Essays on Disgust

The ethical dilemmas associated with the advocacy campaign are both micro and macro in term of the scope of coverage. The micro level of the ethical issues involves the individual level, while the macro represents the societal level. Therefore, the essay will entail an analysis of the ethical dilemmas in the first section, paying adequate attention to the same based on the wide information base. Firstly, the ethical dilemma arises in determining when to embark in the execution of the advocacy campaign. In particular, it is necessary that the campaign takes place at a time when all the necessary ...

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Abstract Sexual aversion disorder is characterized by the presence of aversion and avoidance of making a genital contact with sexual partners. In the DSM-IV-TR, the characterization of the problem was extended by the inclusion of some of the features of phobias such as anxiety, fear, and disgust; thereby describing it as a phobia. However, the disorder was deleted during transition from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5, probably due to the presence of scarce studies on the topic. Sexual aversion disorder is commonly found in women as compared to men, and it is commonly found in women in the ...

Inside Out: A Film Review in the Age of the Internet

Many people view watching movies as a form of leisure or pastime. However, there is a whole field of arts and studies dedicated solely in filmmaking. Likewise, many effects, techniques, and visuals are employed by directors and filmmakers not only to heighten the experience of the audience watching the film, but also to add a layer of depth and complexity in the film that is consistent with its overall theme. The end result of these techniques is a film that incorporates a meaningful plot with visually aesthetic features that make the process of movie-making an experience by itself. Because ...

In our day to day life, it is easy to see individuals who have found ways to cheat the system, and claim social welfare sources that are above and beyond that which they are entitled to, or who find ways to misappropriate the funds that they are given, and we are incensed by the waste of public dollars. However, in contrast we rarely get to see the results of corporate welfare, provided through government subsidies, or how the use of those funds are abused. In reality, though public disgust of corporate subsidies is far less prominent, they cost tax ...

With the evolvement of the society, increase of our Planet’s population and accessibility of gained information the number of times the news about occurred serial killings escalates. It is logical to assume that the general number of active serial killers increases with time at least due to the statistical approach to the question. Based on the conducted research this work will explain what makes a serial killer kill on the example of a fictional character form a popular TV show Dexter Morgan. In order to understand the serial killer’s actions the paper will examine all of the ...

According the author emotions are what rules our daily lives. People make decisions based on their emotions. Hobbies and activities we choose are solely based on the kind of emotion they cause to us. I tend to disagree with author propositions that emotions are the tiny psychological factors that make individual behavior in a certain way or choose to do one thing inside of the other. Humans also make decision on activities to engage in based on the future outcomes expected. It beats logic why someone would make a decision to rob a bank because it incites a cheerful ...

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley is an English writer who was born on August 30, 1797. Among her works it is possible to mention The Last Man, Valperga, Lodore and other. However, her most famous novel is Frankenstein. The idea of writing a horror story was proposed by Lord Byron. It was at this time when Shelley started to work at her novel Frankenstein which was written in 1818. The book immediately became a success. In fact, it is still considered as one of the most successful books of the 19th century and there ...

“What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is a short story written by Sherman Alexie and it is about an Indian man, whose name is Jackson Jackson, who is in search of his identity in life. Jackson has friends and most of them are Indian and his faith in the humanity of people is great and amazing. He believes that the good he does will come back to him and he lives by this rule. Jackson never says that, but it is obvious from his actions. He is kind and considerate towards people and he is rewarded because of that ...

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 ...

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

According to the studies conducted by Albert Mehrabian in 1971, in communication process, around 93% of human communication takes place through non-verbal mode. He divided the communication process into three parts; words (7%), tone of the voice (38%), and body language 55% (Mehrabian, 1981). Among non-verbal modes of communication the commonly used mode is the facial expressions. The face of the person expresses his/her emotions. Yet, some part of emotions is sometimes not clear to everyone. We all are not experts in identifying each and every expression of the ...

Introduction:

Let us begin with a famous quote by Criss Jami, “In an extrovert society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent” which shows how judgemental a society can be. But first how do we define a norm? Norm is defined as expectations or rules of a behaviour that develop out of values. Social norms grow out of social values and serve to differentiate human social behaviour from that of other species. Norms are the means through which values are expressed in behaviour. Social norms are values ...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of America’s most famous writers, arguably the prince of horror stories. His oeuvre covers a wide range of work, from poetry to prose, the Arab world to 19th century America, and detective fiction to horror stories. His 1845 poem, The Raven, made him a sensation and is regarded as one of the genre-defining works of American literature. His life and career were deeply troubled, but his legacy has enshrined him along with the greats. Poe’s stories are stylistically unique – displaying a huge diversity of elements taken from all over English and world ...

It is life’s obvious fact that each of us has our own way facing our emotions, particularly those that are deemed better off forgotten and erased. Perhaps this is because of the human need to always be at a safety zone, where nothing can be harmful for the person, regardless if these are physical dangers, psychological and mental, or even emotional in nature. As such, this human tendency to escape from emotional and psychological burden is very apparent in the 1980 film, Ordinary People, which was directed by Robert Redford and starred Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, and ...

Different authors discuss types of racism such as old-fashioned, aversive, symbolic and others types of racism. I believe that most of these kinds of racism are similar, but some types of racism suggest prejudiced aggressive behavior while some types of racism suggest rather attitudes about representatives of different cultures and races. I cannot remember some special stories about topics such as racism, social dominance orientation, extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientation, etc. My attitudes towards individuals of other races or cultures can be different: more or less positive. These attitudes and prejudice depend on my experience. For example, I had ...

Abstract

Facial expression is an essential form of non-verbal communication, especially as it relates to the expression of emotion. The following study is designed to describe the correlation between self-identified cultural influence and recognition of emotion. Literature will be organized and discussed as it relates to the cultural differences between facial expression recognition. A correlation study will then be conducted to determine whether certain facial expressions are more universal than others, especially as it relates to decoding facial expressions that relate to specific emotion. The study anticipates that happiness is more universal than most other facial expressions, while anger, irritation, ...

Poems are often a reflection of the society they are written in. Many times, poets adopt the general rhetoric of the public, placing it in a poem that people can read and enjoy while at the same time allowing them to reflect on how said rhetoric affects them. Many of these topics spur from immigration, specifically the fear of immigration. An overwhelming fear of losing jobs to a surge of immigrants has long since plagued American citizens, as well as citizens of South Africa and other similar countries. In some of these countries, such as South Africa, immigrants have ...

Poems are a reflection of the society and more often than not, poets take up the general rhetoric in the public and put it in a poem that people can read and enjoy while at the same time reflecting on how this rhetoric affects them. The fear of losing jobs to immigrants has for a long time plagued citizens not just in America but also in countries like South Africa where, in the extreme cases, immigrants have been maimed and killed. It is this fear and hatred of foreigners that is commonly referred to as xenophobia. The poem so ...

Dada: From Disgust to Spontaneity

“If all of a sudden your head begins to crackle with laughter, if you find all your ideas useless and ridiculous, know that it is Dada beginning to speak to you” (Hentea 161). We may define this passage to be rather symptomatic: it conveys a state of mind of people (mainly, related to art in a broad sense, and that means someone who reflects) before and during World War I. How could the massacre run up to such an extent? This acute feeling of absurd constituted the dadaist agenda. Switzerland was a neutral country at that time and many ...

I. Introduction

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock released the iconic film, Psycho, to an unsuspecting audience.

The film broke with narrative and cinematographic techniques that had been the Hollywood standard for decades. Produced and directed on a shoestring budget, the film garnered few positive reviews. However, it still stands as the most powerful influence on the suspense, and even horror, genre. Because Psycho debuted in 1960 (when theaters were much more popular), the film is best analyzed through the lens of mass communication theory. In James Kendrick's "Psycho and the Priming of the Audience", it is argued that the mass communication model is most effective at informing an astute analysis of the film. ...

Introduction

Gender is one of the themes that Morrison explores in her novel Sula. Gender roles help to create unevenness in terms of the power balance between women and men. This unequal balance of power that is prevalent in the social environment of her characters in Sula ultimately becomes a part of them. The impact of this is that it becomes nestled in the psychological conflicts they encounter and experience. In this novel, these psychological conflicts play out on the sexuality platform. The sexuality of the characters results in the internalization of the unequal balance of power between women and ...

Introduction

Everyone feels emotions. We employ a lot of time interpreting emotions, defining how to react to them, observing others emotional responses and dealing with our emotions. Emotion presents itself in both nonverbal and verbal communication. Different cultures and countries express emotions differently. The varying differences in the expression of emotion means that people from different cultures will also interpret expression of emotion differently. Studies have shown that there are similarities in the way cultures express emotions despite the differences. The following essay focuses on expression of emotion in United States of America and Japanese and the differences in emotional expression.

Discussion

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The American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, was fought between North and South United States. The main cause of the Civil War was the disagreement over slavery, which is evident through the analysis of multiple documents of the time. These documents display the ways that slavery divided the country at this time, drawing a very distinguished line through the country. The North supported abolitionism and wanted an end to the slave trade, and they participated in helping many slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad. The South formed the Confederacy, a union of all of the states ...

‘Instructor’s name’

The theme of racism in ‘Harlem’ by Langston Hughes All literary works have various elements such as theme, imagery, setting, rhythm, metaphors and characters, each used in a specific way to express the views of the author/poet, about the society in which he/she is a part of. Using these elements, an author drives home his/her point of view on worldly affairs. According to Laurence Perrine, there are two primary purposes for any literature – to entertain and enlighten. While entertaining is the easier part, Perrine opines that a literature should do more than just entertain, if it is worth scholarly scrutiny. Harlem ...

Introduction

In the recent past, studies in the field of cognitive science have brought forth overwhelming evidence on the relationship between moral judgment and emotions. However, research on this topic a couple of decades old. For instance,StanleyMilgram, a social psychologist, carried a research on this topic in the 1970 where he instructed his students to approach strangers in New York subway and request for a sit. The research did not receive the kind of reception Milgram expected, he noticed that most of the students declined to participate. However, one student who offered to do the research aborted it prematurely. Left with no alternatives, ...

12. 3. 2014

Banning Mini-skirt in Kenya

Beginning in March 2014, there is a heated discussion on wearing mini-skirts in public has been questioned. Many Kenyans are claiming that aside from being a violation of a women’s right and curtailing their freedom to wear what they want, for many people, it was a direct discrimination. However, what drew people especially for women to even the greater disgust and fury was the public humiliation. The women who experienced the hands of some people after they have been stripped and assaulted for the clothing article of wearing. After the incident, women and human rights activists protested on the ...

Poetry Comparison – ““Million Man March” by Maya Angelou and “A Farewell to False Love”

Maya Angelou is a 20th century poet who was born in 1928 in the USA, and Sir Walter Raleigh, born in 1552 in England both wrote two poems which are significantly different yet similar in many respects. Maya Angelou speaks strongly about the oppression of a race because the color of their skin makes them from others. It ends on a note of forgetting and forgiving past hurts and to love. Sir Walter Raleigh wishes to forget or to say farewell to the poisonous wrong that was done. He wants to forget that love ever existed. Both poems though written in different ...

A young Prince is haunted by the spirit of his murdered father. The son has hardly slept or eaten since he heard the news. Stunned with grief he will not be counseled by his lover, family, friends or ministers of the military or the court. He prowls the castle nightly, a somnambulant lost in the coma of his will’s paralysis. At last the smoldering embers of revenge burst into flame and he wakes to restore justice and order to his world. His decision is swift and unequivocal: War on Denmark! This, of course, is Prince Fortinbras whose quest ...

Beginning in March 2014, a heated discussion on wearing mini-skirts in public has been questioned. Many Kenyan’s were, in fact, outraged by the said proposal, claiming that aside from being a violation of a woman’s right and curtailing their freedom to wear what they, please. For many, it was a direct discrimination. However, what drew people especially women to even greater disgust and fury was the public humiliation that some women experienced from the hands of some people after they have been stripped and assaulted for wearing the said clothing article. Kenyans had long battled gender discrimination that prevails in ...

In the movie "Gladiator," Maximus goes through many different roles. Through it all, he remains a leader, although in different incarnations. At the time of this quote, Maximus is ascending the ranks of gladiator fame. Still in the Zanzibar province, he slaughters his way through four other gladiators in casual fashion. To a man of Maximus' martial skill, honed in the Legions, the vaudevillian fight style of the gladiator is no challenge to his compact, efficient technique. At the end of the fight, in a show of disgust, Maximus hurls his gladius at the VIP box of the arena, and then ...

About five years ago, I had an unpleasant experience while driving with my friends. We got in a car and drove all over the city. At one point, while I was sitting in the back seat, a friend who was driving caused an accident. Fortunately, nobody was injured. However, I got very scared and couldn’t calm down for a while. Soon after that a friend offered to drive me home and I had to sit in the back. When I entered the car, I felt enormous fear. This can be explained by classical conditioning. In fact, this is a special type of classical ...

Having reviewed the two articles; Big Boy Leaves Home by Richard Wrights and A Party Down at the Square by Ralph Ellison, it is evident that members of the black community went through a lot of difficulties during the early American times. This is made clear in the way the black community is treated in the stories being elaborated and the challenges they encountered as being part of the black community race which was considered to be an inferior race compared to other races and particularly the American race. This is attributed to the harsh treatment they are subjected to ...

For my own part, I must confess that my interest in the book is entirely on the side of the monster. His eloquence and persuasion, of which Frankenstein complains, are so because they are truth. The justice is indisputably on his side, and his sufferings are, to me, touching to the last degree. (199) Frankenstein is full of terrible murders, and passionately-expressed emotions of enmity and hatred between Frankenstein and his creation. But who is most to blame for the series of murders which continue right to the very end of the novel when Victor dies on Robert ...

Female Genital Mutilation

Female Genital Mutation is a known taboo and has no health benefits whatsoever. Despite it being outlawed in most countries, certain groups and communities still practice it. Girls as young as a few weeks old undergo FGM, with or without any anaesthesia. Although FGM is a topic that is rarely spoken about, it is still one of the most prominent forms of sexual inequality which is seen in many countries throughout Africa and the Middle East. Not only is this a painful experience for the young girls, but severe complications can also take place. These complications vary from urinary infections, fatal bleeding and ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Langston Hugh's poem "Harlem" In 1951, the year in which Hughes’ ‘Harlem’ was published, the mood of the American Blacks was one of frustration and disappointment. To fully decipher the meaning of this poem it is important to understand the context in which it was written. Though slavery was outlawed after the civil war and many rights, like right to vote and own a property, were granted to the African Americans, racial prejudice that existed in the then society had relegated them to an inferior position than the Whites. The World War II was over and America had opposed ...

Introduction

Munera was an ancient repetitive Rome game which involved gladiators. Rome was a known ancient entertainment city in the world engaging in many forms of entertainment and games, which included Munera. The significance of manure was that of brutal entertainment of the emperors and the crowd's thirst of blood. The games had social significance and were a means of communication and sacrificial rituals. The paper seeks to approach Munera games as a text and bring to light clear implications of the games. Focusing on the way Munera was used as sacrificial rituals, funeral and also as a representation of masculinity in Rome. The ...

Time of Class:

Marinetti F. T., Reading Response The futurist manifesto highlights the key ideas behind the futurist movement which Filippo Marinetti the writer is the initiator. In his manifesto he describes old versus new and personifies various places and machines. He portrays his disgust for old places and methods of doing things by leading a revolution to be guided by the futurist manifesto. He inspires the young to quit old methods and employ a futuristic approach as described in the manifesto. Thesis statement: “For the dying, for invalids and for prisoners it may be all right. It is, perhaps, some sort ...

Communication

- Classification of television programs Currently, there are many TV programs that one can virtually not miss one that they can watch. This has largely been brought about by the stiff competition in the industry that has led to diversification. As far as content is considered, TV programs can be classified into 3. These are news, entertainment and educative programs. Most people find the news programs to be very boring. People rarely reveal any appeal at these programs. However, a few people and especially parents find the programs to be very beneficial. In the category of news programs, ...

Trifles

1. Setting The play Trifles takes place during a cold weather in the early 20th century .It takes place in a deserted farmhouse in the American Midwest. Glaspell in this play utilizes simple but effective setting elements to generate suspense in a bid to understand or resolve the mysterious murder that has happened on Minnie Wright farm. The choice of place, time and weather does a good job in attaining a mood characteristic to the mystery surrounding the murder. An important emotion evoked by the setting is disgust and disturbance. Moreover, the choice of characters plays an equally important role in evoking this ...

Since the invention of television, scholars and policymakers have debate the need to regulate certain kinds of content on television. Many worried that depictions of violence and sexuality on television might influence the attitudes and behavior of individuals, especially children, who watched the programs. Others argued that the fundamental right of freedom of speech required the government to stay out of the business of regulating television. Today, the majority of evidence suggests that violent media content does, in fact, contribute to violent behavior. The effects are small and difficult to detect, but many studies have provided evidence to support ...

Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat is a poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her famous collection of poems known as The Bean Eaters in 1960. Set in Bronzeville, where the poet is believed to have grown up, the poem narrates of the experiences of a black woman looking for a job as a housecleaner. The Bronzeville lady undergoes humiliation at the hands of a white family, and this is what the poem is all about; exposing some misconceptions the society might have on some of its members. On the other hand, Telephone Conversation is a poem written by Wole Soyinka, and it depicts a ...

Abstract

Hamlet and Lawrence of Arabia portray morally conflicted characters plagued with feelings of doubt and self-disgust over their inability to resolve for themselves the ambiguities endemic to a world seemingly bereft of a moral center. Both are caught up in the violent cycle of revenge and the torments of conscience. Hamlet’s moral dilemma leaves him irresolute and impotent, while Lawrence’s impulsiveness leaves him vulnerable to the psychological costs of his own past and the part he played in the duplicitous, imperialistic political power-play that underlay the war in the Middle East.

Keywords: Hamlet, Lawrence of Arabia, revenge, conscience, Middle ...

Fiesta 1980 by Junot Diaz is a story that is told in the first person by a young Latino boy. It presents the records of a family unit of immigrants from the Dominican state driving to a celebration in Bronx which is in New York City and the events that took place during the celebration (Junot, 2012). The narrations of the events that took place during the party are interspersed with various family memories as presented by the narrator, Junior. This family is made up of parents Mami and Papi and their two sons and one daughter. As the story begins, this family ...

"Swaddling Clothes" by Yukio Mishima Yukio Mishima is recognized as a prolific Japanese literature figure of the 20th century, preoccupied with political subjects and with criticizing the Western societies, which he considers the reason for the Japanese society depravation. In fact, this is the theme of the “Swaddling Clothes”, published in Japan in 1955.1 Toshiko is the main character of the novel and in her world there are soft, fluffy blankets meant to protect and to caress the human beings and to offer them the needed comfort for a proper social development. The “Swaddling Clothes” is a symbolic representation of ...

While pretending to challenge the ideology of white patriarchal capitalism, this film actually conforms to white patriarchal capitalism. The primary two characters, whom we are supposed to sympathize with, are white, very heterosexual, and lower to middle-class, the quintessential “normal” inhabitants of white patriarchal America. The behavior of characters in this film furthers the white patriarchal “thinking of lesbian and gay subordination as a separate axis of oppression that intersects with gender, race and class axes of oppression” (Calhoun, 2002). Chuck and Larry encounter a great deal of discrimination from a very patriarchal, macho culture – it is not helped by the fact ...

Now in the early twenty-first century we tend to associate racist attitudes with out-moded and old-fashioned beliefs. The Merchant of Venice and Othello can, therefore, present challenges to modern readers and audiences because, to a certain extent, Shakespeare presents relations between the different ethnic groups in a negative way: both plays contain characters with extremely racist attitudes which modern audiences are likely to find objectionable and highly offensive. The burning issue for readers and audiences is how far Shakespeare endorses the racist attitudes of the societies he portrays. This essay will show that, although both plays contain characters with racist attitudes, ...

The tragic story of Hamlet

Hamlet is one of the most popular yet defining plays written by Shakespeare. This masterpiece is a tragedy that makes the human mind contemplate about the problems life throws at us .Hamlet makes one question the nature of man and the good versus evil. (Willbern 8)The play focuses of how the characters deal with different dilemmas that they are faced with; it reveals the various character traits of the human nature. These traits bring out different emotions such love hatred, anger grief and despair.

Characters in the play

Hamlet

Hamlet, who is the main character in the play, is the prince of Denmark. ...

Fast food is a real scourge of the contemporary world. Not only does it lead to obesity, but it also causes a number of illnesses, indigestion, and self-destruction. Dieticians, nutritionists, and doctors have been screaming and shouting about the problem world is facing nowadays, let alone the United States of America. Fast food industry has literally bulked into the contemporary society, making people first and foremost addicted to it. Fast food is ruthless to everyone, irrespective of his/ her age, nationality, social status, profession, etc. The world has turned into a huge fast food customer, where the only ones who benefit are ...