The Plight

When you think of moral courage what's the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps you thought of someone gutsy and selfless, like a family member, someone famous, or maybe even a superhero. There were many people who performed courageous acts during the Holocaust such as Feng-Shan Ho. Ho is nothing short of a hero as his daring efforts saved over two thousand jews. After the Kristallnacht, the situation became much more difficult for the near two hundred thousand Austrian Jews. The only way…

Anton Chekhov was a talented Russian playwright and shorty story author. He was born on January 29, 1860 in Taganrog, Russia. Chekhov led a life filled with plights and hardships, and he struggled to make ends meet as his father lived on a day to day paycheck while drowning in his debt. Chekhov’s mother and younger siblings followed Chekhov’s father while he fled to Moscow in order to escape his creditors; however, Chekhov remained in Taganrog to complete his high school graduation and soon,…

slaves once freed to strive for. He was a living example of proving whites wrong. He was an educated function member of society who just happened to be a former slave. Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent writer and activist who helped shed light on the plight of the black person in modern white society through her travels to boarding school and New York city. Langston Hughes through his literature encouraged blacks to unite and fight against racism across…

Goleman remind Thickener's theory that empathy stems from a kind of physical imitation of the distress of another that is different from sympathy, which refers to the feeling for the general plight of another without sharing what the other is feeling. Goleman also refers to empathy as attunement - being emotionally in sync with another. Bergman (1998:13) clarifies the empathy as the ability to identify accurately the feeling state of another…

Introduction: The topic of minimum wages is an ongoing debate that is currently being argued from the street corners to the corporate board rooms and even in the courtrooms of America. Businesses generally oppose the increases because the additional payroll costs could result in layoffs or increases in the costs of goods and services. Every worker deserves to earn a decent living and the increased wages will help. An increase in the minimum wage will provide workers with the boost needed to…

The phrase “Let them eat cake” will typically bring to mind visions of extravagant French aristocracy, the poor people of France, and Marie Antoinette in all her elegance. While the phrase has been permanently stapled to her, there is little evidence she actually ever spoke it. The political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions the phrase in his Confessions in connection with an incident that occurred in 1740 (Adams). He had stolen wine while working as a tutor in Lyons and then had…

In “Hip-Hop’s Year of Dangerous Living Put the Accused on the Charts” by Jon Caramanica, the author describes the recent trend of people with criminal records becoming sensations in the hip-hop/rap community. The author keys in on three main factors as of why these troubling artists are becoming so popular. The hip hop community’s tolerance of complicated histories, lack of understanding their artists’ backgrounds, and young and misleading crowd stands as the author’s factors as to why these…

young Persephone. I would have you leave this world. I would have you leave this world with me. There is nothing here for you. I bear no ill will towards my brother in the seas. I bear less affection for my brother in the skies. He knew of your plights and did nothing; your mother knew of her failures and did nothing; the gods that rule their realms alongside me are a gaggle of simpering weasels unfit to rule a cloud, much less Olympus. I am the only one who can deliver on the tasks they were…

Ethan Frome. Her words while introducing Ethan Frome into the novella were, "I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Glow had hinted, the…

Gregor Samsa conveys to the reader that, “He could not be bothered to worry about his family; he was filled with rage at their miserable treatment of him” (Part III). This indicates that internal changes occurred within the family which caused Gregor to feel this way about them. Although Gregor undergoes the main metamorphosis in the novella The Metamorphosis, two secondary characters also transform throughout the story and they have a major influence on the story and develop crucial themes.…