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Have you ever been in a situation where your faith has been tested? In other words, has there ever been a time in your life when you were struggling a lot, you prayed to god, but situations seemed to be getting worse? If you were, did your faith stay the same, or did you lose…

Paul Monette’s memoir, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, depicts the Bostonian’s life and struggle with accepting his sexual orientation. It illustrates Monette’s life from early childhood to when he meets the love of his life, Roger Horwitz, in 1974. Page 54 of the memoir takes place in chapter two, in which Paul recounts…

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is a memoir in which Bechdel recounts her childhood in rural Pennsylvania. In a recursive narrative style, the graphic memoir focuses on the relationship between her and her father, Bruce Bechdel. The book bluntly illustrates both persons’ emotional and psychological struggles and how they cope with homosexuality. Many of the panes…

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass exposes the brutal. Inhumane treatment of slaves that he himself was forced to endure. And witness firsthand by recounting his experiences as a slave as well as his quest to find freedom. He takes the reader on a journey in the life of a slave…

Considered one of the best pieces of absurdist and existentialist literature, Albert Camus’ The Outsider, which was published in 1942, deals with the life of Meursault, a French man in Algeria, and the eventual consequences of his murder of an Arab man. Throughout the novel, Camus emphasizes the inauthenticity and ridiculousness of societal traditions and…

Claude McKay was an important figure during the 1920’s in the Harlem Rennaisance. Primarily a poet, McKay used the point of view of the outsider as a prevalent theme in his works. This is best observed in such poems as “Outcast,” “America,” and “The White House.” In these poems, McKay portrays the African-American as the…

There are over seven billion people living on the earth and each and every one is unique. Identical twins may look the same however; they will not act the exact same or look absolutely indistinguishable. The technology for cloning has been created and theoretically it is possible to have an identical human clone. However, just…

With light, there is shade. With inclusion, comes exclusion. Having outsiders is what creates insiders. Even in groups of outsiders, there are outsiders; the outside of an already outcast group. Similarly to a fractal, this pattern repeats endlessly, getting smaller and smaller each time. Without outsiders, there could never be a community of close knit…

Over the years, the history of women has changed drastically. They have gained voting rights, work everyday jobs just like men do; they can even run for president. But during older times, women were but a mere shadow. They would stay home, prepare meals for their families, and do work around the house. During the…

The Case Analysis presented in this paper pertains to serial killers, and the way their psychological processes affect their behaviors which not only affect themselves but society as a whole. A review of the literature on serial killers and the way policing uses certain investigative techniques of forensic psychology; show how it is very much…