Goths

In the course of learning about American Pluralism, we have previously written on a number of primary and secondary prose sources and photographs. This paper investigates new types of sources, investigating attitudes on immigration found in the forms of poetry and political cartoons. While in many ways these can be similar in content to prose and photographic sources, these new forms of primary documents provide some additional information and tone that other documents do not fully capture.…

THE HIPPIES CHALLENGED THE SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND VALUES OF AMERICA IN THE 1960’S A ‘hippie’ can be defined as someone of an alternative appearance and typically ‘associated with a subculture involving the rejection of conventional values.’ The hippies challenged various aspects of American society in the 1960’s, including their mainstream culture and ‘The Establishment.’ They ‘believed the dominant mainstream culture was corrupt and inherently flawed and sought to replace it with a utopian…

In the novel Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea, he uses many different tools to help tell this story. This novel is about a young Mexican woman who sets out to the United States to bring back men to save their village from the bandidos, and to find her father who set out looking for work years ago. He eventually just stopped writing or sending money. Urrea has a great understanding of each side of the border since he was born in Mexico to an American mother and Mexican father. At a…

While viewing the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I fell in love with Lisbeth Salander, whole played the role of a female heroic figure and displays characteristics of female empowerment, brilliance, and dominating. Typically, women do not play heroic figures in Hollywood films, especially one that consists of sexual violence. I felt like I was walking in Lisbeth’s shoes during the film, but I was unaware of what is yet to come. For example, during the scene where Lisbeth met her guardian,…

The Medieval Times are commonly known as the time of dungeons, dragons, knights and magic. However, it is so much more than that. The people of the Medieval Times weren’t cleanest, therefore they got sick very easily. Also, there was major religious conflict resulting in many deaths. Lastly, like many other places in history, women did not have equal rights. Which all supports the fact that this was a terrible time to live in. As stated before, the Medieval Times are commonly known as the time…

peer pressure, the desire to belong, to a special, different or new group or trend brought new ideas. More often than not popular music was the driving force – from 1970’s Disco Fever, through to Punk Rock and onto Hip-Hop. Disco fever, Punk and also Goth brought with it, platforms, flares to dog collars and dark colours. The Hip-Hop industry brought oversized clothes and ‘bling’ jewellery. Young people expressed their differences (and similarities) through what they wore. The 70s punk created a…

Throughout human history, civilisations have been influenced by the representations of aspects of the world around them, from the ancient sagas and oral traditions to the establishment of religious doctrine and canonical law. As the mindsets of societies evolve over the centuries, several issues remained until the last few centuries. The inequity of gender across Civilisations globally and the homogenous societies and dehumanisation over other ethnicities. As these matters were prevalent during…

female-to-male transgender student. Even as I type this long list of intersections that create my identity, I know that I’ve likely failed to include multiple aspects of who I am. I also know that I could include my subcultures, such as grunge or goth, or physical aspects, such as my piercings and tattoos or my decision to bleach my hair so regularly that my friends forget I’m not a natural blonde, because these are all important aspect to how I encounter the world or how I understand my own…

Barbarians. The very mention of the name sparks images of fear, destruction, mystery, and even inspiration, and although there were many different types of barbarian groups and empires throughout history, one stands out among the rest. The Huns. They started out as seemingly harmless nomadic peoples that craved the art of plundering, but with the coming of a merciless new ruler, nothing would ever be the same. The name of this blood-thirsty ruler is non other than Attila the Hun. Known to his…

While there may be debate as to what the most important event was in the time periods all the way up to the 1600’s, I would argue that it was in introduction of the Christian religion to the western civilizations. Every aspect of civilization was impacted by this socially, economically and politically. Christianity was first introduced by Constantine in the Roman Empire in the late third century. Constantine issued the famous Edict of Milan, which made it official that the Romans would tolerate…