Riya Sen

protagonist, Mrs. Sen as a cultural outsider to the American society and a cultural insider in her microcosm — the apartment she decorated to resemble India. Interestingly, Lahiri portrays another protagonist, the 11-year-old Eliot, as a cultural outsider to Mrs. Sen’s version of “little” India and a cultural outsider of the American society. In other words, both Mrs. Sen and Eliot are mirror images of each other as they go through similar transformations, from a cultural outsider to a cultural insider. While Eliot…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed illuminates the issues that are surrounded by being an individual that experiences poverty. This essay will take the information that was provided by Ehrenreich’s experience and compare it to social welfare policy in the United states to see if it is helping those who are affected by poverty. The essay will also consider the ideology that surrounds the government and if that has any effect on the social welfare state in the current era. Social welfare…

process of expanding people’s opportunities to live satisfactory well-being life. I will describe the impact of economy in the development, examine the social and political aspect in the development, and lastly, I will discuss about healthy life and how it’s related to the development. First, indeed, the development is somewhat determined by the economic factor. According to Arthur Lewis in The Theory of Economic Growth, “the advantage of economic growth is not that wealth increases, but it…

The Causes and Effects of Poverty Currently, poverty is one of the most disastrous problems in the world. There is a huge number of people that die every year due to the lack of good standards for living such as education, jobs, food, and health care. Many countries around the world have a variety of people who need help in order to have the ability to live in difficult circumstances. However, not many people from developed countries help these kinds of people who are in need. Poverty…

This approach starts from below with people’s lives and it defines social mobility and well-being in terms of opportunities. As Martha Nussbaum states, “such an approach had better begin close to the ground, looking at life stories, and the human meaning of policy changes for real people” (Nussbaum 2011, 14). The capabilities approach demands one central question according to Nussbaum, “what is each person able to do and be?” (Nussbaum 2011, 18). The capabilities approach was coined jointly by…

beings obsess with progress. The push for new technology, or the desire to live longer, or he desire for increase pleasure seems to drive our industries and our moral compass in ways that might not exist if it wasn’t for our need of progress. For some progress is not just an end within itself. It is rather a means to the end of well-being for all humans. Both Daniel Kahneman and Amartya Sen make it an important focus in each of their works and we will explore why that is important in the way…

Background on Nationalism & Gender in Republican China The purpose of this section is to provide a basic understanding of nationalism and gender in Republican China (1911-1949). There will be a brief analysis of how and why Chinese nationalism developed, followed by another brief analysis of how gender expectations in society may have changed. The understanding of nationalism and gender in Republican China is important to this essay because it provides a background to the essay’s argument. In…

Thus, the Fist of Fury is a great example of the nationalism depicted in films and also the anti-Japanese sentiments. It is very common to know that in the past and even today, there is still this negative and superior feeling toward the Japanese. There are various reasons why there are these negative sentiments towards the Japanese (and vice versa) but some can be that it may lie in the struggle for power and influence in Asia between China and Japan. Another reason may be because there are…

entering into a revolution without an identifiable, present leader. As Ah-Q attempts to join the rebels the narrator states, “it wasn’t enough to surrender to the revolutionaries, or even to coil your queue up on to your head. The key was make contact with the Revolutionary Party itself.” At this point in the novel Ah-Q had declared his loyalty to the Revolutionary Party, without ever making contact with any Party leadership and with no way to do so. Similarly, Chinese rebels operated in the…

Sun Yatsen is known as ‘the father of the nation’ (China). He was one the of the Chinese revolutionaries who brought about the ideas of modernism and the plans to regenerate the nation of China. Sun was the one who had taught the ideas of his revolution to the ones who triggered the double tenth (10th October 1911), where nationalists began an uprising against the imperial system. This was the the Qing, imperial rulers of China. The entire imperial system had lasted for about 3000 years, but…