Category: Equality

Equality has been sought after by many and Americans have fought valiantly in order to bring equality within reach. The struggle for equality has been depicted by Harper Lees book, To Kill a Mockingbird, in the way the characters battle against segregation in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the late 1930s. While combating…

Last year at Wimbledon, a journalist confidently announced in a press conference that Sam Querry was the first American tennis player to reach a semi-final of a Grand Slam since 2009. It was left to Andy Murray to point out the fact that he was the first male player to do this and that both…

Martin Luther King Jr once said, ‘The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.’ In ancient times, the ability to read separated the wealthy and the poor, the educated and the ignorant, the free and the…

Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë, is classified as a bildungsroman, meaning it is a novel that traces the development of the main character from a young child to adulthood. After being orphaned as an infant, Jane struggled to find acceptance from the family members that raised her. Her status as an orphaned, impoverished woman…

Homers The Odyssey is a book thats based primarily in ancient Greece, which means that Greek culture is a prominent part of the storyline. Characters in the story can be seen portraying these cultural values such as Xenia and praying to the gods. This story transmits Greek cultures values by having important characters carry out…

Theme of Analysis Equality, Equality is a right that is inalienable, a right not upheld by characters in stories and in real life. Equality is an important theme presented throughout novels. As stated in Merriam Webster  a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation, a theme is vital to the stories we…

«I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character » by Martin Luther King Two concepts have become part of the common-sense in current thinking about equality, they are…

If the principle is that all men are created equal, why is it that society favours when one gender is expected to conform to a certain stereotype, and the other gender is, in turn, expected to conform to another? Why is it that society continues to conform to these stereotypes, whether they be gender, race,…

How would you feel if you were the only different person and felt the need to be someone you aren’t just to fit in? Unfortunately, many people feel and think like that due to people around them giving them unpleasant and hateful looks. We live in a society where this kind of problem isn’t rare.…

Martin Luther King Jr. is a prominent name that stands for the ending of racism, discrimination, and segregation of African Americans in the United States. On April 3, 1968, he spoke passionately about his support for the striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee in the speech Ive Been to the Mountaintop. King proves his stance…