Institutional repository Essays

Langston Hughes uses images of oppression to reveal a deeper truth about the way minorities have been treated in America. He uses his poems to bring into question some of Walt Whitman’s poems that indirectly state that all things are great, that all persons are one people in America, which Hughes claims is false because of all the racist views and oppression that people face from the people America. This oppression is then used to keep the minorities from Walt Whitman in his poem, “Song of Myself”

In Master Harold and the Boys, Fugard develops the relationship between a white boy and a black man to criticize the racial segregation that the apartheid brings to society. In Fugard's resolution, he expresses the need for "progress" (15) in the "bloody awful world" (15) corrupted with racism. He concludes his play demonstrating the negative impact of racism in society, yet he leaves his conclusion open for the possibility for a better outcome. Through Fugard’s use of stage directions and lighting

Introduction It is rightly said that Health is the first of life and wealth serves as the next of life .The meaning of Health varies from person to person rather than being absolute. According to WHO (1946) Health is defined as a complete state of physical, mental and social well being and is not just the absence of disease or frailty. It is an essential right of every individual to attain a complete pleasurable standard of health without the distinction of race, rituals, political beliefs or the

There are many different forms of discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird. Discrimination Is a prejudiced outlook. I will be looking at the discrimination against poor people, Black people, elderly, and sexism. There is the discrimination of poor people against rich, the view on the cunninghams, there is many different types of it in To Kill a Mockingbird. One of the most notable is racism, There is a lot of racism in the story. There is a lot of racism towards black people. It has been going on

In the poem, "When I Was Growing Up”, Nellie Wong relates the struggles of a Chinese girl growing up, searching to find her voice in a predominantly white cultural majority. The speaker begins the poem with, “I know now that once I longed to be white,” (1). This speaker longs for the privileges she attributes to being a member of the cultural majority. Ashamed of her darker Asian skin and Chinese culture, the speaker laments, “…I could not change, I could not shed / my skin…” (49, 50). The poem details

Performativity Judith Butler originally made sense of the concept of performativity and subjectivities through gender roles. Foucault’s analysis of governmentality leads to “…a normative ideal which is unilaterally imposed by an external sovereign.” (Disch, 1999: 554). Drawing on Foucault’s argument that power is productive through governmentality, Butler describes this process as the subject comes into being through a matter of performativity (Mills, 2003: 258) and does so “…through conjoining

This section of the take-home examination will discuss the purposes of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and their tenure as a ruling party in Mexico between 1929 and 2000. I will argue that the debt crisis of 1982 as well as the neoliberal processes of restructuring associated with NAFTA led to the erosion of PRI’s dominance which ultimately contributed to the present-day discriminatory system of elections in Mexico. First, I will discuss the history behind the PRI’s ascension. Second

Ethical Violations By Essence Sanchez Professor Sabina Balkaran Keiser University February 10, 2017 What is Ethics? Ethics or moral principles is presumably recognized as a set of conduct codes that one should live up to in which distinguishes between behaviors or thoughts that are considered unacceptable or acceptable in society. Ethical guidelines have been reinforced to protect the people from any psychological or physical damage.(Resnik, 2015) As one grows older one is taught morals

Introduction Ethics are appropriate in all the fields of human activity. Ethics are important for us while dealing with others, environment and animals. It is vital for us to have an official statement or a national reference point for ethical considerations regarding human research, treatment of humans and healthcare for humans (NHMRC Act, 2007). The current essay focuses on various ethical and legal standards of healthcare treatment that has to be provided to the humans and the importance of such

From 1939 to 1945, Nazi doctors and physicians conducted roughly 70 research experiments, many resulting in death. These cruel experiments were normally conducted in concentration camps. The Nazis had three main areas of research: survival and rescue of german troops, testing of new pharmaceuticals and medical procedures, and experiments trying to confirm Nazi racial ideology. Some of the doctors involved in these experiments were: Karl Brandt, who was Hitler's personal physician and the major general

creation of the Institutional Review Board Guidebook, which was last updated in 1993 (IRB Guidebook, 1993). Protection for human subjects began with the Nuremberg Code when judging the human experimentation done by the Nazis (IRB Guidebook, 1993). Other studies had been conducted using human subjects that led to the Belmont Report. One such unethical study is Johnson’s Monster Study that was conducted in 1939 on a group of orphans (Reynolds, 2003) that violated the Institutional Review Board guidelines

Political reforms from 1977 to 2000 From the forming of the Mexican revolutionary constitution of 1917 to the 1960s the PRI reigned supreme under the guise of political pluralism. However, a number of events during the 60s and 70s, including most notably the Tlatelolco student demonstrations of 1968 and questions of electoral fraud in the elections that followed brought the rule of the PRI into question. The party therefore attempted to maintain legitimacy through a process of reform which looked

The degree of stability during the PRI reign was dubbed as the “pax priísta”, much of which resulted from the control they commanded over the political arena and the co-optation of dissident groups (Alke Jens 486). Although this period was not entirely devoid of violence, what did exist did not stem solely from the drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), but also in part as an extension from the party itself (Alke Jens 468). The PRI’s command of the political and state apparatus allowed for the creation

maquiladoras. Mexico’s informal sector includes various economic activities, where individuals make little money, work in harsh conditions, and lack financial security. Labor’s fragmentation lead to a decrease in workers who were part of the institutional structure of the PRI and it had less control over labor's political

Ever wondered what was hidden behind the fences of Groom Lake, which is known to the civilian world as Area 51. Most people think that Groom Lake is an area where they have UFO’s or technology not ready for the world to see just yet. Well it is also a Nevada test site and majority of the people are going to the Yucca Mountain which is the controversial nuclear-waste storage site. This site has been proposed to accept high-level radioactive materials by the year 2005. Out of 1375 square miles 42

In Richard Muller’s essay on Chemical Waste in America, he points out many different problems in todays disposal techniques of nuclear waste. He brings in readers by appealing to American citizens with his visual texts, guilt, and how we must start feeling some empathy for our future generations and find a solution to prevent a massive chemical waste epidemic. Mullers argument bases off his visual texts, by showing us a reality that is going on today. Among the visual texts, Muller explains the

Introduction Nuclear waste is produced at every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining and enrichment, to reactor operation and the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. Much of this nuclear waste will remain hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years, leaving a poisonous legacy to future generations. The global volume of spent fuel was 220,000 tonnes in the year 2000, and is growing by approximately 10,000 tonnes annually. Despite billions of dollars of investment in various disposal

Many debates, or so called “hot topics”, pop up worldwide on a daily basis. Usually they are just ideas blown out of proportion by people hoping for their 15 minutes of fame, but sometimes these topics are much more. A recent topic of great discussion has hit home here in Pennsylvania, and today Governor Bodley, I wish to have your attention so we may discuss it in full. I’m here to address you today about the closure of TMI, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, in Londonderry Township just south

Richard A. Muller a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, expresses his concerns on the subject of nuclear waste. In his essay, Nuclear Waste, he writes about where the United States stores its nuclear waste, alternative ways to dispose of the waste and whether it would be effective. He also talks about how dangerous the nuclear by-product is, and other dangers regarding civilian’s safety. He effectively explains his concerns through pathos, logos, ethos, and other uses

Richard A. Muller’s “Nuclear Waste” addresses the problem of the storing of nuclear waste in the Yucca Mountain that costs billions of dollars that future presidents will have to deal with. He explains that the government will not be able to keep it underground for 10,000 years as the future is constantly changing, and that there could be a possible leakage due to the earthquakes that happen around the mountain (Muller 207). In “They say/I say” by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, they put together