Crime against humanity

selling album on iTunes. As her success rose to the top, she was breaking records as her music inspired girl power. One of her hits, Run the World, became an iconic song for her character because it makes women realize that they have an equal stand against men (The Famous People). It allows girls to feel a sense of power as well as utter perfection. Girls who favor her album are girls who like to take a stand for themselves- who feel like they have a say in the…

The Cost of Freedom Imagine a world where you are suddenly an alien. Your life is ripped away, and everyone looks at you differently. Within the novel When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, Japanese-American people are segregated and incarcerated in camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The family that is described within this book is one of the unfortunate families that was ripped away from their home because of their heritage. To analyze their situation, Julie Otsuka uses many…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary desensitization is known as an act or process of desensitizing and has become a huge issue in our society. There are certain emotions that are triggered to react to certain events, but desensitization disrupts these healthy emotions and people become emotionless. After thinking about the process of desensitization, I realized how it is very prevalent in my life and in the lives of those around me. In many way desensitization through the media and…

African Aesthetics in America’s Finest City I travel with my mother across town to explore and expand our dancing horizons. Several dances are performed throughout the beautiful city of San Diego. We trek across a long road to a red tent, pick up our passes and join the other spectators at our first stop of the day. The seventeenth annual Trolley Dances brings people of all ages, ethnicities, and dance knowledge to one place to experience “America’s Finest City” and some of the city’s most…

In the article, "Henry Rodriguez: Preserving the Luiseño Tradition," Rodriguez talks about how oral tradition keep stories "alive and changing over time." Just for example, Rodriguez mentions a story about a "powerful song given" to him by an old man, and it was later on collected as "sets," as more elderly men are willing to share their songs. As a result, it created a bigger content of songs, having a far more interpretation of a subject. Just like in oral tradition, stories accumulate, it…

Stories are much more than just accounts of events that have happened in the past. Stories are comprised of the narrator’s individual thoughts and perceptions formed into strands of words in order to draw out empathy or understanding from others. Every word within a story acts as a potential launching pad for the thoughts and emotions of the readers, causing no two encounters with the story to be alike. This lack of equality between individual readings separates the writer’s experience from the…

Michel Foucault discusses another way crowds “assemble in the name of death” (73): public executions. For Foucault, the purpose of public executions was two fold: to set an example to the commonwealth in order to deter anyone else from committing a crime, but more importantly, as a display of power. Holding a public execution puts the power differential between the commonwealth and the sovereign on display: it “reactivates” (49) his power over his subjects in a way a less public punishment…

I believe the highest point of human achievement is art instead of war or technology. What distinguish us from other species is art, what we usually describe as a diverse range of human activities. People may not enjoy carving or drawing, but music is an art form that everybody can enjoy. Jazz music has a feature that other music form doesn't have, it spread so quickly and become so popular in 20th Century, which helped black people gained lots of benefit of American society, and eliminate much…

Understanding Japan’s Culture Culture is the collection of all the physical and intangible manifestations of human knowledge and achievement of a society or societal subgroup (Chapter 9, n.d.). Culture can include art and artistic knowledge, for example. All cultures share several fundamental characteristics in common. Culture is shared – passed from person to person and group to group in a variety of ways. Culture is learned – children and adults are taught culture by others, through both…

Nato Thompsons novel, Culture As Weapon, was very eye opening, due to the fact that it informed me as a reader about the manipulation of our values as citizens of the United States. For instance, within the novel Thompson goes on to discuss how we as citizens are manipulated into believing everything we see or hear political leaders do. For example, after the attack on the World Trade Center, the nation was crumbling and was looking to point fingers at whom to blame. Many individuals pointed…