The Bare Necessities

by eliminating the “traditional trappings and formalities” (Kizer). In The Handmaid’s Tale, Gilead was created as an attempt to simplify American society. Those who overthrew the government created a simple society that contained just the basic necessities because they believed it would be both better and safer that way. “They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to…

The Incident Two 16-year-old girls betrayed their best friend, taking her out on a night ride and then stabbing her to death. The two girls believed that their “friend” knew too many private things about them. They often engaged in multiple arguments with each other on the social media page twitter taunting one another about the information they knew. Which led the two girls to plot a way to take care of this “problem,” their best friend. The two girls picked up their third friend from her…

Henry David Thoreau, an unconventional Romantic writer, uses his experience at Walden Pond to decipher the significant elements of life. Through his time spent in solitude, he ponders upon personal development and wishes to “live deliberately” and simply. Thoreau’s idea of living simply and reflecting on the important things in life allows him to realize that society is filled with a myriad of detrimental matters, including the prominent materialistic mindset, unnecessary distractions including…

The Effects of American Consumerism America, the land of the free! Americans are a proud people. We have fought wars for freedom and for the rights of the people. Yet, are we really so free, and at what cost to others? The steady rise in consumerism has created a devastating effect not only on our every day lives but on a global level. The Great Depression of the 1930s affected people of varying statuses, both the rich and poor. It mirrored a time of unemployment, poverty, and a drop in…

The Emancipation Proclamation would stand to set into motion one of the greatest impacts on American culture begging post Civil War era until the Civil Rights Act of 65 Structured by President John F. Kennedy, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Proclamation itself took roughly three years to finalize into the constitution. The first step was taken in July 1862 when congress placed two laws into action, “a second confiscation act that freed slaves of persons who had engaged in rebellion…

home life, as well as coming from poverty and then making it in the end. During my time in high school, I had my own battles to fight every day, I was homeless, had a hard time finding the courage to make it through class and was stealing the bare necessities to make it week to week. I overcame this with sports, finding my own courage and believing in a school official who didn’t let me down. Eventually, I found my place in high school, despite how unpromising it looked for me in the…

Over three billion people in the world today live on less than two dollars and fifty cents. With such a large portion of the world living in abject poverty, questions have been raised about the duty of those who are more well off to those in need.The most compelling and sensible of the pieces responding to this issue would be the one from Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics due to its realistic approach to the ethics involved in the distribution of resources. Garrett Hardin’s Lifeboat Ethics…

The Silk Road is the most well-know trading route in Eurasia that mixed products and religions across a wide range of cultures and people. Around the first century BCE many trade routes stretching from China to Central Asia merged into one large interconnected route. It allowed other countries to experience new things from different cultures. The Silk Road was the major route of the new wave of religion. It opened long-distance economic relations between civilizations. The silk road did not…

state of paranoia. He lives his life completely oppressed and controlled. A woman who sings when she is handling the washing represents the proles. Winston calls her beautiful. This woman is happy enough to sing. She is poor, and only has the bare necessities, yet she does have her freedom. Winston cannot sing, as that would be classed as misbehaviour. Even sadder still, Winston does not have the urge to…

Light is considered a key concept in Islamic culture, therefore, in Islamic art; a special place has been dedicated to it (Mahdavinejad, 2003: p. 30). Study the main sources in the field of Islamic Architecture of Iran, especially the available resources in the field of Iranian Islamic identity, in its general sense emphasize on the concepts, that light is one of the most important (Mahdavinejad et al., 2011). Light as a factor that makes the act of perception, has a central role in the visual…