Essays

Longer-form essays on media, culture, society and self-development.
Feb 10
Mattel vs Napier: The Controversial Distorted Barbie

Mattel vs Napier: The Controversial Distorted Barbie

These fans of Barbie that engage in textual poaching and show resistance are coming face-to-face with a monolith that wants to enact vengeance and solidify…
10 min read
Feb 10
HIV/AIDS in Canada: How to Improve Prevention

HIV/AIDS in Canada: How to Improve Prevention

The intent of this essay is to provide information regarding the devastating HIV/AIDS pandemic in Ontario, Canada.
4 min read
Feb 10
Harry Potter and Its Critics: A Controversial Legacy

Harry Potter and Its Critics: A Controversial Legacy

There is a significant body of texts which circulate over online domains that attempt to ideologically undermine, resist and intentionally re-work the…
7 min read
Feb 10
Fertility Decline in Japan - An Application of Pierre Bourdieu’s Habitus

Fertility Decline in Japan and Bourdieu's Habitus

This essay will first provide a literature review and the overview of the theoretical framework of the habitus, followed by an inspection of the current…
25 min read
Feb 10
Exploring Don McKellar’s Last Night in Relation to Canada’s Popular Culture

Don McKellar's Last Night and Canadian Pop Culture

As a Canadian film striving for its own identification among Hollywood’s entertainment apparatus, Don McKellar’s Last Night uses a recognizable Canadian…
7 min read
Feb 10
Ender’s Game and Speaker for The Dead Analyzed

Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead Analysed

Orson Scott Card’s Ender is a dynamic character imbued with innocence, who challenges the reader as they struggle to decide whether or not Ender’s actions…
11 min read
Feb 10
Ecocinema and the Evolution of the Documentary Genre

Ecocinema and the Evolution of the Documentary Genre

This essay argues that ecocinema, as an art form, needs to be understood firstly in context with its origins, ethos, the execution of their messages using…
44 min read
Feb 10
Early Recollections Therapy: A Valuable Approach

Early Recollections Therapy: A Valuable Approach

According to Adler’s Individual Psychology perspective, the meaning of individual behaviour coincides with their desire for either success or superiority…
13 min read
Feb 10
Cultivation Theory: What Law & Order Teaches Viewers

Cultivation Theory: What Law & Order Teaches Viewers

Using Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory with the show Law and Order, we can understand how this exposure to violence in television can make the audience feel…
6 min read
Feb 10
Autism and the Family: A Developmental Perspective

Autism and the Family: A Developmental Perspective

Autism is considered one of the most debilitating developmental disorders in psychology.
12 min read
Feb 10
Barriers to Africa's Development: What You Need to Know

Barriers to Africa's Development: What You Need to Know

Africa is entrenched in civil, internal and external struggle which makes it increasingly difficult for the world economy to assist it.
8 min read
Feb 10
A Doll's House and Walter Mitty: Ibsen and Thurber

A Doll's House and Walter Mitty: Ibsen and Thurber

This essay will analyze how Ibsen and Thurber explore masculinity as levels of potential male desirable roles, which the men in both stories wish to acquire.
7 min read