In today’s society there are many social problems that everyone tends to face. People are often treated as if they are inferior to others based on different things such as race, ethnicity, and even gender. In the story the House on Mango Street, the author, Sandra Cisneros addresses these issues. Throughout the story, Cisneros thoroughly […]
Ethics are defined as, “moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity”. Based off of the best selling novel of 2004 by author Jodi Picoult , the film My Sister’s Keeper brings up many moral and ethical concerns that are prominent to modern day scientific technological advancement. To begin, the […]
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Get startedPoverty is the deprivation of resources and necessities needed for living. The income considered necessary to meet needs determines the poverty line. Anyone living under the poverty line is considered to be poor or on the brink of being poor. About one in every eight Americans are impoverished. Many children are facing the hardships of […]
Mulan is a Disney film made in the 1990’s, and released in 1998, that is based on the legendary Chinese warrior, Hua Mulan. The plot of the film takes place during the Han dynasty, and the movie itself is about a young girl named Mulan who secretly takes her sick father’s place in the army […]
Relativism refers to a philosophical theory that explains the subject circumstance of all morals in the world. This entails the principle that knowledge, morality as well as truth occur due to relation in a specific society, historical content or a particular culture which are not absolute. What can be morally right for a specific individual […]
Mayella Violet Ewell, a 19 ½ year old girl, made one of the most widely known accusations in Maycomb. She accused a black man, Tom Robinson, of raping her. Mayella first appears in chapter 17 of To Kill a Mockingbird when Tom Robinson’s trial occurs. She pours out a sob story to the court that […]
My area of film focus is the genre of coming-of- age films and today I am going to be comparing two films, The American film Lady Bird directed by Greta Gerwig, 2017, and Peppermint Soda 1977 directed by Diane Kurys in France and investigating how the transitions from youth to adulthood in different cultures are […]
Interactions come in the many forms of customs and normailities. Customs are certain behaviors that are geographically special or particular to a group of people. These customs are often socially acceptable ways of showing respect and courtesy to another fellow member of society and groups within those societies. The social norms particular to a group […]
Nowadays, American society puts a label on everything. Not just things but humans as well. When people are trying to be open-minded about something or someone, sometimes they take it too far. We can see it in the discussion about people with disabilities, society accepts them for who they are but to the point where […]
Every human being has the basic rights of having clean water, land and air. Unfortunately these basic rights are being violated, leading to Environmental Injustices in communities of color and low income. Before we begin talking about environmental injustices let see what Environmental Justice is. Environmental Justice is according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
Although Mark Twain wrote the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn after the abolition of slavery in the United States, the story itself takes place before the Civil War, also known as the antebellum, when slavery was still legal and the economic foundation of the American South. This slavery and racism poses a frequent thematic […]
The definition of social media are websites and computer programs that allow people to communicate and share information on the internet using a computer or mobile phone. The use of smartphones becomes common, which enables social media use through homes, schools, and communities due to a majority of youth (89%) having access to smartphones(Weinstein, 2018).These […]
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a popular literary piece. It focuses on several differences in the connection among John and his significant other. The story shows the physical and the declined mindset of women due to medically prescribed treatment of being allowed to do nothing. Gilman created this fictional narrative based on […]
The last step in promoting a new product or service is creating a successful advertisement to reach the intended target audience. The product, price, place, and promotion are all aspects of the total marketing process used to meet those objectives. With the technological advancements of today, advertising is no longer a traditional, one-way street, but […]
From the moment we wake up until the moment we go to sleep we are engrossed in technological advances from the basics of Wi-Fi, or the trendiest one currently, Alexa from Amazon to the most influential one, the smartphone. While smartphones vary in features and exterior and popularity, such as the iPhone X or the […]
Family dynamics are an often cause of teenage behaviors, but in Romeo and Juliet, this occurrence is taken to a new extreme. In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the main characters made poor decisions, leading them to their doom. Their parents being the main reasons for this drastic turn of events, and […]
Growing up college was necessary, often times parents and close ones described it as a privilege you were born into right from the start as a little boy or girl. For a long time and for many of us millennials. There is a limited number of pathways. These pathways consist of either go to trade […]
Today’s world has seen the most aspect of life being taken over by social media. It has become something that most of the people (if not everyone) has chosen to adapt to make their life more fun and interesting. With this in mind, social media can be defined by many as computer-mediated websites and applications […]
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel” (Bronte 123). The Victorian period stereotyped women to be calm, domestic, and submissive to their male counterparts. But Charlotte Bronte developed Jane Eyre’s personality from a powerless child to an independent woman on her journey through Thornsfield in order to […]
Introduction Markus Zusak, an Australian author, presented his novel The Book Thief in 2006. This book almost instantly became one of the most discussed both in the author’s homeland and in many other countries. Such an interest in The Book Thief was easily explained – the novel was devoted to the events of the Second […]
In Malala’s speech to the United Nations youth assembly, she does emphasize the value that education has. The speech is about a girl, 16 years old that gives her encounter about being shot by the Taliban in her head and surviving the ordeal. Malala is now a human rights activist advocating for the rights of […]
The U.S. Constitutions ensure against the burden of unbalanced criminal punishments. The Excessive Fines Clause and the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the eighth Amendment deny the use of disproportionate of sentences. The eighth Amendment disallows the central government from forcing unforgiving punishments on wrongdoers which now and again can wind up questionable. With […]
Technology has become such an integral part of our lives. Even now, I realize as I am typing away on my polychromatic keyboard that I spend more time using technology than I do with human interaction. Technology is everywhere. We see it every day in our homes, our classrooms, our working environments. It is unavoidable […]
What drives a person to murder? Some of the more commonly reported motives (but not the causes) include anarchism, personal revenge, retaliation for abuse or being “wronged,” moral depravity, demonic possession, and even a “lack of a conscience.” Many killers have relationships with their victims (Psychology Today). If you’ve ever read stories from Edgar Allan […]
In 1991 the world-wide-web was launched. Many people were apprehensive to the new tool; “I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots” a quote often attributed to Albert Einstein shows how even before the internet people were skeptical of new technology. Twenty-seven years later a […]
Some socio-cultural factors like culture and schooling/education can shape one’s perspective on gender roles they take upon and social perception of them. Growing up in a conservative culture teaches a girl her inconveniences compared to a boy. Notwithstanding, independence doesn’t come without the price of being educated in a society built upon years of misogyny […]
Throughout the history of the world, there have been innumerable classic novels that have many cherishable characters, but none compare to Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the novel, Atticus, a loving lawyer and widowed father, goes far distances to try to help others and make society a better place. […]
There are all sorts of different genres of film and television that depict characters in all sorts of scenarios, some more realistic than others. One show that has a huge fan following and 12 season run, which is coming to the end of its run after the conclusion of this final season, is “The Big […]
What makes a good leader? A great leader is someone who can take control and take initiative for their group. Someone who can guide, direct, stands out, and help back up their pack when in need of their assistance. In Lord of the Flies, one character who portrays and displays being a good leader is […]
With the beep of a received email, the ring of a phone call, the buzz of a text message, or the ping of a social media notification, cell phones envelope our society in whole. Undoubtedly they’re always within arms reach if not already in our hands being used. Nevertheless, should we let phones corrupt our […]
