Category: Social Issues

A Death of a Salesman is a post war, modern drama published in 1949, dealing with the American society in the phase of the excessive domination of the economic world over the political, where consumerism, materialism and capitalism were changing the country, the society and the old tenets. Arthur Miller, the realist American playwright, who…

Sociology project SOCIAL ISSUES HIGHLIGHTED IN F .R. I.E.N.D.S F.R.I.E.N.D.S is a popular American tv sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman. The story revolves around a group of six friends named Monica, Chandler, Ross, Rachel, Joey and Phoebe. This is a comedy which is well received and appreciated by my generation , Chandl…

Mothers, sisters, daughters, women alike all suffer unequal, unfair treatment every day worldwide, due to the absolute absence of gender equality in much of the world. In fact, on average, women in the United States are paid seventy-nine cents to every dollar a man makes (Payscale). In UN Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson’s 2014 speech, “Gender…

Women during this time period lived in a very patriarchal society and had to deal with issues such as social expectation of women, racial discrimination, and the advancement of education for women. Women during this time period wanted equality, they wanted to be known for more than just the submissive house wife or the domestic…

Almost, every family has secrets and demons buried deep down inside that they try to either defeat or hide in hope of retaining a normal life. In August Wilson’s, play Fences, it clearly unveils a hidden secret about a noble man with a tragic flaw named Troy Maxson, who suffered mentally from injustice and racial…

Native Son, by Richard Wright, is a tale of a black man that becomes a product of his environment due to his circumstances that leads him into a fearful downfall of violence. Bigger can be described as the victim of a racist society and its racial prejudice and segregation. Fear is the dominant emotion that…

Discrimination is all too familiar for Sherman Alexie in the narrative “Indian Education”. In this short memoir the author describes a troubled journey through the protagonist’s early education. Alexie uses simple language filled with clever uses of satire, irony and imagery. The overall depressing tone throughout the journal like story sets the mood early on.…

Naturalism was rampant during the 1930’s. The characters tended to be poor and hopeless. The authors themselves tended to be pessimists. The genre merely reflected the thoughts and circumstances of society. Black Tuesday crushed the nation and the once fertile fields of the Midwest were not yielding enough crops to feed the hungry and poor…

Do Huck and Jim fashion a fellowship that rises above the points of confinement of race? Or on the other hand do race and bigotry demonstrate inevitable? A significant part of the insightful analysis composed on Imprint Twain’s showstopper Huckleberry Finn dissects the novel’s portrayal of and frame of mind toward race and prejudice. Throughout…

One thing the book made me realize was how society can turn a blind eye to problems that they do not want to be involved in by using the out of sight, out of mind mentality. Its no wonder the residents living in urban poverty have to look after themselves. The police were unwilling to…