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Violence against women takes many forms and shapes in social, political cultural and it has diverse forms such as domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and many other forms of torture. Especially Muslim women have been prone to double marginalization in a patriarchal society. Honour killing becomes the most prevalent Patriarchal order, especially during the reign…

I read Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Hard Times by Charles Dickens was published in 1854. After reading A Christmas Carol I wanted to read more Charles Dickens. I didn’t really know what to expect when I picked Hard Times. I figured it would be good since Charles Dickens is considered a great English writer….

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, illuminates the unending fear of living as a Black person in America. Instead of regurgitating old and modified policies that can supposedly remedy the devaluing of Black Americans, Coates uses pragmatism to reach his readers, refusing to pacify the truth of the historical cycle of Black oppression. Coates’…

Dee Brown was a famous American novelist who was born in 1908. He was a passionate reader since his childhood and reading was particularly influential in developing his passion in literature. He attended Arkansas university for undergrad in education and George Washington University for graduate school in literature. During his career as an author, he…

In Maya Angelou’s fictional autobiography titled ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ the protagonist Maya and other characters constantly experience intersectional oppressions throughout the narrative that they face and have to navigate through. The title is befitting how Maya feels during the majority of the autobiography. The caged bird is a metaphor of how…

Henrietta’s cells brought up problems in the past but have impacted medicine careers tremendously today. In the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, the main character Henrietta Lacks is an African woman that ends up being identified with syphilis and later cervical cancer. She also had a big tumor that looked…

An “Ethnographer” can be described as someone who gathers all the records/data about human cultures and societies-scientific observation. The style in which the author Sally Campbell wrote throughout this book “Shane, The Lone Ethnographer” enables the reader to gain a better understanding as to what an “ethnography” is/ what they do. Sally structures her writing…

For every parent who sets an unrealistic high bar and engages themselves in devising various schemes to idealize their child, is always done out of love and for best of reasons. Nothing less can be said of Suyuan, Jing-Mei’ s mother, who wanted to make a prodigy of her own daughter in a society she…

The complexity of human nature revealed by tragedies is truly remarkable. This is a concept often associated with stories such as the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. The book, first published in 1965, is a non-fiction piece about the horrific murders of the Clutter family that took place in the small farm town…

The book Ancient Mesopotamia: portrait of a dead civilization by Leo Oppenheim is one of the most essential books in the history field. It helps give a blend of the great mass of philological and archeological information that have been gathered in recent years in the area. Oppenheim, who contemplated historical evidence for many years,…