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Table of Contents Prejudice against Another Prejudice enforcing Alteration Prejudice as a result of Dislike Prejudice engendering paranoia Prejudice as delusional Prejudice is a term that has been associated with the ‘mischief of irrationality’ because it is a prejudgement or an opinion about something or someone that has no foundation in real life or makes any sense. Such prejudice could be harmful or hurtful to a thing or an individual who is prejudiced against it. It may not be immediate or direct, but it is the beginning of a negative association narrative about that thing or individual. Therefore, prejudice should always be viewed with consternation and dealt with before it settles as normal behaviour or way of life. Prejudice against Another When you are prejudiced against something or someone, you are at the same time, indirectly prejudiced by that thing or individual. It is like a reflection in a mirror. When you look in a mirror, you get exactly a copy of yourself staring

Table of Contents Leaves A Butterfly Cherry Flowers Orphan Sparrow Yoshiharu Katoh is a well-known figure throughout his native Japan, especially for his artwork and exhibitions. He is a master of the medium of fine porcelain and a wide range of Japanese styles of painting, from traditional inks to watercolors on silk. As a result, he has received several awards, such as the Porcelain Design Competition at Seto, the Gold Prize at the Nagoya Design Competition, and the President's Prize at the Seto Design Competition. In his poetic vision, Yoshiharu aimed to introduce Japanese porcelain to the West through his collections of plates, which reveal different insights into life, beauty, nature, and philosophy that engineered the Japanese to create haiku poems hundreds of years ago. Below are a few of those pieces of porcelain with their different referents to Japanese culture. Leaves 'Leaves' is a fine porcelain plate by Yoshiharu for collectors in Western society. It was

Table of Contents Cry, the Beloved Country Too Late the Phalarope Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful Alan Stewart Paton was born on January 11, 1903, in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. He was married to Dorrie Francis Lusted from 1928-1967. He attended the University of Natal and Maritzburg College. Alan visited Norway and developed his ideas about his first novel Cry, the Beloved Country which was completed while in San Francisco in 1946. His debut novel, Cry, the Beloved Country was published in 1948 and became famous as a result of that. Cry, the Beloved Country tells a story of racial injustice and profiling in the then apartheid South Africa. The novel later became the Liberal Party’s manifesto in 1953 of which Alan was a founding vice president. The party fought against the apartheid laws legislated by the National Party government. In 1949 Alan Paton received Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.   Alan’s first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country , his second, Too Late the Phala