common people. Nikita Khrushchev, a former Premier of the Soviet Union and immediate successor, spoke of Stalin during a speech to the 20th Party…

Anna Lucas Mrs. Berry AP Literature IV- 7 18 January 2018 A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of The Poisonwood Bible “To be, or not to be” is at the crux of humanity’s downfall. To have a personhood is in absence of the “uncivilized” and “inhumane.” Colonialism fabricated dialectic oppositions of race to maintain economic dominance and secure a sense of self in the colonizer. Kingsolver’s postcolonial nineties novel, “The Poisonwood Bible”, she critiques imperialist, racist, sexist, and ablest…

reproductive process” (Oyěwùmí 2005, 103). In the Yorùbá society, “the social categories ‘men’ and ‘women’ were nonexistent, and hence no gender system was in place” (Oyěwùmí 2005, 99). Oyewumi’s claim for the absence of gender in Yoruba culture and the centrality of seniority as an organizing principle is based on two…

The Socio-Cultural Construction of Gender Identity I. Introduction Gender Identity is one of the most intriguing and intricately challenging topics among developmental scientists today. However, it is only recently that this topic became of interest to research and studies. Such studies go on to analyze and experiment with infants, children as well as adolescents and adults to find the root of this social-cultural ‘handicap.’ Where do these types of associations come from? Why do they exist?…

Decay and disease are ever present within the natural world, in both physical and metaphorical forms. Disease may entail physical degradation, while an internal interpretation may represent corruption or emotional turmoil. In Hamlet, Shakespeare weaves motifs of disease and decay into every scene to illustrate Denmark’s underlying corruption. Images of decay and rotting, plus their spreading effects, are present symbols of the infectious quality of sin. The motifs of disease and decay manifest…

This article concentrates on the issue of ethics in Salman Rushdie’s Shame (1983), Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners (2007), and Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair (1951). The study of ethics will not be tackled from a broad perspective of the terms. It will be highlighted and limited to the representation of morality in these novels. Therefore, morality is going to be treated in the light of its negative aspects. The representation of morality is conveyed by the author’s depiction of how ethics…

Charley Du Charley Du Charley Du Charley Du In the same vein, Allison’s definitions of Rational Policy, Organizational Process and Bureaucratic Politics Models are not convincingly distinct. He states that a government consists of several organizations which create a loose alliance in the Organizational Process Model and that the leaders of such organizations have their own distinct will as well in the Bureaucratic Politics Model. His best attempt at explaining the different models and…

Mary Rowlandson”. A text of consequential American work in the literary genre regarding captivity narratives. I culled this particular work because it represents a blurred line between civilization and savagery; the centrality of God’s world; and trepidation of the Incipient World. Her story upholds in cultural pertinence by revealing what it signifies to be a component of a female within a hegemonic, patriarchal system. Few female writers during the seventeenth-century…

I have given much thought to my journey and exposure to preaching. I have to admit that most of the preaching exposure I had growing up is quite different from my current theological and personal understanding of what preaching is or ought to be, if it is going to be effective. Growing up in a legalistic environment, most of the preaching I heard depicted God as some type of warden ready to punish people at the first sign of misbehavior. Most of the preaching revolved around the do’s and…

Shakespeare 's Sonnets is the title of a gathering of 154 pieces approve to William Shakespeare which cover points, for instance, the movement of time, love, fabulousness and mortality. As the famous professor A.C. Bradley who said, “The sonnets to the friend are, so far as we know, unique in Renaissance literature in being a prolonged and varied record of the intense affection of an older friend for a younger, and of other feelings arising from their relations.” (Oxford 330) It was initially…