Essays on Critical Theory

Nervous Conditions is concerned with women who live in a traditional African society in Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia), who struggle to find their place in the patriarchal system and who search for their independence. Each female protagonist in the novel finds her own way of dealing with her situation; however, this essay focuses on two characters-Tambu…

Generation (from the Latin generare, meaning to beget), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. Generation can be defined as the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time. Each generation has its own distinct set of values that is developed from the social environment in their early…

The mid twentieth century proved to be a compelling, interesting time for the United States and an era that changed the World. The Civil Rights movement brought the end to de jure segregation and racism and this incredible grassroots movement served as a foundational model for other groups to mock and seek their own liberation….

Multicultural Compare/Contrast Every culture around the world differs in some way or another. There are three cultural differences that specifically differ from that of southern American culture. These three concepts are respecting ones elders from “Or Else, the Lightning God” by Catherine Lim, respect for the dead in “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe, and…

Hermeneutics is a topic that has been debated about for many years and two philosophers that have impacted the thought on hermeneutics are Hans-George Gadamer (1900-2002) and Jurgen Habermas (1929- ). In this essay I begin by providing a brief history of hermeneutics and then I go on to explain Gadamer‘s philosophy followed by Habermas’…

Introduction             In the case of an abused woman such as Tara Jones, it is significant not only to evaluate and account for her experiences and personal background in an effort to provide counseling and assistance, there is also a need to examine her development as a human being within a sociocultural context. The feminist…

The Miss Education of the African –American: Past, Present, and Future From the beginning, Whites’ in America have exploited Negros’. “Upon landing in Africa, White Americans were welcomed and given a feast (James W. Loewen)”. Whites Americans played on the greed of tribal chiefs’ Africans traded their own people into slavery for goods. When the…

Racism between blacks and whites is something that has plagued the United States for a long time, and still does today. The autobiography, Black Like Me is about a man named John Howard Griffin. He is a middle-aged white southerner with a passionate commitment to social justice. Griffin undergoes a series of medical therapy to…

Summary In this article Jennifer Parks brought up three radical feminists; Shulamith Firestone, Gena Corea and Janice Raymond, and their views. Starting with Firestone, who believed that there was another class division (sex class), and spoke of how woman’s roles have been largely influenced by the male dominant culture. Shulamith Firestone understood that assisted reproductive…

Here are the simlilarities and differences of the lives of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony had a better life growing up than Harriet Tubman. Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 in a small town in western Massechusets. Also was the daughter of a principled and plain Quaker father, and a…