Essays on Society

While the ANZAC Legend has roots in some truths of Australian wartime experiences, it is vastly based on a romanticised version of the 1914-1918 war. It has become a substitute for defining the traits and characteristics of what it is to be truly Australian with...

When meeting an individual for the first time, it is unlikely that that person will portray his real or truest form. This happens for a multitude of reasons but one common reason happens to an individual’s insecurities. According to brainyquotes. com, Phaedrus explains how “Things...

Power is a term which is significant in our society. The ability to do anything with ease, allows us to be worry-free. Such authority exists in the form of a device, the smartphone. This object has the gift to keep us up to date with...

Society has an influence on everyone, whether they realize it or not. This fact isn’t any less true in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. This book tells a story from the perspective of a young girl named Scout in 1930s Alabama, right in the...

The human obsession with beauty can only be blamed on the tendency of society to judge people based on their looks and appearance. The field will forever be uneven especially for women who bear the brunt the most. Beauty has been defined in so many...

Music has been used as a medium of self-expression. Adams et. al. , (2006) argued that music reflects the cultural and political environment from which it is born. The emergence of rap music became an aesthetic cultural expression of experiences of marginalization, brutality, and oppression...

In this dissertation I will aim to analyse and investigate the use of misogyny and psychopathy in contemporary American cinema. I will do this by exploring three films in particular (Gone Girl 2014 dir. David Fincher, Black Swan 2010 dir. Darren Aronofsky and Leave Her...