Essays on Filth

In Orlando Patterson’s The Children Of Sisyphus, the biggest problem is poverty, destitution, and poor living conditions. The situation is so bad that people eat from the dump site, and there is no access to clean water, food or good housing. Patterson highlights the plight of the slum dwellers in the downtown Jamaica, Sisyphus, showing the inevitability that the residents find themselves in, with grinding poverty that reduces their humanness to the level of scavengers. To Patterson, the slum dwellers represent a collapse of government institutions and the threat of discrimination on race. Noteworthy, it is the racism ...

Progressive movement is the gradual improvement of the way of doing things. The United States of America, just like any other country, had challenges in improving their system. After getting their independence they had problems in maintaining order as it was full of diversity based on the number of races. At first most of the citizens were divided in terms of their origin, but later race played an important role in the line of division. The blacks became so discriminated as they were portrayed inferior and not fit to rule. The following is an account of the progressive movement ...

Sanitary Reform—introduction of the systematic sewerage in English and American cities

Sanitary Survey (the term did not exist at the time)—investigation of the sanitary conditions in a city and their correspondence with public health status for later use in planning of the sewerage system

Filth Theory—a theory stating that infections could be caused by “miasmatic affluvia” or “aeriform poison”

Cistern—a container for collection of rainwater Cesspool—a receptacle for excrements and filth in the form of a pit Privy Vault—a water closet from which the excrements were drained to a cesspool Private Lot Waste Removal—a system of house-drains and common sewers, privy vaults and cesspools that were build by all households and businesses. The sewers were originally intended to provide drainage ...

Descriptive Paper:

Tokyo, Japan Stepping into the main streets of the city there is a feeling of connectivity that is felt not only by the crisscrossing power lines, fiber optics, and other black, silver, and white cords that adorn the spaces between buildings in several districts, but from the people as well. There is no one set style in the capital city of Tokyo, Japan. There are wonders to be seen on every corner, an abundance of lights, goods, and user-friendly conveniences that stand in stark contrast to the more traditional aspects of the fabled avenues. Tokyo is an old, much ...

Tokyo, Japan

Stepping into the main streets of the city there is a feeling of connectivity that is felt not only by the crisscrossing power lines, fiber optics, and other black, silver, and white cords that adorn the spaces between buildings in several districts, but from the people as well. There is no one set style in the capital city of Tokyo, Japan. There are wonders to be seen on every corner, an abundance of lights, goods, and user-friendly conveniences that stand in stark contrast to the more traditional aspects of the fabled avenues. Tokyo is an old, much renowned city, ...

Dark Star Safari trails Paul Theroux's African adventure starting from Cairo and ending in Cape Town in a witty, observing and often irascible tone. The journey is spread with danger, pain, adrenaline, disappointment and dismaying circumstances. The traveler gets a taste of everything life in Africa means, from history and politics to health care, education, poverty and decay. He gets in contact with people of various nationalities, belonging to various social classes and activating in various fields, managing to get a glimpse of their own perspective on things before clarifying his own. Diversity is the word that describes the experience best, ...

The period during which John Calvin lived and influenced his followers was 16th century France – the height of the Protestant Reformation. During this time, Martin Luther and other radical thinkers chose to break away from the Catholic Church due to differences in interpretation of Christian dogma, including the healing power of indulgences (which were believed to simply be an effective bribe for the Catholic Church to achieve absolution). Independent of the development of the Protestant Church, however, was John Calvin’s work to create a system of ideology which would be called Calvinism. Because of his radical ideas, and the ...

Advertisements pummel us from every angle in modern times. We no longer have to leave our homes to be the victims of aggressive billboards and magazine ads, imploring that we buy and notice. Now the advertisements show up in our mailboxes, on our doorsteps, in our television screens, and in our inboxes. There is no escaping advertising. The primary basis of advertising is the use of words, and how they affect us on a fundamentally psychological level. Words and phrases, sometimes simple and sometimes complex, have the power to change how we view a product. At times, it makes us want a ...

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Following the time when the Dawn of Man, people have pondered, occasionally even longed for, the devastation of life on Earth. One could make a counter-contention that the film denounces bigotry and accuses man of nuking humankind into eradication. The contention would proceed with and call attention to that the encounters African-Americans have with bigotry in White supremacist hetero-patriarchy is being exemplified in Hesston’s character. That is, despite the fact that Hesston is a White man encompassed by ‘other’ greater part, the part inversion is intended to show White individuals the feelings of being subjugated and victimized. As numerous ...

Introduction:

Dante’s Divine Comedy is probably one of the greatest literary works ever written. Combining an incredible imagination with an exact and descriptive state of affairs with regards to historical and social commentary, the work has inspired many to create their own vision of Hell and to throw the relative people into it. A 21st century Inferno is a topical discussion and lends itself to considerable imagination since there is no shortage of evil around us with pride and avaraice being among the main sins practised with impunity.

The beginnings of Dante’s Inferno

Dante’s Inferno begins on Maundy Thursday in 1300 with the narrator ...

The Greasy Lake is a story that dwells upon the details of some young children bad and delinquent in their activities and lifestyle. They presume that the “badness” syndrome is a fashionable trend they keep and develop within them. The plot of the story is interesting and poses a variety of questions quite relevant to the reader response viewpoint of analysis. A journey through the mind of the writer from a psychoanalytic outlook may represent an illusionary destination of choices unique to the reader as the author may wish to reveal. The protagonist may be the dominant factor in this phenomenon where the ...

In Inferno by Dante, the circles of Hell are depicted as different areas where people who have committed specific sins are doomed to rest. The second through fifth circles are the resting places for sins of incontinence; these are sins without malice. These are a unique category distinct from the other sins, and they all have very distinct similarities - the most prominent of these are the fact that they all involve the individual valuing something earthly above God, and therefore meriting punishment. The sinners LOVE the things that they do, and that is their downfall, since they cannot escape ...

In Inferno by Dante, there is a great deal of symbolism due to the allegorical nature of the work. In this poem, man’s relationship between good and evil, Heaven and Hell, and more are explored with symbolic representations of man’s own iniquities. The circles of Hell are depicted as different areas where people who have committed specific sins are doomed to rest. The second through fifth circles are the resting places for sins of incontinence; these are sins without malice. These are a unique category distinct from the other sins, and they all have very distinct similarities - the ...

One of the most famous satirical pieces of all time is Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Although the issues contained within the text are aimed specifically at the political and economic situation in Ireland and England during the early eighteenth century, the thematic ideas that Swift develops so effectively in his work remain important to this day. Swift utilizes satire and wordplay to underscore the oppression of the Irish by the English, and in doing so, creates one of the longest-lived pieces of social and political satire and sustained irony of all time. Religion in England, Ireland, ...

In the 18th century prison conditions were deplorable. The number of crimes punishable by death had soared to 200. These crimes ranged from serious crimes such as murder to minor offences such as stealing bread, picking pockets or even cutting down trees absent permission from authorities. The prisons of the 18th century were overcrowded and prisoners lived in deplorable conditions. The 1784 novel Adventures of Caleb Williams has over the years won accolades for its mastery in capturing how life was on several aspects in the 18th century. In the very opening of the novel Caleb Williams described his ...

In Inferno by Dante, the circles of Hell are depicted as different areas where people who have committed specific sins are doomed to rest. The second through fifth circles are the resting places for sins of incontinence; these are sins without malice. These are a unique category distinct from the other sins, and they all have very distinct similarities - the most prominent of these are the fact that they all involve the individual valuing something earthly above God, and therefore meriting punishment. The sinners LOVE the things that they do, and that is their downfall, since they cannot escape ...