Evaluation of Breastfeeding in Public Breast-feeding is a natural and cost free source of food for the babies. It is highly indispensable for both humans and animals. However, breastfeeding in the public has always faced a lot of objection. People have adopted a social disapproval perception to public breastfeeding. Sometimes, women are forced to cease breastfeeding before the child is satisfied or even go for other alternatives like bottle feeding, thus denying the child its natural rights…
“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to the government” (Jiddu Krishnamurti) This quote by the public speaker, Jiddu Krishnamurti, is often reflected in the novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The novels both deal with the recurring theme that the government is willing to remove humanity for an efficient, conflict-free society. We see this in both government's use of conditioning the…
The Jewish ethical teachings and and mitzvots include many literal or more metaphorical rules that very much affect an adherents day to day life. Few such aspects of an adherents life that are heavily influenced by the Jewish code are the areas of life relating to sexuality and the human sexual anatomy. Areas such as; Sexual intercourse, divorce, premarital sex, purity, abortion, homosexuality and contraception are all concepts discussed within the Torah and Jewish communities. Many Jewish laws…
category. They both deal with issues of affairs that are just as serious as any of the characters in either film; yet, they handled them very differently. Besides Chesnaye and Jureiu’s little scruff up, he and Christine except each other’s adulterous promiscuity rather openly and without it letting it hurt them too much. There nonchalant attitudes provides the comedy in La Regle du…
Despite their polar opposite upbringings, Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire share similar qualities that cause them to frequently bump heads with each other. They dislike the same qualities in the other that they have in themselves. For both characters, their passions and desires dictate their actions throughout the play. Both Blanche and Stanley express their feelings passionately, causing a blurred line of reality. These qualities and…
Good things are essentially impossible. That was the mindset Sir Thomas More had when he coined the term Utopia. More wanted to give his readers an idea into what a perfect society would be. Utopia was a perfect society in many ways, but it was also imperfect. More even realized this at the end of the book. Utopia is told through More about Raphael Hythloday’s experience in Utopia and how he thought it was perfect. Throughout Utopia we see many imperfections in the geographical context, marriage…
Much too often, the role of a father in the life of his child is downplayed and underemphasized by society. In times past, mothers have been regarded by most of society as the primary parent in nearly every facet, whether it pertains to the child’s academic performance to medical care to emotional wellbeing. The widely held sentiment has been that the mother’s role is more important than that of the father’s when it pertains to child rearing. Although this belief may be true for a fraction of…
Set in the 1950’s, the film follows Katherine Watson, a socially progressive and unmarried 30 year old college graduate, who takes a position teaching “The History of Art” at Wellesley College, a conservative women’s private college in Massachusetts, and her struggles to make a difference, both in the lives of her students and generations to come. In this paper I will examine how the film challenges gender stereotypes, investigates the sexist values of society at the time, and how it illustrates…
Immortality; or an eternity to fix yourself “The Mortal Immortal”is a mysterious short story that tells of an impatient young man, Winzy, that has taken an immortality elixir from his mentor, Cornelius, unknowing of what he has consumed. He then continues to live his day to day life, marrying the love of his life, Bertha, along the way. As time went on, Winzy, Bertha, and the people of the village realized that Bertha was aging while Winzy was not. A fiasco ensued and due to this Bertha and…
Cicero not only highlights how immoral women behave, but also how morals are used to punish and diminish women with power. Clodia comes from a prominent family with abundant political connections. She could potential hold a lot of power in the structure of the family. Yet, right away, Cicero calls her out, not as a person, but almost as an object. In this morality, women are returned to being objects to store prestige, wealth and power. He addresses her as “a woman not only of noble birth, but…