throughout history during the period of industrialization. Corporate and government officials have this overwhelming desire to make a profitable business, and in doing so, demoralizes the rights of humans. The story of Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont by Joseph Boyden tells the tale of these two great men and the rebellion they lead. Riel is the more intellectual of the two while Dumont, a buffalo hunter, is a man of action. The problems these two men touched on were injustice, violence, and…
In “The End of History?”, by Francis Fukuyama he raises the position that nationalism and communism were two major consequences of the inability to establish a liberal democracy. As the USSR collapsed in 1992, researches have begun to question if the two main factors, nationalism and communism, led to the fall of this empire. Throughout my analysis, I will approach the effects of communism and nationalism on the collapse of the soviet union, by comparing and contrasting these points to Fukuyamas…
“The Red Scares were fears when government officials and other groups promoted a fear of communism in the United States” (article 1) The Red Scares brought fear over the United States when communism was brought to topic by groups of people that were angered by it, and eventually the government. These rumors of communism brought change in the US, and constant fear and preparation was a result. “Forty-four out of the 48 state governments in the United States passed laws between 1949 and 1955…
lies. This is what it is like if you live in the United States during the Red Scare. The Red Scare is a time period in which Americans were afraid of communist spies infiltrating their method of capitalism. These claims, rumors, are made primarily by Joseph McCarthy. His accusations began to accuse well known people and destroy their reputations. Brinkley states, “Hiss, who was now out of government, denied the charges, and most people seemed to believe him. But Chambers produced evidence that…
Literature is very often written to create, describe, or maintain a dynamic between the insider and the outsider. In order to make the reader aware of who is an insider and who an outsider, writers use various strategies to exclude and other certain characters and character traits. In the writing of John Leo Africanus’s A Geographical History of Africa, he describes the Africans as having both virtues and vices in very extreme measures. For example, Africanus frequently uses absolute words like…
The Ransom of Mercy Carter takes place in 1704 and is based off of the historical settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The story follows 11-year old Mercy Carter from the moment she is kidnapped by the Mohawk Indians through her journey to her captor’s Kahnawake Indian Village in Canada. In her time with the Mohawk tribe, she is adopted into one of their families and given a name to resemble her new life as an Indian. Her transformation from an English girl to a Mohawk Indian is the…
need the support of the people, and they use propaganda to achieve this; however, instead of wanting you to purchase a product, they want you to give them your undying support. . Hitler himself even had an appointed propaganda minister by the name of Joseph Goebbels. David Yanagizawa-Drott exclaims in his article “Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence From the Rwandan Genocide” that “Elites in control of autocratic states have repeatedly used mass media—often under their direct control—with the…
The emergence of the suburbs caused both cultural and political changes in the 1960s and 1970s. The suburbs represented prosperity, affluence, and security, while also creating a more society with more homogeneity. The development of interstate highways in the 1950s made suburbanization easier because it gave citizens the ability to commute to work from the suburbs (Suri, Lecture 20). The suburbs divided communities and separated individuals from the cities, creating a form of self-segregation,…
Philosophy is the perpetual vortex of thought and the true substance of nightmares for many college students. A subject so grandiose, it attempts to define indefinable words like evil, morality, and love. Yet, philosophy leaves its own imprint on each human being, and each thing that human creates. John Gardner’s Grendel, a reimagining of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, features fundamental philosophical ideas running through its core. In Grendel, Gardner explores topics such as nihilism, atheism,…
The Hero’s Journey is a timeless plot structure that entails the growth of an individual through the sequence of events in his or hers conquest. Crossing the threshold into the special world is where the Hero must withstand a new challenge in ‘The Road of Trials’. In order to prove themselves, the Hero must face a series of battles that will prepare them for the final challenge. The trials are meant to expose the Hero’s vulnerabilities and highlight their strengths. The Hero uses knowledge that…