Historical materialism

What makes one happy may not always be the right thing to do. In both The Prince and in The Consolation of Philosophy; themes of happiness, virtue, religion and fortune are investigated further to explain the relation of each in a political arena. In The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius deals with the universal experience of suffering. He is imprisoned and facing execution. Boethius blames fortune for the reason of his suffering, “Surely the severity of Fortune’s attack on me needs no further…

Patriarchy has been defined in a variety of ways, initially set out as a concept by Millett in 1970 (cited in Bryson, 1999), and later fully developed by Walby in Theorizing Patriarchy (1990). However, the concept was widely critiqued, and fell into dis-use, although it has been the subject of attempts to re-position it as an academic concept (e.g. Hunnicutt, 2009). This essay aims to discuss the prevalent accepted definition of patriarchy, and the criticisms made of it, before analysing more…

dysfunctions can be approached with cultural terms and further examines how access to food is a marker of power and how food can be used as a tool for manipulation and social control. It also provides a broad range of methodology: from fieldwork to historical…

INTRODUCTION The two major fall outs of cultural fissions are Acculturation and De culturation. Aculturation is defined as a positive stance, a comprehensive acceptance of the tenets of one culture into another, while De culturation is defined as, negative process, a dreadful distortion of one culture by another. It is not merely a clash causing of alienation, but it also affects the death of the spirit causing not merely a crisis of identity or existence, but denial of existence. Kamala…

Bharati Mukherjee explores many facets of feminine consciousness and immigrant experience in her fictions. She has dealt with the ambivalence of their psychic and spatial identity and the trauma of dislocations at multiple levels. The impact of patriarchy on the Indian society varies from the one in the West and therefore Mukherjee has tried to evolve her own stream of feminism grounded in the truth of compulsory displacement that they recurrently undergo. Indian expatriate writers do not write…

Roberge PAGE 10 G.K. Chesterton: An Opinionated and Witty Twentieth Century British Writer G.K. Chesterton was an author who was very distinct in his writing and in his beliefs. This prompted people of all ages to pursue one of his inspirational works or listen to him lecture. He wrote on almost every topic the public wanted to read. His style excited readers to want to know what was next from the author. G.K. Chesterton was an opinionated author who wrote on everyday topics which…

The American Romanticism grew and thrived in the late 1700’s into the mid 1800’s. The movement promoted emotions, imagination, intellectual thinking and reflection, and individuality. Romanticism opposed strict traditional religion or anything that confined and limited the individual. It was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution and also the Age of Enlightenment of the early 1700’s. The Age of Enlighten, also called the Age of Reason, promoted separation of church and state, and the use of…

In the name of prosperity the Thai government has reduced its focus on matters relating to tourism to exclude everything that is not strictly an economic function (Bishop, p. 66). In essence the Thai government feels justified in sacrificing an entire generation of women and children for economic development. THAI International, a government funded agency, addressed the problems associated with the AIDS epidemic and the sex trade, not as a threat to the nation or its people, but as a threat…

institution of monarchy- while at the same time weaving dreams of a future free of their influence in Queen Mab. Although there seems to be a general unanimity on this, Albert Hancock in his The French Revolution and the English Poets: A Study in Historical Criticism gives us reason to suppose that before Shelley started his correspondence with Elizabeth Hitchener, a schoolteacher who became his confidante when he prepared the present draft in 1813, he might well have prepared an earlier draft…

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