Indoctrination

Spivak came to the forefront of literary circle with her celebrated essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Her statement “subaltern cannot speak” has litigated flames of controversy in the post-colonial context. Spivak‟s statement is actually a onestop answer for all the questions.1. variety cannot be represented under one theory2.They can speak but others don’t have patience to listen them.3.they are not aware of the actual state of themselves Males and females co-exist in this society…

The notion that God is dead has been disputed between proponents and opponents for centuries. One stalwart advocate of the belief that God is dead is Friedrich Nietzsche. Selections of Nietzsche’s Gay Science state, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for…

else. Being only 12, I lacked any resemblance of an educated political opinion and treated the mocking as a joke. However, my father must have interpreted it as me repeating the propaganda and subconsciously accepting the radical conservative indoctrination. Over the years, my father continued to play the broadcasts and bring up his points, which all had the same conclusion. As I matured, I began to…

Violence is never the answer. It is a much heard phrase, however, these wise words are almost never followed. Violence seems like a fragile beast that no one has full control over. People, groups, and states all display acts of violence and the reasons why can vary. Some rely on violence when they feel as if they have no other option, and there are people whose basic instinct is to commit a violent act. The basic reasons violence exists is, because it is a potential option. It can be used as a…

Middle Passage Blackness is dead. Their history is forgotten. Their soles are tainted. Their color is undefined and we are all black. One must not view Blackness as simply a skin color rather an Ontological Experience. The experience occurred during the middle passage in which it ceased being the African American people, but a division of humane and inhumane; with the African now deemed as the black body. In this episode of humanity an entire people were Dis-identified, Disenfranchised, and…

Thoughts of the Collective Psychology presents several explanations for instances of indecision and the iconic angelic and fiendish voices inside the mind. The concept of dualism and fragmentation of the mind has existed since Aristotle and Plato, but Robert Louis Stevenson captured the quintessential belief behind dualism in his novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Jekyll explores the duality of a human mind through theoretical experiments which eventually produce two…

Grese continued on her rampage of torture and death. Dora Szafran testified at the Belsen trail that, “Grese had beaten a girl very severely.” She and the other camp supervisors maintained their daily selections, beatings, and humiliation. She attempted to maintain control in a situation that quickly spiraled out of her control and lead to the complete destruction of the Nazi regime. She extended her reign of terror on to Bergen-Belsen. One victim named Helene Klein stated, “Grese beat them…

atrocities including the Rape of Nanking, concentration camps, and the Bataan Death March. During World War II, Japan’s totalitarian trait of control of information contributed to the war atrocity of the Rape of Nanking. Control of information is the indoctrination of the state’s ideology through censorship, control over education and media, and the use and spread of propaganda. The government provides biased or false information to convince citizens to accept certain beliefs or actions through…

the Rococo, of our potential for refined principles in its solemn portrayal of the most rational of Roman figures and Greek democracy, its scenes were often used to depict the modern apex moments of socially apex individuals. It is a suggestive indoctrination that would be a siren song to the artwork's affluent subject, but less so to that of the ordinary citizen, who knows he will likely never be able to relate. For example, under the…

In the philosophical world, there are varying definitions of the word “relativism”. From the early era of the Sophists to the atheist perspective of David Hume, to the theory of ethics from Immanuel Kant, etc. Throughout each of these philosophical categories, we can break each of them down to identify their own definitions, as we will do later. In addition to the concept of ethics, the two main ethical topics in philosophy are both ethical and cognitive relativism. Although we will only discuss…