Elitism

Growing up in a single parent household, in inner city Detroit, as a black boy in the fifties through the sixties, you could describe Ben Carson’s childhood as a challenge. His mother, one of 24 children, only had a third grade education. With all of this combined, as a young child, Ben had a horrible temper, low self esteem, and was an atrocious student. How could he care about getting good grades, when he was surrounded by people who had never and did not aspire to achieve in school? However,…

John Kenneth Galbraith and Thorstein Veblen both sought to formulate their conception of the role of power in an economic society. In his writing Power and the Useful Economist, Galbraith presents the idea that the state plays a significant role in deciding how the economy spends its productive capacity. In Veblen’s writing The Theory of the Leisure Class, he presents critical thinking and theories that pertain to the habits of individuals in society and their related social norms. Both…

Miscegenation and race are woven into the historical context of Southern society and traditions. Jean Toomer’s Cane focuses on the ambiguities of its characters’ mixed heritage which is perceived as a means of creating a new race—the human race. The subject of miscegenation and race in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! receives an adverse perception because it deconstructs Sutpen’s intended design of a family dynasty. Both novels share a thematic concern of miscegenation and race which speaks…

Books do more than just tell stories; they have the power to inspire, educate, and transform lives. For fifty-six years, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird has been an influential social commentary on prejudice in the deep south. Controversial at its inception for its progressive attitude towards civil rights, the novel has since become a staple in classrooms around the world for its message of equality and compassion. Elie Wiesel’s Night is a powerful narrative of his own…

According to Wolf’s Fitting Fulfillment theory, meaning “arises when subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness” (Wolf 9). While Wolf emphasizes the necessity of objective values in living a meaningful life, she does not provide a systematic framework in which objective values are defined and can be used to evaluate individual lives. Jonathan Haidt, one of the commentators of Wolf’s work, offers the concepts of “vital engagement” and “hive psychology” that are meant to solve the…

In the film “Crash” the “Isms” were played out from the beginning. The first “Isms” I noticed was the car accident scene and the Chinese women tells the police officer “Mexicans don’t know how to drive” and the scene where the two African American males were walking out of the restaurant and one of the say that he wasn’t going to pay for a service where they didn’t offer him coffee because of his skin color, the other male individual was stating he didn’t get coffee because he did not ask for it…

La première’s core customer value is to create the most luxury phone in the smartphone industry, which can symbolise our customer’s reputable status and successful image. 7.1.2 Actual Product Features 1. Casing For the casing, 24k gold will be used. Gold is a symbol of wealth and prosperous, thus giving users with a premium feel. Decoration For decoration, it is up to the client to select on the types of diamonds and Crystals. The design of the decoration will be unique as it will be designed…

unintended consequences prevent opportunities and real success for all. Labor. The act and process of hard work and determination. Labor unions and organizations were first created in the United States in the late 1800’s during the Gilded Age to combat elitism and corporate bureaucracy while protecting the rights of workers. The 1800’s idolized unions, anti-trusts, and the industrial revolution; while also including big corporations and bigwigs, such as Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and…

national seclusion and self-sufficiency we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations” (476). Both 19th-century and 21st-century wage-laborers share a similar ethos of economic frustration and discontent with pervasive elitism. The decline of the auto, steel, and coal industries during the late-20th century negatively impacted their cultural relevance and lucrativeness. Several of the auto companies were outsourced to Germany and Japan. As a result, the worth of…

The very progression of ideas mirrors and prompts the progression of religious development throughout the world. Freud seems to be the laggard of the group in retrospect. Freud’s stance on religion almost seems to be a defiant regression instead of the huge advance he purports. The evaluation of any religious theories needs to encompass the history of the theorist. The diverse backgrounds shed much light on the theories that they eventually develop. I think it is totally relevant to know…