Indignation

Virginia Woolf, in her book-length essay A Room of One’s Own, depicts the institutional and historical forces that impede women’s intellectual development. Early in her text, having explained that what we are about to read grew out of an invitation to speak on the subject of “women and fiction,” she brings us into a scene in which — sitting by the banks of a river at Oxbridge, a fictional all-male college — she has begun to contemplate what she will say about this topic. Using fishing as a metaphor

In the June of 1915, Anna Howard Shaw exposes the hypocrisy in America's voting system in her speech "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic." Her voice full of acerbic indignation indicates her frustration with male domination in America's so-called Republic. She denounces America as a Republic since half of its citizens cannot vote and condemns its arbitrary and discriminatory form of voting. She employs a sarcastic tone to demonstrate how ridiculous the voting system is and to gain men's support

In her piece Low-wage Senate workers get a raise- and then the shaft, Catherine Rampell tells the story of “low-wage federal contract workers” who carried out “a series of strikes” in demand of sufficient “living wage” and “a union.” As these events occurred at the Senate cafeteria, Rampell notes that the workers “attracted powerful allies to their cause.” However, the rest of the tale does not end as happily. Despite the combined achievements of the workers and “powerful allies”, Rampell reveals

Throughout Homer’s epic The Odyssey, The gods and goddesses in Olympus think they are better and more powerful than all mortals and even other gods and goddesses; in Calypso’s philippic to Hermes, she denounces this unfair hierarchy. Calypso has Odysseus trapped on her island in the hopes of persuading him to be her husband. Of course, the gods come crashing in and tell Calypso that they will not allow it. Calypso becomes enraged and calls the gods “unrivaled lords of jealousy” because the more powerful

“Find Nebuchadnezzar. He is the most powerful square blood, and we need to destroy him for the sake of saving the world. You are worthy of it, my daughter.” This made no sense at all! What kind of Nebuzzar was I supposed to destroy? Why should I destroy him? And… I thought Veles was not a bird. Something was just not right. “I will do what I can” my voice said, “even with the cost of my life.” Seriously?! I am not going to die for killing someone! Somehow, the god heard my thoughts. “Don’t you

Emotional granularity is most common in people with sensitive feelings or emotions. These people often have more specific emotional experiences such as grief, gloom or despair. The way these people experience emotions are not to do with vocabulary but in the way that they perceive the world and their own personal beings. It is scientifically evident that these experiences are healthy for you even when negative. Studies have shown that these negative experiences have allowed us to adapt, modify

Assisted suicide is a topic that has ignited a severe debate due to the controversy that surrounds its implementation. Assisted suicide occurs when a patients expresses their intention to die and request a physician to assist them in the process. Some countries like Oregon, Canada, and Belgium have legalized the process terming it as an alternative to prolonged suffering for patients who are bound to die. Unlike euthanasia where a physician administers the process, assisted suicide requires that

Socialist revolution and its goals persuaded the people to trust Stalin at the start of the socialist era to create the “new Soviet man”, yet when they realized that the government’s claims about communism were not the reality, a sense of distrust and indignation began to

of racism. After looking back in American history, the article can conclude states that different types of literature brings to light prejudice and helps to change a prejudice society. For instance, “The fact that such works can evoke outrage, indignation, and understanding in readers across all cultural boundaries shows that literature’s power lies in its ability to include rather than exclude.” With this statement, it or we? shows that literature is persuading readers to challenge themselves to

One-third of Shakespeare’s oeuvre takes place in antiquity, and more still makes reference to the personages imagined in Greco-Roman mythology (Baumbach, 77). Upon even modest perusal of Shakespeare’s plays, one can find, notwithstanding poet laureate Ben Jonson’s imputation towards William’s “small Latine and lesse Greeke”, that Shakespeare had more than a trivial acquaintance with classical dramas and histories. Whether Shakespeare knew enough of Latin and Greek to inquire directly into the pieces