Antithesis

After reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me I firmly believe there are many positives and negatives that both challenge and support the Dexter Southfield mission of “Our Best Today, Better Tomorrow”. The challenging factors this book offers include whether Dexter Southfield celebrates is diversity enough and if Dexter Southfield students are able to achieve our mission through focusing their time on what interests them. Not simply going through the motions daily; bored and…

To sum up, in his letter in response to the 8 white clergymen who were critiquing the mass protests he and the civil rights community was involved in while in Birmingham, Martin Luther King discussed how what was taking place in the United States, particularly in Birmingham, is unjust which is why people were protesting against. Also, that the church is not as great as it once was since its followers have not accepted African-Americans as equal, instead segregation was still taking place. Within…

On the evening of Sunday, September 18, AHI Charter fellow and beloved Hamilton College History professor, Douglas Ambrose, spoke on “Alexander Hamilton and the Perils of Posterity”. With incredible eloquence, wit and energy he delivered a generous assessment of the honorable luminosity that Alexander Hamilton demonstrated in his public life. It inspired me to write further on Hamilton’s legacy. For Alexander Hamilton, to be seen as trustworthy in the eye of the common people was paramount.…

The Myth of Fluidity in American Society Horowitz characterizes the United States as the antithesis of a ‘severely divided society’, instead labeling it “fluid society that [has] long contained groups whose descendants have blended into the general population” (Horowitz 20). However, though divisions may not be as readily observable as they are in severely divided societies plagued by ethnic conflict, the characterization of the United States as a “fluid society” is irrevocably false (Horowitz…

Best phrased by surgeon, author, and inventor Leonard Shlain in his book, Art & Physics, “Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.” However dissimilar Vincent van Gough’s Starry Night may seem from Isaac Newton’s second law of motion, according to Shlain, this is what fundamentally unifies the two subjects. Physics is the study of the natural world, while art is the representation of it. Art has been part of our culture longer than any of the…

questioning of who a god, or Yeezus, is. “I am a God” continues the sonic aggression that On Sight set, with I am a god boasting of almost god like confidence. Yeezus is powerful on I am a God. While later in the album, “Guilt Trip” becomes the complete antithesis of I am a god, filled with apathy and self-loathing. It’s emotionally well balanced. He groups his most confident songs together (On Sight to New Slaves), while his most apathetic songs are also grouped together( Hold My Liquor to…

of neoliberalism occurred in 1938 at a meeting in Paris. Delegates Ludwig von Miss and Friedrich Hayek established the ideology and both saw democracy on the same altitude as Nazism and Communism (Monbiot, 2016). Several perceive democracy as the antithesis of Nazism or Communism, since people possess autonomy wherever they go. Liberty, however, breeds selfishness.…

September 15th, 1963, families peacefully sit, lined up along the pews of the 16th street Baptist church, Birmingham, Alabama. Suddenly, an explosion strikes violently, killing four small female children and injuring 22 innocent churchgoers. Two years later, notorious religious and civil rights leader Malcolm X is assassinated during a gathering. Three years after that public speaker and activist Martin Luther King Junior is slain while sitting on a balcony of his hotel in Memphis Tennessee.…

Did John "Overcompensat[e] for Misery"? "In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", one may ponder if would-be hero John Savage could have had any other possible outcome other than his unfortunate suicide at the closing of the novel. Although one may argue that suicide is always preventable, because of John's unique conditioning, his ultimate demise could not have been avoided by any other possible situations. His expectations of the new world-his supposed Shakespeare world-are much too extremist.…

amazing style that MLK used. MLK used various types of rhetorical devices, such as metaphors which he used nearly twenty times, anaphora which he used eight times, and many other rhetorical devices like parallel structure, doublets and triplets, and antithesis. These rhetorical devices made MLK’s speech one of the best speeches in our history, and created in it a style which…