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The ideology of slavery coerces its victims and masters alike to adhere to its theatrical and illusory mindset, as both actors are ingrained with the idea of a dichotomy between the powerful and powerless. Throughout Frederick Douglass’s novella, “The Heroic Slave,” Douglass underlines the heartfelt interaction between the white observer Mr. Listwell and the eloquent slave Madison Washington, altogether providing a call to action on the faults of slavery. Although his novella may seem too…

Why Are You Always Lying Lying affects everyone and society has made it okay. For example, the TV show “Catfish” is just a lot of people lying to each other, because they are so scared that they will not be liked for the who they really are or are hiding something that they don 't want people to truly know about them. It has become so popular and normal to society to lie about themselves that we almost don 't know what is the truth anymore. In the essay, “The Ways We Lie”, Ericsson breaks down…

Racial discrimination/tensions is a real and papal principal. Its role in humanities development and history is as commonly seen as the humans in it. Humans inherently notice difference in just about anything. With our increased intelligence we take these differences and deem what they mean in relation world around us. In reality a specific example such as the plight of blacks against whites. History shows us a periods in which blacks were enslaved and degraded. They achieved freedom but…

Title of Work – BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS by Boo, Katherine. Genre – Narrative, Non-fiction Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity a narrative, non-fiction written by The Pulitzer Prize Winner - Katherine Boo. This book was published in the year 2012 and captured the lives of people in a Mumbai slum – Annawadi from 2007 to 2011. The slum was settled in 1991 by laborers brought from southern Indian state Tamil Nadu to repair a runway at the international…

The Philosophy of Hajj Rituals History of Hajj Hajj literally means ‘heading to a place’. In Islamic terminology, however, it refers to the annual obligatory pilgrimage that Muslims make to Mecca with the intention of performing certain religious rites in accordance with the method prescribed by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) [1]. In essence, Hajj is man's evolution toward Allah. It is a social worship which creates a relation between God and His creatures and has different effects on the Islamic…

Biases in Media The news media is being purposely biased, perpetuating the unfavorable political atmosphere that exists in the United States as a whole. It goes without saying that the year has been filled with more than its fair share of controversy. The news media tirelessly perpetuates the drama that currently exists on the United States political platform. I would assume most people would wondering, why I make such claims, to say that the year has been filled with so much controversy, among…

Satan’s evil corruption occurs through another tragic area involving human sacrifices mentioned in the Bible. Early masochism and other cruelties appear to have erupted during this time. “…innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions” (Ps 106:37-39). One of the main gods that instigated this…

contains both the clock and an ominous ambience. When midnight struck, a person walked through the door dressed in the most terrifying and ghoulishly costume of the party. His mask looked like the face of a corpse, his garments resembled a funeral shroud, and his face revealed spots of blood suggesting that he was a victim of the Red Death. Prospero was angry that someone with so little humor and cheerfulness dared enter his party. The other guests, however, were so afraid of this mystery,…

myths about the Templars that still resound today. They are said to still exist even today, living and impossible rich. They are also said to guard multiple relics. The most famous being the Holy Grail, the cross that Jesus was crucified on and the shroud of Turin. More recently the Knights Templar have been included in the stories of the Davinci Code. In the book the Templar are supposedly the military arm of a secret order named Priory of Sion. They were tasked to protect Mary Magdolin who at…

Animism is one of the oldest beliefs created by man from the Paleolithic age (Hefner). Animism is the belief that every object, living or not, has a soul (Hefner). There are differences amongst scientists on the original concept of animism (Hefner). Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, an anthropologist, believed that “spirits or souls caused life to humans” (Hefner). He believes that native people used animism to understand the causes of sleep, dreams, and death (Hefner). Another anthropologist, Robert…