The Insatiable

Introspection allows one to gain a clear understanding of past limitations and the skills developed to find successes in life. Through this process we identify attributes and behaviors that lead to future successes and the ability to thrive in the “Real World.” The circumstances of my life have been a constant challenge as I deal with issues in both body and mind. Results of bacterial meningitis at 15 months old will forever remain, yet they will not hinder my success. This disease may well be…

Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton discusses the industrial revolution through following the cotton industry. Beckert uses a global perspective to capture the foreign relations and disparities in a changing a world. Slavery is one of the elements of the cotton industry that cannot be avoided. Beckert sees the enslavement of people as only one part of a bigger strategy in having advantage in a revolutionizing market. Through an almost indirect approach, Beckert tackles slavery throughout…

Stemming from a fundamental disregard for basic human rights, the travesty that is forced child labor has become a complex and pervasive issue in the globalized world of today. Any form of child labor for monetary gain, particularly when perpetrated by a third party, should be considered “forced”. The populations that are most vulnerable to the practice of child labor are those who are often discriminated against and excluded from society (e.g., girls, ethnic and racial minorities, lower classes…

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Youth are both influential works that exhibit the eternal struggle between age and youth, yet these protagonists in both works have different perspectives on life. In the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian’s insatiable desire for eternal youth in order to avoid the “disgusting” characteristics that come with age becomes the cause of his downfall. In contrast with the film, Youth, the protagonist Fred acknowledges that people unavoidably age and yearn for…

McMurphy’s apparent madness or irrational behavior in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest plays the important role in the novel of being the devil’s advocate highlighting the ills of the mental institutions of the 1960s. His eccentric behavior was despised by the Big Nurse and other authority figures at the mental institution, but McMurphy’s behavior might be judged reasonable if one considers the dehumanizing, sterile, hostage-like situation that the institute’s patients were subjected…

Crime is necessary; it serves a function in society. Although it is not preferable, with the progression and evolution of modernity and emphasis on monetary success, crime is inevitable because a perfectly stable, uniform, and able society is impossible. As the father of sociology and a functionalist, Emile Durkheim provides a variety of explanations of society’s ills, like crime and deviance, and accounts for the punishments and repercussions that follow. He asserts that man is a product of his…

Within the 2007 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is attempting to help Moss, a man who stole money from a drug deal gone bad, evade the vengeance of Chigurh, a dangerous hitman. The Coen brothers, who directed the film, acknowledge that the novel’s title is a representation of the sheriff’s perspective, but in contrast with the novel, the focus of the movie is the multiple characters’ viewpoints about Chigurh and their reactions to him.…

Black Boy is an account of a young African-American boy’s thoughts and obstacles growing up in the South, whose family lives in poverty and experience constant hunger. The main character in the story is Richard Wright, who is born in 1908. Richard opens the book with a description of himself as a four-year-old boy in Natchez Mississippi, and his family’s later move to Memphis. It describes his rebellious attitude against his parents and his days spent on the streets while his mother is at work.…

match the sublime fairways and greens. This club also offers Squash, tennis and bowls with a swimming pool to cool down in afterwards. Within Simbithi Eco Estate is Simbithi Golf Course, and this new and demanding course is taxing to even the most insatiable and talented of golfers with its sand traps and water hazards. The club also offers tennis courts. Prince's Grant Golf Estate with its marvelous fairways and greens that sprawl down to the ocean offers a links course. The elegant clubhouse…

Othello is a Moorish man living in medieval Venice, who is by all accounts well-respected by most of the other characters. He is rendered “exotic” by his background, but this doesn’t seem to impede the advancements and long strides which he has successfully made over time, through his merit he succeeds in rising to the upper echelons of the Venetian military. As the plot of the play continues to be unwrapped however, the progress and success that he has made for himself is slowly undone. Othello…