Dichotomies

When the “Star-Spangled Banner” plays at an NFL game, pride for the U.S.A. usually overcomes the crowd and gets everyone on their feet. The raw excitement for the game, a quintessentially American pastime, gets everyone riled up and screaming as soon as the tune comes to a close. However, San Francisco 49s quarterback Colin Kaepernick has recently made headlines for refusing to stand during the National Anthem in an attempt to shed light on the current racial situation in the United States.…

The Marginalized Unknown: The True Victims in Daybreakers and Rise of the Planet of the Apes The films Daybreakers and Rise of the Planet of the Apes pose serious questions regarding race and human value. In Daybreakers, the protagonist Edward must decide whether to embrace his newfound nature as a Vampire, or to join forces with the few humans in search of a cure for Vampirism. The film Rise of the Planet of the Apes demonstrates the inhumanities of animal testing, and the ethical implications…

Sound is a fundamental aspect of film form. As Richard Barsam and David Monahan write ‘sound helps the filmmaker tell a movie’s story by reproducing and intensifying the world that has been partially created by the film’s visual elements’ (Barsam & Monahan 2013: 414). Even during the silent era, sound was essential to the integrity of the cinematic experience, to the extent that one could argue that ‘the silent film never existed’ (Melinda Szaloky 2002). In fact, most silent movies were…

that govern the public sphere, and (4) lastly, equality in the public sphere can only take place if there is equality in the private realm. However, despite these arguments that appear to challenge the core liberal assumption of a public-private dichotomy, Wollstonecraft’s argument is still premised on liberal values. Not only offering a critique of her society, Abbey argues…

The term Soldadera is derived from the word, soldada, which was utilized to define the payment that was given to those who looked after the soldiers. During the Mexican Revolutionary war, there were two types of women present in the frontlines, one were Las Adelitas, who a romanticized image of those involved in the revolution. The image was altered to highlight women’s sexuality and hid the assertive traits that sought to destroy gendered stereotypes that were placed upon women by omitting her…

treatment today, the stigma still remains in today’s society. The major stakeholders in this issue are as follows: medical professionals, educators and their administrators, and the employers and employees of mentally ill persons. There is a stark dichotomy in the attitudes of others toward mental illness. There are those who validate mental illness, agreeing that it is a true medical condition that one cannot simply “get over.” Rather, this group would agree that…

These two chapters touch upon the relationships between lines and perspective, comparison of size, and emotional attributes of lines. For example, in the image to the left, Shoki the Demon Queller exhibits the dichotomy and complexity of lines that convey different meanings; the sword includes thin, precise lines to emphasize sharpness and strength, while the fuzzier and more distressed lines of his beard and hair give a sense of texture and physical sensation (Ch…

versus what is bad. Ethicality is a question of what is right, versus what is wrong. Of course, what is right might not always be good, and what is bad might not always be wrong. Questions of what is sacred or profane are not considered in these dichotomies, as it is obvious that to be selfish is good for the individual, and to be selfless…

exercise judgment that was independent of the people. By the time the Constitution Convention during 1776-1787, these men who were “big landowners, merchants, and bankers exercised a strong influence over politico-economic life” (Parenti, 5) created a dichotomy of the wealthy haves and the have-nots with no say in the matter, as the framers intended it to be. The egalitarian government was meant to be publicly supported but in private would not interfere with the existing class structure.…

is the “earthly form of heavenly Lakshmi” (Valmiki 355) and the other gods intervene. Sita, when seen as a human woman, is expected to die for loyalty to her husband, but as a goddess there is a sharp change in expectation. In The Ramayana, the dichotomy between powerful supernatural women and oppressed human woman is especially transparent because it appears within the same…