Intolerance

Dealing with Intolerance The United States is a diverse and multicultural society. It is a society in which people of different ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexualities coexist and are expected to, at the very least, be tolerant of others. However, in reality, people are less accepting of others who appear different or have different views and beliefs than their own. In such less accepting and fearful society it is necessary to overcome and deal with intolerance in order to coexist…

considered religiously acceptable. Innocent people are put in jail and executed. Religious intolerance is just as dangerous today as it was in the 1600s. Freedom of religion is a protected right in America. It is protected by the First Amendment, and our country was founded on the idea that people are free to worship any way they want. However, America's history is full of examples of religious intolerance that has led to violence and discrimination (Nussbaum). Probably the most obvious example…

and to obviously not be extremely intolerant. Empires should be tolerant of race, religion, and other cultures, and attempt to be open to all of their residents. Having said that, Chua also believes being too tolerant can harm a nation more than intolerance, and this leads to the downfall of many civilizations. One example used to prove her theory is the Empire of the Achaemenids (559 B.C. - 330 B.C.). This is the first example she uses to prove her theory. She mentions that the Achaemenids’…

Hereditary fructose intolerance was first noticed and reported in an adult woman in 1956 by Chambers and Pratt (HFI). Chambers and Pratt observed that the woman started having faintness, nausea and abdominal pain after consuming fructose and sugar (HFI). However, those symptoms disappeared when the woman ate glucose instead (HFI). After a series of testings with different sugars, Chambers and Pratt believed that this woman was “idiosyncrasy to fructose”, but they never thought it would be…

Rachel Basey Period F August 4, 2015 Rough Draft Essay The historical fiction novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak takes place in Nazi Germany. Although Nazi Germany is often only associated with the intolerance and persecution of Jews and other Holocaust victims, this novel is about an everyday, ordinary citizen of Germany. Death narrates the tale of this ordinary citizen, a young girl named Liesel Meminger. Throughout the novel Liesel learns to read, love, and understand the power…

During the Holocaust the Nazis showed extreme intolerance towards Jews and anyone who opposed Hitler and his ways. Millions upon millions were murdered. Families were torn apart and forced into hiding. Everyday freedoms slowly withered away, and yet even though German citizens knew they would suffer the same fate as the Jews did, they still helped them out. As seen in the play The Diary of Anne Frank and the book The Book Thief, the presence of intolerance can inspire people to put others before…

In the early-modernist novella, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, a series of themes are displayed, one of such being that of intolerance. In the contemporary vernacular, the definition of intolerance is regularly associated with discrimination or prejudice. Ethan Frome, the namesake of the novella, has been facing a serious dilemma for over a year, whilst his wife, Zeena Frome is slowly dying of illness and his true love, Mattie Silver, is on the verge of leaving him forever. These three…

outrageousness of her exaggerations give the novel a warning tone to the reader that these conservative principles must be rethought and abandoned. Atwood satirizes conservative beliefs through her intense exaggeration of religious intolerance, divided women, and racial and sexual intolerance. ¬ Throughout…

The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is considered to be one of the best if not, the best novel she has ever written in her career. It narrates the events that happened near the author’s hometown, Alabama, in 1936 when she was just 10 years old. The story evolves on the wrongful accusation of Tom Robinson, a black man raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. It depicts the serious issues of injustice, prejudices and racial inequality. It showed how the whites harassed the blacks as…

Ewell approaches Atticus and starts to punch him, curse him, and threatens to kill him, but it doesn’t work for Atticus. Bob Ewell realizes and says, “Too proud to fight, you nigger-lovin’ bastard?” [pg. 291] This quote exemplifies the theme of intolerance because Mr. Ewell is well known for his racism of black people. Atticus is a colored lawyer, so he’s going to be hated and dealt with the same as a black person in Mr.Ewell’s eyes. After being provoked into a…