Essays on Hate

In his 1999 article for the New York Times, Andrew Sullivan makes a peculiar argument about hate, hate crimes, and society’s way of dealing with them. Sullivan begins his article by seemingly trying to comprehend what motivated some of the most gruesome, senseless, and brutal…

A Hate Crime is “a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in a part by an offender’s bias against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity”(United States FBI). What the Hate Crime Law does is punish criminals…

When looking at history and its events, one can see the amount of horrifying acts done by humans in the name of their ethnicity or religion. Genocide, war, and colonialism are all products of ethnic nationalism and its ideologies. Ethnic nationalism is when a nation…

We can see that in this scene, Romeo confesses his love for Juliet to friar Lawrence: ‘Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich Capulet”. Romeo has therefore decided to choose Juliet who belongs to the enemy family…

Octavio Paz’s “My Life With the Wave” illustrates the tale of a brief love affair that turns to an exchange of hate, bitterness and anger. Though brief, the relationship expresses elements of both love and hate, contrasting positive and negative imagery to bring forth the…

Violence in the Indian Subcontinent Throughout time the country of India and it’s citizens have been subject to large-scale violence on a national and international level. Events such as the Partition and 9/11 have impacted people of Indian nationality in insurmountable ways. People of Indian…