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Struggles and tough times happens in everybody’s life in this world.No matter who you are and how much money you have, problems and difficult times will occur. The are plenty of people in this world who made it through struggles and tough times.Guy Montag he was the one to understand the society has prevented comprehension…

In 1970 Laud Humphreys, then a Washington University Phd student, wrote his infamous thesis ‘Tearoom Trade’ which was a study of homosexual behaviour between men in public toilets in a U.S. city. Perhaps not surprisingly, given the topic, the research was highly controversial, however this was not just due to its sensitive subject matter. A…

I am going to be honest; I found Ways With Words by Shirley Heath a better read than I had originally anticipated. Throughout the entire book I found myself drawing connections to many of the early education theorists such as Piaget, Vygotskey and Bandura, that I learned about in undergrad. I also found myself relating…

Julian Steward was one of the first Americans to adopt an explicitly materialist view of human behavior and enhanced an awareness of the role played by ecological factors in shaping prehistoric sociocultural systems. Much of Steward’s work sits in a transition period during which there was a substantial amount of change in American anthropology when…

Research shows that driving under the influence of alcohol remains associated with up to 40% of traffic fatalities in the US, despite law enforcement efforts to discourage drunk driving (Hadjizacharia et al.,2010 ). When you are drunk you do not realize what choices you have made and you are not aware of how much danger…

The immediacy and horror of the plight of subaltern women is present in the works of Mahasweta Devi, and particularly in her play Bayen. Devi’s dramatic writing largely deals with subaltern characters, and her plays have been performed in rural and tribal areas. Devi’s grassroots political theatre is one of the first performance-based movements within…

November 22nd, 1963 the world was changed forever. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Three days later on November 25th, the world had to say goodbye to a beloved president at his state funeral. One of the most iconic images from those few days was the photo of JFK Jr., age 3, giving his father’s…

Fredrick Douglas once said, “if there is no struggle, there is no progress”. Historically Black Colleges and Universities is evidence that black people have overcome years of struggle. HBCUs were designed to educate African Americans, in fact most HBCUs were founded and built by uneducated slaves. HBCUs have educated black people and other races for…

You’re suddenly on a wild-goose chase, bumping shoulders with not one person in particular, but rather seven billion; more or less. If you think that you’re not part of this race, then I have to tell you that you’re either on the wrong planet or that you already won. The pursuit of happiness has always…

By the time the average U.S. school child finishes elementary school, he or she will have seen about 8,000 murders and 100,000 other acts of violence on television, and if the child also has violent games, films, or cable TV these numbers are even higher (“Denial”, par. 1). There has been intense debate about whether…