Emergence

The emergence of the suburbs caused both cultural and political changes in the 1960s and 1970s. The suburbs represented prosperity, affluence, and security, while also creating a more society with more homogeneity. The development of interstate highways in the 1950s made suburbanization easier because it gave citizens the ability to commute to work from the suburbs (Suri, Lecture 20). The suburbs divided communities and separated individuals from the cities, creating a form of self-segregation,…

Week 5: The Imagined Community: Nationalism: • The concept of nationalism can be defined as a common identity formed between people (Okoth, 2006: 1). • Nationalism was previously viewed as an unpredictable and dangerous force (Chaterjee, 1993: 3). • Nationalism is a product of the political history of Europe (Chaterjee, 1993: 4). • CLASS QUESTION: Do you think that the Western countries had a reason to fear the phenomenon of nationalism? Imagined Community: • A nation is a socially…

Human race tend to hold fear towards people who are foreign or unfamiliar to them. This sense of xenophobia is prevalent across world history, often characterized by implementation of racialized discriminatory immigration practices. In this essay, I am going to compare and contrast the history of the Japanese internment in the United States during WWII with recent European Union processes. In 1942, President Roosevelt executed an enforced relocation of Japanese citizens and immigrants, which…

Livingston also argues that we explore the events that interplay with the emergence of specific order empirically, while the arranged order of communication is a subject of theoretical examination afterwards. He explains that the two are interchangeable, and, thus, to study the witnessed orderliness of human interaction we first…

An Explanation of Fukuyama’s Views on Altering Human Beings It is no question that technology, specifically biotechnology, has been advancing at a rapid rate in today’s modern world. Fukuyama’s “Our Posthuman Future” is a book focused on tackling the inevitable issues that will arise with advances in biotechnology and potential ways to solve them. In handling these problems, it is necessary to establish a baseline of what makes humans unique, and how to draw the line in terms of what is…

The history of the Roman Empire spans several centuries, starting with the disintegration of the Roman Republic, as a result of civil wars, until 476 AD, the year of the last emperor of Rome (Gibbon 1829). The Roman Republic (res publica meaning "public affairs") is the conventional term used to define the Roman state and its provinces since the end of the Kingdom of Rome in 509 BC. The Republic lasted until the establishment of the Roman Empire in 27 BC. The Empire was a consequence of the…

Dennis Altman has described the phenomenon of the emergence of queer identities in non-western nations as “global queering” (Altman 1996). The concept of global queering relies heavily on the notion that queer identities in non-western nations are the result of the dissemination of western sexualities and gender identities into other parts of the globe (Jackson 2009). While it is certainly true that various manifestations of queerness have originated in the west and then emerged in non-western…

The two theorist that I have chosen to characterize are Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault. First, I am going to start with Michel Foucault. Foucault is widely known for shaping the understanding of power. According to Foucault, power is what shapes us as humans. “Foucault uses the term ‘power/knowledge’ to signify that power is constituted through accepted forms of knowledge, scientific understanding and ‘truth’” (PowerCube.) Foucault states that power and knowledge go hand in hand. Foucault…

animal life alike. However, its baffling how this insect maneuvers its tiny self against earth’s gravity and wind resistance contrary to its considerably small size. The average female Honeybee (pictured above) weighs in at 277 to 290 mg at adult emergence. As their wings are almost paper thin, they still manage to support the bee’s un-aerodynamic anatomy and hold up to the constant stress of everyday flights and vibrations as they collect nectar and pollen for their hive as well as…

Globalization itself is the result of European expansion. For there to be “Global Trade,” there first has to be a global market. The “Columbian Exchange” came before the Global Trade. The Columbian Exchange is the exchange of people, diseases, domesticated animals and plants, and other cultural knowledge between the peoples of the Old World and the New World. Now the Global Trade is defined as “economic exchange of goods and other products between the different peoples of the world via…