INTRODUCTION: The consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933 to 1934 was a ramification of a plethora of dynamics and cannot be pinned to one singular event nor factor. Whilst it is alleged that through the ratification of the Enabling Act, the Nazi regime transformed the democratic republic into a monolithic administration, it is clear that Germany was already riding the wave to becoming a dictatorship prior to 1933, through the continuous abuse of Article 48. Although the Enabling Act was the…
Frida Kahlo, one of the most well reputed, thoroughly studied, and widely influential artists today, has been comprehensively misunderstood and exploited since before she had achieved international notoriety. Kahlo’s relationship with the surrealist movement is complicated; André Breton and his fellow surrealists considered Kahlo’s paintings to be archetypal surrealist works due to their outlandish imagery and fantastic themes, yet Kahlo herself rejected the title and even disdained certain…
Throughout Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver becomes understanding and empathetic towards the many different populations he meets. Long after his voyage to Lilliput, Gulliver speaks of himself as a Lilliputian, though he abandons this perspective once he arrives in Brobdingnag and goes from powerful to powerless. Gulliver becomes increasingly less invested in the perspectives of new islands as he becomes more experienced and jaded towards travel,but by the time that Gulliver reaches the island of…
Julian, a middle-aged writer, pictures himself as a liberal and intellectual college graduate who is repulsive of his mother’s traditional perspective of segregation. It is only through the narrator that Julian and his mother’s ironic views are exploited. O’Connor renders a comical short story of prejudice through the implement of numerous literary devices through the storyteller. The narrator reveals the complicated relationship between Julian and his mother through vivid description. Julian…
When we think of human trafficking, we think women and girls being trafficked through Japan, India, Cambodia, Bangladesh and other neighboring countries. Huge red light districts offering thousands of women and children; some as young as 9 and 10 years old. We think of children getting abducted and sometimes even sold by their own parents in third world countries. We think men in Cambodia paying a large sum of money for virgin girls. Some of us might think back to the 2008 blockbuster “Taken”…
Written in 2006, “The Columbian Exchange” by John F. Richards provides the reader with a sense of how after making contact with the native people of the Americas, the Spaniards proceeded to change the landscape of the region and exploit its natural resources. Richards’ thesis is the colonization of the New World by the Spaniards ultimately destroyed the society and environment of the natives who had called that area their home for centuries. The Spaniards brought numerous diseases, to which they…
Although the creation non-unanimous established prior to the civil rights movement, it withstood the times and revolution in the state, exploited to accuse and convict whomever the court desired to, exclusive of the difficulty of being acquitted by jury members who opposed the majority’s verdict. One particular illustration happened in 1970, Frank Johnson, an African American, was incriminated “with the crime of armed robbery. He was tried by a jury of twelve, convicted (the verdict was nine to…
Following the end of the Second World War, Marshall Tito, former leader of the Partisans, lead the ethnically diverse, if not artificial, state of Yugoslavia into a new age of optimism that lasted for three decades. Unfortunately, this age ended with his death. His death, along with the fall of the Soviet Union a decade later, left the fate of Yugoslavia, and its many peoples, uncertain. Following the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites in 1989, a feeling of uncertainty tainted the air…
Change in Views Overtime Langston Hughes had a rather difficult life in post-war United States, as with the United States being a rather racist society, excluding and handicapping all races besides white. Hughes, being partially African American, White American, and Native American, Hughes experienced the worst of the worlds firsthand. He was under the stereotypes all the time, it be African American stereotypes, or Native American stereotypes. As a result of this racism he endured, Hughes…
to Women’s Health and Education Center . Human trafficking is also known as the new modern day slavery and can be identified in two forms: sex and labor. Sex trafficking can defined as “the illegal transport of humans into another country to be exploited in a sexual manner for financial gains,” and while victims can be men, women, or children, there is a high prevalence for women and young girls. On the other hand labor trafficking can occur if a person does not have money and is in debt to…