Centrality

Since the emancipation of slavery, former slaves, and occasionally non-slave abolitionists, have written or orated their accounts of living under America’s “peculiar institution.” These accounts were christened Slave Narratives and soon became a genre within themselves. The Handbook of African American Literature by Hazel Arnett Ervin defines the slave narrative as “A subgenre of the African American autobiography, written by forer slaves, starting as early as 1760. Major themes are the…

Sir Thomas More’s titular nation of Utopia has come to colloquially express a society free of conflict. A “Utopia” is that place where there are (virtually or literally) no poor, no class struggles, no crimes, etc. More’s Utopia, as described through the recollection of the landless traveler/philosopher Raphael Hythloday, achieves these ends primarily through its commonplace “laws,” i.e., its distributed model of property. Jonathan Swift’s scathing satire “A Modest Proposal…” sardonically…

In the previous chapter, it was shown that a three-component structure of relationship quality exists within this study group and gives evidence to suggest that this theoretical framework is likely to be reflected in other captive chimpanzee groups. Chapter 3 explains the quality and asymmetrical nature of chimpanzee relationships at the dyadic level. However, it is important to understand how a relationship between two individuals contributes to the dynamics of an entire social group as the…

Foreign policy is the way the nation deals with other groups, nations, organizations and political parties. There is a deliberate obliviousness present amongst American citizens regarding international relations and foreign policy that only breaks when something shakes us. Many Americans pay attention to foreign policy only when it directly concerns our personal affairs, an issue we passionately care for, or our perceptions of world danger and peace. Even then, we tend to polarize the issue and…

Jamaica's Kincaid poem, "Girl" a feminist perspective on how women are looked at in the world. Women the most powerful thing in the world today has been through many challenges and movements to get the respect they deserve. Women are a big aspect of the world because, they are what bring people to this world by having children and making the world grow day by day. Most people feel as though women cannot do things that men can do but what they don’t know is that a women can do anything she puts…

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger is centered around a young boy who thinks he fully understands the world around him. He begins his journey of finding himself and reaching a point of real maturity throughout the novel. It is clear throughout the novel that Holden’s character is dynamic and shifts from an immature teenager to one who is more accepting of himself and his true limit of his knowledge of the world. Although it is evident that Holden tries to grow up extremely quickly, the…

There is now substantial evidence of the negative effects of gender inequality on economic growth. Gender disparities, whether in education, pay or employment, (seem to) harm the growth of all countries, both developed and developing. So far, the economic case for gender equality and female empowerment has gained stronger attention in the case of developing countries where women enjoy far less rights and opportunities compared to developed ones. Over the last decades in particularly, women in…

1. The Tokugawa period is that from 1600-1868 while the Meiji period is from 1868-1912. During the Tokugawa period, there were various levels of class including Samurai, Farmer, Artisans, Merchants, and outcasts (aka hinin or burakumin). The Samurai and burakumin were especially important matters during that time as Samurai’s served as retainers for Daimyos and other government bodies within the domains of Japan. The Tokugawa period was a time of harsh punishment and fear. Much of the…

The Role of Race In Romantic Attraction to Race in Intercultural Dating Attraction is a popular field of study in psychology. In a mixed society that we exemplify today in America, it is common to see people of multiple races and ethnicities but what influences race and ethnicity have on everyday life such as it pertains to attraction is something that we are still discovering. Looking back in history, interracial communication and living is a new progression. Although the general population…

Schwartz, Keightley, and Allan all had ideas about the ancient Chinese cultural orientations that they talked about in their respective books and articles. This essay is an attempt to explain how ancestor worship or reverence, optimism, ordering, root metaphors, bureaucratic tendencies are the bases of Chinese cultural orientations. Ancestor worship was the practice of making sacrifices to the ancestors to ask for blessings or to break a curse. In “The World of Thought in Ancient China”,…