Intellectualism

“Unity in diversity”. This is written in the Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, or the national motto of Indonesia. Uniting Indonesians with vast diverse backgrounds, religions and ethnicities is the goal of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (also known as Ahok). He was the first double minority Vice Governor (Christian and Chinese-Indonesian) when he was the running mate of then Joko Widodo when they ran in the 2011 elections for Governor of Jakarta. Ahok eventually became Governor when Joko Widodo was elected to…

Although the term had only started to be discussed in scholarly sociological circles in the early 70’s, the concept and ideas behind intersectionality, or how various categories of oppression work together, were around without a name for a very long time. In particular, it pervaded the work of black women writers from Zora Neale Hurston of the Harlem Renaissance to Nikki Giovanni and Carolyn Rodgers during the Black Nationalism and Black Arts Movements. Black women have the unique experience of…

The beauty that exists with power is that everyone has experienced it, everyone has been exposed to it and that everyone has a fair understanding of it (Shafritz, 2015). The realisation of power emerges as early as childhood when discovering that our teachers and parents may have instructed us not to do something if it was not permitted, by firmly saying “don’t do that!” Power is inherent in all arenas of life from family to the workplace to our relationships. We start to learn and become more…

Metamorphoses is a narrative poem written by the Roman poet Ovid in the early first century BCE. The book focuses on the creation of the world and is based upon Roman myths and legends. Throughout the poem, many different types of lust are described within the myths. These varieties of lust include the craving for revenge, the longing for possessions, and the sexual desire for a person. The yearning for revenge is one of the driving parts of the book and is found multiple times, including…

Lord of The Flies Analysis William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies surrounds a group of young boys stranded on an island after a plane crash. With no adults or sense of authority present the boys must build there own civilization which results in fear, conflict, and savagery. From the beginning to end of the story the element of fear is a driving force for the boys’ actions. At first the fear of being alone is present, then fear of a beast, and finally a fear of loss of power. Fear is one of…

During the years following the Patristic era, Christian theologians and philosophers began to move away from mysticism and Neo-Platonism in order to synthesize Christian doctrine with systematic Aristotelian philosophy. This movement would be come known as Scholasticism, and it would become the principle school of thought throughout the medieval period. During this period, the line between philosophy and theology was blurred, and the problems of, psychology, metaphysics, and ethics were admitted…

Chapter 10 ?Mabel Daniels?s Place in American Composition? Mabel Daniels and her work mirror many of the important themes of her time, reflecting shifts in American society and culture from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. Profound and rapid changes in technology and lifestyle provoked a range of responses from embracing the avant-garde to resisting it. In Chapter 1 I argued Daniels?s importance to the history of American music. While many of her works are powerful and merit…

The main goal of the ecocentric Deep Ecology ecological movement is to end the dominantion and power relationships modern humans have over nonhuman Nature, and to set up realistic biological conditions under which the wild species and biodiversity of the earth can exist and flourish. The deep ecological approach to contesting Earth’s future is to distinguish between the vital and the nonvital needs of humans. The vital needs of nonhumans get priority before the non vital needs of humans. Deep…