Demonization

Ultimately, as history tells us, the demonization or ghettoization of public housing allowed the federal government to cowardly justify their actions against the poor or disadvantaged in the inner cities. The article focuses on the role of the government in public housing. Historically, the government…

There were a great number of motivations, which contributed to each individual soldiers reasoning behind enlisting in either the Union, or Confederate armies in 1861. Common motivations that I found in For Cause and Comrades included duty, honor, religion, race, peers, family, and most importantly a sense of nationalism. While reading McPherson’s text these factors were so strongly described by the soldiers that they transcended the individual’s desire for safety and home and led these men to…

In recent decades, high blood sugar and obesity rates dramatically increased in the United States compared to other parts of the world. The increased rate of these health problems will severely limit American vitality and way of life. In 2002, President Bush signed a $190 billion bill that would make tax payers to pay farmers an accumulated 4 million dollars a year to grow more corn. Accompanying the bill, Congress also decided to subsidize bushels of corn so American production of corn remains…

As the Civil Rights movement progressed throughout the 1960s, racial tensions within American communities were in a perpetual state of hostility. Inevitably, commentary on the protests and riots sweep through every possible medium from news articles to high esteemed works of art. Two notable works include Larry River’s Black Revue (1970), and Andy Warhol’s Birmingham Race (1964). Larry River’s composition features three black men from chronological historical events. However, Birmingham Race…

of teenagers. This was exacerbated by the media which “fixed on the image of the urban juvenile as a switchblade brandishing menace” , therefore creating a ‘moral panic’ in American society that problematized these teenagers. An example is the demonization of Rock ‘n’ Roll which was “everything that middle-class parents feared – elemental, savage, and dripping with sexuality” , and subsequently the ‘King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’, Elvis Presley. In the eyes of the adults, widespread teenage idolization…

In the confronting documentary, Audrie & Daisy, film makers Bonni Cohn and Jon Shenk depict a completely biased and illusory stance on the aftermath of two teenage sexual assault victims. A range of conventions are expertly used, positioning the viewers to believe that the government and social media have, to an extent, influenced the victimization of Daisy Coleman, and the tragic suicide of Audrie Pott. Through the perpetuation of socio-cultural values and stereotypes inherent in American high…

One of the greatest weapons a President has in their inaugural address is their use of antithesis. Trump is no exception. He explains when discussing the government “The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs.” His antithesis specifically criticizes the previous government. Trump acknowledges the fortitude of the government by using the metonymy of “establishment” since it…

religious individuals. This idea is enforced in this painting by the impression that the statues are ostentatiously showing their nudity. This is a complete opposite to the other individuals in the painting as they are all wearing clothes. The demonization of those religious figures was inherited from the Middle Age, where demons were often depicted naked and the traditional iconography of Olympian deities showed them either naked or draped. Thus it was thought that they both had an ability to…

Hitler and Goebbels took particular interest in film as a valued instrument of propaganda for the Third Reich. The support for a costly war was maintained by the demonization of the enemy as subhuman. The Eternal Jew depicted Jews living in their “usual” squalor, calling them rats who spread disease and attempting to create a feeling of revulsion. Newsreels like this played a part in enabling Hitler to negotiate the…

Empires thrive off of defying the the principle of legitimacy. Throughout history there are numerous accounts of religious and political groups maintaining their power by restricting the voices of the people, brutalizing them, and treating them with little or no fairness. The effectiveness of these reoccurring actions become increasingly evident when analyzing McKinley and Roosevelt’s Big Stick Diplomacy. Big Stick Diplomacy was a tactic used in foreign affairs. Roosevelt coined the saying,…