Resentment

1. East Asia: The “Oriental Girls ” Perhaps the most interesting, and alarming point about East Asia is the amount of woman that fill the factories and the amount of pressure they have at the risk of income. This might seem as a minor detail yet when reading about why these women are working there it is completely offensive. In East Asia, woman or “oriental girls” are seen as sex objects, “loose”, and “permanent casuals” yet it’s also said that they’re given a healthful experience and freedom…

In 1915, a group called the Young Turks had been in power since 1908 when Sultan Hamid II was overthrown. The Turks developed a distrust towards the Armenians, who were Christians and not Muslim, which the Turkish people were. The Armenians and the Turks cohabitated in the same area, the Ottoman Empire. Eventually, the Turks wanted to drive the Armenians out of their land, and the controversy got very violent. The United States government should recognize the events of 1915 in Armenia as a…

mother in “The Most Hateful Words.” excerpted from her memoir, The Opposite of Fate, published by Penguin Books in New York in 2003. This is a story of a woman and how her relationship with her mother was of one that included harsh words, isolation, resentment, and then guilt. As a teenage girl life can be very dramatic and at times very confusing. Most teens turn to the person they feel they can relate the most and of course who will side with them. This person would usually…

apart friendships, families, marriages, and communities. The causes of conflict could range from a simple misunderstanding to a fanatical opposition of political or religious views. Conflict causes animosity between parties and ultimately leads to resentment and animosity. Although conflict can be the result from various reasons, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice illustrates that conflict is the result of a lack of self-control. Self-control is the ability to control impulsive behavior and…

pile up in a house. It is bothersome and most of all, unhealthy. Forgiveness acts like a vacuum that sucks up all the dust, discards it in a trash can and leaves the house spick-and-span. Forgiveness can be defined as the process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution, with an increased ability to wish the offender well. It differs from condoning, pardoning, excusing…

There are always reasons, whether they be justified or just outright strange, that we use as our resolve so as to follow our desires or wants. And as such in the novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, tells the story a young man named Chris McCandless, who after journeying into Alaska’s wilderness, ends up dead after failing to survive the harshness of the wild. This young man had gone into the wilderness for personal reasons that were never clearly answered by him himself, although there is…

that her daughter masters one and becomes a “child prodigy.” Meanwhile, the daughter chooses to find herself through her own means rather than through the dreams of her mother, which sets the theme of how the expectations of a parent can lead to resentment from the child, especially when the child fails or struggles to reach the expectations of the parent. The voracious love between mother and daughter, supported by the tale of the harrowing journey the mother has already…

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Throughout The Book of Genesis, conflict reveals the imperfection of God’s creation of man; however, forgiveness is what proves that man is not completely evil. Whether the conflict be man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. God, etc., forgiveness is never an easily accomplished task. The acts of begging for or providing forgiveness can take extensive amounts of time to build strength to do. The…

non-working class. This resentment lead to a comradery between laborers. During the second half of the nineteenth century the elite of the South saw the working class of the North as unfit for association with a southerner’s body servant. Many of the elite believed that…

Analysis of the impact of love and jealousy A Separate Peace is filled with both love and jealousy as seen through the friendship, between two people known as Gene and Finny. Jealousy can not only destroy one’s self, but also others around them. If one is not careful their jealousy can turn into bitterness and hatred, eating them alive and causing them to become a person that was never thought possible. Love can also make a person blind to other people's actions, making them very gullible to the…