The Plight

sense of it are pictures and 140 characters. Such a small amount of characters cannot really be tasked to sum up tragic events that occur. These characteristics of Twitter make people less sympathetic to the severity of the plight. The society can no longer identify with the plight of others so they chose to ignore it…

Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao vividly articulates the roles of sex and gender relating to the Cabral-de León family and their plight within a context of Dominican culture promoting machismo and sexism. Led by Yunior, a man centered around womanizing and also of close relation to the family, the narration entails a lively description of the accounts of the Cabral-de León family while demonstrating the effects that machismo has on society. The novel mainly circles around the…

human race. History books or even accurate reenactments do very little to help people identify with those who had to fight for their beliefs or freedom. Journey’s End provides a very well-constructed set of examples to help the viewer understand the plight of military officers, and many mechanisms used to help cope with war. The story begins in the evening of the eighteenth of March, 1918. The setting is the officer’s quarters’ common room, in a trench dug-out near the front lines by…

imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold—That is the madman” (Shakespeare 71). Nevertheless, he too is a lover—that of Hippolyta. They find the lovers’ plight very amusing, but that is only because they observe it as a spectator. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, the lovers do not find their plight funny or amusing; the reader does and can thusly better understand the satirical jab Shakespeare was giving to his own work. That was the reason Shakespeare employed the…

people of Britain, including those in the government were either ignorant of the plight of the slaves that were being captured and dragged across the waves, or they chose to ignore it in the face of the earnings they could make through the slave trade. That is one of the many reasons that Oladuah Equiano’s narrative was so important, because it removed the British public’s ignorance by telling his story of his plight of slavery, and the stories of violence that he heard along the way done unto…

Living with depression is comparable to living in a state of isolation and despair. In the story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” Ernest Hemingway tells the story about two waiters who banter back and forth about a regular customer who frequents their café to drink. The younger one is judgmental and agitated, while the older one is more understanding and compassionate. Through the use of symbolism, setting, and dialogue, Hemingway presents the theme that living with depression is challenging.…

Käthe Kollwitz, who lived from 1867 to 1945, was raised in Prussia and spent her adult years living in Germany as an artist and wife of a physician. During her lifetime she experienced vast social upheaval as a result of socialism, fascism and Nazism. The images she witnessed during working class revolts, civil unrest, World War I and World War II greatly impacted the art she created over her lifetime. Another factor which impacts all artist is the popular art movements of the times. Over Käthe…

mystery and pain of childbirth” (Palmer 49-50). Euripides’s contrasts her role as a cold blooded murderer, bringing out the misogynist point of view, with the soft aspect of her being a mother, gaining sympathy from the audience at the extent of her plight. She hadn’t minded isolation from the rest of Corinth, but was deeply against being sent away completely. However, the motherly part quickly disintegrates when she had murdered her two sons. The master playwright reveals his own conflicted…

I was sent to an alternative classroom. Although later on I refused to utilize the assistance that is given through the program because I felt myself capable of competing academically with my peers, at the time of placement, I didn’t understand my plight until near the end of my elementary journey. It was my fourth grade teacher, Ms. Sutton, who brought to my realization that the school believed I had a learning disability. I didn’t want to be perceived as being different from my other…

Do I perceive the same exact color red as you do? If not, does that mean color is impossible to standardize? These abstractions help paint the complexity of the human state of mind, or rather, our understanding of it. Ethan Watter’s “The Mega Marketing of Depression in Japan” narrates how western medicine and perceptions of depression encroached into the Japanese culture, and in particular, how pharmaceutical companies attempt to generalize this phenomenon despite cultural differences. Elephants…