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In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden is a potentially psychotic teenage boy who has been expelled from four schools. Holden does not care about anything except for his siblings. Holden’s sadness starts with the death of his brother, Allie, due to Leukemia. Holden feels that a part of him is missing which sparks extreme depression inside of him. Holden is even more at risk for a meltdown when he goes to boarding to school, which separates him from his sister, Phoebe–and…

No matter how much we run, jump or pray, we cannot escape change. In the same ways that we experience radical forms of change, Sister Ursula from Justin Russo’s The Whore’s Child experiences them too. After constructing a false sense of hope to get her through the first stages of her life(the little girl identity), Ursula confronts this sense of hope as she moves into the last stage of her life (the big girl identity). This transformation from one identity to the next shows us just how…

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Do you know who Malcom X is? Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Malcolm X exhibited concepts of pride, black nationalism, and race in the 1950s and 1960s. The early years, teenage years, and years of being a minister/human rights activist makes up the autobiography of Malcom x. During the early years, Malcom X was considered Malcolm Little. Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. Malcolm was…

Also in 1927 the League of Nations was founded after World War One. They focused on maintaining world peace, but also the use of human trafficking. They changed the Suppression of WHite Slave Traffic to Traffic in women and children to show that there was no discrimination to race. They also added both genders to the cause of trafficking. To find out where in the world exactly it was most common researchers did a study on both the east and west hemisphere. The factors that they considered were…

Hamlet has been adored by countless viewers, and is still in production in theatres all over the world, despite it being written over 400 years ago. As to be expected of such a famous play, there have been countless critics disparaging it. Voltaire 's review, in particular, stands out from the rest. Voltaire profusely argues that Hamlet was written by a “drunken savage,” and that it is a “vulgar and barbarous drama,” where “Hamlet becomes crazy in the second act.” Hamlet’s berserk actions…

Minimum wage is a hot topic in the United States currently, and both sides are equally important. Making sure that people living here are above the poverty line is necessary, but keeping the nation from going bankrupt is also crucial. The positives to raising minimum wage are financial security for families, less worker exploitation and under employment, and it would reduce crime significantly. More than 45 million people in the United States alone, are below the poverty line, which means…

Many traffickers, pimps, and brothels around the world are managed by complex criminal organizations. These groups use the bountiful profits from trafficking for further felonies, thus jeopardizing everyone’s safety and increasing the vulnerability of future victims. Evil…

only thing he really acts on is violence. That is the main thing he follows because it is his way of getting attention from others. When Sunny confronts him about paying her the other five dollars he waits until he is forced to get roughed up by the “pimp”, Maurice. When Maurice hit Holden he started exaggerated how hurt he was saying, “I sort of started pretending I had a bullet in my guts” (135). A reason for his exaggeration is that this is the only way he feels like he can be taken…

“I bet you wouldn’t be doing this if I was white!” This statement, or a variation of it, has been at least in the mind at least once of every black person. But why? Is it because they’re trying to make everything about race? Or is it something deeper in their understanding about a certain preference society has placed due to stereotypes? The true answer is that most black people recognize and tend to point out the presence of white privilege. White privilege tends to show is recognizable…

Generally I overthink everything, but for some reason when it comes to justice-related issues everything is very clear and simple to me. It all started in 2011; I was fourteen years old, it was 2 am, and I was watching a mini-series about human trafficking on Youtube. Honestly, searching “human trafficking” on Youtube was the exact opposite of what my anti-human trafficking buddy Kathy told me to do, but for some reason I did it anyway. After watching this miniseries, I felt like an anvil was…