No Country for Old Men

What affect did de-colonization have on the cultural characteristics of your country? Upon gaining independence it both unified the country and also tore it apart creating ethnic tensions. It helped to unify because when Tanganyika and Zanzibar gained independence the two territories merged together to make Tanzania. However, when Zanzibar was in the process of gaining independence there was a huge rebellion where the black Zanzibarians attacked the Arabs and Asians on the island leaving a mass…

The sexualization of women is a big issue that affects how women and men perceive women. Everywhere, you see pictures of women in ads or shows. They seem to look normal, but they are almost always explicitly portrayed sexually, childlike, or submissive. Advertisements for cars or even sandwiches, they are hypersexualized, a term meaning that “a person’s value only comes from his or her sexual appeal or behavior to the exclusion of other characteristics” The APA Task Force on the Sexualisation of…

With drug use on the rise in America, the drug cartels have become more powerful than can be controlled by Mexican authorities or U.S border patrol. Just like in No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. We need to put more effort into controlling the trade. Many people in Mexico have a hard time living in their country due poverty. According to the Japan Times the Mexican poverty rate hit 46.2% last year. The poverty line isn’t as high as you think it is. The Japan Times defines poverty as…

How was Marjane’s life affected by the revolution? When Marjane was 10 years old there was a war between her home country Iran, and Iraq. Most people fled the country because they knew there was not going to be a future for their children. Marjane is a girl who is trying to escape from the war to get a better life. The revolution affected Marjane because she started to protest, she was forced to wear the veil and her life became a struggle because of the war. The revolution affected her from…

D-Social injustice issue/s relating to the Loyal Men: The social injustice issue depicted is Suppression of individual rights. “Somebody, a traitor, was printing leaflets criticizing the Guide and his Revolutionary Committee”. The quotation refers to how the Revolution Men protect and defend their leader. They would fight anyone who criticizes the Guide or Gaddfi and revolutionary committee. They are abusive as best illustrated by Sharif who, in the story, emerges to search Baba’s house without…

Currently, women actually are huge rivals to men in the business world. According to journalist Hanna Rosin, the writer of “The End of Men”, reviles shocking statistic that females are taking control of everything, and that females are prone adapt to postindustrial economy conditions than males (Rosin, 471-489). After 1975, women went to a labor force, and they got educated, which means that they could apply for a better job. In addition, men have disadvantage with modern technology and cheaper…

Did you know that at Target men and women are allowed to use the opposite gender’s bathrooms and changing rooms if they claim to be that gender? Many people don’t know this surprising rule that threatens the safety of women and young girls all across the country. Many will say that it is fine to shop there as long as you don’t use the bathrooms or changing rooms, but I disagree. I find it hard to give your money to businesses who don’t respect people’s basic rights of privacy. You may think that…

nerve wracking. Imagine the teenage men in the 1960’s, sitting on a cargo plane with a bunch of others, some they knew and some they did not. They traveled across oceans to risk their lives and fight for their country. The entire plane remained silent because the only thing going through people’s minds was if they would be going home again or not. This is how Brucie Potter felt when he was on his way to Vietnam to fight in the war. Now, Brucie is just an old farmer who lives in Wisconsin and…

Q2. In this book All Quiet on the Western Front, the men are changed physically, mentally, and emotionally. The impact these changes bring upon each man is drastic, this is their new way of life. Once they have experienced what they have, there would be no going back. In the book, Paul Bäumer struggles with the reality of not being able o relate back to his old home because the war had changed him so much. Paul Bäumer was not the only man who would be changed, many of his close friends would be…

eighteen year olds are capable of voting and fighting for their country, they should be able to have a drink, also, lowering the age would help with less college students…