Conglomeration Essay

The United States was founded by compromise and cooperation, as the states stood together united against Britain. As the nation developed, socially, economically, and politically, the tensions prevented the use of cooperation and differences grew more pronounced. This new failure to compromise was caused by differing opinions on slavery, disagreements in the political spheres, and sectional divisions largely between the North and the South. Primarily, it was the harsh disagreement over slavery…

By any metric, the atrocities performed against other human beings in World War II surpass previous wars on a grand scale. Allied or Axis, no side in particular had the monopoly on causing wanton death and destruction during this period of strife. The firebombing of Dresden and the targeting of civilians in the Holocaust and bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just prove further that there was a meager worth placed on human life. The Allies, the protagonists of World War II, were also ones to…

It is impossible to talk about workers cooperative without talking about the most successful execution of the model up until today; Mondragon. PHOTOS Established by Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta, a Jesuit priest, Mondragon is a cooperative consisted of 147 smaller cooperatives, employing 80.000 workers in the Basque country in Spain. Jose Arizmendi, alongside many priest in Basque, sided with the commons against the fascists regime who came to power in Spain after overthrowing an elected…

Just like there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. There is the side that society designates to every individual, which superficially defines him or her. Then there is the side that individuals designate to themselves, to which others are oblivious. This is the side that each person keeps secret, yet it truly answers the philosophical question of who they are. As for me, my curiosity is how I define who I truly am. It may go unnoticed to the outside world, but on…

graduating high school. In all the chaos of living we relied on each other for support in all manner of things. We grew up sharing ideas, playing games, and helping each other out. At that point all of our identities were interwoven and we were one big conglomeration of laughs and knowledge and love.…

Culture, in the context of Sandra Cisneros's short story “Woman Hollering Creek”, is a generalizing term which represents the conglomeration of all the norms that make up the society the protagonist, Cleofilas, lives in. The essence of this is found in that the people who are the most “cultured” are, in actuality, those who have given in the most to the norms of their society. This can be a positive concept if the ideas of the culture that people are being assimilated into is not built on the…

In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” J.D. Salinger uses a conglomeration of symbols and motifs to represent Seymour and the materialism and greed of adults in society; Diction and a motif of different colors portray his feelings and emotions which may have led him to take his own life after the war. Seymour comes home from the war and can not merge into society. Salinger uses the bananafish to represent Seymour’s life; Seymour goes to war and the bananafish “swim into a banana hole” (Salinger).…

Terror politics and cultural geography: Years of social, geographical and cultural uncertainty. Nicholas Hytner movie, The Crucible (1996), written by Arthur Miller, illustrates the fatal events occurred in the village of Salem, in Massachusetts, from June until September of 1692. The Salem witch trials were caused by a compound of irrational fear and mass hysteria which are connected to the abuse of power, Puritan lifestyle and their beliefs in the context of the 17th century. The aftermath of…

While the British Isles fell under the realms of the Christian Church, this did not mean that its practices perfectly mirrored that of the continent. In actuality, the people within the region adapted their religious practices, making it local and idiosyncratic. Much of the previous narrative of the pre-Norman, Christian religion in England related to the necessity of proving that the Anglo-Saxon’s were deficient in their religious practices. As the Norman conquest was frequently framed as one…

a professional diagnosis of her mental condition and the second was the stigma of mental health. The diagnosis for mental health illness are statistically derived from a scoring system on a list of enumerated symptoms for each diagnosis as a conglomeration or array of variety of psychological functions such as memory, learning, perception, consciousness, emotions, thought, reasoning, imagination and problem solving and until recently only the patient was permitted to participate in the…