A few years ago, Jeremy Dowsett, a Lansing, Michigan resident published an article, “What My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege”. In the article, he tends to outline and compare being a minority to the concept of riding a bike, particularly in a busy city. The author wrote this article to explain the idea that is regularly discussed everywhere, “White Privilege,” in a less aggressive manner, as seen from

There has been an extensive debate on the subject of narcissism and its association with the millennial generation. It is no longer a Western issue, but rather a global one. Some researchers have stated Millennials as the “Most Narcissist Generation” of all time. Jean Twenge’s work on the “Narcissist Personality Inventory” has found out that now over two-thirds of US college students are suffering from narcissistic personality disorder. The research’s

In the article ‘Let Them Eat Dog: A Modest Proposal for Tossing Fido in the Oven,’ Jonathan Foer discusses the reasons why eating dog meat is perceived as a taboo but also offers logical reasons why dog meat is as good as any other animal meat. However, even though Foer can be perceived, at face value, as trying to convince people that dog meat is no different than the meat

Introduction Shakespeare’s Richard III and Edmund are ambitious antagonists who treat family bonds as obstacles to power. The original comparison correctly notices that both men use deception, manipulate relatives, and rise by exploiting political disorder. Yet the two villains are not identical. Richard begins Richard III by announcing that he has “determined to prove a villain,” turning self-conscious theatricality into a political weapon. Edmund begins King Lear by rejecting the

To explain why Richard and King Lear were unsuccessful kings, the readers need to look at their history first before both Richard and Lear ascended the throne. Shakespeare utilized King Richard for his work of fiction, which is titled after him (Shakespeare, 2000). Richard III was crowned the king of England in 1483 and ruled for three years as he was killed in a duel against Henry Tudor, Earl of