Authoritarianism

By exposing sexism and authoritarianism inherent in the “Bluebeard’s tale,” “The Bloody Chamber” puts forth a new way of using the fairy tale genre. Nevertheless, “The Bloody Chamber,” also discusses the limitations of the feminist use of the genre. For instance, the mark made by the…

A crowd-sourced, collaborative education is a smart alternative to top-down learning, but it can easily become counterproductive. “Project Classroom Makeover” by Cathy Davidson showed the success of collaborative education with Apples Digital Campus. “The Naked Citadel” by Susan Faludi showed the destructiveness and failure of crowd-sourced education at The Citadel. In the case where crowd-sourcing failed, it was because of a lack of supervision. When crowd-sourcing succeeded, a professor was…

The rise of Fascism and the Second World War made a profound impact upon historical films on Tudor England. This essay will show this through an analysis of the appropriate films and scholarly literature that exists. It will begin by discussing how film studios in Britain and ‘Hollywood’ begun using historical films on Tudor England to portray an anti-Nazi sentiment to a wide audience. It will become evident that some film studios during this period did not wish to cause offence, and…

on Liberty is the state of being free within a society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority (such as the government) on ones way of life or behaviour. John Stuart Mill was a 19th century philosopher and political thinker who proposed the question: To what extent does society have the right to control and impose limits on thoughts, beliefs and actions of individuals? He believed that this would be a question of the future and tried to answer this question. In his famous essay On…

the name was given by West Berlin for “protection”. Fascism is “characterized by strong nationalism, an extreme level of authoritarianism, corporatism, militarization, and hostility towards both liberalism and Marxism.” the irony in this is that this is somewhat the opposite of what is actually going on. East Berlin was democratic while the east was showing to be leaning towards…

Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War (Oxford University Press, 2014) C. Christine Fair, PhD., one of the foremost South Asian experts, has made Pakistan army the subject of her book: Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War. The overarching theme, resonating with all the eleven chapters in the book, depicts the Pakistan army as central to all the misfortunes befalling the country. Fair accentuates the overbearing presence and consequent ruinous decisiveness of the…

While many have suggested that technology poses a crippling threat to the Chinese Communist Parties authoritarian regime, the Government have responded through measures to reap the benefits of the expansion of the internet. Through ‘networked authoritarianism’, governments are able to filter what information can appear on the internet within the given state. For example, human expression in China is censored, know as ‘The Great Firewall’, which blocks the access of certain site and searches,…

Introduction: During the First World War Americans began to develop a fear communist subversion within American society, this fear became known as the Red Scare. This fear of communism was compounded during the Cold War because of the paranoid beliefs of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who developed a set of anit-communism ethos known as McCarthyism. The purpose of McCarthyism was to minimize the communist threat to America by accusing and detaining suspected communists by claiming that they were a…

as public liberty without freedom of speech." Later in life Franklin was known for his anti-oppressive government views. His political views are what he is most know for as he was the father of American values including self-government, anti-authoritarianism, and hard work. After he left Philadelphia to go to London he started to become a prominent political figure. In London he was spoke about American interest on behalf of the colonies.…

Words are a very powerful thing. What a person says can affect people’s lives. In this case, words can affect the entire world. Propaganda is simply information, usually biased, used to promote a point of view, a cause, or an idea. It is very important in politics, because it can determine elections and the future of a country. Hitler used many tactics to get Germany’s citizens to accept that Jews were the reason why the country was in bad shape. He used his speeches to ensure citizens that…