George C. Pimentel

1. author, title, year and topic "The Hound of the Baskerville" was first published in 1901 in England. The novel is a detective story, with the main protagonists Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. It was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a famous writer in the 20th Century. Doyle is commonly known for the characters he created. The names Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are known all around the world. At one point in his carrier Doyle was weary of his own character. He then wrote the…

people that are able to see the answers to these question, have the ability to access sociological imagination. The article “The Promise” by C. Wright Mills explores the definition of sociological imagination, the impact of history and biography on our lives, and the difference between individual troubles and public issues. Sociological imagination, as defined by C. Wright Mills, is the ability to see the connection between personal experience and society as a whole. “Sociological imagination…

“The name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B Baker Street.” (Moffat) This is where we start our story, with a name and an address. If you ask random people “Who is Sherlock Holmes?” most will tell you that he is the greatest detective to ever live. While this statement is taken for fact all around the world, unfortunately the great Mister Holmes has always been fiction. It is like calling the lion who lives in savannas the king of the jungle. The actuality in these labels maybe lacking,…

Changing Identities by Changing Places or Identity Crisis in Postmodern Novels A sociological approach to self and identity begins with the assumption that there is a reciprocal relationship between the self and society (Stryker, 41). The self has an influence upon society via the actions of the individuals, consequently creating groups, organizations, networks, and institutions. Reciprocally, society has influences the self via its common language and meanings which enables a person to…

Adapted many times and having countless tumblrs dedicated to the tale, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem is the world's most treasured classic adventure. It comes as no surprise that BBC took the English tale and made it one of their own, but did their adaption, Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall, live up to the expectation? It comes with a change of century and characters that have been moulded into, what some would falsely criticise, entirely new beings. BBC's adaption is surprisingly new… and so…

As a whole the world itself is a series of “fates” or “destinies” that are inevitably intertwined, the acts of one man changing the acts of another. C.W Mills believed that in order to understand the way in which one person comes to be whom they are in this world, we must look at their life through the idea of sociological imagination. Which Mills describes as something that “enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the…

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president(1829-1837) of the United States, played a huge factor in the development of America. Jackson the former founder of the Democratic Party(One of the two major political parties in the United States), become a democratic symbol for the country. Jackson ran two-terms as president, during his presidency Jackson extended executive powers and made Presidents role more powerful. Jackson was the first president not born in the United States, coming from another…

is a consequence for everything that you do. Individuals tend to overlook the fact that significance problems in their lives may be relative to society as a whole. C. Wright Mills said it in the beginning “everything will shift from one perspective to another and range from the most impersonal and remote transformations.” It’s like C. Wright Mills knew everything would change as time started to progress and he wanted everyone to know about the observations that he began to make from what he was…

The plot line in Fahrenheit 451 is centered around the absence of knowledge and true understanding, that comes with reading books. Society as a whole are not legally permitted to read books, and any book that is found must be burned by the firemen. In the world described in the book, the people are being manipulated into thinking that reading is a horrendous pastime. Their world slowly becomes a center for the censorship of people’s lives, a twisted democracy and the gradual deprivation of…

In his article "The Promise of Sociology", Mills defines “sociological imagination” as the ability to see things socially, and shows how they interact and affect each other. "Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understand without understanding both." As this quote shows, Mills believes that the individual cannot understand themselves as individuals, yet they can’t understand their role in society without this understanding. Therefore it is required to understand…