Essays on Criticizes

“Burmese Days” is a powerful and thought-provoking novel written by George Orwell that presents a grim portrait of imperialism and the British Empire. In the book, Orwell neither romanticizes Burma and its people nor idealizes the imperialists. Instead, he depicts bitterness, meanness, corruption, and wickedness. Using his own experience, the author skillfully depicts the cruel circumstances and tragic outcomes in a colonial society that is based on domination and fear and is in the service of the imperialists. The protagonist of the novel, John Flory, vividly demonstrates the dark side of the ruling class, and that the imperialists did ...

Introduction

The primary purpose of philosophy is to clarify and refine the human thought processes so that the state of affairs and hence the reality of the world are clear. As such, philosophical problems are a failure to come up with the explanations of things that happen in the environment and by extension in the world. Philosophy is critical in refining the human's basic concepts that are applied to understand the reality. Just like in other sciences that are driven by the experimentations in the search for the truth, philosophy is informed by the questions that cannot be easily answered ...

Introduction

Love is an integral aspect of human nature because it defines human nature and reflects the state of humans among other creatures and creators. Diverse theologians and philosophers have studied love and have come up with different views, which have become the cornerstone of the modern religions, particularly the Christianity. Among Christians, it is common knowledge that there are different types of love. There is love between humans and God and there is love between humans and humans. Philosophers and theologians who regard love as being directional classify love as being love from God to humans, love from humans ...

The article by Marceta Reilly “Getting Genuine Commitment for Change” (2015), discusses several responses of employees in the education area to the changes proposed by leaders: principals and coaches. The author of the article argues that it is natural to react to new initiatives and practices with resistance and be reluctant to accept innovation. The reason, according to Reilly (2015), is that people feel secure and comfortable when doing their job in customary ways, and are alarmed when changes affect these traditional ways, which they are accustomed with. Often they do not see a need to change anything in ...

Discussion Board

Martin Luther is one of the most famous personalities of the Reformation. Though the well-known “95 Theses” were placed on the church doors in Wittenberg as a means of a dialogue with the clergy, they had a significant influence on the history of the church as well as on development of the individual identity. In Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, Luther criticizes one of the common attributes of the church of the 15th and 16th centuries – the indulgences, or the documents, sold by clergymen, which allowed buying the penance. He writes that “ ...

For over 2000 years Christianity shapes people’s spirituality across the world. What started in Judea and gained important momentum in Ancient Rome, spread rapidly across the Middle Eve European societies, who further promulgated Christianity to the rest of the world. Through colonization, missionary work or violent imposition, Christianity is the world’s most spread religion since the age of the discoveries, in the late middle ages (Spielvogel 504). Nicholas Kristof’s (2015) article from New York Times, “For Many, Faith Comes at a High Price” discusses Christianity in the context of the current socio – political events, marked by ...

Introduction

In the modern age of technological progress, people begin to puzzle about their place in the environment and the relation of a contemporary human being to the nature. It seems like the link between a person and natural environment is lost, yet still despite the progress, humans try to connect to nature. There is a radical difference between the life in a modern city and in wilderness, which sometimes attracts adventurers and those who try to escape the civilization. There are radical examples, like Chris McCandless, who has chosen alienation from the society in order to live in wilderness ( ...

In Adolf Loos’ literature concerning Ornaments and Crime, he chooses to focus on how the world in the recent years has emerged to deny imagination and expression of feelings through art, defined by ornaments which has defied a chance to take course. He strongly criticizes how much the culture of yester years in the early centuries has been flashed down the drain, despite the fact that it entirely expressed the thought and mind of the artists, and many people could relate to it. Furthermore, Adolf Loos he goes ahead and develops an aesthetic purism which clearly elaborates his reasons ...

The Handmaid’s Tale is a classic example of satire as the author employs this approach to ridicule various issues that she raises concerns about in his society. Atwood utilizes satire to highlight palpably comedic sets up of reality. The idea also includes, the utilization of exaggeration and irony to bring out an argument— the category in which the Atwood’s story fall. In particular, satire poses exaggerated situations, irony, and humor to criticize the society absurdity or values especially in respect to the contemporary politics and other sensitive issues. Through Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood has provided a creative ...

In her novel, Not so quiet, Smith demonstrates the changing effects the Great War had on culture and identity by presenting contrasting perspectives of the war and the importance of national service The theme of war is widely tackled in the book. Hellen Zenna Smith, through her diaries, portrays a scene where the negative consequences of war are explicitly stated. As an ambulance driver, she ferries soldiers who are victims of war as she worked at the French front (Smith 6). There are harsh living conditions and filthy environment that encourages the presence of lice. The women also have ...

A look into the work of Fredrick Douglass and Robert Browning shows that the society around them heavily influences their work. While Douglass concentrated on larger social issues such as slavery and false use of religion, Browning looked into the interpersonal relationships of members of their societies. A common aspect of both writings, however, is the social critique that the two writers engage in. Through their work, they attempt to point out at the evils they see in their society, with the hope that their criticism will help change the situation . Fredrick Douglass, in his poem, a parody, analyzes ...

Ordinary and extraordinary treatment has different meaning to different people. For those working in the medical profession, ordinary means standard treatment while extraordinary means non-standard treatment. When used by an ethicist, ordinary treatment will refer to those means of prolonging life which are morally acceptable by both the physician and patient preserving life and health. Extraordinarily relates to those means of treatment which are not morally acceptable. Standard treatment for a particular group of patients is more likely to be morally required than a non-standard treatment. In some cases, standard treatment may be not morally required for individual patients ...

Synopsis

Franny and Zoey were written as two different stories, the first being a short story about Franny, a college student dissatisfied with the pretentious American society as epitomized by her boyfriend, Lane. He even pretends he does not remember the letter he was just reading before the train arrived. The events of the story take place at a French restaurant where Lane takes Franny during their date, and the conversation that ensues is indicative of just how the two are different. Lane talks incessantly about his school work and assumes that Franny does not understand some of the words ...

According to Berger, there is a relationship in the way we see and talk. He argues that before talking one must see to form the words describing what he sees. Berger believes that we view art in a different way than we did in the past. The main reason for us to see art in a different way is because we have introduced technology into our lives (Berger, 35). The way things were viewed in the past was also different because one could only view a certain painting in the same size and shape. The painting could not also ...