Subversion and Sovereignty: Indigenous Women’s Power in Euro-American Encounters. Each Indigenous Nation on Turtle Island formed unique social structures and hierarchies that imagined gender in distinct ways. Still, women hold significant power and authority within many nations across Turtle Island. Women’s roles in agriculture, material culture, and kinship made them powerful figures in their communities. Many matrilineal and matrilocal nations provided women with unique authority over kinship…
first and Yusuf walked behind him. An old black woman raised her head while sitting at a small desk facing the main entrance as she was reading The Sun newspaper and looked at the two men in total silence. The security guard said, “Good morning! His Excellency, Mr. Yusuf Alfalaki, ambassador of Cout has an appointment with the Prime Minister, Mr. Michael White.” The old woman turned to check visitors schedule in front of her and she pressed a button on the phone; she said in a…
You cannot have man without him having morals. Whether they originate from the type of upbringing, governmental restrictions, social grouping, or religious association, men will always have an enclosure of values and ethics in which he lives, and he himself is made up of as an individual of society. In modern and past day culture, many will argue that religion is one of the main derivatives of the maintaining of values in a group of people, and those devout say one cannot have morals without the…
3.1. INTRODUCTION This chapter initially introduces brief background information of Indonesia, as one of developing countries that becomes the subject of the study. This chapter trying to answer the first research question “How does the NPM reform in Indonesia and what is the rationale of the reform? To see the how the NPM Reform that carries performance management taken up in Indonesia. Background and Rationales of NPM Reform as well as the existing condition portrays Indonesian Bureaucracy…
Change, it’s a word that is feared. It’s a concept that no one likes. It’s a memory that brings back old emotions. For being something that is so called dreadful and awful, it’s something that is a vital part of Human Nature. There is such thing as necessary change, change that people have to undergo to become better people. John Proctor, one of the main characters of “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, is one person that went through the process of allowing himself to change. “The Crucible” is a…
Meaningful Employment Contributes to an Improved Quality of Life Can we imagine if were living in a world that is dull? Full of doubts, discouragement, failures and disappointments. People experience underemployment, underpaid and mistreated. Are we still pursuing our goals in our lives even we had all these circumstances? Notwithstanding can we still achieve a quality of life and meaningful employment? We can be billionaire neither nor beggarly. Either unfortunate or blessed and that what…
Sunday) and he won’t be believed. Parris hopes for the same. He cannot afford to have Proctor believed, since Proctor is trying to discredit the girls, and that will hurt his reputation. Also, Parris said, “They’ve come to overthrow the court, sir!… Excellency, surely you cannot…
Human population is rapidly growing throughout the world, and just within a time span of five years, the world’s population has shot from 7.3 billion people to the current 7.9 billion people. The effect of this exponential population growth on water and water sources can be taken in two different perspectives, but both calls for urgent remedy before the situation gets out of hand. One is the high demand for clean water for human consumption and secondly, is the severe encroachment of water…
It 's rather disappointing to see that despite all the hysteria that engulfs the world, there still exist individuals whose only concern is for themselves rather than those around them. In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, readers can see several instances of this phenomena. The play tells of a somewhat dramatized depiction of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Many inhabitants in the town of Salem were falsely accused of witchcraft by individuals who were only seeking to fulfill their…
In almost every novel, there is always a main character with outstanding values. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606) and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (1953), the protagonists have very strong traits. In the novel Macbeth, Macbeth himself is a very ambitious character in the play. As for Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Proctor is a man of integrity. In the following will be shown that Macbeth is a very ambitious man in a way that he will do anything, like ruin his name, to have power in his hands…