The Bare Necessities

Income inequality is a big issue in socioeconomics justices, as always. While the U.S total personal incomes are growth higher, the income gap is getting wider, especially for those who are making minimum wage. Among the government’s efforts to narrow the income gap, minimum wage seems the only solution. In his final State of the Union address on January 12th, 2016, President Obama has proposed and asked the Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to 10.10 dollars an hour and indexing it to…

The crate brings him to halt, where dozens of other teenage boys wait for his arrival. Once he is outside, he learns that he, and everyone else, is trapped within four large stone walls, enclosing them in a large area of land filled with the bare necessities for survival. The boys call it the “Glade”, and they call themselves the “Gladers”. Later, it is revealed that beyond the Glade lies a maze, which changes its patterns every night. Scared, angry and confused, the boy suddenly remembers his…

The Criminal Justice System has many interpretations, from different political and social groups when it comes to how they go about their business. According to Guenther’s early analysis in 1976 it is to be “unfair, harsh, and biased” and that we should have a Criminal Processing System. I however, believe this is quite the opposite, for the victims it may be true, but for the criminals it is not harsh enough. Guenther is proposing to go from an already “soft” Criminal System to an even “softer”…

innocent and can’t be blamed! During this time period in ancient Greece, Family loyalty was extremely important. Family loyalty, especially of the female, plays an important role in ancient Greek funerals. “Ancient literary sources emphasize the necessity of a proper burial and refer to the omission of burial rites as an insult to human dignity” (metmuseum.org). In ancient Greece, they believed that the soul would leave the…

There is a large distinction between an arranged marriage and the traditional marriage, where love was the choice made by both individuals. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, her main character Janie Crawford struggles to satisfy her newfound romantic appetite. “She had glossy leaves and bursting buds” (Hurston 11), ready to find a man to love her and for her to love him. The trouble comes when she is presented obstacles in finding a balance between peace and love in the…

with a full stomach, she fell into a troubled sleep filled with strange, disturbing dreams. The next day, she sat down on the grass with her morning coffee, next to the tomatoes that had died and, absent-mindedly, started digging the dirt with her bare hands. After pulling up the dried plants, she turned over the soil and fetched new seeds from the…

Sanitary Commision states, “No language can describe the suffering, destitution, and neglect which prevail in some of their ‘camps.’ They are very poorly-many of them half naked-and almost destitute of beds and bedding-thousands of them sleeping on the bare ground.” The tide of the war turned with the help of women in the…

Fairytales adopt extreme, unrealistic measures to mesmerize readers while also conveying a life lesson to its readers-typically children. These exaggerated stories are intended to instill a clear distinction between right and wrong and to spark a high sense of morality in children. However, beliefs and standards are obscure. In Lin Lan’s Cinderella, virtue is portrayed as a characteristic to be rewarded, but in reality immaturity is awarded at the end. The story opens with the introduction of…

Acknowledgement of the variable nature of courtly love over time proves the change in queenship after Margaret’s reign in Malory’s titular final chapter. Malory began the tale of story of Guinevere’s arrest and trial for charges of high treason brought through adultery. Two knights decide to report to Arthur the extent of Lancelot and Guinevere’s relationship. Guinevere demands to remain behind in hopes of calming Arthur, but the breach seems unsurpassable as Lancelot sets up a rival kingdom.…

movie brings a new level of seriousness, a subtler touch, and an unbelievable depth and breadth of the vast sense of humanity to the Coen universe. In adapting the McCarthy's novel, the two brothers scaled the visual vocabulary in the film to match the bare-bones prose of the novel's author. In as much as the movie has little visual kinetics like other films, it tells a dramatic and extraordinary story in the simplest and uninflected shots. Furthermore, No Country for Old Men has more sequences…