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classes based on political loyalty”(Park). Basically it classifies people in which they live, the higher class has better jobs, housing and more food. To make matters worse, people who disobey, or break the law face, “Public executions and enforced disappearance to political prison camps serve as the ultimate means to terrorise the population into submission” (4News).Kim Jung Un is the totalitarian leader also known as the powerful figure head in North Korea. The people absolutely worship him,…

in his room still lay exactly where it was before he left and is untouched. The whole family suppresses their loss for him and this ultimately leads to depression and sadness in the family. The first victim is Klara’s mother, Helga. “After the disappearance of Klara’s brother Tilman, who runs away from the farm as a teenage boy choosing the existence of a vagrant, the heroine’s mother plunges into the memories of her beloved son, trying to retain his presence by constantly recollecting him”…

sacrifice themselves are the brave and noble ones as they put their duty above themselves. Van exists all alone in the tunnel, and he experiences intense isolation as a result of his attempt to desert. His story is similar to Cacciato’s as he was forced to fight a war he didn’t care about, and tried to escape. The tunnel represents the inescapable suffering of the Vietnam vets and what they experience in their…

Troops Review. In 1961, Leon Litwack set out to challenge the common misperception that slavery was merely a southern phenomenon. While he made clear that he did not intend to downplay the uniquely brutal character of the slave system that was in place in many places in the south, he clearly illustrated northern reluctance in doing away with the institution. Written during a time when the nation faced a movement that brought national and international attention to the gap between U.S. ideals…

Hillbilly Elegy, a book written by J. D. Vance, is one of the more recent New York Times bestsellers. The book itself is essentially a memoir of Vance’s (the author’s) life growing up In the Appalachian region of the United Sates. Though it is possible to provide a thorough summary on what this set of memoirs is, it will probably be made easier after it is explained what they aren’t. Despite what the title of the New York Times’ and other sources with the likes of the same title “Review: In…

Throughout the classic Disney movie Cinderella, the title character is isolated from society. She is oppressed in her own household, and forced to comply with her cruel step-mother’s rules. Perhaps the most defining moment of the movie is the scene in which everyone discovers that the mysterious glass slipper belongs to Cinderella. However, Cinderella could not reach this moment without all of the struggles beforehand, for she had to undergo an excruciatingly long journey to prepare herself. In…

Video Games Taking Over the World of Technology John Dewey, an American educational philosopher, once said, “ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” Education is the building blocks of a permanent lifestyle, so parents should desire for their children to have a stable foundation to build upon. Any concerned parent wants nothing but the best for their child so they are well aware of the new forms of child entertainment. Since the late 1970’s to the early 1980’s,…

time for the jury to give a verdict on a black man’s case, the entire jury was usually white. Considering many white people were racist during this time period, the verdict was almost always guilty. Therefore, several innocent black men were either forced to spend their life behind bars, or they were executed. For example, in 1931, nine black teenage boys were taken to jail after participating in a stone-throwing fight while aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama. Two women, Victoria Price and…

How to get along with women by Elisabeth De Mariaffi The title is misleading. To any man who picked up this book with the desperate hope to find a step-by-step walkthrough for socializing and understanding women, he would have been disappointed. This book is the first book by Elisabeth de Mariaffi and, astonishingly for a premier effort of a small press, nominated for a Scotia Bank Giller prize in the year 2013. It does not directly tackle the baffling intricacies and complexities of women.…

I argue Lady Audley’s portrait is crucial to the movement and culmination of Braddon’s novel. Its symbolic implications are multivalent: as Lynette Felber writes, ‘[the portrait] protests the power and authority of the male gaze; it anatomizes fetishistic desire; and it raises questions about the construction of women and their sexuality in Victorian society’. Structurally, the portrait heralds the fate of Lady Audley by revealing her dual nature, by implicating a significant secret, and by…