Promiscuity

Seeking counseling, or any other kind of intervention by mental health services, is associated with a negative stigma in the African American community (Chatters et al., 2011; Dempsey, Butler, & Gaither, 2016; Der Pan et al., 2013). Instead of seeking “outside” help, the African American community may find it more sensible to seek help from within the family or the church community (Allen, Davey, & Davey, 2010). According to Dempsey, Butler, & Gaither (2016), this is due to historical mental…

Literary Criticism: The Awakening and the Failure of the Psyche It is apparent that one can correlate Greek mythology to The Awakening when reading Franklin’s criticism. Franklin associates the paradigm of Psyche to the pathological, internal struggle of Edna, where the fear of the confrontation of solitude is prevalent. Franklin first explains the irony in the title of The Awakening, given the fact that Edna sleeps, living in a world filled with fantasy rather than being psychologically and…

an intersectional issue between sexism and racism it goes hand in hand. The media portrayed them as sexually ‘liberated ' in the sense that there were very accepting of sexual activities. This made it easy media to turn it around and associate promiscuity with black women. In the past, it was not an option for them to refuse their white oppressors ' desire to have sex. This stereotype has also been associated with animalistic traits. Most music videos show these black women as strippers, movies…

Whether or not women should have the right to an abortion is an argument that is on the news a lot nowadays. This argument dates back to the early 1970s and the Roe v. Wade court case. In fact, the Roe v. Wade case is one of the most talked about supreme court cases to date. It took place in Texas, where state law only allowed abortion to save the life of the mother. “Jane Roe”, a pseudonym for the appellant, wanted to have an abortion. However, the appellee, Henry Wade, argued that it was…

Borrowing from the spirit of asceticism depicted in the “Christian Directory” of R. Baxter, a Calvinist Presbyterian believer, Weber infers that, by safeguarding a place in God’s grace for the believers, the Calvinist asceticism permits them to complete the work assigned to them by God. Thus, to the Calvinist Christians, labor is the main path of asceticism as well as the purpose of life. In the same vein, commitment to a legitimate profession is accepted by the Quakers as a practice of…

The most recent event about race that has been on my mind lately, was my senior year of high school. My days as a high school senior was one of the worst times of my life, but it was also the most enlightening time of my life. During that year, I understood what it meant to be a black girl dating, and the depressing consequences that my stereotype placed on me. I went to Springbrook high school in Silver Spring, Maryland. The area I lived in and the school is racially made up of mostly black…

mentioned before, Pittenger was astounded whenever the male lovers would disappear from sight, people would give each other ‘knowing looks” (Pittenger 36). He despised this behavior exhibited by church goers. He seems to regard homosexual acts of promiscuity as indifferent from heterosexuals. He allows his audience to realize that permanent relationships are what everyone yearns for and homosexuals should not be deprived of this…

The Freire Engagement Assignment performed in class the week of May 30th was, in my opinion, an exceptional introductory activity that helped facilitate class discussion as well as some level of reflection about the course materials and subject matter. For this activity, students were to think about the words “difference” and “diversity” and then write out a list of words they associated with these terms. Then, they were to pick five words on their list that they found particularly important…

The Ideal Society That Was Not Sexual orgies, frequent drug use, and a repugnance towards babies are the key qualities of an upstanding citizen. Well, they are in fictional dystopias anyway. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 are novels that provide examples of a perfect nation that is more horrifying than innovative, but Huxley’s story appeals to more readers by showing how even a satisfying existence in dystopia is problematic. This essay will discuss both novels…

MORAL DEGENERATION IN MODERN AFRICAN SOCIETY AND SCHOOLS Modern South African society and the continent at large are plagued and encounter experiences of moral decline. Moral degeneration is a universal phenomenon which does not only negatively affect the society but also foster serious moral breakdown. It is acknowledged that the essence of morality entails knowing good and bad, right and wrong human behaviour. However, there is a lack of relay of moral values in family systems in determining…