Essays on Social Inequality

“Jumping Monkey Hill” is a short story included in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck. In the story, a group of writers from different parts of Africa gathers for a two-week workshop at Jumping Monkey Hill, a resort outside Cape Town. The participants…

“Jumping Monkey Hill” from “The Thing Around Your Neck” is a short story published in 2009, written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The story revolves around the ideas of how Africans are perceived by Europeans. Adichie narrates the anecdotal encounters of African scholars at a writer’s…

Introduction In a world where women outnumber men, how are women still considered to be a minority? A minority is defined as the smaller number or part, especially a number or part representing less than half of the whole. (Oxforddictionaries.com) Statistically, women are not are…

Introduction After the abolition of slavery, discrimination and hate crimes continued to occur, eventually leading to Jim Crow laws and later the civil rights movement. Combined, these past events formed the current dilemma we have today, which is the constant feeling of inferiority, and the…

Introduction Over 17 million Asian or Asian-American people have classified themselves in the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau, yet this flourishing population has been rendered unseen and unapparent in Hollywood films. Today, only a handful of Asians invisibly comprise Hollywood’s leading roles. Since the endless beginning…

Hours have gone by, you have spent almost all day getting yourself prepared for a job interview. Attempting to foresee every potential question that may be asked, thinking intensely about every detail: When giving that handshake make sure to make eye contact, remembering to sit…

Introduction Social inequality is a problem faced by all universally. It is of high importance that the people of Western Australia begin to acknowledge the importance of the Indigenous Peoples of the land in which we are on. The aim of the report is to…

Thomas Hobbes mentions in his book “Leviathan” that all men by nature are equal; however, the ones that exist are the reason for the common wars, not the normal ones. In this sense, disparity is alluded to social imbalance which can be distinguished by the…

The social status of women and the issue of mental health are two topics that are often discussed in literature. Whether this is because they make exciting stories, or that they actually have merit and should be researched, is up to the reader. However, one…

If Only People Were Colorblind Throughout American history, African Americans have been inferior in society. During the 1900’s, African Americans didn’t have a voice in anything and whites didn’t see a problem with their ways of treating blacks. Countee Cullen shows the Marxist ideas of…