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    How destructive is the white savior complex? While the white savior complex article written by “Teju Cole” argues that many efforts by the North Americans to rescue “victims” of poverty and injustice in Africa are more about the western activist and their desire for a sentimental heroism than caring about the actual need of the African, it ultimately causes a major division between white activist and the racial other. The white savior complex is basically quite destructive trope that has been…

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    Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice is firstly a novel about surpassing obstacles and finding true love and happiness. The story follows the emotional development of the main character Elizabeth Bennet, one of the five daughters of Bennet family, who has the tendency to judge too quickly. As the story progress, Elizabeth learns the difference between the superficial and the essential, throughout her relationship with Mr. Darcy.…

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    seems to respect. “Every time you mention a guy who’s strictly a bastard -very mean or very conceited... She’ll tell you he has an inferiority complex” (Salinger 135). He immediately shows disdain towards the idea of excusing someone as having an inferiority complex, yet he continues on to say “His name was Bob Robinson and he really had an inferiority complex... The reason she thought he was conceited was because he happened to mention to her that he was the captain of the debating team”…

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    There is no doubt that Turgenev had reformist tendencies; he moved amid the circles of the Russian intelligentsia (Freeborn 1994, 39), which would have in turn born some influence on him. Since the 1860s, however, Turgenev’s work has met with criticism revolving around ideology versus poeticism, and at the center of this argument is Bazarov. In regard to this controversial character, Turgenev said, ‘in the main character, Bazarov, there lay the figure of a young provincial doctor that struck me’…

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    flat, car, chauffeur, excellent healthy and no family troubles at all. But still, her talk sounded like she is the most wretched being on the earth. She was one such type of women who’s never happy or content with her life. She had a definite martyr complex that things were always bad and getting worse. She thought that the sorts of things that are happening to her just don’t happen to anyone else. Nobody could have so many problems like the difficulties in job, the noise made by the people…

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    My mother always compared myself with my older sister as a result. As a result, experience what Adler request lower feelings, a particular one that is the very normal response to the awareness of not being can perform in a way that we desire. Also, Adler presents this experiencing a “minus condition.” Those feelings change the motivation for contending toward what he announces a “plus condition”. Contain, individuals exert in this direction for the reason of the “originative power” of life,…

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    way for a person to think and act. Hamlet’s Oedipus Complex is socially unacceptable and therefore must be repressed, tampering with Hamlet’s abilities to function like a normal man. Hamlet’s sadness, inability to act, and poor decisions are a reflection of his Oedipal entanglement with Gertrude and his ironic desire to be Claudius , making it impossible for him live without destroying himself. Being that completely containing his Oedipus Complex is difficult, Hamlet, throughout the play,…

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    growing prison system in sovereign nations, has shown dramatic increases of incarcerating women of color over the past 10 years. Commonly referred to as the “prison-industrial complex” this a system composed of state penal systems, corrupt politicians, and for-profit prison companies, which disproportionately places minorities in prison. The author of the article, “Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison Industrial Complex”, Julia Sudbury, argues how the prison industrial complex…

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    in the Meaning of Freedom depict the rise of the prison-industrial complex in the United States. The prison-industrial complex is the collection of the criminal justice system, police officers, judges, and every actor participating in the process of incarcerating individuals. Two explanations Davis provides for the rise are the public fear of crime perpetrated by the media that leads to racist policies and the relationship of globalization and prisons. Intertwined throughout her arguments is the…

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    The underlying problem of the prison industrial complex will be defined through the prison industrial complex to exploit lower class citizens through capitalism, yet within the context of spiritual liberation of vipassana mediation as defined in Changing from Inside, Dhamma Brothers, and Doing time, Doing Vipassana. The film Dhamma Brothers, the internal spiritual freedom of Buddhism is analyzed within the context of prisoners of the prison industrial complex as a form of capitalistic…

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