Era of Good Feelings

the culture and exposed human cruelty. Facebook, or any other social medium, evaluates individuals by the number of likes they receive or the number of followers they have — thus, creating an “It’s-all-about-me-I-should-be-better-than-anybody-else” era. This is neoliberalism. The epidemic continues to spread and as a result, it pulls society apart causing predicaments in the economic, political, and social realm. Neoliberalism, an ideology foreign to many, sees selfishness as a way of life which…

The Chinese Philosophy School that in my opinion is the best one is Daoism. Daoism arose around the late Zhou era. Daoism is not so much about a political and materialistic point of view, but instead it focuses more on the spiritual freedom of an individual. Daoism is also considered to have a religious aspect to it. In Daoism the best kind of society was the one that would follow the way of nature, were people would obtain peace with one another instead of overlooking each other. Daoism mainly…

Flatland, written by Edwin Abbott, is a novella written in 1884, which delves into the discrepancies in the treatment of gender in the Victorian era of England through the use of satire. Abbott creates a world of two-dimensions where the inhabitants are shapes, and social standing is based solely around the number of angles each shape has. This piece of text parodies the social positions of both women and men in Victorian England through the exaggerated treatment of each in Abbott’s novella,…

one of the world’s oldest religions and one of the big 5. Clearly a dynamic, living religion with over 370 million followers world-wide, but with the characteristics, they interact in order to do this, specifically ethics and beliefs and believers. Good morning year 11 and Mrs Flocco, my chosen Religion has been Buddhism which ethics, and beliefs and believers have both interacted in ways and have created a dynamic living religion in different ways. The ethics of a Buddhist involve deep…

ever-bearing nature for the sake of unique creation and experience. With the obliged assistance of all things natural, mankind is inspired to progressively discover all forms of beauty and spirituality. This inspiration is said to have given way to the era of Romanticism which began in Europe during the mid/late 18th century as a revolt against the aristocracy and the corresponding politics of the Age of Enlightenment. European Romantic ideals influenced visual arts and music. More importantly,…

experienced this destruction. It seems Hemingway had selected the feelings and experiences of this generation to express through his writing. Hemingway like the other modernist writers was critically honest with his topic. The modernist writing took place after the First World War and Hemingway held an important place among all the modernist writers. The war had resulted in severe disorder and destruction and those left alive were feeling destroyed from inside. In this regard the author chooses…

people. This was a reoccurring issue among the people. There was no equality, no matter what was promised. Not only were people fighting for the rights of all people, they were fighting for equality between men and women as well. The women of this era were finally opening their eyes to see that the life that they were living was not amounting to the luxurious life of their spouses or other men. Women wanted the same rights men had. They wanted to be treated with equality and the respect that…

Obituary of the Good Ole Days Imagine a little league baseball coach- a middle-aged man with graying hair and the faint odor of barbecue sauce lingering on his cargo shorts. He towers over his team of scrappy second graders and looks down with disapproval. Instead of encouraging the children to play to their strengths and enjoy the game, he tirelessly ridicules the young players for having more advanced bats and gloves than he did. Back in his day, he had to make do with a wooden bat and a…

the audience with the era in which the film was made. Mankiewicz also tries to keep the anti-American aspects of the story hidden during the film. Although the film closely follows the events, timeline, and even some of the dialogue of the novel, one can delve into both the novel and the film and find…

dream and waking up right before it ends. Or listening to someone tell a joke, and someone interrupts it before the punch line. The moment is ruined. The magic of it slips away. That incredible feeling is lost in trying to remember what happened in the last chapter all those weeks ago. It take away from the feeling and the message. Every story has a message, something to learn or take away. It’s one of my favorite parts about reading about other time periods. The message all the way back in…