Devolution

Journey’s are a recurrent and common theme throughout literary novels, providing a foundation for the rise or fall of a character. Two sample novels were provided for their effectiveness at displaying journey’s and the impacts affiliated with them. The first is titled The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, and the second is The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna. Each story is different in its plot and characters, yet each has striking similarities with each other. Example similarities…

Introduction: Gender inequality towards women in Sierra Leone can be described as inequitable or impractical compared to the equality of women in developed/western countries. The roles women are expected to play are general expectations such as cooking, cleaning, and staying at home with the children, leaving women in Sierra Leone with very little to no chance of stepping out of these expected roles to prevent being stigmatized or possibly killed (Luna 2016). According to the Social Institutions…

animalistic. This is evident in when Montgomery abuses the substance of alcohol, pulls out a revolver, and threatens to kill Prendick if he does not get out of Montgomery’s way and stop preventing him from further intoxication. Prendick shows Montgomery’s devolution into his state of animality when he says, “you’ve made a beast of yourself-to the beasts you may go,” which ultimately shows that his consumption of alcohol has brought out his animalistic nature as he has threatened to…

According to Abramovitz (2014), the post-World War II welfare state was the “golden age of capitalism” (p.4). During this period actual income and living standard rose for everyone, the inequality gap between poor and rich become narrower, the middle-class dream of a good job and a good home became more of a reality, more employment and equal opportunity were created, better wage and good benefits were introduced for the workers and sexual equality and civil rights movements were steady. “The…

Though able to operate the London timetables, and escape the hunters, Dracula’s unnatural longevity anchors him to a time and place where the world is less developed. The West’s xenophobia and fear of devolution are only exacerbated by Dracula’s gender performance. He makes the bed and cooks food during Jonathan’s stay in Transylvania, both tasks of which Mina is capable and expected to perform as Jonathans’ wife. Moreover, Dracula calls off the seduction…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Simply put, this famous quote from Thomas Jefferson epitomizes the fundamental ideas that he strived to implement throughout his life. His belief in the equality of man set the stage for his tremendous endeavors. A myriad of educational, philosophical, religious, and historical…

From the very beginning stages of this essay, it has continuously evolved, taken shape, and progressed. Initially, I could understand how one would believe that Thucydides did not have a preferred method of government between Aristocracy and Democracy. I believed that human nature lied somewhere in between Athens and Sparta, and they were the two inhumane extremes of human nature. But after careful consideration of the entirety of the History of the Peloponnesian War, I have found quotations to…

Eden and observes Adam and Eve, he takes the forms of a lion and a tiger. Finally, when he is captured whispering in Eve's ear, he is described as "squat like a toad"(PL IV. 800). He has been “stripped of his pseudo-heroic mask”(Steadman. 270). The devolution or degeneration of Satan in these different shapes is a…

As we saw in the reading of Armageddon 2419 A.D., sometimes there is such a thing as too much prosperity and innovation. Technology may stretch the bounds of society further than they ought to be stretched. Nowlan’s story of overindulgence and negligence serves as a warning to us as people of the twenty first century, a time of increasing technology and sometimes hasty innovations, to not fall into the same pit of despair. Nowlan’s depiction of an “over-advanced” society causes us as readers to…

Over the years many individuals have given various definitions as to what the British constitution is. However, it is quite simply documented as ‘uncodified’ which refers to the fact that the constitution is made up of many rules and regulations that have been derived from several sources however they are not on a single legal document which is the case with other countries such as the USA or Germany. As Hillarie Bennett once stated “A written constitution is one contained within a single…