Anti-patriotism

Think about this situation, you are at school and suddenly there is an earthquake tornado or some other natural disaster. Sadly most of the students are killed, later the parents are called in to help identify some of the remains. How are these parents going to figure out if this corpse is their child? Hmmm… maybe by what they saw their child walk out of the house in that morning, so uniforms actually could cause a problem instead of help fix them.      School uniforms…

In his critical essay, “America Needs Its Nerds”, Leonid Fridman attacks the rampant anti-intellectualism in American pop culture through juxtaposition and rhetorical questions in order to reform the misdirected society into one that upholds “nerds” so that the country can be successful in its competition with foreign countries that already have that mindset. Furthermore, Fridman elaborates on the problem by demonstrating the derogative origin of “geek” and its unjust application to the…

sentences in this chapter are particularly “short and bring out the constant sense of fear and the threat of death that accompany battle; longer ones are employed for the self-analysis that Paul undergoes” (Hutchinson 60). The whole idea of war and patriotism falls into questioning. The moment of resentment and fear makes Paul insane. He does not want to kill his enemy and yet he does not want to be killed. The very cause of the war that they both were fighting for is because of politicians.…

famous novel All Quiet on the Western Front was first published in 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and published in a book form later in 1929. Because of the nature of the novel, “it was banned and burned in Nazi Germany for promoting anti-war sentiment” (Tighe 48). Remarque 's novel illustrates the psychological problems experienced by men in battle. Psychologists have rarely used novels as sources of data, yet the…

Final EXAM Part II: C Antifederalists vs Federalists Debate Tyranny and the New Constitution Antifederalists like George Mason’s objected to the new Constitution based upon their fear that the National Government would hold too much power and become tyrannical. The main objection that most Antifederalists shared was the Constitution’s lack of a bill of rights to protect the rights of citizens. Mason argued that since the national laws held supremacy to that of the State laws the…

Copyright Laws: Are Web Photos Protected? If the computer and website allows one to download a photo, is this individual committing copyright infringement? Possibly, yes. Copyright laws are confusing to almost everyone, including the artists and composers, and/or the creator of this image or intellectual property, as well as the one who wants to download this composition, no matter the reason. There are exceptions, such as teaching purposes, ‘fair use’, 'public domain ', as well as for…

What is it about school that always has the student not wanting to go? Besides waking up early in the morning, children don’t really look forward to school. After the first day of class, the hype about being back on educational territory goes down. Teachers and school professionals should stop and ask themselves, why their students seem uninterested in learning? That is exactly what Gerald Graff, a professor at the University of Illinois did. What Graff realized is that “Intellectualism” can be…

Victor Vasarely should be taught to students of Art History 1 because he fused elements of design and the Abstract Expressionist movement to achieve and nurture the Op Art movement in the 1960s. Considered one of the originators of Op Art for his visually intricate and illusionistic portraits, Victor Vasarely spent the course of a lengthy, critically acclaimed profession seeking, and contending for, a method of art making that was profoundly social. He placed major significance on the…

artists. Duchamp was one of the most famous Dada artists during his time and he coined the term “ready-made” which is essentially a mass produced item that is taken by an artist and repurposed or somehow modified. He wanted to create pieces that were anti-art and that were provocative enough to make people search for a deeper meaning. He wanted viewers to question if the…

form. For example, Braque said of Cubism ‘what most attracted me and what was the governing principle of Cubism, was the materialisation of this new space which I sensed.’ The art movement of Cubism was in fact sparked by the idea of exploring a new anti naturalistic space which can be seen to be developed and refined throughout the phases of cubism. The driving force behind the experimentations with form that developed cubism was the rejection of the deceptive singular viewpoint perspective…