Essays on Futility

One such occasion when I did not agree with my reporting officer’s decision about a matter but did not express my dissent was a decision to conduct an inter-division analysis on a particular framework which was earlier used at my workplace. The said framework was used earlier but at that time, was being phased out. Such an inter-division analysis was conducted in previous years to gauge the usefulness and efficiency of the framework. My reporting officer wanted to conduct the analysis that year also. However, since it was being phased out, I did not feel that the analysis ...

The movie, Woman in the Dunes, is a Japanese movie that was directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964.The movie was drawn from Kobe Abe’s novel, with the same title used in the movie. The movie explains the life of a teacher, Niki Junpei, who gets lost in a new environment full of sand dunes. Niki faces challenges trying to understand his identity and the new life he finds himself in after he was abducted by the sand dunes residents. He is forced to live with a widowed young woman, Kyoko Kishida, who has been condemned to dig sand ...

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There were several tests made to test the patient’s neuropsychological and personality state. And there are several moments that may look like a situational stress reaction. Since, there were several aspects in the test that make to stop and think. Actually, in the given case stress in not a diagnoses, it may be one of the reasons of some possible disorders. For example, although the patient has average superior level of Perceptual Reasoning (Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2013), she has troubles with “reading” cards of the test. Judging from the facts, listed by the patient, ...

A fundamental problem facing new democracies is the hijacking of the political process by elites. Economic performance is affected by elite politics leading to underdevelopment and sometimes morphing into political violence. The transition from colonial regimes to democracy has been subverted by the harm that was done by the colonial subversion of traditional institutions in favor of artificial Western ones. This provided an opening for the rise of elites and the rule of ‘the big men’ (Owusu, 1992). What role do elites play in transition to democracy or its opposite? This paper seeks to provide an analysis on how ...

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It is true that a just society is the one that ensures every person is able to exercise their rights and resources are equitably accessible. I also agree that, women face challenges in their efforts to achieve social justices in terms of their social, cultural and environmental backgrounds (Payne & Doyal, 2012). I don’t agree with the notion that women in developing countries should be the sole caretakers of the household duties as it acts as a barrier to accessing healthcare. Such an instance is a probable reason for gender injustice. I am therefore, of the opinion that efforts ...