Dichotomies

The nineteenth century was a very important time for music, an age often defined by two composers - Ludwig van Beethoven and Gioachino Rossini. These two composers represented and were key to the development of that era’s musical powerhouses, German instrumental music and Italian opera respectively. Despite the composers’ similar importance to their respective genres, Beethoven and Rossini are often viewed as polar opposites with Beethoven reigning as superior; however, the veracity and…

Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879 – 1939 (2006), Molina goes beyond the black and white dichotomy to assess the process by which the public health system in Los Angeles developed into a site of racialization for Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican immigrants. According to Molina, during Los Angeles’ formative period public health officials emphasized…

Commencing in the late nineteenth century, the modern era sought to discard the certainty of Neoclassicism, rigidity of Industrialism and the ingenuity of Romanticism while developing contemporary socio-cultural norms and attitudes capturing revolutionary expressions of artistic innovation. The philosophical movement saw society’s tenuous fear of technological modification arise from an existential crisis following the First War period, sparking a newfound physiological state centring on the…

Bourdieu’s work focuses a lot of overcoming social dichotomies. For example, Habitus and Field, Body and Mind and Macro and Macro. Habitus and Field are two co-terms which are used to explain the subjective and objective aspects of humanity, (Hardy, 2008, p. 214). We also examine Bourdieu’s three forms of capital. It is important to note that capital is not solely focused on economic capital. We focussed a lot of attention on cultural capital and the three typologies faced within cultural…

On one hand, he aspires to prove he is the most evil supervillain in the world by stealing the moon. On the other hand, in the process of stealing the moon, he becomes a caring, compassionate person through adopting three orphaned girls. Gru was driven to express his villainous side to prove himself worthy of getting a loan to steal the moon. This caused him to hide his sensitive side from the public, and possibly even from himself. When he adopted the three orphaned girls, he was forced to face…

The story, under first impression, shows hard work is efficient enough to gain wealth. However, sober, honesty, and industrious are defined in the books section about character and morality. This affects the young male readers as it allows masculinity to define one’s work ethic, wages, and profession. By including these testaments, a reader is inclined to embody honesty and industrious qualities to become this “successful professional man” and to raise their own socioeconomic position to meet…

One potential way meant to resolve this problematic ontology is Allison 's two aspect view. Instead of there being an ontological distinction between phenomena and noumena, the two aspect view holds that this is merely an epistemic distinction.23 We can consider an object both spatiotemporally in, the manner of sensible conditions and we can also view them as things-in-themselves.24 The most notable example of this is found in Kant 's view of freedom: the human subject can be viewed as both…

In 1947, India gained its independence from Britain, along with this newly found independence, came a division of the land. This division, known colloquially as the Partition, split British India into two states: Pakistan and a version of India that we know today. Partition remembered not because of the independence of two states, but instead it’s remembered for the violence and death it caused and the impact on political and social relations in that area, an impact that had lasting effects.…

Mark Tushnet stated “critical legal studies is a sustained attack on all types of formalism.”1 In the late 1970s a group of like minded left wing scholars came together at a conference and created a movement known as Critical Legal Studies (CLS). Their anti-establishment polemic attack opposed the legal orthodoxy of formalist legal doctrine. This essay will critically evaluate how the CLS movement challenged formalism. Firstly exploring the CLS challenge to the scientific approach of formalism,…

Nolite te bastardes carborandorum. (Atwood 52) The 1970s-1980s were a time all about making statements, such as the preceding butchery of Latin. It was a time of “changing authority and governments, and culture, values, and technology” (Zuhlke). It seemed that there were “te bastardes” and there was you, with hardly any in between, and communication could only be made between the two through large symbolic actions. Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel was no exception. But to whom was Atwood making…