Intelligentsia

research essay is the 2400 years of interest in The Iliad by Homer. The Iliad by Homer is regarded as foundational in literature. Plato’s critique that everything proceeding from Homer is but the crumbs of Homer continues, echoed by the modern intelligentsia. Homer has been a gateway to Greek Literature for centuries. Due to the high placement of Homer historically, and the Classical education movement, a knowledge of Greek, Homer, and Latin has become considered the epitome of education. The…

II. The Impact of French Colonialism on Moroccan Culture. It may be wrong thinking that the colonized countries in general have been entirely independent. Many years passed since morocco gets its independence, but the impact of colonization is still nowadays with its effects on Morocco in several sides including culture. However, the image of superiority, modernity, and civilization of France has deeply saved in Moroccan memories. We cannot deny our dependence to the colonizer whether culturally…

The Mound Builders are a group of people, who pseudoarchaeologists claim, are another species or life form from the Native Americans. For years, Europeans that came to the New World claimed that they were some other life form because they didn’t believe that the Native Americans were capable of that kind of culture and mental capacity. These pseudoarchaeological claims stem from the racism of the Europeans. The Mound Builders were Native Americans who, during time periods between 2,200 and 1,600…

The Holocaust: Extermination or simple segregation? The spark that ignited the flame of Adolf Hitler’s hate started in 1918, when he learned of the German surrender to the Allies of World War One. Enraged, he blamed the surrender on the people in Germany, such as the Jews and Slavs, which he considered to be undesirable and sought to build a Germany were no weakness could hold it down. Hitler sent the undesirables of Germany’s occupation to camps where they were exterminated, and the evidence of…

competitive environment where many students believing, either consciously or not, that their success at law school will access them with social mobility. Kennedy states that “everyone whose parents were not members of the professional/technical intelligentsia seems to feel that law school is an advance in terms of the family history (Kennedy 39)”. This shows that a percentage of the student populace have impure motives when it comes to them being at the school. This shows that not everyone at…

Admiration for the policies instituted by the English Revolution was noted by the French as early as 1782 when the French foreign minister noted that England “in its constitution and in the establishments which it has permitted her to form, resources which are lacking to us.” (B. Stone, p. 14). The French minister further laments about English “advantages which our monarchical forms do not accord us (B. Stone, p. 14). Louis XVI’s reign of France from 1774 to 1792 was characterized by financial…

The Brezhnev Doctrine was a big part of Brezhnev’s policy and diplomacy with other nations and leaders. The invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 “substantiated the fears of the Soviet anti-Stalinist intelligentsia that the post-Khrushchev leadership might take the country in a neo-Stalinist direction” (Zubok, 190). In a way, this invasion illustrates Brezhnev’s intention of protecting and restoring the orthodox Communist rule throughout the Soviet Bloc…

from the overpopulation of the Jews and to solve this problem meant to murder them. Nazi Germany became popular because this idea made sense to the German people. More importantly “it was preached not only by the political leadership, but by…the intelligentsia” (Bauer 16). German people justified murdering millions of innocent people because modern technology supported…

Morocco seems to draw the portrait of its relations with the European Union and Sub-Saharan African countries including the African Union over the Western Sahara issue. Accordingly, the Moroccanism component of the postcolonial Moroccan national identity is preferred to Europeanism and Africanism when it comes to the Western Sahara issue. But a more important point is that Moroccanism was a strong component not only for Western Sahara but even after the postcolonial period. In an article,…

In June 1966, all middle schools and universities throughout China closed down as students devoted most of their time to Red Guard activities. Across the country, millions of young people were encouraged to criticize and even attack “counterrevolutionaries”. Often, education took a back seat to these revolutionary missions and children who were seen studying were viewed with suspicion (“Cultural Revolution”). Despite the revolutionary significance of this time period, the state of the Chinese…