Hero Essays

A fifty-year-old man just won a lottery of a million dollars, but then he goes to a hospital and decides to donate a kidney to an eight-year-old boy and gives all the money to the hospital. Who is this person? He is not a dumb person that just gave up …

The film I decided to choose calls The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The movie is based on a book written by a very famous writer J.R.R. Tolkien; the director of the film is Peter Jackson; it takes place in the Middle Earth. This is a …

In many ways, the sports drink category mirrors the fitness-minded individual that it targets. As any fitness instructor will tell you, a good hard workout should be followed by a cool down. After Gatorade hit the market in 1968, the sports drink category experienced double-digit growth. However, by 1996, growth …

Parliament is essentially the legislative section of the British political system. It is an asymmetric bycameralist system, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The House of Commons is easily the more dominant. Its’ functions are fundamentally five fold; representation; legislation; scrutiny and influence of the executive; debate …

Many theories have been put forward in an attempt to answer the question why the Labour party lost four elections between 1979 and 1997 and could be put into three categories. The first being socio-economic which is put forward by Ivor Crewe, arguing that it is due to a shrinkage …

As we move into the twenty-first century, the political climate in Britain is changing, and with this change, comes a shift in the decision-making power within the British government. The British executive, is usually thought of in broad terms, as consisting of the Prime Minister, the political members of the …

Our everyday judgements of the cause of events or happenings are intrinsically vital to every aspect of the theoretical and practical social sciences. Our question at hand is whether or not we can principally understand our judgements on the basis of the outcomes of previous similar experiences, or on our …

“The Patriot” tells the story of Benjamin Martin played by Mel Gibson. It is set in 1776 during the American Revolution. Benjamin Martin, a war hero turned pacifist widower is committed to looking after his seven children. The establishing shot is peaceful, warm and occasionally humorous with Benjamin at home …

Civil disobedience has played an important role in the history of many countries, it has helped overcome unpopular policies and oppression when all else fails. Some great examples of this would be Ghandi’s civil disobedience in winning India’s liberty, whilst in America Martin Luther King helped win the black people …

The way power and domination are theorized has been irrevocably altered by Post-Structuralist and Post-Marxist insights. No longer is repression viewed purely in negative and material terms, but a far more complex array of ideological relationships are introduced. Under the triple-aegis of Gramsci, Althusser and Foucault, modern theories couple the …