Master of Laws

The Lord and the Slave According to Georg Friedrich Hegel in his Lordship and Bondage, all conscious being fall into a “new relationship” of “the Lord” and “the Slave.” (Hegel, 32) Proving that this relationship is still being seen we use it to analyze the relationships between men and women in Glaspell’s Trifles. Throughout the story, the theme of master and slave are presented through clues that are shown through the relationships between men and women in the story. The first clear clue that we get from the story as to who the lord is and who the slave is, is given by the comparison of Mrs. Wright to the bird. The bird signifies happiness and freedom, but ends up in a cage and dead. Comparing Mrs. Wright who in her youth was free and…

The Time I Got Stitches The worst thing that’s happened to me in my life was the time I had to get stitches. It was the summer of 2012. The weather was warm, but the wind was blazing. My cousin and I, who happened to live next door to each other in our old apartments were playing volleyball in the middle of the street, while our family were in the house hanging out. The ball we used was not hard so it could move with the wind. There were another set of apartments which everyone called the…

Even though the master tried to denied that it was their child you can tell by their skin tone. In Sira’s case which she is the mother of Siga, due to the fact that Dousika got horny when he’d seen her. As stated in the story “Siga’s mother was only a captive whom Dousika must have lain with one day, aroused by the tightness of her skirt over her buttock” (p. 30). Which indicates that a slave women was obligated to give up the rights to their bodies, and couldn’t refuse intercourse on an account…

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss M.D. is a persuasive documentation of reincarnation, the past-life, and the afterlife. This book recounts the true story of the author, Brian Weiss, and his experience with reincarnation. He is a prominent American psychiatrist who is married and has two children. He heals his young patient, Catherine, with past-life therapy. In 1966, Brian Weiss graduated Columbia University with a Phi Beta Kappa (Honors), magna cum laude (means "with great praise"). In…

African chattel slavery was deemed extremely dehumanizing to a point where African slaves could not find their own will to resist. Scholars coined the word agency to discuss Blacks not having the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves due to slavery. It is clear how that conclusion of Slavery stripping away agency can be reached; However, Slaves have always demonstrated their opposition and adversity. Those slaves that jumped into the ocean to escape bondage made decisions for…

reflect your nature at all times. First, as a submissive, there is beauty, grace and dignity in that. Be pleasing because you want to be pleasing, you want to be found pleasing, and you want to please those around you. Show your beauty in everything you do. It’s easy to be a submissive when all goes well, it is the greater submissive, the beautiful submissive that can be pleasing when everything around her is against her. You must believe in the idea that all are not created the same and that…

In the show Doctor Who, an alien travels throughout time and space in a time machine called the TARDIS. TARDIS stands for time and relative dimension in space. First off, the Doctor is an alien from the planet Gallifrey. He is called a Time Lord since he is able to manipulate time. The TARDIS is a time machine that he figured out how to use himself. The Doctor left his planet Gallifrey in a stolen time machine called the TARDIS. It can disguise itself as whatever the driver wants. The Doctor…

collection of stories from former slaves and 12 Years a Slave based on Solomon Northup’s life written by John Ridley, Christianity was controlled by those who could read. Education among slaves was seen as undesirable, an uneducated slave was easier to control as opposed to an educated one. Preaching to those who are unable to read the Bible themselves makes it rather easy to take things out of context, leaving it up to the masters, in this…

On November 22nd , 2015 , I had attended a play “A servant of Two masters” that played downtown Pittsburgh at the O’Reilly theater, the play was directed by Ted Pappas. He had put together a creative and intriguing play, having actors stay spontaneous and interact with the audience, therefore no parts would be found boring nor dry. All the actors had held up their end of their roles quite well, by fully disguising themselves as that character they were suppose to be during the entire play. …

10,000 Hour Argument Practice makes perfect, or so they say, but is that really true? There are conflicting opinions on how much practice it takes to master a skill. In the novel Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill. In the article “Your Genes Don’t Fit: Why 10,000 Hours of Practice Won’t Make You an Expert” the author says that 10,000 hours of practice is not the only thing that it takes to master a skill. I agree with the author who says 10,000 hours of…