Demonization

Good morning/afternoon everyone, thank you for inviting me to this lovely multicultural festival, it’s a great honour to be speaking to all of you today. As you can see behind me, I’m going to try and clear up some misunderstandings in regards to Japan and how they were depicted during World War 2. You might be asking like “oh, why would she be teaching us about how they were misunderstood in WW2? Why not teach us about how they are now, in modern times?” And very good question! Thanks for…

United States should be preserved primarily for white Anglo-Saxons, grew in strength on several fronts from the 1880s on.” (Getz 27). This belief of nativism can be seen in Griffith’s film bluntly by the glorification of the Ku Klux Klan and the demonization of black people. My belief is that D.W. Griffith was not innately racist, but a representation of the common sentiment at the time the film was made. It was common for people to have a mind where Anglo-Saxons are “more human” than others and…

Cultural and Structural Racism in the United States In 2010, white people made up about 64% of the population of the United States, African Americans about 13%, and Hispanic people about 16%. However, this doesn’t carry over to those incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails. 39% of those incarcerated are white, an entire 40% are African American, and 19% are Hispanic. This widespread disparity doesn’t just come from one racist cop, or one racially biased law, it comes from centuries of…

Ecocriticism explores how nature and natural world are imagined through literary texts. Ecocriticism is divided into two waves. The first wave is emphasized on nature and writing it as an object of study and as a meaningful practice. The main point of the first wave is the idea that there is environmental crisis regarding the cultural and physical aspects, in the world, so there is need to raise awareness and create solutions for those problems. In first wave ecocriticism, the primary concern…

The demonization and scapegoating of the moon, which throughout the play symbolizes and identifies with Salome and her sexual desires, suggests a form of rejection of the female sexuality embodied by Salome, thus supporting the homoerotic inclinations between the…

2016 presidential candidates have offered more details on foreign policy. Leading Republican candidate “Donald Trump” has offered complete shutdown of all Muslims entering the U.S., while leading Democratic candidate “ Hillary Clinton” opposes demonization of all Muslims.(NBC.com, and Slate) This shows how controversial this issue is and how it has been a major issue in the current political campaign. On one hand, some believe that Islam itself is a religion of peace and that most Muslims are…

On August 6th, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki leading to a grand total of more than 200,000 casualties, 5 out of 6 being civilian. The use of such devastating force on civilians is considered extremely unethical today by numerous organizations and scholars. However, it stands as one of the most applauded decisions in US History for decisively ending World War II. As a society, the United States…

lords of the Earth” (Hitler). Like Paul’s society, Hitler uses fear to intimidate people into joining his cause. Throughout World War I, all countries used propaganda for, recruitment or financial support for the war. Often these propagandas used demonization, to show their enemies as evil monsters. An American propaganda poster, titled “Tell that to the Marines” shows a young American man getting taking of his jacket in preparation for a fight while standing over a newspaper that reads “Huns…

should support.” By this, Stewart means that a requirement for social movements, is that they claim to have the moral higher ground in the situation to sway potential supporters. This applies to both of the sides of this movement due to he clear demonization of the opposition in both cases. The article in support of the monuments refers to the opposition as immature at times, and even sinister in their manipulation of pain, while the interview against the monuments describes the opposition as…

The Bluest Eyes written by Toni Morrison narrates the story of a young black girl that suffers with a desire to have the bluest eyes in town. It is a heartbreaking novel based on the facts that racial beauty in the sixties was a necessary action, the standards established by a white society that determined the aesthetic parameters, had to open its spectrum to include as natural in its bosom the "beauty" in another color; in black. This necessary affirmation of the black beauty should not be a…