delinquency and its causes, as well as ways to prevent and control delinquency and understand our own behavior and that of those around us (Agnew, 97). The first of the four theories is strain theory. Strain theory is the view that “ordinary people are pressured into crime or delinquency by difficult or frustrating circumstances” (Agnew, 115). Strains include a failure to achieve goals inhibited by way of finances, status and respect, excitement, and autonomy from adults, and the loss of positive stimuli/
The opening sentence suggests an unsettling mood. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen” (1). Because George Orwell used a oxymoron to describe the weather, it implies something is unusual about the setting. The exact time this novel begins also indicates the situation was unlucky, as the number thirteen has a hapless connotation. After reading the rest of the opening paragraphs, the reader can notice the poor living situation Winston Smith lives in. “The
Chapter One 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Historical and political Background 1.1.1. Nepal a Brief review Nepal, a mountainous country in south Asia, had been united by then king Prithvi Narayan Shah during his reign, 1743-1775 AD. After his death his successors also continued unification process and extended the boarder of this nation by 1816 before the Sugauli Sandhi (a treaty done with the then British India at the place named Sugauli). The Gorkha conquest in the late eighteenth century united into
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin