Essays on Writers

Gregor’s family are only human and their disdain for him germinates. “‘Gregor, you!’ yelled the sister, glaring fiercely and raising her fist. These were her first direct words to him since the metamorphosis” (Kafka). Subsequent to their mother fainting, Grete screams at Gregor when she…

The Metamorphosis is about a man’s obligation to his family. He hates his job of being a traveling salesman, but does anyway so he can support his family’s debt. Gregor wishes that he could be free of his dreadful job with an odious employer. He…

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka expertly utilizes the power of language to demonstrate an inconsistency in the level of assigned power amongst the individual characters. In The Metamorphosis, the characters have varying levels of power in part due to their predicated societal gender roles. This…

W.E.B Du Bois was born Feb 23, 1868, Great Barrington, MA. He was an influential African American rights activists. One of the first African American sociologist, to earn a PH.D. from Harvard University in 1895. He mostly grew up in a white American neighborhood where…

Gun-related violence in schools is a pervasive issue and has greatly increased in recent years, although school shootings have occurred since our country was being formed. The earliest known school shooting in the United States took place in 1764 and was known as the Pontiac…

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, better known as W.E.B Dubois, was an author, writer, Pan-Africanist, etc. Dubois is well known for transforming the way that black lives are seen in America today, as an activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of…

White supremacy suggests many cruel and terrifying things which include inequality, exclusion, injustice, and vigilante violence. The issue of white supremacy and racism seem to explain the theory of Durkheim, Simone De Beauvoir, and W.E.B Dubois. Collective consciousness is a fundamental concept for Durkheim that…

Throughout the beginning of the semester, we have centered our class around a few key terms that we have found to be important. These terms that we have discussed thus far and will be discussing in great detail are Diaspora. Most importantly, we have discussed…

This source is a collection of four essays about Anthony’s important contribution to the history of women’s rights in the united States. The volume does not exclusively focus on Anthony’s life and works, but it deals with her times and the political and social climates…

Throughout the years women are considered weak and only good for one thing. Women are viewed to take care of the children and be a housewife. Women in many eras fought for their desire to be equal. Equal rights weren’t just handed to women, that…