Category: Discrimination

Introduction Discrimination is based on person prejudiced treatment or making a distinction towards. In the 1840s, the common discriminations are racial discrimination and sexism. Racial discrimination is any discrimination, for each person based on their racial, skin color and ethnic origin. Sexism is risen from social or cultural customs and norms. It is based on…

Introduction In last week of June 2019 at Yangon, Myanmar, a Liberian of Myanmar Imperial College (MIC), named, Kyaw Zin Win, did suicide after being bullied on his sexual orientation by coworkers. Before committing suicide by taking overdose of sleeping pills, he posted his reason on social media I was afraid to do this, but…

Many social inequalities persist whether it be manifested through culture, sexuality, finance, or race. In many of these instances, there is a group that has an advantage. Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies as an attempt to enlighten readers and free readers as well as herself from the bondage of sexual prejudices…

INTRODUCTION Sport is a useful tool which can be used to equip women with leadership skills; confidence and self-esteem reduce marginalization and to destroy stereotypes. Women have been fighting for their rights and equality all throughout history; they were not even allowed to watch the Olympics. When women were allowed to participate in sports, they…

Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird, is a classic retrospective novel where Lee highlights the value of empathy in upholding and accepting diversity in society. Lee uses outsiders, people who are perceived as different, to demonstrate how a communitys ingrained, prejudicial views and ideas lead to discrimination. Through dramatic characterisation, representation of societal values within…

Introduction to Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women (1869) and the American Margaret Fuller’s Women in the Nineteenth Century (1845) has started the struggle for identity of women writing imposing the socio-political, economic rights of women. These writers and…

Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, there are various situations concerning discrimination. In the 1930s many people across the nation had extreme prejudices against people of color. [The various forms of…

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I…

Introduction In the research paper titled, The Power of Being Color Blind, Faeze Rezazade and Esmaeil Zohdi, from The Department of English Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Vali-e-Asr University, Kerman, Iran, analyze and highlight the racial injustice and discrimination towards Blacks in the novel. The Power of Being Color-Blind was published in International Letters of Social…

In her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee brilliantly dissects the predominance of racism in the 1930s. By allowing the reader to experience the book through the eyes of one of Maycomb Countys own citizens, Scout Finch, the author goes beyond simply telling examples of racism, but rather draws the reader into the lives…