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Culture refers to beliefs, shared values, and norms of a group. Therefore, Culture defines our identity, influencing the way we act and learn. In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston is trapped between two identities, to be an obedient housewife or a woman warrior that shatters those cultural expectations. Growing up, Kingston is surrounded by the individualistic and nationalistic nature of the United States but is constantly insulted for being the, “weaker…

largest mass murder site in human history” 14). These moments can not be unseen, nor forgotten, and the prisoners were forced to live with the fact that they were never going to get out. The prisoners suffered temptations and teases of the often daydream of escaping the camp. This similar idea of suffering from within one’s soul inside the camp was found in, One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, where he reflected on his life before the camp. Ivan remembered what his home was like, and…

“Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”(25) Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God took place in Florida during the early 1900s. In the novel, Hurston told of a woman named Janie Crawford and her romantic endeavors throughout her life, as well as her struggles with forces she cannot control. Janie constantly borders on the line of happiness until it is taken away time and time again in the blink of an eye. Janie Crawford is a character full of romance and…

A class division is prevalent within the narrator’s society, in that the wealthy isolate the poor and require them to marry another wealthy person in order to be integrated back into society. Karl Marx believed this division was a struggle for power, “[…] ‘motored’ by the competition for economic, social, and political advantage” (Barry, 151). Thus, since poor people have no money, they have no power over their lives. As the narrator states while in the woman’s shelter, “What I prefer is no…

Reason is not necessarily the means to the better life, or towards procuring ‘the good,’ from the view of these latter thinkers. It seems that Nietzsche would problematize the allegory of the den, in this respect, to no end. From a Nietzschean perspective, the relativity of our values, and the ways they merely reflect the power dynamics and social and political undercurrents of our age, begs the question of their effect on our reason (Nietzsche, 1989, p.46-47). The supposed ‘good’ or ‘moral…

Introduction This paper will explore how architecture is experienced through the bodily senses focusing on the sense of smell. How this seemingly unrelated sense to the building environment can effect the way an individual experiences space. This will be managed by firstly exploring the philosophical tradition of phenomenology, so as to create an adequate theoretical background. More specifically, it will follow the historical development of this philosophical movement to understand how it…

Elli's elegant poetry and alluring daydreams were put to a halt when she was forced into multiple concentration camps. She was not ready for the treatment or way of life the camps would give her. Elli continued to worry about her looks when she was marched through the dirt and dust of the camps…

The short stories “The Persian Carpet” by Hanan Shaykh and “The Lottery Ticket” by Anton Chekhov both illustrate that people’s choices and actions are influenced by their selfish desires. “The Persian Carpet” exemplifies this through the narrator’s mother and her desires to leave her family leading to dishonest actions whereas in the short story “The Lottery Ticket” Ivan Dmitritch and his wife develop hatred feelings due to the selfish desires over the winning lottery ticket. The self-centered…

Each year in January, near my home within my small rural community, Oak Grove A.M.E. Church hosts an annual “MLK Walk” in remembrance of Dr. King who led a march on Mississippi Highway 16, which runs through a portion of this community, to aid desegregation and assist African-Americans in receiving voting rights. He slumbered at Oak Grove while in our community and it brings honor and joy to commemorate both the man and his selfless actions. With that realization, I recognize that a portion of…

memories showed different characteristics than those who did not. The people who were affected by false memories in this study had a higher ability for fantasy and absorption than the normal person; this is the ability to become entranced or more often daydream (Neimark). People who are affected by false memories truly believe in something that never happened, this makes people with similar alien abduction tales unreliable without actual evidence. Some abductees take the possibilities that the…