Essays on Young Woman

The parable of the Sadhu is a lesson in corporate and individual ethics based on the experience of Dr. Bowen McCoy while hiking in Nepal. The experience of McCoy illustrates the nature of ethical dilemma in business as the Sadhu needs help; however, the individuals in the group only give enough help that they are not significantly inconvenienced by the Sadhu. McCoy compares the magnitude of assistance given by members of the group to the amount of ethical responsibility corporations have for their own ethical dilemmas and notes that the actions taken by members of the group were enough ...

This paper will look at love, sex and gender within the backdrop of postmodernism, existentialism and orientalism in the novels The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar, Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian and The Lover by Marguerite Duras. In the novels love/ and sex are shown as something that a woman has no control over, something that destroys due to its intensity, and something that forever changes a person, respectively. While gender is seen as being something that disenfranchises women in a male dominant, unequal society and something that can destroy a man if ...

Literature

The story of an hour centers on a young woman who is married, and it is indicating her reaction to her husband’s death in a train accident (Chopin n.d). The cat in the rain is also a short story of an American wife who is suffering from the mistreatment she is receiving from her husband. She figures herself in the cat that she sees in the rain thus goes ahead to look for that Cat (Hemingway, n.d). This paper will discuss how the two authors use contrasting or similar elements of fiction, the impact of those items on ...

Introduction

Counseling is a significant collective aspect, especially in the present world where pressures of work, career, and family tend to take a toll on most people. In fact, most organizations today employ a counseling psychologist to attend to the emotional and mental needs of their employees as a step toward maintaining maximum productivity. Youth Off the Streets is an organization dedicated to the well-being of youths living in the streets due to their lack of alternative accommodation. The central role of the organization is to attend to the immediate need of these youths, which is accommodation, and to provide ...

Abstract

Rape in the United States military has historically been viewed as a myth that did not need to be addressed. This way of thinking is the result of the viewpoints of a rape culture. These viewpoints work to legitimize the violence to remove all blame from the attacker, which makes the violence strategic and intentional. It has been noted the main reason intra-military is underreported is, the fact the attacker usually holds a higher level of superiority. This reality results in, the victim needing to report the event with their attacker. It has been reported by the Marine Corps, ...

In the present paper the personality, appearance and personal characteristics of one of the most popular fictional heroines Lydia Chin will be described. Lydia Chin is, first of all, a creation of a S.J. Rozan’s imagination. S.J. Rozan, being a popular and a gifted writer, has come up with entertaining and short-novel series that have immediately caught on and these series have been focused around Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. They are made in the genre of detective and explore many a problem pertaining to the modern society even despite their fictional background. Sometimes the two characters – Lydia ...

The novel Emma was written by Jane Austen in 1815 and the film directed by Douglas McGrath was released in 1996 starring Gwyneth Paltrow. The film depicts British aristocracy of the 19th century in a great way through scenography and costumes of the era. There are not many differences between the film and the novel and the main points are conveyed in detail. The impact and significance of the film differs than the impact and significance of the novel because the film has more possibilities of conveying the atmosphere through acting, music, costumes, mise-en-scene and the overall scenography as ...

Introduction

There may be different views about the influence of social media on the people’s lives, but it is absolutely evident that in the contemporary world the types and modes of communication became sophisticated due to the rapid technological process. The launch of the social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Reddit might have been one of the greatest technological breakthroughs in the 2000s. In 2006, Time magazine recognized the importance of the social media and wrote the following phrase on the cover of the “Person of the Year” edition: ‘You. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome ...

This painting executed in black crayon by famous French artist who was a major figure of a realist movement. He is largely known for rejecting the Romanticism and appeal of the previous generation of painters. Usually he painted with oil, and Head of a Sleeping Bacchante is a rare case when he used black chalk, but also stumped, lifted and scratched the work to get the needed balance between lightness and darkness. Obviously, dark shadowy gray prevails in the painting but there is still sense of lightness and innocence in the subject matter of the work. Talking a closer ...

Media images always play a key role in everyday life, but the messages related to the young women beauty are sometimes harmful. A normal person is exposed to around 6,000 ads a day and this is only due to the type of consumer economy of today. The thin ideal refers to the concept of having a thin female body. A trend of increasing thinness in fashion models, actresses and beauty pageant contestants can be seen in the last few decades. Due to this, more and more individuals are suffering from negative effects of being exposed to ideal body ...

Shomei Tomatsu’s black and white untitled photograph attempts to tell the audience the horrific repercussions of the Second World War II especially on the human life. On this picture, the photographer depicted a man emerging from the shadows, his face covered with wrinkled skin the rest of his face was hidden from plain sight but from the looks of his face, the audience can tell how great the damage brought by the atomic bomb blast on his face. The nuclear attack which destroyed nearly half of his face managed to create a large keloid scar on the right ...

The Drowning Girl is a major artistic work done by Roy Lichtenstein in 1963. The painting is sometimes referred to as “Secret Hearts” or simply “I Don’t Care. I’d Rather Sink.” It’s an oil painting done on canvas to depict some artistic information (Lobel 118). The painting in itself passes on a lot of information in regards to women’s emotions. Nonetheless, the book is ordinary as it uses the universally accepted conventions of comic books. Due to its uniqueness, it’s regarded as an iconic work and continues to play a crucial role in the ...

The state in which the Marble Grave Stele of a Young Woman and Servant (36.11.1) stands at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is extraordinary. The museum dates the sculpture from around 400 to 390 B.C., which translates to the closing of the fifth century to the fourth century B.C. After purchase in 1936, courtesy of the Fletcher Fund, the Stele stands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greek and Roman Art sculpture galleries. The origin of the grave marker is traceable to sometime in 5000 B.C. According to Stanley Casson, the first inhabitants of the Cycladic Islands were ...

The Haunting of the Hill House Shirley Jackson

“The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent (Jackson 1.49)” The car journey to the haunted house means a lot more than just a road trip. She defies her sister’s rule about taking the family car and going to Hill House and gets out to be on her own after a long time. Eleanor lives a repressed life even after the death of her mother curtailed by her family who smother her and refuse to let her grow up. This act of defiance and the car ride gives Eleanor a sense of freedom. ...

Jamaica Kincaid, an Antiguan-American novelist, wrote the short story under consideration. It presents one paragraph, which is really a flow of advice the mother gives to her daughter. The pieces of advice are separated with either semicolons or commas, while stops are completely absent. The end of the text is left open as it finishes with a question mark. Interestingly, the long list of the mother’s advice is interrupted twice with her daughter’s remarks highlighted by italics. Overall, the text produces quite an unusual effect due to the extraordinary punctuation. Therefore, the list of advice, the main ...

Altruism is the quality of a person. This quality is diametrically opposite to selfishness. Altruist is not indifferent and ready to help even when he/she does not have any reward in return, and when he/she does not expect any gratitude (Hewstone, Stroebe& Stephenson, 1996).. There are different theories which explain prosocial altruistic behavior, reasons and motives of this behavior, etc. For example, altruism can be explained by the fact that a person who helps other people has some external or internal reward. A businessman can improve the image of his company by doing money donation. In this case, ...

Introduction

Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation is a story of a young woman explaining her endeavors after migrating to Canada with her family at the age of 13. She then moves to the United States and later immigrates to London. Lost in Translation by Nicola Mones is a story of a young American woman who tries to fit in China as a translator. In Lost In Translation by Eva Hoffman and Lost In Translation by Nicole Mones, both Hoffman and Mones successfully cultivate our appreciation for cultural differences by exposing the reader to foreign languages and terms, by challenging ...

Once upon a time, long ago, in a kingdom far and away, there lived a beautiful young maiden by the name of Anna. This is her remarkable story: Anna’s mother died when she was an infant. Her father, being nearly destitute at the time, married a wealthy widow, by the name of Hagatha. Hagatha had two daughters from a previous marriage. Their names were Dorcas and Hortense. When Anna was ten years old, her father passed away from a sudden illness. Having no other relatives to care for her, Anna was forced to live with her step-mother and ...

The name of this woman is shrouded in the fog of romanticism and mystery associated with the legend of extraordinary beauty and mysterious death. What was this woman for real? What is the secret of interest in her? Why did historical tradition and Shakespeare bound together the names of Cleopatra and Caesar, Cleopatra and Anthony? Cleopatra VII Philopator was born in 69 BC. Her father was Ptolemy XII Auletes. Besides, her family had two sisters and two brothers, both younger than her. Ptolemaic Dynasty at this point of time existed for nearly two centuries. Their power in Egypt appeared ...