Intolerance

health of our bodies, as well as our mental health. After eating yeast it has been found that people experience chronic fatigue, loss of energy and the inability to concentrate. Every day you hear people talking about their food allergies and their intolerances to certain foods. In Western Europe and North America, the second half of the 20th century witnessed a rise in the pursuit of convenience. Food processing companies marketed their products especially towards middle-class working wives and…

Many people think that religious differences as a cause of discrimination, slaughter, and genocide. In daily life, we often hear or even see through television that religious differences are often the reason for discrimination, slaughter, and genocide. Many rulers who used religion as a basis for breaking the human race and spark a conflict. Actually, the religious differences can be used as a tool to humiliate a race or other religious groups. The differences in religion can be used as a tool…

The onset of ideological polarity in society during the 20th century played a pivotal role in contriving the emergence of hegemonic powers akin to Adolf Hitler’s fascist regime. The source depicts Hitler standing on top of a cage and professing his ideals of “honour” and “freedom” to the public. Central to Hitler’s depraved legacy was the dismantling of fundamental rights and freedoms, indicative of his illiberal propensities. Furthermore, the source relays an ironic criticism of Hitler’s…

completely to their leader and did not question his ways and allowed him to do what was needed to do. Their amazing war strategies allowed them to gain respect and allowed them to dominate their territory. E. The empire disbanded by religious intolerance. This is a common recurrence throughout empires. They soon decide to not follow their founder’s example and cause chaos and alienate the religions from themselves causing uprisings and assassinations. F. This empire held many culturally…

In today’s society, there are a variety of different people. This can especially seen in the halls of Lowell High School. In LHS, you can find the people who don’t care about school, the people who care a little bit, and the people who go to school everyday to learn. Because of this variety, you won’t like everyone. But there’s nothing you can do about it. You just have to tolerate them. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the small town of Maycomb has a variety of people living within it.…

social inequalities that are perpetuated by the philosophy of “whatever is, is right” and the practice of optimism. That philosophy makes people believe that they are not responsible for the outcomes of their actions. It allows religions to practice intolerance and injustice because they are justified by a divine plan. It makes people believe that if they are of a higher social class, they deserve to be there. The names that Voltaire gives to the characters in Candide add depth to the argument…

American Exceptionalism, the idea that the United States and its citizens are superior to all other countries, is a driving force in American society today, which is both positive and negative. As foreshadowed in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the early poetry of Phyllis Wheatley, and the work of playwright Arthur Miller, the idea that America is better than other countries has developed and flourished to become a recurring theme in politics today. As Robert R. Tomes states in his essay American…

The most important force that helped shaped America from 30,000 BC to the mid 1700’s was the construction and maintenance of government and politics. Ever since the beginning, when the Native Americans arrived in the Americas, there has been a government. It may have not been as complex as it is today, but there were still laws and rules in place that helped the continuation of the states to grow. A few years after the first Native American Indian settlers, a more rigid government was put in…

diagnosis that prevented me from consuming certain items. His genuine smile began to crack my lies of armor wrapped around me. My hands fell to the table and I exclaimed to the chef that was once stained with a smile from my biscuit that, having an intolerance to lactose and gluten chained me from trying a piece of the biscuit. As I lifted my head up the chef and I appeared to be in the hallway outside my class. The chef patted my back and told me to just listen. Shame was the mask that I wore…

was right not to stick with Winthrop’s vision of being a values-based community because following that vision would prevent it from evolving into the constitutional republic that it now is and, instead, steer it down a path swamped with religious intolerance, class differences, and a dependence on the upper class reminiscent of feudalism. The path America chose to follow has fulfilled it’s destiny of being a shining example of a country that provides everyone an equal opportunity to work for…