Social class is something that I only grew to become aware of as I grew up, as my parents never really discussed it with me openly. Now that I am older, I know that my family is largely middle, if not upper middle class; my parents are both professionals, one...

Over the past years people with any form of disability were usually hidden away from the society and denied the chance of living a normal life. However currently this situation has changed but not for the better since despite not being hidden they are now shut out of homes, buildings,...

In Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?” and Bell Hooks’ “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In”, the writers take on opposing viewpoints of women in the work place’s ability to achieve equality and climb up the corporate ladder in modern day America. In Sandberg’s article,...

The concept of the matrix of domination is one that requires an understanding of the things that form the matrix. The domination to which Patricia Hill Collins is referring to is the local, national, and global system of supremacy that oppresses those who do not fit into the hegemonic view...

Given how much hopes were placed in the European Union at its inception, especially in its ability to raise the living standards of all those who had great hopes placed in the disappearing of borders, there is today only doubts. All that was once praised about tariffs, currency barriers, in...