Outward Bound

4.3 Attainment of Headship, Power and Authority 4.3.1 Influence of Dress on self and others Dress, which falls under the dictates of fashion is a sort of language, which has been used as a communicative medium from time immemorial. It has been largely used as a signalling medium. As a type of intersection between the individual and the larger socio-cultural environment, it is implied that dress can be imparted as a type of social power. For dress to perform the role of a communicative medium…

This photo was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston as a Full Self-Portrait, “New Woman”, in 1896. She received her first camera from George Eastman, the inventor of the Eastman Kodak and a family friend. She became a noted advocate for women’s photography as well as a documenter of key historic events. When she opened her own studio in New York in 1894, She was the only woman photographer in the city. Johnston also photographed many famous photographs in Paris, but perhaps her most famous work,…

1) The Greenwood Company just ended the employment of Mr. McBride for numerous of reasons. Through his exit interview, Mr. McBride made more than a few alarming statements providing reasonable mistrust to the business that he may have mantled with the source code for “Product X”. The Human Resources Director, Mr. Jenkins, briefed the Incident Response Team that the business wants to recollect the possibility to bring up the investigation to law enforcement in the future, so whatever completed…

“The Nature of young people is such that they are not free from desires. Desires have power and control over them. If they clap their hands and stamp their feet the intensity of their desires will decrease and they should be able to control their outward actions better. It is better to partially relieve oneself of the excessive intensity of emotions in sama’ than to let them go out among people where these emotions can harm both a young man and people around him”. Abu Saeed has played a major…

The Cold War and Post-WWII Technology in Fahrenheit 451 The 1950s were a turning point in the postmodern era, marking not only a slew of achievements in human ingenuity, but also the beginning of a long duration of foreign tension rooting from World War II. As a result of this massive war, countries like the United States and Russia were left as superpowers of the world and had unresolved stress. This stress cultivated into an anxious standoff between two massive forces that was nearing complete…

Introduction “Ju Dou” (1990), a Xi An Film Studio movie by director Zhang Yimou, is a tragic story of spousal abuse, adultery, lust and filial piety. The young, strong, and beautiful Ju Dou (Li Gong) becomes the third wife to her much older, physically and sexually abusive husband, dye mill owner Yang Jinshan (Wei Li), whose goal in life is to fulfill his filial piety by having a son, Tianbai (Yi Zhang). The couple live and work with Jinshan’s nephew, the younger, physically more attractive, but…

Let’s consider an example. Some Muslims may interpret their scripture in such a way where they believe the fulfillment of their moral tradition requires them to do physical harm to others that will not adhere to Islam. If a Muslim student were to attempt to strike another student, school officials would stop the action for a multitude of reasons. None of these reasons (including the prevailing need to ensure the safety of students) specifically target Muslim morality, as rules against violence…

The Trojan Sofa: Ideology is a luminous halo ‘Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad [of] impressions – trivial, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant show of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday...[but] life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the…

in order perpetuate social hierarchy and justify oppression. Subsequently, racial meaning is consistently “verified” in social life to the point that it becomes palpable. These ideologies manifest themselves in their inclusion to the law, “which is bound by those rituals that daily create and recreate race in its characteristic American form.”(Fields) Mark Twain’s Puddn’head Wilson sheds light on the artificiality of race while critiquing the extent to which social conventions dominate society.…

One of the techniques used by Poe was the discovery and exploration of the Right Brain. Poe was an avid follower and believer in Phrenology, although it was studied very little in his time. Poe did not directly discover this part of the brain, but he would still describe it in great detail. He saw it as the exotic part of the mind. What he described as the exotic part of the mind is now officially called the right hemisphere of the brain. He believed this part of the brain dealt with…