The Plight

migrant camps. The Grapes of Wrath received significant attention in both political and literary spheres, and it does not disappoint. Steinbeck’s unflinching portrayal of the challenges that the Joads’ face not only allows readers to understand the plight of Depression-era migrant workers, but it also provides invaluable social commentary that is relevant even today.…

Being of Native American descent; my grandmother (Bessie) a proud Cherokee woman, it was almost natural for me to be drawn to the work of the artist Neil Diamond. “Retrospect: Reel Native Americans” (pp. 428-434) provides us with a glimpse into the transformations made, in the depiction of Native Americans spanning a fifty plus year period. Once, depicted as nothing more than a war mongering savage, through time we bear witness to the softening of the imagery used in the portrayal of the Native…

I am Jonathan Blackwell and I was born in 1870 in Great Britain. I was born into a bourgeois family in London and my father owned two factories. From a young age I was groomed by my family and my social group to become a capitalist. Therefore when I went to one of the best boarding schools in the country and went on to Oxford. However, one day as I was walking to one of my classes while in college a man handed me a pamphlet about the exploitation of factory workers in London by the wealthy…

unique and extraordinary experiences of some famous elites. However, in recent times the tradition of writing autobiography has become a popular genre among the Dalits authors. They write to break the tradition of silence. They write to show their plight and predicament to society. Bhim Singh thinks that autobiography…

Despite the majority having positive intentions, the resulting policies were harmful to the plight of women. This factor was continuous throughout the entire movement, beginning with the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Passed during the Kennedy administration, this federal law required equal pay for equal work. Ideals such as the stated were necessary…

David Matthew’s essay ‘Pick One’ is an eloquent essay filled with imagery, symbolic language and sensory details that bring the reader into Matthew’s world, but is lacking in some structural aspects and leaves the reader without a satisfactory conclusion. His vocabulary notwithstanding, Matthew’s essay is spectacularly descriptive and easily conveys the atmosphere he felt as a child as he takes his readers through the experience he is sharing. There are areas, however, that could be analyzed as…

Inspired by Breughel 's artwork, W.H. Auden emphasizes the significance of suffering through a 15th century masterpiece “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” Written in 1938, Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” is a representation of man’s indifference to suffering. A literary expression created from different times, both artists effectively conveyed its message through the gift of poetry and visual imagination. To analyze both works from a literary and personal perspective is the goal of this essay.…

than his own words could possibly be. Dr. Kurt Heissmeyer’s response to inquiries as to why he did not test on animals or guinea pigs embodies how crucial these stories portray the fact that the German people were clearly not indifferent towards the plight of fellow human beings, as the Jews were no longer seen as…

Writes Paul Slovic, “most people are caring and will exert great effort to reserve "the one" whose needy plight comes to their attention. But these same people often become numbly indifferent to the plight of "the one" who is one of many in a much greater problem.” Slovic precisely hits the core of the issue: if the policymakers, the intended audience, aren’t moved emotionally by “the one,” they will set…

that would deliberately make citizenship possible for as many as eleven million undocumented immigrants. Such humanitarian-inspired legislation, defined as “sweeping in scope”; however, in my opinion, is not entirely sweeping enough, as it leaves the plight of the Amerasians in Asian countries unaddressed. There are tens of thousands of adult and children Amerasians fathered by U.S. servicemen stranded in the Philippines. I am one of the few fortunate ones who was able to immigrate to America…