Essays on Servile

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A General Framework I have always been interested in the role of women in different regions of the world, especially in the Middle East and Asian regions. I was always fascinated by the ways in which women were treated in these parts of the world. This is because women have been known to be discriminated against. This discrimination is seen when women are placed in servile positions rather than in positions of authority. I have always wondered what was the prevailing mindset that governed the way women were treated in these parts of the world. ...

Introduction – Thesis Statement

The nineteenth century in literature implied various literary classifications, among which there can be mentioned the realism and naturalism. Kate Chopin explores these genres in her writings, and she employs bold themes such as racism, social conventions, or woman’s identity, making her an unconventional writer, appreciated for her writing style and for her original approaches to human matters. A defining feature of Chopin’s writing, which reveals from two of her short stories “Desiree’s Baby” and “The Story of an Hour” is irony.

Supporting Paragraphs

Nothing is what it seems to be in Chopin’s short stories. As such, ...

Josef Pieper argues that leisure is nothing but “an attitude of mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world ” (p.45). Pieper uses historical context of religion, and philosophy to show that culture leisure is always at the pinnacle of all cultures. However, Pieper laments that the modern understanding of leisure is skewed because by labor and constant pursuit of material comfort. The contemporary clamor for entertainment creates distraction that creates a misconception of understanding of leisure. Pieper reasons that unless the modern generation regains the meaning of silence and solitude, there will ...

ABSTRACT

Stanley Elkins proposed a groundbreaking theory about the effect of oppression and totalitarianism on subject races, one that drew from multiple academic disciplines. James McPherson’s interpretation is more fact-based and less theoretical, drawing from anecdotal archival sources to develop an environment-centric picture of slavery in the Antebellum and Civil War periods. Ultimately, the success of African-Americans in all walks of life have tended to show that, as abolitionists argued, servility was a temporary product of the powerlessness of their situation in the plantation South.

Debating America’s Legacy of Slavery

James McPherson and Stanley Elkins represent two different approaches to the discipline of historical study and ...