Essays on Life

Guy de Maupassant: The Founder of Short Story Literature Guy de Maupassant is a prolific French writer who has been active since 1880. He is widely regarded as the founder of short story literature. He was also selected to reflect the Naturalist writers' institution. His tales are distinguished by his effortless...

Lulu's Dream Lulu was a peasant girl who lived in a small town once upon a time. Lulu was different from the other children. She'd miss baley classes only to go for a stroll through the woods. She liked sailing and promised her mother that one day she would sail to...

Prostitution is a very controversial topic that has been the focus of heated debate in countries all over the world for many years. To this day, sex work remains one of the world's oldest occupations. For the longest time, society has stigmatized and condemned prostitution, seeing it as dishonorable, despicable,...

Workers' unionism arose as a result of the desire to form a unified front in order to advocate for better working conditions. The majority of the early unions concentrated on workplace wages and working conditions. Employers were originally opposed to trade unions, but this did not prevent employees from banding together....

Gift Giving and its Cultural Significance Gift giving is the practice of exchanging goods, especially during a ceremony that may be gratuitous or intended to reinforce social and economic relations. Different cultures within communities have developed transaction structures, but every community values the element of free gifting that is unaccompanied by...

The First World War has significant consequences for European governments and economies. The destruction caused by this war sparked the creation of a major political shift that spread through Europe. The philosophy of fascism was a revolutionary idea that was developing in a number of European democracies. Fascism seemed to...

Conservatives' Values and Commitments Since reading The Conscience of a Conservative (2007), one can infer that conservatives hold certain values that are correct and lead to the improvement of the ethical norms of society's members. Conservatives' commitments also compel them to express acceptable liberal positions on community issues. Liberals' Focus on Economic...

In his novel, Why Fairy Tales Stick Jack Zipes claims that fairy tales are memes or units of knowledge that are culturally repeated and that these tales have coevolved with humans' increasing ability to distinguish. He claims that fairy tales are polygenic natural artifacts, which means that they are a set...

Relativism Relativism refers to the different approaches to arrive at a decision. Kuhn contends that there are no independent standards focused on particular knowledge or reality that assist in making a reasoned judgment. Instead, rational judgments are influenced by socioeconomic, societal, and historical factors, leading to relativism. Kuhn's View on Scientific Theories Kuhn...

Since the dawn of time, gangs have dominated the streets. Ideally, gangs are still synonymous with brutality because of the competition for dominance over other gangs that might attempt to dethrone them, which has always culminated in the loss of lives. Young children who were meant to live a long...

It was only later that I realized it was all a huge lie. For all those years, I thought he was gone for good. I knew at the back of my mind that we would never see each other again. As a result, I spent those months weeping alone in my...

To Build a Fire, by Jack London, describes a man's trip through a brutal winter in the snow, facing many problems along the way. The author employs characters, themes, and a blunt tone in the narrative to expose man's battle against nature. Similarly, in general, human beings do not trust...