Indoctrination

Today many readers are able to understand the logic and thinking behind what a writer writes. For example a writer might use symbols to clarify and emphasize the meaning behind what they are trying to express in their novel or short story . For instance in our daily life one can identify the use of symbols such as hearts meaning love, a smile showing friendship, and even colors such as the color white in some places around the world it stands for wholeness and completion while black in some…

Education has been an important aspect of American politics since its inception. The debate on education continues to be a hot issue with all the economic, social, and political issues attached. As many believe, education allows an individual to become a better citizen and become more caring for other individuals. Many groups fight for their version of what they believe to be important. Education has continued to develop to allow for greater diversity. With this greater variety in education,…

characters of European descent are seen to discover facets of Igbo and South African culture of which they have not previously been aware, indicating the limitedness of the narrative to which they subscribe. Hally, having received the aforementioned indoctrination into the prejudiced mentality of apartheid, prominently demonstrates significant and potentially harmful misconceptions about the culture of Africans in South Africa. He sees the dance Sam and Willie practice as nothing more than a…

act only in their best interests will lead to euphoria contained inside of a utopia. Scanlan, in his analysis of Notes, vehemently criticizes this flawed philosophy because he argues that Dostoyevsky, through the creation of such a character who emphasizes his unconstrained free will as his moral superiority, effectively refutes the solely moral or scientific stance on the human condition. Through his in-depth study of the underground man, Scanlan argues that the actions in the best interest of…

Nazi persecution of the Jews became significantly more extreme between 1933 and 1945 due to numerous factors. These included the things such as: the breakout of WW, effective propaganda and cumulative radicalisation. However some causes were more significant than others, for example WW2 was more effective in increasing the severity in which Jews were persecuted than propaganda, as the Second World War created the chaos that allowed more extreme actions to take place, whilst propaganda was…

To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing. – Raymond Williams A Marxist reading of “Work Without Hope” The themes of productivity, alienation, class struggle and hegemony are revealed in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Work Without Hope”. The first stanza depicts a natural world busy at work and this work is part of a natural process. “All Nature seems at work”; bees and birds are considered productive organisms and a Marxist reading could view this natural…

transform world society according to enlightenment principles.” He experimented with education, communal living and science. He included education for both younger children and also established life-long learning for adults, which also provided indoctrination into his philosophies (xroads.virginia.edu). Domino Theory is another interesting theory. Said that a communist victory in one nation would start a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. The United States once used the…

“Learning as Freedom”, by Michael S. Roth, is primarily a response to recent sentiments that higher education is a waste of resources. Roth states that his opposition frequently wonder why people who aren’t going to make lots of money in their future occupation bother with going to college. (1). According to Roth, advocates of this perspective see attending higher education as “buying a customized playlist of knowledge” (1), and nothing more. Therefore, if the knowledge gained will not insure…

regime under Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin resulting in the closing of trade and a shortage of resources, inflation of the ruble and the threat of being in the center of a nuclear war. Bulgakov presents his solution by highlighting the root cause: the indoctrination of citizens into the ideal Soviet man noting through a synecdoche used for the Frankenstein monster-like creations as that “The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the most rotten…

relationships to the outside world. American allies depended almost exclusively on their stance on communism. The same applied for domestic policy. The Cold War affected domestic policy two ways: socially and economically. Socially, the intensive indoctrination of the American people led to a regression of social reforms.”(Simensen, Jarle)the cold war seemed to take a toll on the us economy causing one of the great depressions the economic downfall put a lot of americans out of work for…