Intersectionality, which is how social, economic, and other categories overlap and intersect in a greater framework of oppression. In the United States sexism, racism, ageism, classism, anti-Semitism, and other isms have deeply affected every fabric of human connection and it has become systemic. In this environment, it is one thing to be a white male, and it is another thing...
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Women throughout the ages have always been a part of literature. Unfortunately, they often portrayed themselves as a weaker, inferior, were unable to survive on their own, and were unable to do their work on their own. Women are beautiful and obedient, they couldn't think on their own, according to the guy.According to the novel of Alice Walker, most ladies...
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The notion of gender is fundamental to both the texts of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. They each centralise female characters who face oppression at the hands of their superior male counterparts as well as the pressures of surrounding society. Despite certain similarities, the unique responses of these characters are...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar’s lyrical rondeau poem - ‘We Wear the Mask’ indicates the oppressed treatment faced by African Americans by focusing on their lack of identity over the subject of the ‘mask’ which interconnects the trauma of slavery. Within this essay, I will be analysing the way Dunbar explores the suffering of African American’s through analysing the relationship established between...
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Jean-Paul Sartre describes inauthenticity as living in “Bad Faith” by rejecting radical freedom. His contemporary Simone De Beauvoir, challenges this by dissecting the ontology of “women”, concluding that women’s facticity constrains the ability to engage as radically free beings. By unpacking the ontology of women, Beauvoir revises Sartre’s idea of “Bad Faith” to broaden notions of inauthenticity as both “Moral...
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Throughout history Americans have ultimately been shown to be oppressive and to take advantage of others that don’t fit their beliefs or to help further their goals. As a result it stunts economic and structural growth of the United States. During the Gilded Era, immigrants flooded towards America, wanting to find a new, better life, and the majority of people...
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In Martin Luther King Jr’s essay entitled “ The Ways of Meeting Oppression” the Social Activist who led the civil rights movement during the 1960s. The author defines that no individual or group need to admit to any wrong, or need anyone to resort to violence in order to right a wrong. He supports his claim by presenting three real...
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The oppression of women will continuously be the elephant in the room, something men will shove under the rug in hopes that people will ignore the maltreatment. The struggles women face daily are overlooked in society, and especially in the media, thus their ultimate struggles seem infinite. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margeret Atwood, female characters struggle...
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Introduction In the Indian Society, their face is considered as a sign of fortune. They are often seen dressed in ill-fitting blouses and colourful sarees, as they roam around the busy marketplaces in groups, terrorizing pedestrians and hustling for a ten or two. They are just not the average beggars we come across in urban pavements. With male voices shouting...
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Introduction: "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane" by Etheridge Knight is a powerful poem that explores themes of identity, oppression, and resistance within the context of the prison system. Through the narrative of Hard Rock, a former inmate who returns to prison after being in a mental hospital, the poem delves into the struggle...
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Within the book “We The Animals” by Justin Torres a common issue is the lack of parenting. Jonah’s parents have negative parenting skills towards their children and within each other. Such as physical abuse, absence of parenting, and lack of motivation. Each of these factors has affected the boy’s behavior and childhood experience. Each parent has its own flaws and...
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Abstract There is a gap of over ninety years between the advent of T. S. Eliot as a major poet and the literature of our own time. An approach to Eliot at the end of twentieth Century might lead one to believe that Eliot is now out dated, that he belongs to the twenties and that the intellectual, emotional and...
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With updates on the assault on the American maritime base at Hawaii on December 7, 1941, long periods of seething trepidation and hatred against Japanese Canadians detonated into frenzy and outrage in British Columbia. Inside days of the Pearl Harbor assault, Canadian Pacific Railways terminated all its Japanese laborers, and most other Canadian ventures stuck to this same pattern. Japanese...
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The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery in the year 1865. Part of the amendment has become quite infamous in my opinion. The documentary dives deep into the clause that states “Either slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or...
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“Native son” by Richard Wright is an informative novel of the oppression black people faced, specifically living in Chicago in the 1930s. Bigger Thomas was a young African American ;Bigger was forced to suffer the effects and social conditions of the enormous oppression over African Americans due to the racism of people in the 1930s. The oppression applied to African...
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Dystopian Societies and Female Oppression: An Overview The protagonists in both ‘The Handmaids Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ by Khalid Hosseini suffer in the societies in which they exist. Similarly, the theme of religious oppression underpins the suffering of the female protagonists in both the fictitious, dystopian society of Gilead in ‘The Handmaids Tale’ and the...
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The people waiting outside for their day in the RTIA studio are sharp. They come bearing their birth certificates, certificates of employment, various proofs of their suffering, and a deep understanding of systemic oppression. It's easy to argue why such a formula is unhealthy for any society, for it is trial by publicity. Instant justice; is one that's fallible, extralegal,...
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Throughout history, women have been victims of repression, because men comfort themselves with the idea that women need to be guided and looked after. But today, female oppression is worse because women have grown unaware since it has become a part of women’s identity. The destruction of the female character has been silently shaped by men’s desires and their diminishing...
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Across Europe, nationalist movements attempting to regain sovereignty have led to the rise of populist, right-wing parties. This has also led to a rise in secularism, especially in France. The discouragement of religion in the public sphere placed a target on Muslim women as their clothing was a clear indicator of religious affiliation. The debates surrounding the wearing of the...
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