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jolt, the cube suit completely leaves me and I crumple to the ground. I’m just me again. The power I had enjoyed for the last half hour or so is now completely gone. The glow finally fades from the female form in front of me. A gorgeous red head stoops down to help me to my feet. Her fabulous body is encased in a flowing, golden metallic…

To what extent is a Marxist reading of "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria 's Lover" useful in opening up potential meanings? Ultimately, the source of tragedy in both 'My Last Duchess ' and 'Porphyria 's Lover ', is the capitalistic societal structures that provoke the oppression of its people. Though this subjugation may arise from the corrupt economic system that Marxism critiques, Browning 's scrutiny of society may also delve into social barriers such as feminism, and the adverse…

over 2000 people on September 11, 2001,or the men that casually blew up themselves as well as 52 other London commuters of July 7, 2005, or even the Muslim extremists who slaughtered over 100 people in Paris on November 14 of this year. We cannot stoop to their level, or our belief in freedom for all is nothing more than empty…

Police Brutality is one of the major leading causes of most deaths around the nation. A famous man by the name of Malcolm X once said, “There was police brutality and there was atrocity, and the press was just as atrocious as the police. Because they helped the police to cover it up by propagating a false image across the country.” In today’s society we are faced with many different challenges of police brutality. Police brutality can mean several different things, but one of my favorite…

Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, offers a compelling commentary on the central idea of the dangerous and superficial nature of capitalist values. One of the most powerful scenes that convey this idea is at the end of the pageant where Olive performs her act (“the performance scene”). Dayton and Faris use a wide range of visual language features to convey this important idea in the performance scene. At the first shot of interest, Olive begins her dance. In…

Bard High School Early College Queens Rafia Islam Literature of the Americas December 6, 2015 Isolation in “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville and “The Minister 's Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne are two very interesting and thought provoking works of literature. They take everyday objects and…

According to Makers.com in 2015, “Women with full-time jobs still earn only about 77 percent of their male counterparts’ earnings.” This statistic suggests that many think that women are less powerful, or maybe incapable of power. Even today we face problems dealing with sexism and inequality. The belief that women are lesser than men has been an issue for many decades. A great example of injustice to women is Taming of The Shrew. In Taming of The Shrew, Shakespeare shows the reader that…

Revolutions are often thought to bring about radical changes that result in the upheaval of the previous social order and replace it with a new, bold political, economic, and social apparatus prepared to move that society towards progress. However, does revolution truly mean progress? How does one define progress? How does one assess the success or failure of a revolution? The Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the Cuban Revolution demonstrate how intricate and fluid the tentacles of revolution move…

Review of Literature Unconscious Bias People subjected to racism and bias attitudes often face a multitude of challenges when placed in racially hostile environments. One of these challenges is unconscious bias. “Unconscious bias refers to a bias that we are unaware of, and which happens outside of our control. It is a bias that happens automatically and is triggered by our brain making quick judgments and assessments of people and situations, influenced by our background, cultural environment…

Imagine a mother getting mad at her son because he failed an Algebra test, or a mother getting mad at her daughter because she did not do the laundry. After work, the mother decides to shoot her child in the head. Naturally, she is charged with first degree murder. Now, imagine a mother getting pregnant with a child and deciding to get an abortion, the killing of an innocent being. This mother has no penalty to pay. Every year approximately 40-50 million abortions OCCUR yearly all over the world…