Introduction In his novel, Nuruddin Farah endeavors to expose the exploitation of patriarchy and the state's role in sustaining women's liberation. Under the administration of the Barre Government, the life of Somali women and their quest for individuality are hegemonized. The central character in this...
Rudyard Kipling’s short “On the City Wall” story displays an extremely complex look of 19th century British rule over India. The setting is Lahore where a courtesan named Lalun hosts a salon in her apartment on the city’s divider. If you want to know what...
In her article “Beyond Anger,” Martha C Nussbaum discusses the causes and weakness of anger and suggests that people should manage their anger. The article was published in 2016 on Aeon (2018), an independent digital magazine that publishes thoughtful and inspiring articles cover multiple topics....
Introduction Being yourself can be scary – even more so when being yourself is not welcomed in your house or the place where you live. People either accept you as you are or accept the “fact” that you shouldn’t even be considered human. Becoming Nicole...
Bom Boy by Yewande Omotoso is written in the genre known as Bildungsroman. However, it is in the form of a dissensual Bildungsroman. Peiker (2015) states that “A key plot difference between the dissensual and the traditional Bildungsroman is that a finished Bildung, the essential...
Sexuality and sexual preference have been a touchy subject from past to present. Accepting individuals’ choices and views in society have not been the friendliest in various parts of the world including America. Laws are being passed to help bring true equality for the L....
The murder mystery of the century! Unfortunately the term, perhaps the genre itself has become so grossly overused, it has lost its meaning to the general public. However, back in 1939 Agatha Christie wrote a novel with such a captivating story and complex characters, the...
Evidence is required in order to draw any sort of conclusion. This means that for the Book of Mormon to be true, then there needs to be evidence of its validity. Just like we can know if something tastes good by trying it, we can...
Have you ever felt an intense feeling of having something? What would you do to get it? Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson showcases what limits a human would cross to get what he wants. Jim Hawkins life takes a big twist when Captain Billy...
In life we require a great deal of motivation. Whether it comes to work love or any other relationship. However, sometimes the motivation from our colleagues, family, friends isn’t quite beneficial and we tend to drift away from the fact that we need motivation to...
Connie and Christabel are two different teenage girls who lived in different eras. In the article “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Oates illustrated Connie as a young pretty girl, who liked to look at herself, but rebellious. She always argued with her...
In Trevor Noah’s 2016 book Born a Crime, he relates his youth in South Africa under the politically-sanctioned racial segregation government known as the Apartheid, and the first couple of long periods of a fair standard by the country’s dark greater part. The story is...
“American River Currents” by Mallory M. O’Connor tells an engaging story that’s entertaining and holds your attention till the end. I found myself wanting to read more by this author. Isn’t that the highest praise you can give a book? The novel is set against...
Author Nancy Mairs, in her essay “On Being a Cripple,” brings forth a compelling argument about the use of the word “cripple” and how it has shaped her identity and perception of herself. Mairs, who herself is disabled due to multiple sclerosis, uses various rhetorical...
“Educational attainment is the most powerful tool a society has for improving the lives of its people.” This statement, made by former U.S. Secretary of Education John King, encapsulates the essence of the documentary “Neuer Journeys, Nuer Lives.” The film chronicles the experiences of South...
Introduction Robert A. Dahl’s classic book, “Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City,” is a big deal in political science. It helps us understand how power and government work in cities. Chapter 5 of this book looks closely at how political influence and...
Suicide is a dark subject, usually avoided in every-day conversation and in Youth Literature. This is understandable. Some topics require a developed level of maturity in order to be fully comprehended. However, the darkness of a subject, while understandably deeming it a taboo topic, should...
The name Salem or any mention of the Salem witch trials almost always turns heads, and usually this sudden attention is not due to a reputable history. Most people think of the Salem witch trials and begin to picture an out of control environment. Such...
“The Collector” by John Fowles deals with a man’s obsession with a woman that turns to kidnap and eventually death. What attracted me to this book was the unusual topic of obsession and intriguing title. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay...
The book Gender of the Gift by the Marilyn Strathern is a detailed evaluation of the problems faced by women and the society at large in Melanesia. The study mainly focuses on the native’s culture with the guinea mead’s field report as the center of...
Today’s societal norms emphasize individualism and freedom by way of adulthood, an idea not uncommon in past eras. Artists of all ages use the motif of adulthood to demonstrate independence and strength while the idea of adolescence is used to illustrate the process by which...
Resilience is the capacity to withstand stress and trauma. Plainsong, by Kent Haruf, is an impeccable portrayal of the resilience individuals require to overcome adversity. This adversity defines every character’s life, as they must fight to overcome hardship. People do not accumulate the same life...
Randomness and Manipulation To define information as a probability function[…]implies that randomness always already interpenetrates pattern, for probability as a concept posits a situation in which there is no a priori way to distinguish between effects extrapolated from known causes and those generated by chance...
Mark J. Plotkin born May 21, 1955 is an ethnobotanist, a plant explorer in neotropics, and an advocate for tropical rainforest conservation. Mark began his education at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, worked at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Completing his bachelor’s degree...
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a New York Times bestseller, written by Jared Diamond. The book was published in 1999 by W.W Norton and Company located in New York. Diamond shares his views and points in the first 376 pages then goes on with acknowledgments...
My Bloody Life was an amazing book for this class, not only did it tell us so much about his life, how he grew up, the ways his family treated him. It explained to us why he did the things he did, growing up and...
The Divergent trilogy is by far one of my favorites, however the first book of the series is my personal favorite. Divergent by Veronica Roth is one of my go to books on a lazy day. It is the perfect mix of a dystopian and...
Introduction In The Pursuit of Unhappiness by Daniel Haybron, he critiqued hedonistic theories on the grounds that pleasure is “not plausibly identifiable with happiness” and deemed this as the lack of “descriptive adequacy” (Haybron, p.57). Borrowing the notion of descriptive adequacy from philosopher L. W....
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has been known worldwide as the man who has introduced the concept, “The Mirror Stage”. Another one of his most leading works is of course the concept of “Other”. In an article entitled “Being the Other Woman: Watanabe’s Unrequited Love for...
E. F. Schumacher’s ‘Small is beautiful: Economics as if people mattered’ is based on alternative economic thinking dealing with the account of natural resources and human behaviour. He inherently talks about human value based thinking of development. Subtitle of this book is more directive than...
