Essays on Escapades

The image that I selected is a still from an advertisement that one of the SuperPACs supporting Donald J. Trump’s candidacy for the presidency placed. This is an attack ad against the current front-runner in the Democratic race, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The ad features Secretary Clinton at the right, her face set in an earnest expression, as though she is in the middle of a serious conversation. At left is a picture of her husband, former President Bill Clinton. His hands are pressed together, and he is leaning slightly to his left and looking at his wife, but ...

Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly discusses the discrimination against women by the use of media when doing advertisements. For instance, she believes that the media portray women in negative ways that kill their self-esteem and ego. In her documentaries, she demonstrates that gender inequality becomes predominant by representing women conspicuously as second-class creature to men (Kilbourne 1). Moreover, there is the reality of her presentations as her support argument are the pictures that these advertisers use in their posts. One of the commonly known cases is that women are presented almost naked while men are shown well dressed ...

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#1 Question classmates have answered: What do you have in mind when you think of the Silk Road? Who were the most famous travelers on the Silk Road?

Tell me something of the following periods:

Han China. (206 BCE-220 CE)  T'ang China (618-907) (Leave comment) Classmate (Kevin M) 1 answer: 76The Silk Road is the ancient trading route that connected China to Europe, going through the Persian Empire. This was a huge source of income for all parties involved as goods flowed through this path. ...

A social commentary is a piece of work that expresses opinions and expressions about a historical event, appealing to the audience’s sense of social justice. George MacDonald Fraser wrote a novel known as “Flashman “in 1969, which he identified as a reflection of his childhood memoirs.The novel entails the escapades of Flashman. The character is a fictional character that initially appeared in Tom Brown’s work “School days”. The author used his interest in being a soldier in Asia, and quitting his job as a journalist as the majormotivation for writing this novel, and the other series that ...

Introduction

Wu Cheng’en’s Novel Journey to the West is strongly rooted to the Chinese mythology, Chinese folk religion, the pantheon of Taoist immortals, Buddhist philosophy, as well as, Buddhist bodhisattvas who are still reflective of various Chinese religious attitudes at present. Arguably, the novel is at a comic adventure narration, a spring of spiritual imminence, and an extensively allegory in which an assortment of pilgrims journeys to enlightenment that they can obtain with the help from all the others. This paper analyzes how Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara) reflected in the novel Journey to the west. First, Guanyin is renowned in the entire ...

Glen Quagmire is a cartoon character of the acclaimed Family Guy animated series. In the series, Glen neighbors and happens to be friends with the Griffins. He is portrayed as a sexually crazed commercial pilot. Glen Quagmire character is known for his witty “Giggity” catchphrase that has featured in almost all episodes he is on. The Glen Quagmire was created by Seth McFarlane borrowing heavily from the 50’s and 60’s radio jockeys. This is evident with the characters dress code and home, which has a retro theme that is consistent with 50’s and 60,’s swinging party settings. His ...

ZICO- a high energy drink

Introduction ZICO is a company that mainly specializes in the sale of hydrated coconut water. The company’s main objective is to provide and supply its customers with natural coconut water that is highly energized. Although coconut water is originally natural and free of any artificial contents, ZICO has managed to come up with formulas to hydrate the drink in a bid to make it more energizing. The company was started in Central America by Mark Rampolla who was a volunteer with Peace Corps. Mark was also a great athlete who valued coconut water as his most favorite drink during his running ...

The Pleasures of Private Life: Ihara Saikaku depicts the life of the city in lively detail. Is he describing the "pleasures of private life" in his society, or is he critical of what he describes? (Or a little bit of both?). Again, support your assertions with sufficient evidence. Saikaku’s classic text concentrates on the lustful sexual pleasures which could be experienced by the common man without the problems of being part of the warrior caste. He is very forward in his descriptions of certain incidents and in a way he delves deep into the Japanese male character which seems ...

Guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism.

The period starting 1970 towards the 21st century has seen a number of attacks by organized groups against established governments in the struggle for control of resources. Terrorism is an activity that has taken publicity in the recent years. The 9/11 bombing of the world trade centre is a vivid example of terrorism activity. A closely linked version of retaliation and struggle to wield power and control is the guerrilla warfare. This model has existed for some time. It employs undercover tactics that target a rather unstable government. Looking at the operations of terrorist groups and guerrilla warfare tactics, we come to a ...