Domestic robot

Most people have had some fight or disagreement with a member of their family. Some might say it is natural for families to argue, but sometimes the reasons behind them are much bigger than they might appear at first glance. The short story “Everyday Use” by Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker deals a situation like this (Kirszner and Mandell 344). Walker feels strongly about people reconnecting with their heritage, in fact, she retook her maiden name three years into her marriage to…

The novel A Question of Power was written by African writer Bessy Head and was published in three volumes, the first being in 1973.The novel explores the idea of the strong patriarchal society exploiting the other submissive groups and people. Head has very clearly shown examples of women being exploited by the hands of men to the extent of being driven to madness. By taking the protagonist Elizabeth example, Bessy Head shows how Sello and Dan, who used to have intercourse with her were the…

Desperate times can call for measures so extreme that obeying the law and following society’s standard of morality become an afterthought. In the book Salvage the Bones, author Jesmyn Ward reinforces this idea by showing readers how the Batiste family must battle their way through the brutalities of poverty with hard work and putting their family above all else. The children of the Batiste family struggle against an assortment of conflicts while keeping the best interest of one another at the…

Hortense Powdermaker’s book, Stranger and Friend, chronicles her experiences doing fieldwork throughout her career. In it, she discusses culture as shared meaning, where context and history give different components of a society social value. Through this process, essential qualities of a culture develop. The theory with which Powdermaker views culture, cultural essentialism, is one which uses these essential qualities as means of identification to form groups of people. This differs from…

A topic that has been controversially for years, can people hit their children? The short answer to that would be yes, they can. But the more important question, should people hit their children? Hitting children is inhuman and wrong, it makes children afraid of their parents and usually leaves young kids confused. Discipline should only be verbal. First off, a parent is a child's main role model from their toddler years all the way up to young adolescents. That's why it's important to exhibit…

According to many, we are living in the height of the ‘Fake News’ Era. We turn on the TV for 5 minutes, flip through five or six news stations, and get drastically different coverage, information and ‘facts’. Is each of these news stations blatantly reporting false information? Maybe they don’t know what the truth is? Or, maybe they think what they report is the only truth out there. Whatever the case may be, one thing is clear- news stations, journalists and politicians alike never come to an…

Poetry Analization Essay “Wife and servant are the same, But only differ in the name” (1-2) The poem “To the Ladies” by Mary Chudleigh was written in 1703. When this poem was written, women were considered property of their husbands and they were expected to obey their husbands’ every command. The poem exhibits the fact that once a woman says her vows she belongs to her husband. By reading this poem and analyzing the tone, one might understand that Mary Chudleigh did not have the easiest…

Najmah’s Characteristics The intellect and willpower of a human goes beyond the limits of nature as they have the ability to change their understanding of who they are when faced in the loss of their known world. This is displayed with the main character Najmah from the well-known book Under the Persimmon Tree as she took comfort in her family, allowing them to protect her from her consistent anxiety. Najmah becomes responsible when her father and brother were taken away from her,…

While all three- said three being Henrietta Lacks, Douglas Mawson, and Phineas Gage- went through many adversities and encountered countless troublesome situations and people, Douglas Mawson endured the most hardships and adversities- both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Henrietta Lacks had to face the removal of her cells without permission, as well as cervical cancer; the adversity that took her life. Phineas Gage had to fight through all of the issues that came with having a metal pole…

The epistemic vices in which Jose Medina, a professor at Vanderbilt University, illustrates those of privilege possessing, epistemic arrogance, laziness, and closed-mindedness, are all prevalent throughout today's society. An example in which this is expressed is that of Anita Hill during the confirmation of Bush-nominated supreme court justice, Clarence Thomas. Hill accused Thomas of sexual harassment, but throughout his hearings her allegation was severely scrutinized and ultimately dismissed.…