Essays on Social Issues

Bob Dylan wrote "God on Our Side" in 1964, amid the American Civil Rights Movement. Bob Dylan wrote the song by emphasizing the conflict between residual philosophies such as patriotism and white supremacy (Dylan). The song was written during a period when latent philosophies such as racial injustice were influencing...

On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was stopped by police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department and beaten up, an attack that was prominently reported on major American television networks. An onlooker, George Holiday, videotaped Rodney King's pounding. In the footage, police officers are seen targeting King with high-voltage...

Chapter 5 Chapter 5 shows how avant-garde behavior is linked to sectarian debates as well as interpersonal confrontation. These characteristics, however, are rarely used as a form of confrontation between Vladimir Tatlin and Kasimir Malevich.The Conflict In essence, the conflict was never properly resolved, which caused division among artists and, as a...

The Old Chief Mshalanga by Doris Lessing is a tale of racial discrimination between dominant whites and inferior blacks. Lessing, on the other hand, uses the story's setting to highlight the fact that people should not be judged based on their skin color. According to the story, people make conclusions...

About everybody in the world has seen a difficult time in their lives at a young age. Those who managed to get through their childhood without encountering any temptations or difficulties are right to think of themselves as fortunate. David Sedaris, the author of the short story Go Carolina, was...

Several scholars have written of the crimes committed against women in sexual slavery, as well as providing proof of the abuses. Yuki Tanaka's book, Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the US Occupation, was published by Routledge in 2002. Yuki Tanaka is a scholar...

African American Civil Rights Movement Around 1955 and 1968, the African American Civil Rights Movement ruled the United States. The movement's key purpose was to make racial injustice and suffering against the African American population illegal. The revolution, like any other strong and influential uprising of the day, struggled for collective...

The novel Shame describes some of the events that characterized South Africa's apartheid regime, as well as the horrors that emerged as a result of such hostility, resentment, and rage among the people of South Africa. The book tells the story of how people chose to manipulate each other based...

Makina's quest and attempt to cross the US border as a fugitive is captured in the book "Signs Preceding the End of the World." It is a representation of one of today's most controversial topics in America. The topic of immigration is heavily discussed in the plot. The storyline, characters,...

A reader of The Last of the Mohicans can detect bigotry in the novel, which is perpetuated by ethnic difference and ethnic stereotypes. Cooper's book portrays bigotry as one of the novel's contemporary subjects, offering negative and generic issues to citizens of different races. In a more rigorous review, the...

Feminist literary criticism is informed by feminist philosophy. The criticism employs feminist concepts and philosophies to analyze literature vocabulary, with the primary goal of examining and explaining how literature portrays the male dominance paradigm by the manipulation of political, societal, technological, and psychological powers in literature. However, while feminist literary...

Hamlet's View on Fate versus Free WillHamlet explains how tragedians viewed the current struggle between free will and destiny. Shakespeare's fiction describes the universal conflict between people's innate ability to influence their future and their proclivity to embrace fate. As Shakespeare depicts it, fate has always played a critical role...