Jada Pinkett Smith

“I Can’t Swim” by Elliot Moss composed in 2015 outlines mental illness in a lyrical way. Throughout the song, the narrator illustrates how mental illness has affected their overall wellbeing. The mental illness being illustrated within the song is depression and enables the listener to comprehend that depression is not constantly displayed outwardly. Hence, allowing the listener to see that within one’s mind there is a great internal conflict due to depression. Elliot Moss’s lyrics to “I Can’t…

John Smith hero or vilan Many historians have argued whether John Smith’s writing were a propaganda or not. John Smith always dreamed of developing America and dominating the Natives. He is from Europe and had a great influence on others. Through his encouragement he was able to convince people from England to cross the waters to begin a new life where only little labor was required, and treasures were easily found. There is a considerable amount of evidence that supports there was some…

Title Here The economy is the wealth and resources of a country in terms of the consumption of goods and services. There were many issues with the economy in the early 1900’s like the Great depression in the 1930’s for example. However, the government worked hard to change the economy to benefit the common people. These changes impacted the economy and the common people positively. Westward expansion helped the common people by providing a lot of land and housing for cheap(“American Progress”…

Although Adam Smith has a popularized reputation as a staunch advocate of laissez-faire, this reputation does not reflect his own views. Smith believes that while self-interested individuals should be able to freely carry out economic transactions within a society, limited government intervention is also necessary in ensuring the individuals are pursuing the best of their interests without causing externalities to others. I. Introduction Although Adam Smith has a popularized…

The Bell Jar was written around the 1950’s and 1960’s, when women were expected to adhere to specific societal norms. Often, these norms included being a mother of children, staying at home cleaning or cooking, and being an obedient wife. Society placed high importance, along with these expectations/behaviors, on the women while they were at home or in public. Society accepted women who met all these factors. Esther, a character in The Bell Jar, and Sylvia’s autobiographical figure, lacks all of…

Elements of Voice: The Bell Jar The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a timeless literary classic. One reason that this novel has transcended the ages since the 1960s is Plath’s expert use of the elements of voice. Few novels may stand the test of time. A vast knowledge of author’s craft is necessary to create a story that is intricate and detail-oriented without becoming overly specific and unrelateable. Sylvia Plath suffered from depression throughout her life, which led to her poetry and novels…

Disease and degeneracy has taken place of the progression promised by the Enlightenment, there is discomfort present within modern society and its streamlining that has led to the world despair and nihilism. Modern mechanical social structure stands responsible for the capacity depletion of humanity to find meaning, and the increased intellectual sophistication is in fact a manifestation of a vane sense of egoism, bound to erupt violently. What was deemed to become the age of information has…

industrial society according to the social principles espoused by Christianity (Appelrouth & Edles 2012). The contributions of many forward thinkers went into forming the established theories of Marx including, but not limited to, political economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo. During this time Marx also established a longstanding collaborative relationship with Friedrich Engels (Appelrouth & Edles…

naturally decline as competition on the supply side of the market and wages of labor increase, which, in turn, inevitably happen as societies increase their wealth (Smith 1976:278). Therefore, there is a contradiction between the interest of the rich and that of the society as a whole, which renders the principle of the invisible hand (Smith 1976:477) inapplicable if they have the means to circumvent the natural rules of the market available to them through the power of the…

Often described as a perfectionist, Sylvia Plath was an enviable, popular, academically successful college student when her losing battle with depression began. Having published her first poem at eight years old, Plath was a writer at her core, and her journey with mental illness can be revealed and analyzed in her writing which gave Plath a method of coping with and externalizing her many debilitating anxieties. In her many published poems, stories, and essays Plath covers topics on identity,…