Otherness

The resurgence of hate and division is a pressing issue in modern society; everywhere there are groups of people who refuse to acknowledge each other due to slight disagreements. Throughout history, people have amassed power by exploiting others for their labor, land, and ideas. These groups of people are referred to as “the other”, they are often targets of xenophobia and hate. The other can be people with common identifiers: gender, race, class, etc. The writers James McBride & William…

Title In Eric Kripke’s CW show Supernatural, the audience is introduced to two very different brothers. Sam Winchester, the younger of the two, has a life filled with opportunity. At age 21, he finds himself concluding his undergrad at Stanford with an LSAT score of 174 and a loving relationship with his live in girlfriend, Jessica. When his brother Dean unexpectedly arrives with the unfortunate news that their father has gone missing, Sam is required to leave school for a weekend to aid his…

The modern age presents multiple channels for public action, dialogue and discussion. Furthermore, social and political thought argues that these spaces multiply the opportunities for dialect and action and encourage the process of individual thought and reflection. Spaces of action become spaces of remembrance, which hold vast opportunity to contribute to the project of mending frailty in human affairs. Yet the process of memorialisation is difficult, for the formation of memory can only occur…

There is no site on the internet that is more so a paradox than that of 4chan. It is a site of dueling ideologies, behind its simplistic façade the many voices of humanity battle for superiority that form a disgusting yet uniquely human viewpoint of reality. Forming a harsh yet accepting community and influencing for better or for worse all aspects of everyday life that exist outside the points of the simple image posting website. In many aspects 4chan is the alpha and the omega the beginning…

Racism has existed in the human history since the conception of human race itself to the current society and it influences people’s relationships and attitudes to one another. Racism is the complex belief that members of one race have characteristics and abilities that are superior or inferior. The different traits are believed to distinguish one race from another. Racism is normally seen in political arena and other social interactions (Lentin 24). Furthermore, racism causes the feeling of…

The entire Grounder culture takes aspects from real life cultures while also portraying them as savages. For example, tattoos are important to the Grounder culture, many characters have facial tattoos such as Emroi, introduced later but with a clear Maori tattoo. The Grounders are often portrayed with Tribal tattoos, clearly stolen from a variety of native cultures that use specific designs to create symbolic cultural meaning. Historically, Native people, with me concentrating on the Moari…

Great Satan vs Axis of Evil: the Iranian perspective The aim of this work is to address Crocker's article The Strategic Dilemma of a World Adrift, in which he describes the present-day geopolitical situation: policymakers struggle to create sound strategies in an increasingly complex world (7). I am going to deal with a particular point of his argumentation: In the course of the article he compares the current period with the fifteen years (1991-2005) after the end of the Cold War, describing…

costs of its absence in organizational conflict management in higher education institutions in Brazil. The researcher did a case study within a unit of an HEI in Brazil. The research discussed in this paper showed that the system of constructing "otherness" and isolating it can actually be characterized as workplace bullying condoned by extremely mono-cultural leaders. Leaders should be ethically and multicultural accountable for ensuring an institutional identity open to cultural plurality and…

Alcestis was the wife of King Admetus, a man who was allowed to live past the time of his death so long as he found someone to take his place. When the time came for the king to die, Alcestis agrees to sacrifice herself to spare her children from going fatherless. Euripides’s work begins just as Alcestis is about to die. In a heartfelt monologue before her passing, Alcestis only asks that her husband honor her memory by not taking another wife and bringing a stepmother into their children’s…

Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande through their subjective narratives emphasize the important contributions that migration played about their family relations and the development of their personal identity. Both authors touch upon similar themes relating to transnationalism and liminal identities, however they greatly differentiate when discussing the factor of citizenship and mobility. Cisneros is born in the U.S. while Reyna Grande is born in Mexico and later migrates to the U.S. as an…