The Untouchable

The black mamba was docile in her hands. He thought she was an empath, she locked her emotions away; happiness, anger, hatred and sadness into a vault, like an inexperienced empath did. She poisoned the minds of males and females. She was the untouchable queen of underground. Her web wrapped around USA’s nests. She stayed with her Mother, became one of the school’s staunch protectors, occasionally she visited Britain. To him, she was the eldest of his twelve (or three) dancing princesses,…

that the murderer of the former King of Thebes, would be exiled and will be considered as an untouchable, even if it is someone who is close to Oedipus’s heart. The irony in this statement is that, Oedipus himself doesn’t know that the one who will be facing the punishment will be himself, as he was the one who was behind Laius’s murder. The fact that Oedipus conveyed that the “murderer” will be an “untouchable”, made him regret, as he wanted to meet his daughter and hug them, but was unable to…

and Trotsky was to be exiled. Bukharin stayed in to challenge Stalin for control of the Soviet Union. Stalin gained so much support and power within the Central Committee and the Soviet Union as a whole that Stalin became untouchable in the late 1920’s. Stalin being untouchable made him the new dictator of Communist Russia. Stalin’s first Five-Year Plans was launched in 1928 in the Soviet Union. The Five-Year Plan was emphasizing heavy industry to lay foundations for future industrial…

The Upanishads and The Dhammapada are different texts that offer different ideas on how to live a good life, but they both address many ways in which one can grow morally and spiritually. They also both offer many things that hinder spiritual growth. On the other hand, these religious texts also help reinforce hierarchy and inequality. By using these religious texts, monarchs and other dominating forces have controlled or made the followers of these beliefs blind to the inequality and hierarchy…

The passage The Bill of Rights states that the bill of rights consist of the first ten amendments to the constitution. In the passage of Franklin Roosevelt's "second bill of rights" it states what President Roosevelt's state of the union address to Congress speech was. In the Bill of Rights, it states: Many states feared that the Constitution gave the federal government too much power. In Franklin Roosevelt's second bill of rights, it states that it is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and…

Introduction: How does one get past the inhibitions of self-hatred? From a young age colonized populations, even in a postcolonial world, are taught that their cultures are inferior to their colonizer, they are unworthy of being loved because of the color of their skin and their subsequent cultural practices, The God of Small Things is a postcolonial semi-biographical Indian novel, and Arundhati Roy’s debut novel tackles several of these identity shaping struggles. It is astounding that The God…

In a time and place where corruption was ubiquitous, Gabriel García Márquez’s primary objective was to unveil the overlooked evils. He exposed the brokenness of government, family, and romance, but never dared to blatantly criticize something as untouchable as the Church. Nevertheless, hidden in the retelling of an actual murder is Márquez’s report on the perversions of the modern Church. In his novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, biblical figures are manipulated to reflect Colombia’s…

Throughout history, belief systems and their practices, have influenced societies and regions. This affected civilizations and the societies around them. For example the Caste system found in the area where Hinduism was practiced. While this was happening, Buddhism was founded and did away with this practice. Hinduism is the world's most followed belief system. Hindus believe in karma, dharma,vedas and moksha. Karma and Dharma have a cause and effect relationship. Dharma is the actions…

can't solve the case. In contrast, Poe's ¨The Masque of the Red Death¨ there is a disease known as the Red Death, which they consider to be a murderer. Everybody knows who the murderer is. Similarly, there is one character who believes they are untouchable by death. Tony Marston in And Then There Were None, believes he is immortal but is proved wrong when he is the first to die. Prince Prospero in ¨The Masque of the Red Death,¨ although there is a widespread disease, throws a masquerade ball and…

In Cather’s short story, “Paul’s Case,” Cather depicts a dispiriting story a high school boy named Paul with a severe case of depression. Paul is irrationally and foolishly obsessed with theater and the performing arts and often flees from the bitter reality of school and work into his own imagination, using the arts as means of achieving this. “Paul half closed his eyes, and gave himself up to the peculiar stimulus such personages always had for him” (75). However, instead of entering the art…