Simone de Beauvoir

According to Virginia Satir, relationships are the living links that join family members. A family which itself is a system provides a perfect platform for a new born to learn all the necessary skills required to survive. Parental ethnotheories are the cultural beliefs of the parents which are expressed in the daily lives of the families. These are cultural models that parents hold regarding children, families, and themselves as parents. Like other cultural models related to the self, parental ethnotheories

a woman from All India Women’s Conference to International Council of Women The difference between a man and woman arises when they are socially labeled as male and female ,thereby attaching characteristics of masculine and feminine to it.As Simone de Beauvoir says, ‘One is not born but rather becomes a woman.’ Women are always put at the lower level on the table of social,political or economic hierarchy. So the fatherhood is a sociological fiction and motherhood is just a biological fact.Some of

and declaring them as wives by the traditional African men. Women have been represented as the “weaker sex” or the “second sex” and stereotyped with negative qualities such as sensitive, emotional, fragile, indecisive, submissive etc. To quote Simone de Beauvoir in this context: To be feminine is to appear weak, futile, docile. (1956:

Imtiaz Dharker, is a Scottish Muslim Calvinist. She was born in Pakistan, brought up in Glasgow, Scotland and moved to India after her marriage with her Indian husband, Anil Dharker. After the death of Anil Dharker she married Simon Powell, the founder of “Poetry Live” and presently resides at London. Her diversified cultural experience is well expressed in her poetry and drawings. She speaks about her experience at home, freedom, traveling, communal conflicts and gender politics. Imtiaz Dharker

Personal Epistemology and Ethics: Epistemology basically means the theory of knowledge and how we understand the things that revolves around us. Human beings have their set of thinking and ethics and it varies from each respective person. To me, my life decisions are the things that drives my morality and my ethics in everyday life. To me, my understanding of the things that exist is the work of God. He created this world for us human beings to thrive

Albert Camus was born on the 7th of November 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria to Lucien Camus, whose family had settled in Algeria in 1871, and Catherine Sintes, of Spanish origin. During Camus' high school years, he met Jean Grenier, the man who would influence Camus' career to the greatest extent by opening his mind to the philosophy of thinkers such as Nietzsche and Bergson. He and Grenier focused much of their writing on the duality of mortality. Still achieving highly at school, Camus received his

Slavery’s Global Impact and Economic Justifications, Today and Yesterday Slavery existed in some form in every region of the world. During the earliest civilizations, slave labor built nations and empires in Europe, Egypt, Greece, Asia and Africa. Thousands of years later, the Portuguese, Dutch and English realized the profit value that a market in human capital would provide. Africans were exported from their homeland to the New World under the most miserable conditions imaginable. Prof

MOTHERHOOD AS INSTITUTION AND EXPERIENCE: A STUDY OF THE POEM “AN INTRODUCTION” BY KAMALA DAS. By: JASVEERA PARMAR ABSTRACT This paper is based on the two facets of motherhood, as postulated by the feminist theory. The first is the political facet, in which motherhood as an institution serves to enslave a woman. This opinion was entertained by the second wave feminists, who supported the view that institutionalisation

Broadcasting the Nation – How do Fox News’ beliefs and ideologies compare to those of the BBC? News broadcasting primarily aims to provide the public with updates on global, national, regional and local news events. Today, news broadcasting is a huge industry, especially in Western societies, worth billions of dollars. Each country typically has several news broadcasting channels. The U.S has a more diverse number of news broadcasting channels than anywhere else in the world, with global franchises

Gender is a performance according to Judith Butler . All bodies, she claims, are gendered from birth; sometimes even earlier now we can determine sex in the womb . For Butler society dictates ones gender and the individual reinforces that gender through performance . “The deeds make the doer” in Butler’s words; there is no subject prior to performance. Butler’s concept of gender, however, leads us to question: what of those who are incapable of performing the gender ascribed to them? If one is unable