The Plight

difficult, challenging, and painful for many who came to seek a new life or opportunity. Through rebellion, secession, war, and expansion, the citizens of this new and still growing nation began to acknowledge the plights and unfairness to segregated groups. A war had been fought over the plight of one group of oppressed people. But change comes slowly, and other non white groups still faced everyday exploitation and prejudice as they fought to carve a place for themselves. Like the newly…

passive. It is very well known that the society of ancient Greece existed on the beliefs of being overwhelmingly patriarchal and misogynistic, even though there have been numerous attempts through ancient texts to salvage a voice to sympathize with the plight of the women. Euripides being one of the many voices and a “champion of women's equality” (Wright 7), shows his view of the female population through his play Medea. There is no other play, where a woman is portrayed to subvert the norms…

their writings. Both men were arguably among the best political and class thinkers of their time. When placed against each other, as in this debate, they stand as almost complete polar opposites of each other, with largely incompatible beliefs on the plight of the common worker. Thomas Malthus takes a classical-liberal approach to the Industrial Revolution and its attributes, arguing that misery and human nature will keep the abuses of the bourgeois in check. On the other hand, Karl Marx would…

Biko and White liberal newspaper editor, Donald Woods. The film’s director, Richard Attenborough presents the first half as Woods’ education on the struggle on Black consciousness movement and it fight against apartheid, and the latter features the plight of Woods’ and his family escape from South Africa in order for him to publish a book revealing the true horrors of apartheid. Nevertheless, I found that this film didn’t live up to its avowed standards, as it wanted to honestly look at…

For every pound of Florida tomatoes purchased at a local grocery store, the worker who picked it likely earned one cent. With little legal protection, farm workers who provide Americans food are exploited in both the U.S. and Mexico. While the plight of the farm workers, especially itinerant workers, is not new, laws rarely protect them. For centuries, Americans grew or purchased locally grown food, but with better transportation and multinational agribusinesses, Americans have become accustomed…

while in the cities of Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio were economic fortresses (95). Africans would be forced to work hard, to humble oneself, and to obey their masters were the pillar of the slave’s new life (88). Before the slave could change their plight, one had to undergo three major changes: to learn the language of their masters, to learn to pray new God, and learn a useful skill (97). For the ones that refused to accept his fate the only alternatives were fight to the death, suicide,…

physical surroundings of the protagonist, who is left intentionally unnamed, to indicate a psychological shift in the character. Specifically, toward the end of the novel the protagonist is left entrapped beneath a manhole and in utter darkness. Here the plight of his bleak destiny becomes reality for him. Ultimately, this illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole, which is to shed light on those who are left invisible to society. When the protagonist was left without light in the sewer…

the San Joaquin Valley. Gregory brings to life the plight of the thousands…

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own” (Swift). Beholders are intended, through guidance of satiric narrative, to recognize a sense of social injustice or political plights and that there are wrongs occurring that need to be fixed. In some satires, as in Swift’s own A Modest Proposal, the use of absurd, blatant exaggeration is intended to capture an idle audience’s attention regarding the social state of the poor. Yet even in such a…

1. In “Learning to Be Gendered”, the writers believe that gender indignity is a never-ending process that begins from birth because they wonder about the pending child will be a boy or girl. Since birth, the child is given a name, color, or toy assigned specifically to that gender and from then, they take over the process of their own gender work. 2. The main point of “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” is there should be a change on how women should be treated equally in society and have an…