Essays on Married Man

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie brings us the fictional work entitled “Birdsong” in 2010, and as is usual for her, does so in a way that seems to be nonfiction. Reading anything by Adichie, the prominent Nigerian author, who frequently puts a 21rst century face on the Igbo people, is almost an invitation to reading the private diary of someone’s life, whether that life is that of a person living through a civil war, a person struggling to grasp American culture as she arrives from Nigeria in search for a better life, or as the girlfriend to a married man, ...

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Abstract An article published in Human Fertility, a medical journal, titled “Assisted Reproductive Technology: Islamic Sunni Perspective,” is the article that is summarized, analyzed, and reflected on in the following paper. Artificial Reproductive Technology (ART) has brought the advent of allowing pregnancy in situations that were once impossible. Couples with fertility issues could turn to ART as an option to conceive. Islam’s position on allowing any ART is set with a particular guideline. As far as the relevance of the article to the class content, there is clearly a strong correlation in ART and the rules and regulation ...

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair’s Ethical Issues Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair is a man walking in murky waters. He is charged with sexual misconduct ranging from forcible sodomy, indecent acts, violating orders as well as adultery (Bothelho 3). He is also accused of mistreating his accuser. He is embroiled in ethical issues that touch on his person as an army officer as well as a husband and a father. For a man who acknowledged the fact that he behaved badly towards his subordinates, one thing is clear, that he abused office and also overstepped his mandate, he violated the law and therefore, ...

Profiling is described as the recording and analysis of a person’s psychological and behavioral characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabalities in a certain sphere or to assist in identifying a particular subgroup of people (Merriam Webster Online). People can be profile based on their age, culture, disability, gender, occupation and race, among others. When applied in criminal justice, it is the process of infering the characteristics of a criminal based on his or her behavior during the crime. Law enforcers and psychologists work toward developing a criminal’s profile by carefully studying the evidence collected. Profiling plays an important role ...

One of the Four Great Plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the Shinju Ten no Amijima is a sewamono; a type of play whose plot involves common people enduring social and emotional pressures. A true masterpiece and a delight for all the readers, the play captures the human emotions onto paper as if they were real. Other human acts such as debauchery, doubt and fickleness are also vividly expressed by the author himself. The play begins using a third party narrative. “The ocean cannot be emptied using only a small shijimi shell,” (Chikamatsu, Miyamori and Nichols, 1). Chikamatsu compares the pleasure quarters of Osaka to an ...

The remarkable story of The Prime of Miss. Jean Brodie illuminates two interlaced eras; the 1930s when most of the action takes place and the 1960s when it was published. . Most of the novel takes place during the 1930s at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, The book center on the schoolmistress, Miss Jean Brodie and her girls, a small group of students, known as "the Brodie set." The girls are six, junior level, ten year old girls when they became Miss Jean Brodie’s “crème de la crème” and started a two year tutelage with ...

For a very long time leaders and high ranking officials have been exposed to the public as having extra-marital affairs which did not end well for them, but not as badly as it would for a normal civilian due to obvious reasons; power. The consequences and sentences that they faced were based upon their place in the society and the respect that they should never have been given by their subjects. One avoidable consequence that is dire to such people is a shame. Shame that arises from despise from the society is as a result of the ethical issues present in any given ...

In the United States, members of sexual minorities began to fight for the right of marriage to each other in the 1970s, which evolved with the wave of mass movements for civil rights of racial minorities. This idea, which was originally categorically rejected by American society, gradually acquired the right to life. In 2002, after the European Court of Human Rights called for the registration of marriages of transsexuals in the United States, a new wave of debate and litigation, this time centered on the acceptance of homosexual marriages and their compliance with the Constitution of the United States. In ...

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Literature Final Exam

The postwar era in Japan did not usher in an era of radical change in traditions. As a nation known to be keen on preserving their cultural heritage, Japan managed to keep its traditional views intact, particularly in terms of gender. The Japanese has long engendered a patriarchal society, where men enjoy a superior status compared to that of women. The perceived inferior status of women in Japanese society is a recurrent theme in literature, embodied by novels such as Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse and Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata. What prevails between ...