Anti Federalist Essay

Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, reflects life within death, propaganda's lie, and how Erich's life is similar to Paul's. Paul is the protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front and he endures the most horrid war our nation had ever gone through, World War I. It was the war of wars, it is the cause of World War II and it was a battle for life throughout the miles upon miles of trenches. Paul's view of World War I is similar to Remarque's because the author's…

According to the dictionary, copyright refers to the exclusive rights that protect the works of authors, artists, and composers from being reproduced, performed, or distributed by others without permission. The artist or the owner of the copyright has the right to reproduce their protected work as well as to replicate copies and sell them, exhibit their work to the public, etc. Copyright’s main focus is to protect how the author has expressed his or her concept or idea; it does not protect the…

Intellectualism in America America has ushered in a new age of technology; moreover, we have an unquenched thirst for knowledge. This thirst for knowledge of the unknown has caused some people to become frightened towards others for different beliefs on certain ideas pertaining to the way man came about and how we have evolved overtime. This has created numerous “isms”. A major ism that has had a rather large uprising lately is Intellectualism. This is the idea that everything is derived from…

Since Herman Melville’s publication of Bartleby the Scrivener in 1853, literary enthusiasts have argued and discussed its true meaning as a story. Possibly a tale on capitalism, possibly one on transcendentalism, the simplicity of the plot and shortness in length allows room for interpretation. The relationship between Bartleby and the narrator, his boss, illustrate the importance of rules and work, sometimes meaningless, in a capitalist culture and what happens when those rules are not followed…

What Is Fair Use? In its most general sense, a fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner. In other words, fair use is a defense against a claim of copyright infringement. If your use qualifies as a fair use, then it would not be considered an infringement. So what is a “transformative” use? If this definition…

In our world, there is an ongoing debate about reinforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Fair use is being confused for piracy and copyright infringement, which can be devastating to someone's career. First, to understand this problem copyright and fair use need to be defined. To have something protected by copyright it must be recorded in some way, it must be original, and it must be creative (Popek 8). Fair use allows a creator to make something with copyright protected material, as…

Marcel Duchamp made a huge impact on twenty-century art. Duchamp shayed away from conventional methods of making art and developed a new type of art called “readymade”. According to the textbook, “His invention in 1913 of the “readymade,” defined by the Surrealist André Breton as “manufactured objects promoted to the dignity of art through the choice of the artist” (Arnason 220). Duchamp stated, “His selection of common “found” objects was guided by complete visual indifference, or “anaesthesia”…

Anti-Semitism I knew when writing this series of essays, I was going to write about anti-semitism on film and TV. I figured it’d be the easiest essay by far to write. A quick Google search and I’d find dozens of different examples and BAM, essay completed. Wrong. I was so surprised. I had trouble finding examples of anti-semitism in film and TV. A joke here or there, and tons in Nazi propaganda films, but anti-semitism isn’t something that occurs in mainstream film and television. I was a…

Antifa is a contraction of the phrase anti-fascist and refers to a loosely organized movement that utilizes violence and direct action against far-right and white supremacist groups. While they are associated with and mainly comprised of far-left wing activists, like communists and anarchists, they place more of an emphasis on fighting fascism and far-right extremism than advancing left-wing ideologies, according to BBC News and the New York Times. Many Antifa activists wear black hoods (hence…

Self-Awareness Many people do not know the difference between what we call Street Smart, and Book Smart. Maybe, they have heard the words intellectualism and practicalism, but never pay attention to them or noticed that there are other ways to call them. Perhaps, all what they know of these terms is that they can be used to tag people. In this essay, we are going to discover how important is to know their meaning, relation, advantages and disadvantages in order to know how can…