The Puritan religion is a very harsh religion and how they were against the devil with a passion but said you had a slim chance of going to heaven. You had to almost be perfect to make it into heaven. The character I have chosen to analyze is John Proctor, a protagonist in The Crucible […]
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story first published in January 1892. The story covers themes such as gender roles, resting cure, freedom, society and class. The passage that I will be analyzing is “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is […]
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Get startedBeing scared, frightened of all we probably want to do, is a barrier to setting our highest goal. For many of us, this is a state of fear, which can open us up to our highest purpose in life. Maybe we can find a job promotion, but fear prevents us from confronting our boss about […]
“What he did. Where he touched me. I didn’t want it, Sally. The way he said it, the way it’s supposed to be, all the storybooks and movies..” says Esperanza, the narrator in The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza and other girls on Mango Street struggle with growing up and being objectified […]
Dracula makes an effort to portray what the role of sexuality and gender had in the Victorian Era. It does a good job of making the novel more realistic and adding a different aspect to it. Women were very naive and were not allowed to show affection towards men or do anything that would show […]
As an unwed mother, stamped with the endless castigation of public shame for baring a child viewed by society as a demon, Hester Prynne’s situation could be described as less than ideal. A status that would generally be seen as deficient is embraced and glorified by this rebel with a cause. Hester develops this insurgent […]
Money is like a double ended sword, as it makes life easier on one hand while at the same time most of the problems in many families all revolve around money. Raisin in the sun play was written by Hansberry which the center of all the issues they are facing hence the central motif in […]
Learning a second language can be very hard and time consuming but learning native languages as a kid is very easy and usually comes naturally as the kid develops. Kids raised in a two-language home develop both languages as they grow and end up bilingual. Being bilingual is a privilege but usually comes at a […]
In his book, The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor explains how happiness is a tool to aid us in achieving success, and is not the result of it. He then provides us with seven applicable principles that we can use to expand both our success and happiness. The definition of happiness that Achor resonates the most […]
The media has changed the way beauty is seen, then the readers or watchers start to think differently of themselves. This bothers me because over the years that the media industry has grown, the more damage they cause instead of doing the opposite. I think this affects everyone, especially teens. Most reality tv shows, celebrities, […]
Teens, like me, go through depression everyday. Many of us don’t need to go through it, but so much goes on in our everyday lives. That sometimes we just get in the wrong state of mind. When they are in that state of mind, when they are feeling hopelessness and get into a hole of […]
Socio-economic inequality leads to poverty amongst individuals. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines poverty as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.” The concept of poverty is complicated because there are many factors that help aid in an individual being affected by poverty. Individuals who are typically […]
The use of public shaming is not a new one, but with the increased use of social media public shaming has been on the rise. A positive thing about social media is that it gives people a voice and a way to be heard and voice their opinions. Unfortunately when it comes to online shaming […]
Jean Piaget is a Swiss developmental psychologist and genetic epistemology who is known as one of the most influential researchers during the 20th century. Piaget was interested in the intellectual development of children and how they come to know the world around them. It was through various observations that led to his Theory of Cognitive […]
Cognition is defined as a high level carried out by the human brain, including comprehension and use of speech, visual perception and construction, calculation ability, attention (information processing), memory, and executive functions such as planning, problem-solving, and self-monitoring. Jean Piaget’s viewed cognitive development as an essential prerequisite for the development of all symbolic functions (thinking, […]
In this era of information abundance, scientists have discovered a relatively new form of science of the mind known as cognitive psychology, which has revolutionized the realms of psychology. Cognitive psychology is essentially the study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking. (‘Cognitive psychology’, 2018) Needless to […]
Today, various theories are developed and utilized in counseling children. There has been extensive development in modern science and progress in the field of Psychology, following ingenuity of several new practical methods and approaches for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy by theorists. ‘CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is known as one of them. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is […]
Religion and philosophy are, arguably, one in the same in that both are usually established during a time in which there is either no social order or the order that does exist is fundamentally weak. Philosophy and religion could be viewed as the necessary response to cultural change and the innate human desire for answers […]
China is the world’s oldest civilization. It’s roots trace back as far as the fifth millennium B.C.E. The Shang kings ruled until about the eleventh century B.C.E, when the Zhou people came from the northwest and conquered them. This is when the new Zhou Dynasty began and ruled for some eight centuries making it the […]
For years, society has been shaped by the influence of religion. In China, the two dominant religious and philosophical belief systems are Daoism and Confucianism. While both religions teach good behavior, respect, discipline, and morality, their approaches are different. Founded by Lao Tzu in the sixth century BCE, Daoism rose to popularity quickly. Lao Tzu, […]
The study done by Jamie Cage and Sarah Font was meant to examine how physical punishment, corporal and physical abuse influence how a child does in school and self-isolation. Corporal punishment is a physical punishment of any sort. In the study, the researchers examined children from ages of 3-14 over a span of 3 years […]
Are you a parent ? Have you ever been driven crazy by the actions of your children? How do you deal with the way you discipline them? Do you believe in punishment or do you repeat the same tactics your parents would use on you? Punishment is to discipline someone for doing wrong. When being […]
Spanking is a common practice among parents of young children in the United States. “Individuals with higher educational attainment are less likely to agree that spanking children is an acceptable form of discipline” (Child Trends 1). In the United States, corporal punishment is legal in the child’s home; on the other hand, it is illegal […]
Crime must be punished, but the methods as to how to punish crime can prove to deliver very different results. Randall Collins says in his book the Sociological Insight that the modern punishment of crime characterized by courtrooms has a ritualistic purpose for the non-deviants of a society rather than for the offenders (1992). Collins […]
The complexities of social interaction within one’s familial unit have been the focus of artistic works and philosophical contemplation for millennia. The conflicts, resolutions, and compromises that make day to day life possible also determine the overall nature of the group’s relationship. In the works of Fences by August Wilson and Death of a Salesman […]
In the book Dracula, one of the most important themes is the threat of female sexual expression. I believe Bram Stoker wrote this book to deliver some of the awareness of the threats of female expressions going on at the time. Bram Stoker seemed to get this idea across by pampering the concept of how […]
Carmilla was an interesting novella, on in which I had not yet read. I agree with Maureen and liked her observation of the difference between this work and Strokers. It was interesting to see how Mina Harker awoke from Count Dracula’s embrace, and then asks the men around her, “What have I done to deserve […]
The following essay provides an account of consumer materialism and consumer ethnocentrism amongst the youth of South Africa and globally. It promotes the factors contributing to the high levels of consumer materialism and consumer ethnocentrism amongst the youth of South Africa and globally. Furthermore, this essay illustrates the implications of the high levels of consumer […]
“Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement” (Wardlaw, “Top 25 Judgement Quotes: A-Z Quotes”). This quote from Will Rogers highlights the fact that that exercising appropriate judgment when communicating with people of diverse cultures can be daunting. Disparities in cultures can lead to disagreements, and consequently, ineffective communication. How many times […]
Culture is defined sociologically as the compromise of beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group to society. Ana Garcia lives in a Latino community, with greatly fixed ties to her traditional Mexican background and upbringing, in East Los Angles. Throughout the film, issues such as ethnocentrism and the […]
