Hans starts of talking about how astounded he was when his teacher in school told him that the world population had become three billion people; back in 1960. Rosling explains that instead of using digital technology; he is going to use IKEA boxes to represent...
At some point thousands of years ago there were only a handful of human beings on the earth. As these people found comfortable climates to live in with fruits and vegetables to pick and eat they were able to live and multiply. As herds of...
As we analyze society and culture in the present day, we first have to look into the past using Social Imagination. To do so we have to ask the questions, what made our society the way it is, why do people act in certain ways,...
Entertainment has been around as long as people have. Easily accessible, community-based entertainment started as a useful and informative tool, such as radio during World War I. In more recent years, however, corruptive and abusive things are often glorified in entertainment. Drugs and alcohol are...
I have chosen to write an extended essay, to research, analyze, discuss and understand western societies obsession with women’s beauty and the over-sexualization of the female form in visual culture, and the issues this manifests in today’s society. I will identify the problems of the...
Drug abuse is rife in our society today. Our states have set aside funds to aid in curbing drug abuse, diagnose drug related diseases and solving crimes resulting from drug addicion.Although drug addict has been a jeopardy to many societies, their impacts can be mitigated...
Sociology is defined as the systematic study of social behavior and human groups. Sociological Imagination is a type of critical thinking used by sociologists to understand the behavior of different groups of people around the world. Sociological Imagination helps us comprehend how problems and situations...
The roles of women in the society and their models of behavior had been distinct differently in the past between them and Men. Women are disadvantages in institutional setting, do a disproportionate amount of housework compared to men. However, there are been considerable change since...
Out of the many villains in the X-men movies William Stryker is the only one to have his origin story rebooted from his comic origins. God loves man kills tells the story of a religious conservative figure—a televangelist by the name of reverend William Stryker—who...
Living in a modern society has redefined the meaning of life in many ways. Nowadays, the most popular social networks have come to define the essence of existence as making others feel less critical by reducing them to meaningless followers. These followers are expected to...
Jeremy Rifkin is a master of Rhetoric. By using all three branches of the persuasive technique (pathos, logos, and ethos), he is able to appeal to the reader about the “humanity” of animals and how they should be treated with closer respect as those of...
People have the tendency of proving to others and themselves that they are right when it comes to what they do and what they say. It is simply a mechanic to protect the person’s ego based on the notion that nobody likes it when they...
Although the characters’ distinctive individual stories are told in Act I of Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls, the overall effect is a cumulative chorus of women’s issues. The dinner scene in Act I establishes thematic foundations upon which numerous women’s issues can be raised. Despite...
In The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, by Bertolt Brecht, a violent gang gains power through the vegetable trade, attaining near dictatorial status in a chillingly short amount of time. One thing leads to another in a rapid sequence of events that ultimately results in...
Postcolonial literature both reveals and challenges the ideals of a dominant culture in their attempt to marginalise and control a minor group. No Sugar is a play set in a period of Australian history known as Protectionism, in which Indigenous Australians were marginalised as primitive...
The seventy-year-old Moll Flanders who narrates her own life story considers herself a reformed criminal. But to what degree should her perceived transgressions cause her to actually be understood as such? After all, Defoe’s novel makes it clear that a number of different factors ultimately...
Wake up, have a cup of coffee, and put on some makeup before walking out the door for the first time in twelve hours. The day ends with a phone call from a loved one as the makeup comes off and the sweatpants go on...
The 1868 novel Little Women is not only a heartwarming and heartbreaking story set in the midst of the Civil War, but also a series of veiled narratives of the life of the author, Louisa May Alcott. The story coincides with many of the economic...
Joe Christmas is a walking contradiction in the Southern society in which he resides. Throughout Light in August, central character Joe Christmas experiences many factors that contribute to his inability to form substantial relationships with other characters. Joe’s childhood in the orphanage and living with...