Category: Social Death

Psychopaths and criminals seem to be a big problem all around the world that people have been dealing with for centuries. To know how to stop and identify a psychopath, people must first learn the direct mindset of a psychopath. I think psychopaths are feared so much because they seem very unpredictable and can blend…

In his seminal poem The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot vividly externalizes what he perceives to be a very internal death of pandemic proportions. Calling upon a vast catalogue of religion, classical writings, music and art, the work depicts an entire Western culture virtually dead spiritually in the wake of World War I. Some are aware of…

Social death can be defined as the condition of people not fully accepted as human by the wider society. From various studies conducted on social death, three underlying notions have arisen: a loss of social identity, loss of social connectedness and losses associated with the disintegration of the body (Králová, 2015). I will be exploring…

From the periods between the years 1600-1800, Black Africans were subjected to a grueling expedition of torment and torture. In Emma Christophers historical writing known as Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, we are thrown into the earlier ages where there were journeys of slave ships from the west…