Deconstruction

the challenge of convention that Huck must face later in chapter thirty-one, when he weighs helping his friend against enduring the social ridicule of helping a runaway slave. Finally, Jim shows that he is better at arguing than Huck. His easy deconstruction of Huck’s bad language analogy proves that he has the skills to hash out an issue and argue from a solid position, like one based on first-hand experience. He also establishes that despite the fact that Huck has more…

Five people were interviewed for this experiment; the interviewees are all college students enrolled in undergraduate programs in New York State. Chad is a white, eighteen year old first-year college student. He self-identifies as gay and considers himself to be middle class. Tatianna is a Native American, nineteen year old second-year college student. She self-identifies as a lesbian but has not come out to her family or the public and considers herself to be lower-middle class. Alyssa is a…

With the new generation of millennials coming into adulthood, social attitudes are changing and the dynamics between relationships and families are no longer primarily traditional. To explore these new social attitudes, especially in regards to race, gender, and class, the present study conducted interviews about the subjects’ personal beliefs and values. The interviewees were asked questions about work opportunities for those of race, gender, and class minorities, different work/family…

Who is a Black feminist? What is Black feminism? Why is someone degraded on the basis of the color they own? These are few of the questions that must have divulged deep into the mind of the readers reading Toni Morrison. Morrison shows how the Blacks had a fabricated identity especially women, this was done to show them as an inferior race. Due to the treatment of Blacks, men experience a vague identity while women’s identity has already been erased. Racism has thus become a ‘natural’ phenomena.…

What 's Love Got to Do With It The masculinity of a man for centuries means considerably more than just strength, when in contracts to the femininity of a woman. Men have deconstructed women by their vulnerability of emotions and thus using their masculinity to inflict abuse against women. How this old perplexing distinction of manipulative abuse is utilized by men, will have an important role to play when using an eye- to- eye perspective leads in abusive relationships and self-discovery.…

Modern technology has advanced at an exponential rate since the turn of the millennium, and similar to how the epoch of the steam engine brought upon the Industrial Age, the epoch of the personal computer has brought upon the dawn of the Information Age. At the continuously compounding rate of innovation and invention, modern technology was prognosticated to hit a wall where advancements become rare. This prediction has been dubbed as Polanyi’s Paradox. As all theoretical barriers in the modern…

What is Human Nature? A critique of the utopian ideal Hsun Tzu famously claimed that humans are evil, and although I wouldn’t opt for such emotive terminology, I believe that he was on the right lines. Humans are not evil; but they are inherently bad. Evil suggests something much more sinister, a plotting mind with a purpose for destruction. Rather, the process of evolution has determined human nature as innate and selfish, with survival and self-preservation an unconscious priority. I…

1 Abstract: This paper seeks to explore the function of interdisciplinarity between Poetry and Mythology in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’ “The Phases of Anat” and how myth is employed to serve cultural and resistance purposes by means of creating and ascertaining identity through proposing and documenting a new version of the subaltern history that have been marginalized for decades in view of the capabilities of their powerful occupiers at all levels. to serve supporting his…

1.1 Why Postcolonialism? It is difficult to say what postcolonialism exactly is. There is no ‘tradition’ per se as there is a philosophical tradition for deconstruction or psychoanalytical theory. In anti-colonial movements and postmodern critique of colonialism as a project of modernity one can find ideas that preceded postcolonial theory. The most important feature of postcolonialism is a shift in the dominant ways in which relations between Western and non-Western people and their worlds were…

(re)writing back to the European centre in a determined and elemental bid to revision the mindless and extravagant misrepresentation of Africa and Africans by imperial Europe. The novel in this regard constitutes a corrective representational site for deconstruction and the reconstruction of the much-maligned image of the African continent through the epistemic aggression of Europe’…