Elitism

As Kelly Brown Douglas notes in her book Stand Your Ground, one of reasons for perpetuating slavery after the other Western European countries abolished it was due to America’s belief in Manifest Destiny. White Anglo-Saxons assumed they were called by God to rule the “New World”, but also to rule the Africans they had enslaved. In essence, God chose white people over all other races to be the ruling elites who dominate the world. They are the chosen people, in similar ways to Israel, who were…

The Warring states era of China gave birth, to what is now considered to be, the doctrine from which Chinese education, government and social constructs can trace their origins to. The Confucian school of thought is observed by many to be the foundation of what Chinese dynasties, post the warring states era, formed their empires and the key elements of their cultures that contributed to their success. Confucius himself did not hold a significant position of authority and was only appointed the,…

undergraduate collegiate education. Although, it is obvious that some form of free college must be adopted, on the grounds that it will allow many that would not normally receive a college education to receive one, challenge anti-intellectualism and elitism, and benefit the economy and workforce. For the purposes of this essay, the focus will be on comprehensive free education, that being fully funded public undergraduate education.…

Persian flourished as a language of prestige and elitism throughout Europe and Asia for centuries, but its importance began to diminish around the eighteenth century. In 1722, the fall of the Safavid Empire occurred and under the rule of Sultan Husayn, the Persian state suffered long term economic deterioration. It wasn’t until Nadir Shah of the Afsharid dynasty took power that political unity was restored, and for the first last time Persia’s borders were extended. However soon after this…

motif is often used in order to convey the continuing conflict between men and women, with the men often employing their physical prowess to overpower or to strike fear into the women. “A pair of queens?” relates to the theme of social and class elitism throughout the play, and how Blanche is shown to look down on Stanley. As Stanley represents the New South, and…

1:3 DIVINE POWER: This is another key word of the epistle. It ties to 1:16 where the two major themes of the letter appear: the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul identifies this as "the power of his resurrection" (Philippians. 3:10). It is a power which all true believers possess which enables them, if they choose to count on it, to do "all things through Christ who strengthens" (Philippians. 4:13). Thus any failure to live a godly life is due to our weakness or folly and not to…

Surge of Ultra-Conservatism: The US Presidential Election and Citizenship President-elect Donald Trump’s victory was shocking to Americans, but the world community saw it coming from a mile away. The past year has been full of liberal democratic politics shifting to far right conservatism, such as with Trump’s presidential victory. Scholars such as Nissim Mizrachi and Menachem Mautner contribute that the surge of radical conservatism has in fact been the product of the “liberal democratic form…

dream girl, Daisy Buchanon, is merely a small-minded product of the cushioned lifestyle wealth afforded and women of her generation, insisting she’s better off a fool in this world. While her husband Tom Buchanon represents the pompous arrogance and elitism the old-wealthy impose on the class system. Jay Gatsby’s lifelong desire to be Daisy Buchanon’s one true love ultimately led to his demise. A self-made millionaire, Jay Gatsby embodies the American dream. However, his…

The Lansdowne private collection consists of over 100 classical art pieces and was accumulated in the late eighteenth century. The two freestanding Greco-Roman sculptures I chose to compare and contrast from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are the Bateman Mercury from 4th century BCE Rome and the Lansdowne Artemis from 1st Century BCE Rome. As soon as I walked into the exhibition hall, these two artworks stood out to me out of the four selections because of the proportion, anatomy, pose,…

As an ever more powerful political force, humanitarianism has evolved from its once apolitical stances and found a place on nearly every public policy agenda among developed nations. Since the 1970s, large international groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have dominated the Human Rights Movement, which has grown so much so in complexity and in professionalism that local groups—which arguably have more contextualized knowledge than multinational humanitarian…