The Untouchable

The Sistine Chapel ceiling is covered with beautiful artworks; many of them becoming iconic. The Creation of Adam has become a widely known masterpiece by Michelangelo. The image of the near-touching hands of God and Adam has been reproduced in countless imitations and admired by many. Many wonder the hidden meanings in the painting and it has been subject to controversy. The figures and shapes behind God appears to be in the shape of the human brain. This has some thinking that…

Religion played a very significant role in Ancient Egypt. Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. The Egyptians worshipped many gods. Their choice of worship was always influenced by tradition or formality. Art symbolism was a promiscuous way of expression religious beliefs in ancient Egypt. The main god they worshipped was pharaoh the King of Egypt. The history of ancient Egyptian religion is rooted in Egypt’s prehistory and it lasted for 3,000 years. One…

The scholars have stated that the conduct was required for the women if they had to prove themselves of being righteous(Hawley,1994). The act is believed to purify the sin of the couple and also guarantees that the couple will reunite once again afterlife. This leads to the rituals of the dress code which is the wedding attire (Embree, 2005). The couple gets dressed in their wedding clothes which is to signify their wedding ritual before they say goodbye for their current life. The women are…

on-loneliness-love-an peace/Sep5,2007.Web 25Feb.2014). In Cannery Row, Andy is lonelier than anyone else in the world. "The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely" grips him (Steinbeck 1952: 457). Steinbeck opines that inherent loneliness leads to the emotional imbalance. "They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an' bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't so lonely…

They observed that Ambedkar crusade was two faceted. On the one hand, he fought the British who had enslaved India and on the other hand he waged a war against all those who for centuries denied equality, liberty, freedom, and civil rights to the Untouchables. He had not only to fight for the political emancipation of India but also to struggle relentlessly for achieving socio-religious-political-economic freedom Baisantry in his book Ambedkor: The total revolution attempts to deal…

emerged as a response to the hegemonic Brahminic oppression and its various forms of silencing the Dalits. Though there are various thinkers, such as Buddha, Jyotiba Phule, S.M. Mate who were concerned about the plight of the lowest caste and untouchables but it was B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), who is considered "the pioneer of Dalit literature" (Dangle vii). Ambedkar's writing and his political activism played a significant role in understanding the injustices and atrocities of the Dalit people.…

Richard Martinez Eng102 32255 Professor Beecham 28 October 2017 Atonement Social class has been important in every culture to determine the roles that people are allowed to take. The social status of a person often decides what opportunities some people have the to take. Robbie Turner is a low-class person living in the house of a family with very high social status. Although Robbie Turner is a lower class man, he is noble in his ability to use his intelligence and social skills to make the…

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves. (Fanon 49) Resistance literature is a magnificent form of how people who have been once…

religious upheavals against such tendencies have long been part of the Indian set up. Mass conversions to Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, in the sub-continent, as documented in history, speaks volumes of the denial of basic human rights to the Dalits or the Untouchables by the caste Hindus. These conversions in no way guaranteed the allocation of rights to the Dalits, who continued to suffer under the yoke of overbearing Hindu principles. To take the example of Sikhism, the institution of…

Since the 16th century, many drastic changes in history have occurred, especially statuses of women throughout the world. From the Aztec Empire to modern day, women have changed in clothing, lifestyles and occupations. In modern day, they now have more opportunities, equality and rights that they could express and be proud of. However, it was not easy for them to be where they are today. Women mainly sacrificed their time and lost their lives in order to fight for what they wanted. For many…