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    While war and its violence are often viewed as horrible acts against humanity, the novel 1984 depicts war and things such as torture as a necessary tool to control its subordinate citizens. This use of constituting violence as a positive feat, further emphasizes the evils of an omnipresent power controlling over people. Torture may be an advantageous method to control it's people in the novel 1984, but the negative effects it has on Winston display the evils of total control as well. Control in…

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    the gender wage gap does not just apply to mothers, for “if you sift through the data, the reality is still clear: the gender gap persists — and it persists for young, ambitious, childless women, too” (Bennett). Since it does not appear that this shameless inequality of pay will cease to exist in the near future, it is necessary to figure out the exact roots of this problem in order to attempt to rectify…

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    Buchanan, a selfish, silly, giddy creature, who turns in the end into a remorseless hit-and-run driver” (Auchincloss 1). Daisy’s true character is hidden behind her positiveness and her mouth full of money. All she really is, is an inhumane and shameless girl. Both Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are never able to let go of the undeniably beautiful wreck Daisy…

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    On July Fifth, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to speak at an anti-slavery conference. As a well-established and eloquent speaker, Douglass took this opportunity to make a statement about abolition. By revealing the disparity between what principles institutions like American government and the American Church were founded on and what they had become through scathing irony, passionate ranting and logic, Douglass addresses the social injustice of slavery. He mocks the Fourth of July holiday…

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    Shame is a very complex emotion that develops through childhood and going through various stages. Some scientists say that the child is able to feel ashamed only four month after is born, while others say that shame arises only after the second year. To be able to feel ashamed, it is necessary that the child is separated from his mother, to empower capacity for an opinion and realization, as well as prediction. It is necessary that the child knows that something is not right to be ashamed of…

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    Industrialization in the 19th century replaced rural life for an urban society filled with machinery and mass production. This new industrialized society brought riches and an increase in the standard of living for the bourgeoisie while creating dreadful working and living conditions for the poor. These conditions forced the working class into a desensitized state in which they no longer felt the exploitative conditions of industrialization and fell into senseless obedience. Although, the…

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    Things Fall Apart

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    In the novel Things Fall Apart we’re presented with the character of Unoka, who lived in a lower Nigerian tribe that is part of a nine-section connected village, Iguedo. Unoka can be described as a free spirit someone who lived their life listening to the wind and being one with nature a trait that to many seemed weak. Unoka was a man who could not stand the sight of blood making him an awful warrior, a very much respected role in his community. He was inconsistent borrowing and losing money,…

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    Martin Luther’s legacy of writings against the Jews is very well known in theological and historical circles, which have been pondering over the meanings behind the writings and the factors that influenced Luther’s views of the Jews. A close reading of Luther’s works regarding the Jews reveals a major change in both tone and content from generally conciliatory and amiable to violent, vitriolic rants against the Jewish People. Luther’s tone is not the only aspect of his writings on Jews that…

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    Bacchanalia Cult

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    The worship of Bacchus and the Bacchic mysteries, the “Bacchanalia”, spread form southern Italy into Etruria and from there the cult found its way into Rome. At the beginning, the mystery’s rites and gatherings were carried on during the day, three time per year and only women were allowed to participate; men were strictly declined. Additionally, married women were assigned as priestesses. However, Pacula Annia, priestess from Campania, changed the mystery’s structure and method of celebration.…

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    Representations of African Americans in Media: in the past and now Individuals have been labeling things since the stone ages to entertain or occupy themselves in their free time. The consequences of these classifications are the current cultural stereotypes that highlight the variances between people of unlike nationalities. Based on recent movies and television shows one would believe that the United States is not diverse at all looking from outside American culture into American culture.…

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