Mercenary

Hollywood has had a long, difficult history of racism. Although the obvious racism comes in many different forms, a prevalent type is whitewashing. Whitewashing is when a character of color is portrayed by a Caucasian person instead. One of the most famous instances of whitewashing was in 1961 in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The Japanese character Mr. Yunioshi was portrayed by the white actor Mickey Rooney, complete with horrifyingly buck teeth, yellowed skin, pinched eyes, and an offensive…

Isis “ Men are moved by two levers only : fear and self interest” (Napoleon). Fear is caused by emotions. Emotions are strong they make us very happy or sad at the time, it makes people do things before they think about it. Fear of death is one of the worst. Militant group called ISIS has been trying to take over small countries across the Middle East and enable the possibility to spread fear of Muslims all over the world, but primary to Europe. Isis, militant group, is causing one of the…

The Declaration of Independence Evolved a Unique American Identity The Declaration of Independence has been one of the most universally renowned document throughout history. Not only had this document claimed freedom from an oppressive Great Britain, but also elaborated on controversial ideas such as a government whose power belongs to the governed, and the concept of natural human rights. The three topics of independence, democracy, and the concept of basic human rights that forged a unique…

Discovering an exotic and unfamiliar object, it is only normal for people to trace its origin and interpret it from different angles. What's more, they will even appreciate and exhibit it if it has graceful features and special values. However, the above-described actions can be found in neither “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez nor “The Drowned Giant” by J. G. Ballard. The former takes place in a small city with religious leadership as rule while the latter takes…

Rock’s Rugged Whisper What took me to Arcot, the city of Nawabs, was the photograph of a Rock Cut temple at Vellore Museum. Though not at par with Ajanta and Elephanta Caves it was a beautiful sight and reminded me of Bagh Caves. Flanked by a carpet of green grass it seemed to represent the romance of ancient nomadic-spiritual life. Finding it was going to be difficult. First, the caption hardly gave any idea about its exact location and second, I didn’t understand Tamil. The problem…

Feudalism, simply put, was the relationship between a lord and a vassal that changed the way of life during the Middle ages. The relationships between the classes of people. There was no clear hierarchy of who owed service to whom between king, lord, knight, or serf. For example a serf might serve any of these others or a knight might serve a king, but there was no direct level of power except between the vassal and his lord (the giver of property). Feudalism also changed the way England…

Analysis Slavery is a huge part of the history of the world. Almost every continent has participated in the enslavement of some sort of people. Even though today slavery is illegal in most countries, one can draw similarities to sweatshops as modern-day slavery. Men, children, and women still work for pennies a day in horrible conditions. Just like the Atlantic Slave Trade where the Kings sold their own people for large amounts of money at the time, today, companies use the people of a country…

Agriculture led to the development of civilization and a division of society by class because many technological advances were made in the agricultural society that were considered revolutionary. For instance, cities situated along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers built irrigation systems, an artificial application of water to the land. This stimulated farm-production tremendously and made possible to support thousands and thousands of people (42). This invention shows that at this point in time,…

Political censorship is the suppression of information and ideas by the official government (American Civil Liberties Union, n.d). Governments will suppress information for the positive view of the country and prevent opposing views about the government, allowing for prolonged standing. In Libya the Prime Minister has removed any negative independent broadcasting of information or print media, which is similar in Turkmenistan, where "cross censorship" has been introduced therefore creating an…

The first time the party (and the player) are introduced to Rose, it's when they meet the merchant guild, the Sparrowfeathers. Rose serves as their leader, and has all the charisma, charm that one would expect from a merchant. As a leader she's responsible and reliable, and is able to deal with (and make the decisions for) effectively two different guilds. When making decisions, Rose is, first and foremost, someone who almost always follows her gut. She's gifted with a good business sense, and…