Disgrace

While many have depicted Columbus as a benevolent explorer who discovered the New World, he wasn't particularly kind, and some think he didn't discover the New World. We now have evidence of many explorers that had reached the Americas before him. Also, he only visited islands near North America. Therefore he never made it to North America. When Columbus landed in 1492, it is estimated there were between 10 and 15 million indigenous people in the area that now constitutes the United States. By…

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne conforms to the life of shame and guilt as she is required to wear the symbol of adultery on her chest. Hester is treated as a disgrace to puritan society because she has the undeniable proof of her sinful action, Pearl. Throughout her conformation Hester has changed from a passionate woman into a “bare and harsh outline” of her older self because of the A she, now, proudly wears on her chest. When Hester gets branded with the letter A upon her chest she…

euthanasia, not matter the intention is still an act of murder and is unforgivable. From this point-of-view this is an act of utter cruelty (Lu, Matthew 58). From the arguments discussed this point of view sees that euthanasia is an abomination and a disgrace to what has been given to us. Medically assisted suicide should not only be illegal but condemned by all. WORKS…

Bob Ewell is the current head of a family that has been "the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest day’s work in his recollection” (Lee, 40). In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Bob Ewell is know as the main antagonist. He is the drunken, and unemployed dad of the Ewell family and a member of Maycomb’s poorest family. In his deliberately wrongful accusation that a black man, Tom Robinson, raped his daughter, Ewell represents the dark…

he answered his mother Thetis, “so be it. If Olympian Jove of his own motion thus commands me…,” so has it he was not taking his own advise but that of a god (Homer 184). Heroes was always afraid of disgrace. Disgrace was not taken lightly in Homeric culture. The hero such as Achilles though of disgrace as a sign of weakness. When Patroclus took Briseis over to the enemy, Achilles cried onto his mother, “Agamemnon, son of Atreus, has done me dishonor.”(Homer 132) Heroes always feared that the…

In Antigone Jocasta's and Oedipus’s children ( Eteocles/Polyneices/Antigone/Ismene) are divided some have honour and some do not, those who do not are full of disgrace. Antigone is brave, bold, courageous and honours her brother by giving him the burial she thinks he deserves, even if no one else believes he does and even when she is threatened with death by stones “Listen, Ismene: Creon buried our brother, Eteocles, with military honors, gave him a soldier's funeral, and it was right that he…

was taught that they would disgrace her in the streets if she said yes so she…

begun to do. Eventually, Avner decided to sign a letter publically saying he and other soldiers refused to serve in the territories. As a result, Avner's commanders dismissed him from his military service and the majority of citizens considered him a disgrace to Israeli society. He joined a group of ex-fighters, both Palestinian and Israeli, who promoted reconciliation and the stop of violence. Avner continued to feel very intensely that the occupation and the treatment towards the Palestinians…

In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s main character, Okonkwo, is the most affected by the changes the Christians brought. He starts the novel as a strong, tenacious, and influential man but he becomes a dissipated man who would rather kill himself and commit an “offense against the earth” than to watch the white people ruin his Ibo culture (Achebe 207). Before the Christians came, Okonkwo is a very successful leader of the Ibo society. He does everything in his power to not be…

would oppose to provide more aid. But yet, in the case of American citizens living in poverty, “almost everyone grew up poor and abused, and thought they made stabs at normal life” (Fagan 336). These citizens are so accustomed to their economic disgrace that any minor effort they do to live a little better gives them pride of their accomplishment. If they live in the streets and are moved under a roof, it becomes an overwhelming experience. Such individuals believe that they need no more to…