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Human nature is a product of evolution, the result from the adaptation of the human mind and body to the diverse challenges human individuals have faced until some 10,000 years ago. Consequently, this natural selection has shaped the human condition into a dichotomy, a duality between kindness and cruelty, between empathy and evil, that hasSigue leyendo «Cruelty: A Product of Human Nature and Culture»

The Antebellum American Literature – a response to the fears and anxieties that permeated the North American reality – is characterized by an optimism and idealism that exalts the divine in every human being, attempting to consolidate an American identity, an American self based on the affective bonds in a paradox represented by the relationshipSigue leyendo «American Democracy: An Idealized Political Love»

Many of today’s conceptions of sexuality and gender roles derive from the Victorian époque, whose rigid sociocultural prejudices and values became a traditional referent deeply ingrained in the Western societies of the subsequent centuries. The present article seeks to examine the treatment of female sexuality and gender distinctions in the nineteenth century, and the depictionSigue leyendo «Virgins, Whores, and Monsters»