Shameless

My Gender hero is Fiona Gallagher from the T.V. series, Shameless. She is played by the actress, Emmy Rossum. Fiona is a troubled character, she’s had a very rough start since childhood. Living in a rundown ghetto of Chicago, with an alcoholic Father, and a bipolar drug addict for a Mother. Her Mother soon ends up leaving the family because she can’t handle six children. With her Father refusing to step up and care for his five younger children, Fiona the oldest, decides to step up and become…

stale cheese, she flirted with the guards. When they questioned her, she followed the script that her friends had taught her, to the letter. “No, that’s not my name. Like I said, you have wrong woman.” “We know who you are, Ava. You are the shameless whore who was working with the Russian Captain.” The guards took a special dislike towards her, learning she was also a Jew. “No. I have no idea about Russian captain. Why would I know such a man? I'm Hungarian, not Russian.” “Don’t call…

The thought of people deeming other people unattractive or ‘ugly’ due to them being a size twelve is heart wrenching but sadly is the reality we live in, where deluded people rank others beauty on a scale of 1 to 10 purely regarding their weight. I entirely disagree with people who base beauty on weight and I presuppose that beauty has no limit and we should never be judged or victimized because of how we appear, I hope that this essay will persuade you and bring light to this shameful…

Home. A home is not always a building, sometimes it is a person or a feeling that makes a person feel warmth within themselves. Toni Morrison’s (Beloved) uses plot and style to demonstrate to us that a place we might call a house is no the same place where we might feel at home. Throughout the life story of Sethe in the book Beloved, Morrison demonstrates how it is that even if anyone has lived in the same place for many years it may never feel like home but just a house. In the beginning…

The Greek god Eros is viewed very highly by many as he is responsible for love, lust, and fate. He illuminates the idea of love that we all look for. One’s attitude towards Eros often might reflect his or her attitude towards the idea of love itself. Robert Bridges and Anne Stevenson both have different opinions on Eros, as well as some similar characterizations and ideas on the god of love. The two poets depict their different concepts of Eros using similar techniques, such as diction, point of…

Frustrated of the status quo, humans have been attempting to alter the circumstance for their favor or overcome adversity by modifying customs and laws, whether it is for a noble cause, such as the American Revolution; or for a selfish purpose, like Strepsides does to avoid the debts in the Clouds. Aristophanes depicts the bizarre logic of characters like Socrates and Strepsides in the Clouds, a satirical comedy, to convey his animosity toward the new education along with its “Inferior Argument”…

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. They leave people with unanswered questions. The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect Leonardo da Vinci. It as created sometime between 1503 and 1519, when he was living in Florence. ("Mona Lisa By Leonardo Da Vinci Arts." UKessay.com. 11 2013. All Answers Ltd. 01 2018) It now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris, where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the…

“The Dance of the Eunuchs”: A Stigmatized View and Search for Identity among Transgender in India The oxford English dictionary defines identity as: “the sameness of a person or thing at all times or in all circumstances, the condition or fact that a person or thing is itself and not something else.” The psychological definition as given by Erik H. Erikson states that: “identity (ego identity) is the feeling based on two observations: the observation of a consistency and continuity of self, and…

Prostitution Pre-Colonial India The definition of Prostitute has never been explicitly defined, however, it is commonly used for any woman who for the sake of monetary considerations sells her body is referred to as one. In ancient India, they were referred to as ‘Ganikas’ or courtesans. During the Mauryan period, a systematic control of the prostitution business was established under a superintendant, who was called the ‘Ganikaadyaksha’. There were different types of prostitutes and…

The words communism and socialism in today’s world (and especially during the Cold War), had an extremely negative connotation, but for the working class living a century earlier, it seemed ideal. Karl Marx and his close friend Frederick Engels were both men beyond their years with radical ideas composed into their book The Communist Manifesto, which influenced revolutions across Europe throughout the Nineteenth century. Analyzing the key points Marx lays out and how they relate to the…