Enemy

The protagonist Dr. Stockman in Henry Ibsen’s Enemy of the People fosters an idea that, “That the [compact] majority has the monopoly of the truth. What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are the truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentleman.” (Ibsen, 59). The democracy illustrated in the play ostracizes Dr. Stockman, in effort to preserve the economic…

Friends to Enemies In high school people lose and gain many friends. As you go through high school with all the different clubs and sports you’re going to meet a lot of people but when doing so you need to keep your real childhood friends close. They will always have your back. The author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson uses the character Melinda to show that you need to stay close with friends while growing up because once you lose the real ones only the fake are left. The first time the…

citizens of a country feel insecure, they search for a reason, and finding no easy answer, they look to a scapegoat. Such was the case for the Germans following World War I. In “Defining Enemies, Making Victims,” Omer Bartov argues that in Nazi Germany and the subsequent Holocaust, the world has found the ultimate enemy in Nazis and the ultimate victim in Jews. Germany was broken after World War I on almost every level—financially, physically and psychologically. And, while German Jews had…

There is nothing that can be done to stop it. In the documentary “Know Your Enemy Japan,” it was revealed that the Japanese had planned on attacking the United States for years. It was only a matter of time before the United States became involved in the war. This being said, World War II was inevitable. The United States joined…

is a strong Judeo-Christian principle of ‘love your enemy’. Not sure why God wanted to teach “His people” to do such a thing, but that question is redundant to the faithful. He is God and I am not. American values have often imitated the Judeo-Christian heritage that formed most, the majority, of the founding fathers and mother’s beliefs in the 18th century. As the civilization worked through this process it had to sometimes kill the enemy before they could historically love them because…

citizens was Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. He was known to have instilled fear in the American people, by saying how communists were aiming to corrupt America, and their lives were at stake. He rose to fame on February 10, 1950 with his “Enemies from Within”…

Fright or Flight Joseph McCarthy was an incredible speaker. He opened many people's eyes and exposed them to know things that they did not know about. During world war 2 on February 9, 1950 Joseph McCarthy gave a brilliant speech called “Enemies from Within”. Also during McCarthy’s time, many things around the world were happening. Democrats of the united states and communist soviet union were not agreeing on any political terms causing the cold war. The cold war led to many communists to come…

coined by Judy Aulette and Judith Wittner, where sex is binary (male or female) and sexuality is assumed to be heterosexual, where an individual may wish to identify otherwise (GW pp. 20). This expectation is exhibited in Jacob Anderson-Minshall’s The Enemy Within: On Becoming A Straight White Guy, where because he grew up as a “tomboy” female, he was interrogated by his school because he did not align with the expectation of his biological sex (pp. 28-33). This simply perpetuates the fact that…

This piece of paper will examine the problem aspects of the Bulgarian translation of chapter 1 of Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy. 1. Cultural Aspects: the transmitting of the clothes Myra and her husband wear might be a bit problematic. In the original text, the reader saw Myra Henshaw in black, velvet dress. The translator decided to put on Mayra not velvet but a silk dress (“жена в черна копринена рокля”). Perhaps, this was done because the image of a velvet dress in the Bulgarian reader’s…

believed was right. It was nineteen-fifty, tension was running high and the fear of communism permeated throughout American society. Joseph McCarthy’s “Enemies from Within” speech furthered paranoia about communism and instigated rapid accusations, many of the accusations had no solid evidence at all. In the span of twenty-four hours from the “Enemies from Within” speech, Joseph McCarthy became a sensation. McCarthy’s approval ratings skyrocketed, gaining a huge national following, becoming the…