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Discrimination is an unfair comment or statement towards an individual or group of people based on the race, gender, age, sex and culture. while prejudice is, the remarks given either negative or positive depending on the race, culture, even skin color. In my culture from Kenya, some parents will not approve their children marrying anyone…

Merck, a pharmaceutical company, frequently features in television advertisements promoting their prescription medications. According to a source from www.cbsnews, from 1995 to 2001, they earned recognition for their development of 13 new drugs. One of these drugs was Vioxx, a painkiller designed to be gentler on the stomach compared to Pfizer’s Celebrex and Bextra. Despite…

The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy The Progressive magazine, December 2001 It must be hard for ordinary Americans, so recently bereaved, to look up at the world with their eyes full of tears and encounter what might appear to them to be indifference. It isn’t indifference. It’s just augury. An absence of surprise….

Levine made several lewd and derogatory comments concerning Mansard’s Middle Eastern descent. Kisser in turn relayed hose remarks to Dry. Nassau and highlighted the fact that Dry. Levine deemed his quality of work in an unjust manner. Dry. Levine later approached Nassau personally to inform him that there were individuals within the division that sought…

The underlying assumptions of urban life can be summed up as follows: development is only possible if people work hard.  This assumption though is just an ideal: an ideal that cannot be approximated by reality. Reality tells the audience that life is not a simple arithmetic progression of wealth and development. Life itself is located…

What is women’s liberation? First, let’s start with the definition of liberation. Liberation according to the dictionary means; the act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or opposition; release. So basically it was a coming of age for women, where they felt like they were breaking free from their previous status of feeling unequal….

“Ain’t I a woman?” (Truth, 1851). In Sojourner Truth’s famous speech, Ain’t I a Woman?, she addressed the lack freedom and inequality that women faced in American society. In 1967, Aretha Franklin released the song, Respect, which practically became an anthem for women’s empowerment at the time. The meaning of the speech and song provided…

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Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” does a marvelous job of highlighting the violent nature of mankind. The underlying cause of this violent nature can be analyzed from three perspectives, the first being where the occurrence of violence takes place, the second man’s need to be led and the way their leader leads them, and lastly whether…

Women have always faced unequal roles in society compared to men. Research has demonstrated that women are particularly impacted by this disparity, often encountering double standards and difficult obstacles, especially related to their economic and financial status. The text examines how women in the nineteenth century were often seen as inferior and had less importance…