Contradiction

Water is the ultimate contradiction. Its serene at times, while at others it wields devastating power. It is the source of all life, yet it can rip it away with one swift swell. For this reason alone, I find the oceans, lakes, and rivers offer such an array of enjoyment while it commands my respect for its authority. Water not only has the ability to drift from natural states, but it also brings pleasure and pain from its temperature. On a recent vacation I had the pleasure of experiencing…

has taken hip-hop out of urban areas and placed it in the lap of suburban America. Suburban America has obviously eaten it alive. For example, seventy percent of gangsta rap is purchased by white suburban youth (Rose, 43). This presents another contradiction facing rap music. Gangsta rap discusses issues which are culture specific or that deal with a specific socialization. How are youth from the suburbs relating to these messages when they have probably never encountered a situation that the…

Candido Rondon, known colloquially as Marechal Rondon, was a devout Brazilian expansionist of both faith and civic pride. He successfully did what many before him had tried and failed to do, which was to unite Brazil. A driving force behind his seemingly superhuman motivation and desire to accomplish his goals of both unifying Western Brazil and Coastal Brazil and helping to further the rights of indigenous peoples was rooted in his ideological beliefs, namely the pseudo-religion of Positivism.…

Dalit literature emerged as a response to the hegemonic Brahminic oppression and its various forms of silencing the Dalits. Though there are various thinkers, such as Buddha, Jyotiba Phule, S.M. Mate who were concerned about the plight of the lowest caste and untouchables but it was B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), who is considered "the pioneer of Dalit literature" (Dangle vii). Ambedkar's writing and his political activism played a significant role in understanding the injustices and atrocities of…

The act of S/M rejects the idea of gender construct and opens a door for exploration and performance of power. S/M in comparison to performative acts is a “theatrical exercise of social contradiction, it is self- consciously against nature, not in the sense that is violates natural law, but in the sense that it denies the existence of natural law in the first place” (McClintock 1993, 91). Therefore, these practices escape from the idea of being normal or socially appropriate. In regards to…

Hamilton was a staunch supporter of an energetic government that amassed political, economic and military power. He wanted to ensure that the national government superseded all other lower governments in every aspect. Hamilton’s proposition was an all-powerful government that ruled over its people in totality. This was bound to ensure that the needs of the nation came ahead of personal interests. Therefore, the government would actively get involved in all affairs such as those concerning…

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, one of the most consistent themes is the idea that other people’s morals and laws can often conflict with higher ethical values or personal beliefs. The author uses several different perspectives to portray the contradiction between characters’ individual values. For example, Huck finds civilized life too restricting for his carefree ways. Not caring for manners, appearance, or social norms, he refuses to be civilized by the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson and…

The film complys completely with trend and framework of the novel and take three-step composition to describe the three women’s one day in different spacetime. At the beginning, it builds an atmosphere of death, and the environment is water. Water has always been a symbol of softness, which fitly suggests that the female theme of this film, from the beginning to let audiences find everything fresh and new. At the end of the movie, it repeats this picture. The sound of water for a long time can…

In chapter one, we heard the Song of the Family, which was the representation of the family’s occurrences sounds. We also heard the Song of Evil. This was the song of contradiction to the warm, familiar, sound of the family. This was the sound of the scorpion, a villain capable of dangerous abilities or of opposing the good. In this chapter, we hear the Song of the Undersea and the Song of the Pearl That Might Be. The Song of the Family and the Song of Evil are songs that share the message of…

Masculinity Theory reinforces the stereotype that a gay man is feminine and therefore cannot be masculine (Kimmel, 1997). These perceptions help form the contradiction at hand, that a man cannot be gay and play a masculine sport such as football or hockey. In other words since the masculinity theory is stating that in order to be masculine you can’t be feminine, while you also can not be feminine and play a popular male sport in the United States. Ultimately it comes down the fact that a…