Humiliation

in our life to learn from them, and eventually have a story to begin or a lesson to fix. The chapter began by talking about the way people felt about their mistakes and errors. I found it very interesting the way she connects the feelings of humiliation and mortification with wanting to die and disappear forever even though the feeling…

In the Novel “All the Bright Places” by Jennifer Niven, the literary element of characterization is used in order to develop the complex character of Theodore Finch. Theodore is known, by his classmates, as, both, an outcast and a freak. On the contrary, Violet Markey is a popular cheerleader, surrounded by her friends. Despite their differences, Theodore unexpectedly saves Violet from difficult situations. This can be seen when the two of them met on the ledge of the bell tower at their school.…

rebellion and Vercingetorix gathered troops by force. Also, when Caesar’s troops were hard pressed, he offered them the chance to abandon the siege if their privations were unbearable, but they kept on fighting because they thought it would be a “humiliation to abandon siege now, and would rather suffer any hardship than fail in…

outlines that he is not searching for the impeccable definition of justice, but rather the foundations of a ‘well-ordered society’. The scholar views assurance as necessary; due to the fact that all should feel free from discrimination fear or humiliation (p.84). Waldron argues that a set of ‘assurance’ principles are mandatory in a modern society. He identifies that there is this internal conflicts between the tolerant principles of liberal society and the true behaviour of its citizens…

Working as a professor and later joining the army, much of Golding’s inspiration for novels came from his occupation, and this can tell us a lot about the cover. The cover distinctively illustrates a white beheaded pig with a brown bloody stick or rod of some sort, most likely a branch, viciously stuck up the head from the neck area. Additionally, the head is expelling lavish red blood from the right eye, and furious or miserable tears from the left eye, along with more blood from the mouth and…

“No longer were they slaves to the simple necessities of survival; they were a lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves, hunters and priests of the sun” (Momaday 28). The Way to Rainy Mountain is the story of a member of the Kiowa tribe retracing his ancestors steps as they moved from Montana to Oklahoma. In the story it is easy to see the influence of the Kiowa culture, beliefs, and history. In The Way to Rainy Mountain the grandmother was remembering about the sun dance.…

American Neoclassical painter, John Trumbull was commissioned in 1820 to paint, “Surrender of Lord Cornwallis.” This is one of the two paintings on this subject matter. The painting was placed in 1826. One of the first things you notice are the black clouds of smoke concluding the final campaign, which drove the surrender of the British at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781 after eight years of war; thereby, ending the Revolutionary War making America a free and independent nation. Cornwallis was…

run the ward. The word “conformity” is a type of social influence that brings about behavioral change in order to fit in, especially in presence of a person or social norms. Ratched is an unyielding person who suppresses everyone in her ward by humiliation, distasteful medical treatment and an unreasonably…

The Benjamin autobiography of Born to Rebel talk about the racist still exist after all these years. Whites prefer African American to look like ditch digger, bow, and step off the side walk in their present. It wasn’t with ease for some blacks to act in according to what the whites wanted. Black were considered smart if they dress nice which was total unacceptable. Jim Crow still had an impact on the African American like the antebellum still exist. This was still happening from South…

The Last Ptolemy, Cleopatra In this week’s podcast, Melvyn Bragg and his guests, Catharine Edwards, and Maria Wyke Susan Walker talk about the Ptolemic ruler of the Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra. They start from the very beginning with her and her father and go through her time as she interacts with Roman Empire with Julius Cesar and Mark Antony. She is a very interesting personality as she has not only affected Egypt but also the Roman Empire. In this week’s podcast, one of the most important…