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relationship. Furthermore, as Holden, down in spirits, wanders through New York, he hires a prostitute for an hour. He says, “It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think” (91). Later, after the prostitute’s pimp beats him up, Holden even considers suicide: “What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window” (104). Salinger uses Holden’s musings at his lowest point to show his downward spiral into depression.…

In “Theories of Relativity”, Barbara Haworth-Attard portrays success as something that can be achieved, regardless of social standing, provided the person is of strong enough character, but also as something that takes a willful person to achieve when in a difficult situation. In the novel, people equally qualified for success differ because of their socioeconomic status. Those of higher socioeconomic status always have an advantage, but if they do not possess good character strength and…

decriminalization of the global sex trade. The policy claims that by making buying and selling sex legal, “the human rights of sex workers” would be protected (Moran). Moran’s problem with the policy is that it would equally protect the rights of the pimps and johns who already keep the sex trade alive. She understands that some women choose to sell their bodies as consenting individuals, but believes that they do not…

The Mass media have played a decisive role in perpetuating gender stereotypes and in maintaining the status quo. With the introduction to new communication technologies, the mass media have acquired global dimension. Although the form and content of mass media have changed dramatically throughout the past few decades, it has been reinforcing patriarchal culture by emphasizing selective themes and viewpoints. Women, in Film media have always been seen, and portrayed as a sex symbol, and…

Meursault, the storyteller, is a young fellow living in Algiers. In the wake of getting a telegram educating him of his mom's demise, he takes a transport to Marengo, where his mom had been living in an old persons' home. He dozes for very nearly the whole trek. When he arrives, he identifies with the home's chief. The executive permits Meursault to see his mom, however Meursault finds that her body has as of now been fixed in the pine box. He decreases the overseer's offer to open the pine box.…

such as culture and race. Some examples of these could include those involved in the rap group N.W.A. as well as a rapper named Kendrick Lamar. In Lamar’s songs “Alright” and “The Blacker the Berry,” both of which are from his most recent album To Pimp A Butterfly, he says things that not only reaffirm but also challenge the racial discrimination towards African-Americans and their culture through his use of certain lyrics. To…

This trafficking activity lasted for decades and extent of the problem was much worse than that of “the white slave trade,” yet there was much less concern from the general public. At its peak, there were roughly 1,500 to 2,000 Chinese women forced into sex slavery in San Francisco, but there wasn’t a wide public uproar because of rampant anti-Chinese sentiment. Oddly enough, our nation’s first drug laws were directly related to anti-Chinese sentiment as the newspapers proclaimed that Asian men…

because she was sent to a Macedonian general by his owner Ballio in order to get a large amount of money. The slave wanted to help his owner so he told the problem to Simo, who is the father of Calidorus, to raise some money to free the girl from the pimp. Fortunately, one friend of the slave named Charinus loaned the slave some money which can be used the girl in time. Because of Pseudolus work, Calidorus could finally marry the girl he loved. The theme shows that the slave tried his best to…

The election process in the United States is a valuable process to the proper officials to satisfy the people. The people run the country which is why we lived in freedom, because we control what happens with major decisions by selecting whom we want to decide these political decisions. The whole country goes to vote on a certain day, and by the end of the day, we will vote to select who will run the city, county, state, or country political positions. The most complex decisions that have the…

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set and published in the 1920’s, or more commonly known as the roaring 20’s, and roaring it was indeed. Many things were occurring as the birth of prohibition with the ratification of the 18th amendment and the birth of organized crime. Another writer that was prolific at this time was Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. His ideas with psychoanalysis was that a person’s decision could be influenced by the events of their past and by a person’s…