Category: Oppression

There were several responses form the American society towards the oppression. However, it was clear that oppression existed even before the World War 2. At that period oppression had a different dimension mainly focused on racism and growers in plantation. The blacks were discriminated against the distribution of national resources. They were not recognized in…

Table of Contents Palestinian Oppression Terrorism Coverage of Intifada  The Islamic Movement Annotated Bibliography Palestinian Oppression Many contemporary theories of partition and nation-state blame the media for misrepresenting culture in developing and maintaining a sense of national consciousness and cultural imperialism. How far this blame is correct and to what extent American and international…

The Bluest Eye is about what its like to be hated for things that are outside of your control. She addresses the larger implications of that, probably something that all of us have experienced in our lives. Especially, she is talking about what its like to be hated for being a poor black girl. For…

In the short story, Sonnys Blues by James Baldwin (2009) the period in which it was published was the Harlem Renaissance, where there was a continual reiteration of social hierarchy that was imposed by a higher class. Similarly, The Yellow Wallpaper was published during the nineteenth century, which was a period in which women were…

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 Handmaids Tale written by…

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 womens facticity constrains the ability to engage as radically free beings. By unpacking the ontology of women, Beauvoir revises Sartres idea of Bad Faith to broaden notions…

Religion is a different compatible, characterization of religion makes use of the notions of diagnosis and cure. A religion proposes (an account of what it takes to be the basic problem facing human beings) and cure (a way of permanently and desirably solving that problem):one basic problem shared by every human person and fundamental solution…

Over the course of the semester we have read and dissected a plethora of stories ranging from various literary periods. These literary periods encompass Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and finally the Modernism period. While reading these various works we have been focused on characterization. Specifically, seeing the world through the eyes of the character and as…

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…

In the words of Marilyn Frye (1983), The word oppression is a strong word. It repels and attracts. It is dangerous and dangerously fashionable and endangered. It is much misused, and sometimes not innocently. In this reflection statement I will try to define what oppression is and how it intersects with privilege in my personal…