Indoctrination

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” was Mahatma Gandhi’s fundamental tenet on the subject of violence1. However, most prisoners do not subscribe to this particular point of view. Violence has become an engrained part of prison culture and it is an age-old problem in our society. This violence is not just between inmates, it also takes place between inmates and guards or prison employees. In some cases, violence can lead to riots and also the death of inmates and/or prison staff.…

In “Going to Meet the Man,” James Baldwin illustrates racism in the South after the Civil War. This short story follows Jessie, a white sheriff who is struggling with his sexuality. His wife no longer sexually arouses him; he instead finds himself turned on by African Americans and racial violence in the jailhouse. In his depiction of the white sheriff, Baldwin uses his unique perspective as a black homosexual man facing persecution in the 1960s in which he writes to attempt to make sense of…

undermines the need for "common culture" in our multiracial society. He accuses Hirsch of trying to conceal the truth on how Westerners committed savage acts against other cultural groups in the name of "civilizing" others. Schools are institutions of indoctrination which prohibits the chance of independent thought which, as a result, promotes dominant ideology. Far from teaching students the "critical tools" to understand the realities of the world, schools are increasingly spoon-feeding the…

In the play Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller utilize characters as a way of highlighting the features of the main character, Willy. Charley, a minor character in the play, is used as a crucial foil to emphasize Willy’s failure as a father and a salesman. It is Willy’s shortcomings that highlight the profound effect that humans and society itself have on individuals. Charley and Willy are rivals in the business world with Charley being the more successful of the two. According to Chester E.…

Representations of masculinity in Fight Club and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner dissertation proposal. The main focus of my dissertation will be on representations of masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The aim of the project is to be able to compare and contrast the representations of masculinity in both texts and to be able to determine whether they are inaccurate or whether they…

As in most African Christian families, my religious indoctrination started very early, too early for it to really set in. A young child is usually preoccupied with the toys clutched to their pudgy appendages, and I was no different. But, alas, my parents insisted on dragging me to church along with them from as young an age as memory allows. One fateful Sunday morning, in 2004, a stubborn 6 year old me, slowly tortured by the droning of the majestically draped priest, asked to use the bathroom.…

CULTURE, US Civil Religion: The American Way of Life by Friends of TFC • May 30, 2016 United States (TFC) –The most observed religion in America isn’t Christianity, it’s patriotism. America is widely regarded as a Christian nation with over 70% of the populace belonging to one of many different sects of Christianity. From a sociological stand point though, nationalism is by far the dominant religion in this country today. Though simply being prideful about one’s nation isn’t typically seen…

It became clear the extreme measures Hitler was willing to take when he said, “Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death” Combining threats to intimidate those who resisted, the plan depended on acceptance of the impending measures against Jews as scapegoats, and was crafted to depict the Nazi government as sanctioned to restoring order. Further measures to discriminate included the passing of the Nuremberg Laws created to deprive the…

We can not understand the national problems of Latin America regardless of the background of their historical and social evolution. The political existence of this continent begins with the discovery by Columbus in 1492 and ends in 1580 with the possession of the countries of the Rio de la Plata. Large colonial centers where he had come after a highly developed or in places of great mineral wealth indigenous culture. From Mexico southern part of the United States and Central America was…

Searching to create some semblance of tranquility and calm in a world ravaged by chaos and mayhem, the United States changed their stance on international military and economic ventures from primarily acting alone to one of multilateral cooperation and international institution building in order to align itself with other Western nations following the end of World War II. In fact, the decade following World War II produced the largest flux of international organizations, treaties and rules that…