George Massenburg

Composers incorporate their own ideologies and beliefs in their respective texts in order to effectively convey a message to their audience. Evident in Aldous Huxley’s 1931 dystopian fiction novel ‘Brave New World’, Huxley represents both his personal and political perspectives through a fictional realisation of a futuristic dystopia. His vigorous stance against the rapid industrialisation of the world, and the possible misuse of technology to influence the freedom of the people are reflected…

Zimmerman is about, as the name suggests, the last days of Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln was our nation’s president during the Civil War. He was a great leader who helped bring the Union to victory alongside General Ulysses S. Grant and General George Gordon Meade. However, this book does not only highlight Lincoln’s life during the Civil War, but it also tells what happened during the end of the war and how he was assassinated after. This book is overall a classic tale of the assassination…

a beautiful town full of churches, libraries, theaters and other great amenities. This picture perfect advertisement of Pullman Town was far from the truth, and was actually the definition of an un-American lifestyle. Pullman Town, was created by George Pullman and was a “gift” to his workers to give them a better lifestyle than what they could have provided for themselves. However what is unknown is that Pullman benefited the most from this town, generating a 6% yearly profit on the rents he…

George Washington George Washington, how did he become such an important role character in US history? What paths did he have to take in order to become one of the most recognizable men in North America? Just try to imagine what would happen if he had given up the war, would we be still under British control, slaves under the foot of a destructive king? Even when the British army seems to hold it all Washington never loses hope, he let his feeling of independence and growth shown by his…

The Walking Dead: Era of Zombies Living in a real-life zombie apocalypse where your day-to-day endeavors include facing hordes of the undead, dwindling supplies, and encountering dangerous strangers lurking in the woods can make the most formidable characters cower in fear. This show can utilize the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world and create a group of survivors holding on to their humanity a family that will do anything for one another. This is the world of The Walking Dead. There have been…

Throughout the history of literature, “words” have been of the utmost importance. This is clearly apparent in 1984 and Rhetoric. Though in different manners, both of these texts use the power of words to convey their respective points to the reader. George Orwell uses words in 1984 to emphasize the necessity of freedom of information and the freedom of speech in our society. In Rhetoric, Aristotle shows how words can be used to build and convey a strong argument using tactics such as ethos,…

Marquis de Lafayette Marquis de Lafayette was often known by the nickname of "a hero of two worlds". The reason he was commonly referred to that nickname was the fact that he had bravely fought in the Revolutionary War and rebuilt his home country of France following the French Revolution. If you never read about him before you may not know much about Marquis De Lafayette. Luckily, this essay will go over the early life, role in the American Revolution, and post American Revolution life of…

Benjamin Franklin once said “[t]hose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” The message Franklin was trying to convey is that liberty is a gift, and it should not be used as a bargaining chip for ones personal desires. His warning to all about the value of vital rights is not just right-wing propaganda, but rather a warning with truth behind it. Throughout history many people have given total devotion to a ruler in hopes…

In the Chipotle super bowl ad, there is a wave of depressing feelings being portrayed as the ad shows a farmer, who has just started a family, and seems like a nice guy that soon turns into a farmer that begins caging up all of these farm animals and injecting chemicals and other inhumane things into them. Luckily, the farmer comes to a realization towards the end as to what he has done and is able to 'save' the farm animals by undoing all the horrible things he began doing in the beginning. I…

the wage gap is greater than ever and the socio-economic divide is expanding, we can no longer ignore the fact that what was once the pillar of American society, has now crumbled and has left the lower and middle classes dealing with the rubble. George Packer is a well known writer for the New Yorker, in an article for a 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs,…