Kinship

Victor Frankenstein’s solitary work leads to selfishness because he is solely responsible for his creation and would receive all the glory for his creation if it is successful. Selfishness is defined as an individual becoming consumed with the prospect of success that they neglect their social relationships. Unlike Frankenstein’s solitary work, Smith’s proposed division of labor promotes harmonious relationships between individuals because multiple people are working together to create something…

novel concentrated on heroes who revealed Ozymandias’s intention to unite the world through taking away the lives of millions of innocent souls then blaming a non-existent invasion by an alien. Ozymandias says “the only person with whom I felt any kinship with died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia” (Moore 8). It is really odd that someone does not feel any connection with human being come up with this plan and want to save their life. Ozymandias’s plan gets…

Those who ascribe to the essentialist approach to sexuality conceptually believe in an ahistorical, acultural, and presocial understanding of sexuality; that sexuality has been a consistent, unchanging reality or essence shared among the members of human civilization (Seidman 26). Typically, sexuality essentialists’ base their belief in biomedical arguments -- citing studies that attest to how genes, hormones, and other biological developmental parts of the human body create a fixed desire for…

cruelty of that practice remains the topic of many historical articles, books, and debates. Recently, historian David Richardson said that the process of the transatlantic slave trade was “relentless dehumanization, whereby Africans were stripped of kinship ties, dignity, and a sense of self-worth.” I have to agree with this description.…

Legitimacy is the belief in someone’s right to rule or right to exercise power. Without legitimacy, other powers would have to be deployed (persuasion or coercion) in order to get others to obey you. According to Max Weber, there are three main types of legitimacy: rational-legal, traditional, and charismatic. Performance legitimacy is a way to keep legitimacy. To lose legitimacy, however, is the notion that somehow implicitly, any leader has to do things for the reasons indented (at least…

agriculture establishment and divisions of labor cumulatively standardize by gender and slowly the patterns have been followed till this day. Paleolithic era is when men and women labor was recognized to benefit the groups. Neolithic was the beginning of kinship from matrilocal and matrilineal descent to patrilocal and patrilineal descent. Both era appears to be the most positive for women until the end when civilization was arose to the opposite…

Things Fall Apart follows the tale of a wealthy and respectable man in Umuofia by the name of Okonkwo, who faces traumatic experiences that ultimately lead to his imminent death. With Okonkwo’s tragic story comes the inevitable colonization of the native tribes of Lower Niger. A clear lens to look through is the Marxist lens, which explains that economic and political conditions determine social conditions. Karl Marx’s theorem transposes itself in Umuofia as the colonists brought their…

this specific topic, people tend to define it relative to the occurrences in their personal lives. However, there is a fixed definition as well. According to Merriam-Webster the definition of love is “a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties: attraction based on sexual desire: affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests” (“Love”). It is difficult to wrap up a word like love into a neat definition because it is so malleable based on the person’s…

There is a fable in antiquity about seven blind men who approach an elephant to attempt to discover what an elephant is. Each man touches a different part of the elephant (the trunk, the leg, etc) and comes up with their own conclusion of what an elephant is (a snake, a tree, respectively), and while neither conclusion is inherently wrong, only by combining all their knowledge can a true conclusion be reached. Elaine Tyler May and Joanna Meyerowitz are no exception to this parable, as while…

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence may be regarded as the most impressive convergence of sciences and the most liberating experiment to unfetter the mind from restrictions imposed on it by Immanuel Kant. SETI invites humans to make a pilgrimage towards the beyond and transcend the boundaries of experience. In a practical manner, SETI aims to remove the tangle of misunderstanding between different cultures, religions, races and disabled people. It radicalizes the difference, turning our…