Commodification

Interreligious Dialogue Approach: “Doing Before Knowing” with James Fredericks Tension between Evangelization and Interreligious Dialogue Practicing interreligious dialogue invites the Christians to be aware of any triumphalism when investing their energies in the goal of Christianity’s “eschatological hope.” Fredericks observes that official teachings of the Church confuse us about the meaning of dialogue; for example, the two documents Dominus Iesus and Redemptoris Missio reads,…

Vaisali is a 1988 Malayalam film directed and edited by Bharathan.. It was an adaptation of a sub-story told by Vedavyasa to King Yudhishtira in the epic Mahabharatha. It is the story of Vaisali, a devadasi girl who was assigned the mission of seducing Rishyashrungan, the son of Mahirshi Vibhandakan and bringing him to Chambapuri to perform a mahayagam to bring rain. Vaisali is a mythical figure and myths are the most powerful tools used by patriarchy to subordinate women. Myths attribute to…

In his novel Feed, M. T. Anderson portrays a society so affected by capitalism, consumerism, and environmental damage, that humanity is no longer able to remember what the world was like before major corporations turned the entire human experience into a means of making a profit. As a potential future, this is entirely possible, considering the current economic and environmental climates that are suffering as a direct result of late capitalism and the disaffectedness of the corporations causing…

The Importance of the Stem Cell CJ Kemper Stem cell research on adult and embryonic stem cells has the potential to develop cures for diseases that kill millions of people all over the world. First off, stem cells are the unspecialized cells from which differentiated cells develop(Miller et Levine). In the early 1900’s, attempts were made to fertilize mammalian eggs outside of the human body. It was then discovered that some cells were able to generate blood cells. In 1968, the very first bone…

The culture industry argument, established by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, is a critique of mass media, which refers to the industrialization of culture, where the masses are not the only source of mass culture; capitalism serves the masses, and treats them like commodities for their own benefit (McAnany & Wilkinson, 1996). Adorno and Horkheimer chose to call it culture industry, rather than mass media, because they believed that in mass media, masses had some influence upon the creation…

Professional sports are sports in which athletes receive a disbursement for their performance ("Definition of Professional Sports in English” 1). Professional sports originated in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century. According to the article “Beginning of Organized Sports in America,” this distinctive league was “formed on capitalistic ideas” and soon developed into a nationwide phenomenon. Sports play a substantial role in cultures across the globe. In America, the success of…

Inequality of Women Worldwide Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” In many places around, men are entitled to rights and opportunities that society often denies women; this inequality occurs for women in education, jobs, the community, and roles in their family. Society discourages women from receiving an education while society promotes males to pursue an education. In many continents, such as Africa and Asia, women strive…

Writer’s memo Gamete advertisements are becoming more popular these days. And within these advertisements lay issues about gender role, sexuality and morality. According to what Caroline Rubin wrote in the article The Gendered Language of Gamete 'Donation’ “the gifting rhetoric used to make gamete donation morally acceptable differs for egg donors versus sperm donors, from the advertisements used to recruit them, to the application process they must go through.” Based on this research, I…

Anthropology is a fundamental genre of study of peoples in their natural or societal environment. Those who choose to study and observe people can take two approaches to in recording ethnographies; a subject orientated perspective or an outsiders perspective. Due to the individuals moulding as an anthropologist and as a person by society, ethnographies can be clouded by researchers views on subjects as active agents through upbringing, sex and experience. These views can impact in their approach…

The image Fringe by Rebecca Belmore and Sammy Baloji’s, Untitled from the Memoire Series are both similar and different. To begin with, Fringe is an image in which an aboriginal woman is shown with her back to the audience, with a deep red slash running from her right shoulder to her left hip. The figure in Fringe also expresses to the viewer that the woman has not been destroyed but she is indeed wounded, but she is healing. The image is a visual record of how deep is the cut of the…