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    Socio-cultural Oppression to Dalit a) Inter-caste Marriage Inter-caste marriage is prohibited in Hindu culture. Caste system only allows the endogamy system. However, the upper caste men have a freedom to use exogamy and polygamy. Upper caste man is allowed informal sexual rights to lower caste women but he does not give her a status of the wife because she is considered as an untouchable and impure. On the contrary, the upper caste woman is restricted to endogamous marriage and she is tied to the

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    Oppression is at the root of many conflicts in today’s society. I refer to such conflicts as racism, ageism, sexism, discrimination and so forth. It exists within anything that involves power. For example, oppression is greater towards the African American population, especially when it comes to the authority of law enforcement or even dating all the way back to slavery. Everyone has experienced oppression in their lives before whether they realized it or not. Oppression is what makes life hard,

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    recognized for her Throne of Glass series. Its second installment, Crown of Midnight, follows Celaena as she spars with her loyalty. One grievous night forces her to choose allies and foes. To emphasize the focal idea, Maas utilizes themes of rebellion, oppression, and death. First and foremost, a crucial theme embedded is rebellion. The King of Adarlan is recognized as a megalomaniac, from his own son to the prisoners in Callaculla. He is on a quest to conquer all of Erilea. But in order to do so, he is

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    Oppression of Women During the Romantic era women were not only treated as if they were worth less compared to men but were also deprived of the very things that defined them. In the “Poor Singing Dame” by Mary Robinson, the dame is stripped of her spirit solely because the Lord of the castle is envious of the optimism she carries despite being in poverty. In “The Thorn” by William Wordsworth, Martha Ray is denied happiness and affection, which leaves her unstable and deranged. Throughout each of

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    The following is a sample Summary, Analysis, Response essay about the article, “The Three Ways of Meeting Oppression,” by Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks of oppression and oppressed people. He explains the 3 ways on how people deal with oppression. The first is thru acquiescence, which means that they reluctantly accept something without any protest. He describes it as “the type of negative freedom and resignation that often engulfs the life of the oppressed…To accept passively

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    FEMALE OPPRRESSION IN LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA Katarina Milosevic In this essay, female oppression in La Casa de Bernarda Alba will be discussed and analyzed. However, in order to be able to understand the importance of this theme and the impact it has had on the play, one must first understand the role of female oppression in the Spanish society in the 1930s. The 1930s were a period of many changes in Spain, especially because Francisco Franco started ruling the country and the political problems

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    Race and Oppression have been a really interesting topic in this course, this topic has been represent the most significantly through the two texts The Ethics of living Jim Crow by Richard Wright and Toba Tek Singh by Sadat Hasan Manto. Both talked about how a power group used oppression to keep the other down through essentialism, prescription for their civilizing mission and how it effects the oppressed group. In The Ethics of Jim Crow, essentialism has been shown through how Richard was mistreated

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    right? Well no, not exactly. So, is reverse sexism possible? Is reverse racism possible? With a focus on systemic oppression in this essay, I attempt to answer these questions while defending the position that reverse racism and reverse sexism do not exist. I will discuss how reverse oppression – be it reverse racism, or female privilege – cannot exist because the very nature of oppression

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    tend to suffer different forms of oppression. In this case, it happens in the autobiography called Black Boy written by Richard Wright. The novel is set in the early part of the 1900’s, somewhere in deep Jim Crow South. Richard Wright, who is obviously the main character, is also the protagonist. The antagonist is no one person in particular, for it takes many different forms called "oppression" in general. The main character over comes this "oppression" by rebelling against the

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    constant oppression. Daniels initially is oppressed by his surroundings until he learns to interact with them beneficially. Daniels, unlike Akaky, mentally transcends all forms of oppression by believing that he is a God. Daniel’s transcendence from social restrictions allows him to live ignorantly in his oppressive world. Akaky and Daniels both interact with oppressive environments; however, they only experience subjugation from their environments when they are aware of the oppression. Ignorance

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