In any good novel‚ and even in life‚ people can be influenced in both positive and negative ways. In the three novels that we have read so far‚ Great Expectations‚ Lés Misérables‚ and Wuthering Heights‚ the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations‚ the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences
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Social injustice Social injustice is unfair treatment of society by society. It may seem contradicting but that’s what it is‚ unfair treatment to a minority. Today in America‚ we are taking leaps forward in economics‚ but will we ever really advance as mankind if our social system is holding us back? We still treat women badly‚ but women’s rights are starting to come up very rapidly. Women for a long time have been treated badly. They were treated badly because they were mainly the household wife
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Divergent is more than a story about social injustice it’s also about personal development. With Jeanine wanting to have full control of the government the factions turn against each other and their only hope is to grow stronger‚ to fight for their beliefs. Jeanine uses a serum to control the minds of the dauntless and the people once again feel fear instead of the peace they were promised‚ and with abnegation being doubted and hated by the other factions their only ray of hope is Tris and the divergent
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Social Injustices of the “Untouchables” In the novel Untouchable‚ written by Mulk Raj Anand in the year 1935‚ there are various vivid representations of the social injustices that the Untouchable castes are exposed to daily. In such a case‚ the main character of the novel‚ Bakha‚ is an ideal example. This novel is set to explain the caste system in one single day and does an exceptional job to help the readers understand how the low caste citizens were treated. Bakha is an eighteen year old
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Social Psychology April 15th 2012 Social Oppression in America Social oppression is socially supported mistreatment and exploitation of a group or category of people by anyone. Oppressors usually suffer from the need to be Socially Dominant over others in order to retain power or assert power (Sidanius‚ Jim. Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression. Cambridge: Cambridge UP‚ 2001.). Social dominance is commonly the root cause of social oppression. The United
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Homelessness is a growing social injustice in the United States. The degradation that these people face every day is terrifying. It is a crisis that we too often ignore‚ hoping it will restore itself. That assumption delivers a widespread lack of understanding about the facts that lead to homelessness. Homelessness exists as a problem that we should acknowledge and treat. Recent data indicate that the average monthly income for people who are homeless is $367‚ less than half the federal poverty
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In Girl With A Pearl Earring and Les Miserables‚ Griet and Cosette are mistreated by the higher class. Cosette is Fantine’s daughter who is given to the Thenardiers‚ a family of innkeepers‚ because Fantine knows she cannot take care of Cosette. While at the Thenardiers’s inn‚ Cosette is abused and forced to do extortionate tasks she is barely able to do‚ like fetch water in the dark with a bucket larger than her. She is given no mercy‚ because of the “fierce mistress and venomous master” she is being
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Character Analysis of Hugo’s Javert Hugo’s character Javert sees anyone who may have commit a crime as simple as the theft of a loaf of bread as a social malefactor‚ a blight on all of society‚ a prime evil who needs to be eliminated‚ removed from the general population‚ and a devil that can be neither reformed nor tamed. Javert is the true rationalist. Like Medieval philosophers‚ he believes that people will naturally resort to evil‚ and that these people can never be saved or reformed. Javert
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Victor Hugo‚ the author of‚ “Les Misérables‚” once said‚ “Change your opinions‚ keep your principles; change your leaves‚ keep intact your roots.” This is a quote that can be reassuring to a person who is going through a rough patch in life or when they are at a stance in their life where they have forgotten who they are. When I read this quote‚ I think about where I come from and how it has shaped me to be the person I am today. One way that my roots have affected me is by my speech communities
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I have chosen two cartoons to cover social justice Cinderella and Little Mermaid. Bothe movies cover young women looking for a better life for themselves and true love. They show that through hard work‚ determination‚ and the will to keep going‚ anything is possible. Little Mermaid was dissatisfied with her life under the sea word and she dreamt about becoming a human. Her father controlled every move and every decision she made. Even in the wide underwater world‚ she felt restrained. Ariel She
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