Forced disappearance

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, he tells a tale of a group of school aged boys who end up stranded on an island without any adults. During the book, there is a struggle for power over who gets to be “Chief”. This struggle is mainly between two contrasting characters, Ralph, the protagonist, and Jack, the antagonist. Jack is guilty of crimes against humanity due to the atrocities some of the other boys experienced under his rule. At many points towards the end of the novel, Jack who…

The Year of the Dragon and Chan is Missing both address the crisis of identity for Asian Americans and attempt to disprove the fixed notions that surround Asian Americans in society. In Chan is Missing, Wang seeks to illuminate that Asian American identity extends beyond the perpetuated stereotypes. Racial stereotypes are used as the basis of identity for Asian Americans. In their investigation into what happened to Chan Hung, Jo and Steve interview various individuals who Chan Hung encountered…

There’s no escaping the fairy tale in popular culture; a woman trapped under duress, awaiting for a man to rescue her. It’s an archetype that transcends time and continent, but whether it’s approach to gender roles is outdated is an entirely different question. Louise Bourgeois was fascinated with this concept, due to her parents tumultuous relationship and the trauma surrounding identity that pursued her throughout her life. One of the pieces that highlighted the existence of gender roles in…

was exclusively recognized as the affairs of men, with many children and women being the victims due to direct targeting and displacement. Thus, women have been frequently classified as victims of torture, gender-based violence, murder, and forced disappearance (LaFree & Ackerman, 2009). However, in the modern warfare, women have been not only victims of violence but also perpetrators of terrorism.…

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) live throughout the ice-covered waters of the circumpolar Arctic, particularly in near shore annual ice over the continental shelf where biological productivity is highest. However, to a large degree under scenarios predicted by climate change models, these preferred sea ice habitats will be substantially altered. Spatial and temporal sea ice changes will lead to shifts in trophic interactions involving polar bears through reduced availability and abundance of their…

Underground Railroad was a network that gave slaves a chance for hope and freedom by giving them an escape route to the more northern parts of the United States of America, Canada, or even Mexico. After slaves had been taken from their families and forced to do backbreaking work…

Pedro Almodovar’s twentieth feature film, Julieta, chronicles the title character’s life as she is forced to reflect upon her riddled past and confront the tragic circumstances that surround the disappearance of her daughter. Almodovar based Julieta off of a series of short stories written by Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro, which follow three stages of a Canadian woman’s life who faces similar circumstances. At it’s conception, Julieta was intended to be Almodovar 's first…

Patriarchy…patriarchy is the system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it. Patriarchy plays a huge role within the book The Odyssey by Homer, which includes several examples based on the interactions and relationships between men and women in the story. During this time period, in 800 B.C, the ancient Greeks limited the feminine populace to hardly any power. Their duties were to stay home, take care of the children, cook, or follow orders…

The values of colonization have continued to play prevalent role in globalization after the age of decolonization and emancipation. In the 197s and 80s colonialism continued through neoliberalism, the belief that the markets should be privatized, deregulated, and free of restraints. Evangelical Internationalism continued colonialism by continuing to treat groups of people in developing countries as inferior. From a critical standpoint, neoliberalism and Evangelical Internationalism are the…

move, grow, and reproduce, so I drew again. I drew the Anjikuni Lake in Canada. I looked through a couple of sites and decided that I would keep it because it looked interesting to me. I looked at more sites and each site helped me understand the disappearance of the people more and more. It is an unsolved mystery of the disappearing people of Anjikuni village. Joe Labelle, the person who discovered this mystery, had a few guesses, but his guesses didn’t make sense. He thought that they got…