Guilt

There are so many reasons why one would deny a genocide, but that doesn’t mean it is right to not take responsibility for ones actions. An example of a genocide that has not been universally acknowledged is the Armenian genocide. One might ask why with witnesses and proof one would deny these events, there are so many reasons, but two are reparations and the public opinion. During the genocide many of the victims were taken away from their homes and stripped of their belonging which would mean that

Manipulation in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew In The Taming of the Shrew, the concept of love is a means of emotional manipulation, and manipulation is nothing more than a means of control between men and women. William Shakespeare critiques the patriarchal social structure by ironically employing the manipulative stance Petruchio takes towards winning Katherine as his wife by charming her with words and manipulating her psychologically, and then taming her after their marriage

What Will Become of Empathy in a World of Smart Machines? Empathy, as defined by Google, is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Before the rise of technology, empathy was seen in normal day human interaction, and even within pets and their owners. After the rise of technology though, the continuing question everyone is asking is, “Can machines feel the way humans do?”, or to relate it better to this passage, “Can machines be empathic?” With his background in technology and

The poems by Paul Dunbar and Claude McKay both use figurative language in the poems the “The Hunted Oak” and “The Lynching”. The ways that they talk about it are completely different and invoke different feeling out of you as both writers wanted to talk about an important issue. “The hunted oak” was written in 1913 and “The Lynching” was written in 1920 so this tells us that it was a prominent issue at the time. Each author used different literary devices to convey their feelings and to express themselves

Macbeth, despite influences of the witches and Lady Macbeth, is responsible for his downfall. The witches are not fully to blame but do play a part in Macbeth's tragedy. In William Shakespeare’s play "Macbeth", Macbeth is a hero who soon destroys himself by his own wicked and selfish ambitions. To a certain degree, the witches can be blamed for the tragedy, although the blame can easily fall amongst Macbeth’s ambitious nature, and Lady Macbeth’s manipulation. Overall, the witches play an important

A woman was once looked upon as a positive figure, however, with time, women were not seen as they were originally portrayed. Women were eventually viewed as a witch. Each culture had a different perception on what a witch looked like, but each represented the same thing; an old woman living alone or, a widow for instance. In essence, the witch craze brought about the "dark side " of the feminine gender. Some causes of the witch craze in the fifteenth century included hallucinations, an escape for

The Beauty with the Beast Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog title seems to point to how the main characters first meet each other, though the capitalization of the words Lady and Dog might point that it actually has another meaning. The title then would not be about how Anna was first known to Dmitri, but what their roles are at the beginning of the story. Dmitri was a dog, a man who seduces women and when he gets what he wants leaves with just memories of the encounter and no remorse. While Anna is

A woman was once looked upon as a healer, ancient persist, mid wife, therapist, cook, sever of goddess, a positive figure, etc. As time went on, women were not seen as they were originally portrayed. Women were eventually viewed as a witch. Each culture had a different perception on what a witch looked like, but each represented the same thing. In essence, the witch craze brought about the “dark side” of a female. Some causes of “witch craze” in the fifteenth century would include hallucinations

People Are Selfish According to The Washington Post, 70% of the American population is classified as being selfish. (“Americans are patriotic, honest, lazy, and selfish, according to Americans: The Washington Post”) Selfishness is displayed in the play All My Sons, as there is much conflict centered around one family relating to the ideas of marriage, death, and lying. In this play, the author, Arthur Miller, reveals that most people really do not care about others, by showing that they are indeed

In the case of the MySpace lawsuit of 2006, a 14 year-old girl and her mother filed a lawsuit against MySpace after the girl met with a man she had contact with over the website. The meeting started out with dinner and a movie, but ended with the girl getting raped by the 19 year-old man. In Kevin Alexander’s essay titled, “MySpace Not Responsible for Predators”, he places the blame on the mother and the daughter stating that “The girl, as traumatic as her experience was, should be held responsible