Orgy

Although I am embarrassed to tell this story, for it screams massive class and racial privilege, I guess it will be another step in the acceptance of my innate privilege and social status. A few weeks ago, I had the chance to hang out with a high school buddy of mine, whom I had not seen in a while. He texted me asking if I was interesting in making a trip to the L’auberge Casino, for his girlfriend had just recently turned twenty-one and was interested in trying out her new legal freedom. I…

The cultural differences of communication between men and women are often the stem of relationship problems, however they are often overlooked. In Deborah Tannen’s essay Sex, Lies, and Conversation she discusses common differences concerning communication between men and women. These differences are the mechanics of conversation, conversational habits, and expectations about how communication is in marriage between men and women. Based on my own observations and experiences, Tannen presents a…

Luis Bunuel pioneered surrealist cinema. Many of his films revolve around three themes he was fanatic about. These being, religion, class and sexual desire. These topics can be linked to Bunuel’s early years. He was born on February 22nd, 1900 in Calanda, Spain. His birthplace was of highly religious mindset as many places were in Spain. In Bunuel’s semi autobiography My Last Breath he says, “The middle ages lasted until World War I” (8). The “Miracle of Calanda” (13) was a tale in which an…

From an exceptionally young age, Salvador Dali understood that he was different from other people. An extremely shy young boy – insecure to a point – he went out of his way to draw attention to himself, and when the attention arose, he reveled in it. From his early years until his death, Dali at home when he pushed a friend off of a cliff, to his years in art school when he flung himself down a flight of stairs, to his obsession with thinking he remembered being in the womb and being birthed, to…

Rebels revolt when they want to revolutionize, improve, or change the way society works. When they succeed in their goals and fulfill their desires, they will no longer want to rebel. However, in many cases, there are systems where it is impossible to create a prosperous rebellion. Rebels who attempt to overthrow the World State in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World will never be successful. The World State is successful in constructing a rebellion proof state through the ways in which they control…

Orlando Figes is a professor of history at the University of London. He has published many books concerning Russian history, such as A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, which received the Wolfson History Prize and other awards as well. Figes has proven to be a very accomplished author, proving the world with comprehensive information about Russian history, which have been translated into more than 20 languages. In his book, Revolutionary Russia, 1981-1991, he provides a…

Within the last hundred years, American women were given the right to vote. It was understood that a woman was more than the property of the male authorities in her life. She had just as much right to have her voice heard. Moreover, women now have the opportunity to make a living for themselves; they do not have to be dependent on men for survival. Society began to realize that women were capable of being more than a homemaker; that the idea of a woman wanting more from life than just being a…

Have you ever wondered how we, as humans, developed our sexual tendencies? Or perhaps you have wondered why and how it is that humans across the globe are generally attracted to certain traits in potential partners despite differences in culture. There are countless questions that people may have about sex, flirting, dating, love, and any other subcategory that falls under personal relationships – these same people may often find it difficult to ask the questions that they have been harboring.…

Ignorance is the Real Enemy Origin: Ray Stannard Baker. After 1896. US cities. Muckraker. Primary. Purpose: To explain muckrakers impact society What does Baker say is the reason or purpose for Muckrakers? What is their responsibility? Baker states that the reason or purpose for Muckrakers is to expose the world around them. To really look at it and they are responsible to report honestly, fully, and above all interestingly at what they found. Muckrakers must report the facts, they can’t…

Within Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, the narrator struggles to create a world which is both believable to the reader and utopian, until she eventually gives up and brings evil into her storyworld as a last-ditch attempt to make her reader believe in the world she has created. This is a representation of the way in which balance and layering is crucial to a storyworld, not only between the good and the evil, but also throughout other elements such as the old and the new,…