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forms communities between people in which all people are valued and no one is viewed as the lesser human being. Nussbaum mentions that just “as personal love and friendship are at their best when they are directed…at the whole person with flaws and faults, so too with love of a city or country” (Nussbaum 393). Love matters for justice because it causes citizens to unite and embrace one another in order to solve problems and create an all-inclusive society. Of course, this is a far-reached idea…

When you think of America’s nutrition do you think of fit individuals or do you think of people who abide a lifestyle of unhealthy foods? As the years go by the percentage of America’s obesity population increases dramatically, only making it easier for people to blame the fast food chains. Fast food joints may be on the increase in many neighborhoods and communities across the globe and precisely in America, but they should not be blamed for the rising rate of obesity amongst the children and…

He was a "tight-fisted" man who held money as close to his heart as Scrooge does. When Marley appears to Scrooge, Dickens describes the chain which Marley has "clasped around his middle". It is a chain made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel". These symbolise Marley's selfish, covetous and obsessive personality. It is a representation of a message that Scrooge will only receive through the things he values most; money and…

kept up a despotic demand upon the endurance” (Hardy 329) of the worker’s muscles and nerves. There is another worker that traveled from farm to farm and looked as if he “served fire and smoke” (Hardy 329). The new industrial machines and farms transforms the workers into machines as well. They work the whole day and that’s all they do. It is dehumanizing for them. Tess goes out and works with these machines and her life falls apart as well. Tess, however, has no direct connection with the…

ingrained in American culture, spanning over several decades and evolving to spawn new eras of heroes. Now, we find superheroes in almost any form of media. Writers routinely revisit stories to deepen their mythologies and, sometimes, to try to correct faults from the tunnels of the past. Because these characters live throughout history -- many of them are over 60 years old – but unfortunately they don 't have the luxury of living outside of it, or do they? “Comic books have always reflected the…

There are a variety of things humans do in their everyday lives without noticing them. They breathe, walk, read, and write. Looking back, most humans did not know to read or write before the age of five. These are things a person learns and may never or get how to do, much like riding a bike. Being taught to write is one of the strongest skills and gifts that a person can maintain and develop throughout a lifetime. One can never be done learning how to write; new techniques, styles, and forms…

Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educationalist that has left an essential significance on the concept of thought, reflection and education. His works were and still are a monumental reason for change in communities of people that were restricted within their knowledge. Due to such, Freire is recognized to be one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century on education itself. In his works, it is evident that dialogue and the concern for the oppressed societies are two divisions in which…

The renowned fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, originated from La Belle et la Bete; which was written by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, in 1740. In 1756, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, a French novelist, revised the fairy tale to shorten the length and be appropriate for children. In Madame’s original version of Beauty and the Beast, was drawn-out, being over 300 pages long. Jeanne made various changes to La Belle et la Bete; she took out the sexuality component and numerous…

I recently attended A Christmas Wonderland, a drag show made up of some of RuPaul’s most talent drag queens such as; Roxxxy Andrews, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Naomi Smalls and many others. This was unlike any drag show I had been to before because instead of being in a small bar with limited seating and dingy lighting, it was in a real performance hall where the Nutcracker was being performed the following week. The first thing I immediately noticed was just how many different kinds of people…

The disabled groups can be considered the largest minority group in the world. The disabled people in society are subjected to different kinds of prejudices, discrimination and marginalization. The problem of disabled groups is as old as mankind. Oxford dictionary defines the term “disability” as physical incapacity, either congenital or caused by injury or disease, especially when limiting a person’s ability to work or lack of some asset, quality or attribute that prevents a person from doing…