Essays about Culture Page 56

Our fashion industry has evolved to one of fast fashion due to our increasing consumerist habits. Our generation seems to be constantly wanting more and more although we may not necessarily need all the goods we possess. However, consumerism comes with a cost. Fast lashlon has a disastrous effect on our environment. takes away jobs…

Oppression and fear are essentially always present to some extent in a totalitarian regime as shown in the story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. The people’s freedom is bound by the objects that they are obligated to wear under the rule of their government. Such objects are used to restrict the people “from taking unfair…

Every year when the fall season comes around, Halloween does too, People prepare for the festivities by decorating their homes with spooky, haunting decorations. Everyone that participates wears costumes of all sorts. Some costumes are fun, scary, orjust ridiculously unique I question Halloween as a holiday. It serves no extraordinary purpose. It also contradicts several…

The Mutapa State was established in the 15th century following the decline of the Great Zimbabwe State. The Mutapa state was located on the Northern part of modern day Zimbabwe. The kingdom of Mutapa is said to have stretched between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. According to oral tradition the first “mwene” was a warrior…

Their eyes were watching god was a prevalent and understandable book describing the woman or otherwise feminist actions towards accomplishing that of love through that of others that would allow dreams to be accomplished. This being the only goal or ability that women that had at the time since women had no rights of their…

All across the globe there are memorials dedicated to the dead. No two places celebrate the same; there are different names and different venues; there are different times of celebrations; there are different lengths of celebration. I chose to look more closely at three different memorials to the dead. The first is the Hungry Ghost…

No matter how many times I hear the different stories out there that have to do with Thanksgiving, it is still a bit confusing for me, only because I feel that no one really knows the truth about Thanksgiving. In the mean time I will write what I know, not what I feel. Each year…

The good times are endless with the Halloween festivities. There is not one thing that could be boring about it. The trick or treating, spook walks, and movies with friends would be enough although there is still a mountain of fun things to do, You know Halloween is around the corner when spooky decorations start…

How many people have heard their grandparents tell them never to break a mirror? Who remembers the games of elementary school, when children dared each other to run under a ladder? Who really believes in seven years of bad luck? It seems that these trivial sayings have been passed down to each successive generation, only…

Edgar Allan Poe‘s 1846 “The Cask of Amontillade” has syntactic versatility. Poe writes with irony, both dramatic and verbal he foreshadows to Fortunato’s inevitable death; the use of line breaks; tag names; as well as mirroring the two characters themselves All of these literary techniques come together to create one of the most well-known horror…