Shunning

Hmong’s herbal medicine is opium, used as their main cash crop. It pays for their taxes, trading and silver from Laos. Regarded only for the very old’s health, the Hmong have a very strict policy with addicts of younger ages. Including massive shunning to relative family members related towards the addicted. The crops of the Hmong are very self-sufficient towards their health system given their egalitarian society. Excess herbs (including opium) needed for healing can also be trade or sold…

Introduction Writers often explore hard topics for society to understand, these texts use poetic language to explain ideas in the text. This is apparent in all four texts I have chosen. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, the poems Schizophrenic by PK Page, Ringing the Bells by Anne Sexton and the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. All of these pieces help the reader understand mental suffering through creating empathy. Each text shows the reader how to understand how…

I was exposed to religion ever since I was born. I was raised in Lima, Peru, which is a very religious country, even though some of its traditions may not be very familiar to everyone. If you were to compare it to something, you could say that the type of traditions I was exposed to were like the traditions Americans had in the 1900's. I remember having to dedicate entire days to God, sometimes even longer periods, without any distractions. Religion was an extremely important aspect of life in…

The following essay will cover a social psychology topic that has plague the world for centuries now Violence and aggression has only incline as the years go by and don’t see it getting any better. Violence and aggression is a daily occurrence that has troubled the world for thousands of years now. Violence is a form of aggression to cause physical harm or damage to something or someone, while aggression is overt, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or…

Your surroundings don't define who you are. In The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace written by Jeff Hobbs, Robert Peace grows up in Newark; a community that increasingly declines in safety and rises in poverty and drug dealing. However despite his surroundings Robert shows remarkable signs of intelligence in which his mother sacrifices ⅓ of her salary to be able to feed his thirst for education by sending Rob to private school. However, Peace’s father becomes wrongfully imprisoned for the…

remembering the warning given by Laertes in Act 1, Scene 3. “A violet in the youth of primy nature, forward not permanent, sweet not lasting…” (1.3.7-8). In doing this, Ophelia has confused not just Laertes with Hamlet, but with every character involved in shunning and silencing her and can no longer recognise them as individuals. As mentioned by Leverenz, “there are many voices in Ophelia's madness speaking through her, all making sense, and none of them her own.” (Leverenz, p.294). Like…

“A play is a blueprint of an event: a way of creating and rewriting history through the medium of literature.” – Suzan-Lori Parks The medium of literature allows authors, writers, and dramatists to recreate history and tell the stories of those who have been often overlooked. Suzan-Lori Parks does this by using certain people and events throughout history, including her own life, to retell the black experience in an unconventional manner. Parks is an important figure in American theatre…

down on her, and she was able to find a way to behoove herself for this. She had spent so much of her time and efforts supporting charities and people that eventually the scarlet letter didn’t seem as shameful. Hester became accustomed to the public shunning withering away and the townspeople seeing her in a new light. The scarlet letter was her lifelong punishment, but she began to feel accepted in the community for it meaning ‘Able’ rather than the symbol of her sin.“She advanced to the margin…

1. The term "Renaissance" comes from the French, meaning rebirth. It is a term used to describe the 1400- 1600. Today, the renaissance is viewed as "a profound and enduring upheaval ad transformation in culture, politics, art and, society in Europe." (Brotton, 9) While I believe the term renaissance can be applied to certain aspects of this time period, I don 't believe it should blanket all that occurred in that time period. A major factor during the Renaissance was the revival of Greaco-Roman…

Hamlet Final Project: Psychological Profile of Hamlet The patient’s name is Hamlet and he is around the age of 30 according to the character Gravedigger and because of the fact that he is a college student. Hamlet appears as a white, average looking male who of late has been very down casted and because of the death of his father King Hamlet, Hamlet’s mood is dictated by his depression. At the beginning of the play, Hamlet wears an unusual all black outfit to represent the mourning of his…