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Answered a Question in History
The experiences of women throughout American history has significant variance due to intersections of race, class, and sexual orientation. Therefore, I will discuss these three themes as important... -
Answered a Question in The Country Wife
Margery is the wife of Mr. Pinchwife, an extremely jealous and foolish man who controls and surveils her. Margery and her husband live in the country, where her husband believes that he can guard... -
Answered a Question in History
The Virginia Declaration of Rights, drafted in 1776, influenced the creation of the US Bill of Rights, drafted in 1789. The US Bill of Rights contains the first ten amendments to the Constitution.... -
Answered a Question in Literature
This article published in 2002 examines how people of color within the Untied State, specifically black, Asian, and Latine people (the "e" is written as a gender neutral form of "Latino", and has... -
Answered a Question in History
Prejudice was a critical component of keeping the institution of slavery acceptable in the eyes of non-enslaved people, particularly white people, but it was not, in and of itself, the creator of... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
In "Everyday Use," Maggie is content at the end of the short story after she is given the old family quilts by her mother, who has given them to Maggie rather than to Maggie's sister, Dee. Maggie... -
Answered a Question in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, both the novel and the film, has had a lasting impact on the field of psychology, specifically regarding patient autonomy over their own treatment and engagement... -
Answered a Question in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest presents challenges to dominant societal perceptions of mental health, mental illness, neurodiversity, authority, and hierarchy. In the novel, patients of a mental... -
Answered a Question in Circe
Witches and their earth-based ways of living and healing came under intense persecution by patriarchal and christian-dominated societies beginning around the 15th century. Persecution was... -
Answered a Question in Adrienne Rich
The poem is a figurative story of liberation. In the poem, the poet writes of how the plants in her house are breaking out of their confinement and returning to their wild home within the forest.... -
Answered a Question in History
Imperialism benefits the imperialist nation that oppresses the colonized people of another nation, territory, or land. For centuries (including the present day), imperialism has stripped people of... -
Answered a Question in A Lesson before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying, while focusing on the story of Jefferson's kidnapping by the state and state sanctioned execution, provides readers mostly with Grant's inner thoughts and turmoil as he... -
Answered a Question in The Poet X
The setting of The Poet X is Harlem, New York City. The protagonist of the novel, Xiomara, lives in a working class neighborhood of primarily folks of color. Many people in the neighborhood are of... -
Answered a Question in The Devil's Highway
Particularly since the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of 1993 that destroyed the livelihoods of Mexican and indigenous people across Mexico, undocumented immigration... -
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
The narration in "The Cask of Amontillado" is provided by a first-person point of view from an arguably unreliable and manipulative narrator, Montresor. The narrator opens the story with vague and... -
Answered a Question in Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jaques Rousseau was a French philosopher and abolitionist who understood slavery to be an absolute evil in the world that completely denied the core autonomy of an individual. Rousseau held... -
Answered a Question in History
There were several layers of tensions between those living in colonial America and the ruling class of England. Firstly, the aristocracy and governing individuals in colonial America sought to rule... -
Answered a Question in History
Contrary to the dominant interpretation of so-called "emancipation" and the thirteenth amendment, the thirteenth amendment abolished a specific form of slavery (legalized enslavement of people by... -
Answered a Question in The US and the Philippines
The Spanish-American War sparked an anti-imperialist movement within the United States. On June 15th, 1898, the American Anti-Imperialist League was organized in response to the United States's... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The varying conditions found in the concentration camps of Night and the internment camps of Farewell to Manzanar are rooted in the differing end goals of the horribly oppressive government of the... -
Answered a Question in History
The status of a mother determining the status of the child became the defining factor for legal status of enslaved and free African people. Originally, genocidal hierarchies imposed by the colonial... -
Answered a Question in History
Systemic racism, vigilante racism, and general state violence and oppression directly correlate to health outcomes of people who have been forced to endure these oppressions. Even without having an... -
Answered a Question in Jürgen Habermas
In Modernity: An Unfinished Project, Jürgen Habermas defends the concepts of modernity and asserts that it creates a trajectory for humanity in which the world becomes more and more just and... -
Answered a Question in Reconstruction
Reconstruction Era in the United States encompassed the decade following the end of the Civil War and the technical end to slavery via the 13th amendment (except for in cases of incarceration,... -
Answered a Question in Globalization and Technological Advancements
Cultural clashes, misunderstandings, and outright oppressive behaviors can often occur as a result of a globalized economy, particularly one in which the the businesses of the Global North... -
Answered a Question in The Ancient World
The Babylonian economy was rooted in its agricultural production and extensive networks of trade. The Babylonian empire was situated in the Fertile Crescent, and as such, farmers were able to... -
Answered a Question in Into the Wild
In Into The Wild, Alexander (formally known as Chris) rebelled against the authority of his parents, particularly his father, and the capitalist lifestyle they led. Alex sought to make his life... -
Answered a Question in Western Expansion, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican-American War
To answer this question with a critical and accurate lens, one must think about what "positive" means in this context and for whom. In terms of nation-states, positive outcome for the state is more... -
Answered a Question in The Yellow Wallpaper
The short story "Yellow Wallpaper" describes the immense amount of misogyny and condescension that women experienced during the nineteenth century. In the story, the narrator, after having her... -
Answered a Question in Internment
In the novel Internment, the concentration camp guards divide the interned Muslim people by race, ethnicity, and nationality. This divide-and-conquer strategy is implemented by the concentration... -
Answered a Question in History of Plymouth Plantation
Bradford, the settler who governed the Plymouth colony for over thirty years, celebrated the massacre of the Pequot people as a victory for his settlement. He was part of the first wave of... -
Answered a Question in The Government Inspector
In the 1930s, following the Great Depression, president Franklin D. Roosevelt created federal programs to aid in economic relief and the wide-scale creation of jobs in order to recover the economy.... -
Answered a Question in Into the Wild
By choosing a new name, Alex was able to declare his own autonomy and ability to choose his own path in life. Generally, in the context of the United States, choosing a new name for one's self is... -
Answered a Question in Commanding Heights
The state communist system described in Commanding Heights is one example of one form of how states are oppressive. While the novel is generally read through an anti-communist, pro-capitalist lens,... -
Answered a Question in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
You may want to think about the impossible dualities that enslaved women, and women accused of witchcraft, faced. Tituba's experience as an enslaved black woman accused of witchcraft places her in... -
Answered a Question in The Word for World Is Forest
When people are treated as "other than," they tend to be dehumanized in the eyes and practices of the person, people, or state/organization enacting this process of othering. For instance, in the... -
Answered a Question in There Will Come Soft Rains
In Ray Bradbury's dystopian short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," a single house is left standing in the year 2026, after an atomic blast kills the inhabitants of the house and the rest of the... -
Answered a Question in Civil Rights Near the Turn of the Century
While Marcus Garvey and W.E.B Du Bois were both black activists who struggled for their vision of liberation for black people, their ideas for this liberation often differed, particularly in their... -
Answered a Question in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
As is the case with many books and the movies they are based off, there are several differences between the novel, Fried Green Tomatoes, and its cinematic rendition. While there are some plot... -
Answered a Question in Things Fall Apart
Ideological state apparatuses are critical in disseminating colonial ideology in Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart. Ideological state apparatuses are technically non-state institutions that... -
Answered a Question in Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire studied how education can be used a tool of both liberation and oppression. Freire particularly noted how the dominant public education model in Brazil, and in most countries, is the... -
Answered a Question in History
A historical example of a transoceanic trade network that created vast wealth for some and immense inequality and a loss of wealth for others is the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This triangular trade... -
Answered a Question in History
When the British held colonial rule over India, the people of India suffered from a lack of autonomy, theft of their lands and resources, and oppressive treatment by the British and the small class... -
Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
In stave 4, Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. It is through this visit that Scrooge finally grasps how his greediness and oppressive behaviors affect other people and,... -
Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
Scrooge cannot bring himself to lift the veil from the man who died because he fears that the dead man is in fact future Scrooge, whom the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is presenting to him.... -
Answered a Question in The Market Revolution, Industrialization, and New Technologies
The Market Revolution coincided with the Industrial Revolution, and as such, the economy shifted from local and regional economies to a national economy due to the inventions of the Industrial... -
Answered a Question in Brave New World
There are certainly parallels between the world of Huxley's Brave New World and that of our current world. Eugenics and genetic engineering absolutely exist in our world, such as prison programs... -
Answered a Question in History
Different classes of people were certainly affected differently by the creation of the written word. The invention of writing contributed to the consolidation of centralized governments and power... -
Answered a Question in The Market Revolution, Industrialization, and New Technologies
Adam Smith furthered the ideology of the laissez-faire or capitalist economy in which a free market exists and private businesses are separate and only somewhat regulated by the state. The... -
Answered a Question in Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau believed in the concept of direct democracy, in which people directly decide on the policies and laws of a government. There is no actual direct democracy in existence by any government,...
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