Infanticide

Torres Strait Islands are located between Australia and Papua New Guinea. There have been Torres Strait Islanders as one of the Australian Indigenous group. As another Australian Indigenous group, Aborigines, had been invaded and colonised their land, culture, and life from the eighteenth century, Torres Strait people also had similar, but different experiences through the history. For example, while Aboriginal people’s land settled by the British convicts from the 1788 of the First Fleet,…

ranks high on the list of countries with rampant discrimination against sex. In a country, where religion is often used as an excuse to bind shackles around girl’s feet, being a girl in this patriarchal society is hardly less than a crime. From infanticide to honor killing to other abhorrent traditions such as wanni, being a woman in Pakistan is a tall order. Moreover, acid attacks, child marriages, sexual assault, are only some of the other consequences that women in Pakistan have to bear for…

Oftentimes in early American History education the opposition to slavery is portrayed as a mainly white movement. This perception is not only a clear example of the white-washing in history education but also clearly false. When the movement against slavery is examined, it is clear that African-Americans, both free and enslaved, presented a clear opposition to the institution of slavery by committing acts of individual resistance that were impossible to ignore. The conditions of slavery…

Media is one of the most powerful weapons known to mankind. It has the ability to influence and even control the way the general public thinks and consequently behaves. The media coverage of shooting at Kent State University in 1970 is a prime example of the power that media has over the general public. The media coverage led to an immediate backlash from individuals all over the country, including those who supported the protesters as well as those who supported the National Guard. The news…

Philosophy is the fundamental nature and process of understanding the disparate aspects of existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language through the problems presented by these matters of life. In order to examine and formulate a philosophy of global citizenship, a deep understanding of the aspects of life and the underlying social, political, economical, ecological, and technological problems and nature of globalization is necessary. The principal branch of philosophy that analyzes…

Jeremy Bentham said “The question is not, "Can they reason?" or, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” while talking about animals. The question of animals’ rights is a big issue in the modern society and it is a subject which comes back very often in the actuality. Living longer does not mean living better, and nowadays that is what happens to animals in captivity. Captivity means the state or period of being held, imprisoned, enslaved, or confined. It is obvious that animals prefer to live…

house of Bluestone Road where a pretty little slave girl had recognized a hat, and split the woodshed to kill her children (157) This failure of the community leads to Sethe murdering Beloved (Sethe’s crawling already baby). After she commits infanticide in order to spare her child from the chokehold of slavery, the community rejects Sethe. Her action is considered as a taboo by the community, which jeopardizes her membership within the community. The members of the community quietly withdraw…

‘I of Ebony’ is a novel written by Nana Grey Johnson a Gambian author, in 1997. This novel focuses on slave trade that took away almost 40 million Africans to sugar, tobacco, rice and tea plantations in the Caribbean, the Americas and Asia Minor within a span of 400 years (Grey- Johnson, 1997). The novel centres on a Jola warrior and wrestler, Simanga who was captured by slave hunters while he was coming from an annual wrestling competition in Pakai, a surrounding village. He had made his…

Discrimination against disabled has increased over the years; this is giving to the fact that many of the disabled have physical or mental appearances. There was study that twins murdered at birth. Infanticide was widespread among technologically less developed societies, especially for the physically or mentally impaired. We all notice disabilities, whether we admit to it or not we know that they have some kind of disability while speaking to them or what is visible. Nevertheless, we…

Magical realism, like all genres of literature, has proponents along with adversaries. Some critics say that magical realism describes the abject in condescending ways, while others have stated that it is a genre used to escape reality, and still others believe it is complicit in oppression and does not do enough to combat the rejection of the abject. Jazz by Toni Morrison, Perfume by Patrick Süskind, and “The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother” by Gabriel…