Essays Tagged: "subjugation"

The Bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of woman's emancipation.

is about her struggle for women's freedom.Women, considered a lower class than the men, wanted this subjugation changed. Part of the reason for the subjugation ofwomen is that the Bible could be inter ...

(3 pages) 72 0 3.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

A biography of Germaine Greer

opinions her books. Her most famous book is The Female Eunuch, which was a trenchant attack on the subjugation of women in a male dominated society. In fact, one source tells that when the book first ...

(1 pages) 45 0 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

George Orwell, expresses a feeling of alienation throughout "Such, Such Were the Joys...."

nto only one possible direction, failure. This essay is the maturing Orwell's response to childhood subjugation, a subtle exposure to the evolution of Orwell's thought.Orwell's life as a boarding scho ...

(7 pages) 70 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

nalysis it has had a profound and powerful impact on many people regarding the role, treatment, and subjugation of women. The story appears to be a somewhat autobiographical tale of a woman who suffer ...

(6 pages) 373 0 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

How the 'social contract' described by Hobbs and Locke led to the formation of the United States and the citizens role in maintaining the social contract today.

vine rule'? How did the rulers, who referred to themselves as 'bluebloods,' maintain this system of subjugation for most of man's history? Let us look back in history to see how we reached this presen ...

(7 pages) 205 1 3.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - shows how various literary techniques are used to describe the development of Ivan's character.

the authorities as threatening. This distinctly portrays the forceful nature of the authorities and subjugation of the zeks. This aspect is also mimicked in the rest of the excerpt as well as the nove ...

(3 pages) 92 1 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Analysis of archetypal symbols in the film "The Last Wave"

ather. Through careful observation, the major themes of "The Last Wave" can be seen as both culture subjugation and an archetypal Hero's Journey.The main theme of the film is less evident than it's ad ... at all, but rather a focal point for a greater conflict. The conflict of man versus man in culture subjugation, or society versus society. Throughout the entire film, you can clearly see how the cult ...

(7 pages) 42 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Raise red lantern Chinese director Zhang Yimou.

n-style. But it's more than that. It's an indictment of the ways in which we participate in our own subjugation no matter what our nationality, era or fiscal circumstance. Set in 1920s China, the movi ...

(9 pages) 88 0 4.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The Colonization of Latin America.

heir borders. The historical question arises in spite of this; did the newly acquired territory and subjugation of its people strengthen or weaken the political empires ability to fight the imminent c ...

(6 pages) 232 3 4.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Anti-semitism.

. As one moves further through history, the lowly condition of the Jews under Roman and then Muslim subjugation is evidence of anti-semantic thought in those societies. And in modern times, anti-Semit ...

(5 pages) 84 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Gandhi

fully comprehend his toil, one must start at the beginning.In 1893 Gandhi began working against the subjugation that he, and other Indians working in South Africa, went through. Gandhi was kicked off ...

(3 pages) 44 0 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Truman Doctrine

that it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure." (Harry Truman mach 1947). This is part of t ...

(5 pages) 75 0 3.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl

t only a woman, but also a black woman escaping slavery. Not only does Jacobs' narrative focuses on subjugation due to race but it also portrays many women an strong and often open roles. It illustrat ...

(7 pages) 167 1 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Summary of Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, & Steel"

the world. This higher level of organization laid the groundwork for Europe's global domination and subjugation of 'lesser' cultures. The most obvious explanation for this European omnipotence is thei ...

(8 pages) 92 1 4.8 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

To What extent did the spread of Christianity violate Human Rights and Freedom in Africa? By Walubo Jude Tadeo

subjugation of Africans, Coloureds and Indians for the sake of South Africa. Christian Missionaries ...

(8 pages) 54 0 4.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Oppression of the Proletariat in Medieval Europe

their lucrative positions by keeping the vast peasantry in a constant state of fear, isolation and subjugation. These three tools of oppression became the central facets of life for the common man an ... ge of the population virtually enslaved a continent for hundreds of years using fear, isolation and subjugation, halting human progress and forcing the bulk of society into the roles of mindless lemmi ...

(6 pages) 43 0 0.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Beat Me Skeet Me: A Critical Analysis of "Secretary".

ses dangerous psychological territory: the threshold between desire and pain, between surrender and subjugation. Gaitskill's "Secretary" is more about submissiveness and "sexual perversion" (Garrett 1 ...

(7 pages) 23 0 5.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Torture is Morally Justifiable in Some Extreme Cases (write a letter to the editor in respose to Mirko Bagaric's article).

vors of Torture as being " not just the physical applications of pain, but it requires the complete subjugation of the person at emotional, psychological and spiritual levels." It seems to be a comple ...

(4 pages) 64 0 0.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Presentation of the Guns in "A Gathering of Old Men" by Ernest Gaines.

er at the plantation have spent their days running from trouble. After years of social and economic subjugation in a racist system, they long to stand up for something. The transformation that they lo ...

(2 pages) 30 1 4.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Quiet Odyssey" by Mary Paik Lee.

ort to difficult physical labor to barely get by, jeopardizing their health in the process. Japan's subjugation of Korea, even though it actually took place in Korea, greatly affected the Korean popul ...

(5 pages) 68 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature