Kwame Kilpatrick

Growing up in a world where there is so much pressure to be successful, numerous people are frightened of being ostracized for being themselves. As a young child, completely care free, opinions of others or how they might look at me never crossed my mind. But the older we get, conforming to the rules became the norm, a drastic change occurred as a yearning for acceptance grew. In the articles by Bordo, Appiah and Foucault, readers can see a range of views presented as they elaborate further into…

In Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, he begins his chapter on globalization with the statement “people who complain about the homogeneity produced by globalization often fail to notice that globalization is, equally, a threat to homogeneity” (101). Here, Appiah explains that globalization, which is the expansion of cultures around the world, does not result in a world where all is the same. Globalization is thought to make society homogeneous, but…

In the essay Why Africa? Why Art? ,written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Appiah dispatches some different perspectives about the standard deviation of art and how Western art is defined. Her perspectives and interpretation regarding art is witness every time we look at any ingenious objects performances and so forth. These things are formerly perceived as creative things that are outermost art. Furthermore, Appiah also defines Western art by stating “We know art can serve a political or a moral or…

talk about minorities whom are in the minority when it comes to how they identify themselves. Whether it is obvious that one is in the minority or not, scrutiny towards your self-identity can be very damaging mentally. In “Racial Identities” by Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses what a race…

So many of the problems they face today as a country and as a world are the result of ignorance and ethnocentrism. The misguided War on Terror, one of the more important examples in our time, is the result of religious and cultural intolerance on both sides. In her essay “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” Martha Nussbaum argues that to remedy such issues, they should forgo their nationalist tendencies and view themselves first and foremost as citizens of the world, or cosmopolitans. Most of her…

In his piece, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics In A World of Strangers, Kwame Anthony Appiah intends for his readers to re-evaluate his/her worldview and urges readers to use the concept of cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand modern society. Appiah defines cosmopolitanism as being two different ideas intertwined into one. Basically, it is the universal concern and respect for other people. He focuses on questions such as, are we as obligated to strangers as we are to people who are close to us? Or…

cosmopolitanism. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's annual projections, “The overall population of the world is 7.2 billion” (as of December 31st 2014), so it is of no surprise that there are several views regarding the concept of cosmopolitanism. However, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a London born philosopher known for his contribution to racial, ethics and religious relation, in the text describes the term Cosmopolitanism as, the process by which all the human being in this planet are the same…

Known for its booming automotive industry during the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit, Michigan was a city in forefront of most people’s minds when you talked about Michigan or the Midwest, due to the triple-threat of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. Living and working in Detroit for one of these big automotive companies was that generation’s “American Dream.” However, from 1973 to 1974, there was a gasoline crisis that caused General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler to take a financial hit which also…

relationship with Hester; in modern society, people hide secrets in a similar fashion in both time periods. Hypocrisy runs rampant in our world, and many of us act differently depending on whether or not we are in public. A past Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, had an affair with a fellow worker of his during his time in office. He chose not to back out of office, and people flamed him for it. Seeing so many high profile individuals committing unfaithful acts against their spouses raised…

She had been suffering from dementia foe several years. 50 years earlier, she didn’t know that just by sitting down and refusing to stand, she would change many lives. “ Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick spoke for many black Americans when he told the Press that he felt a personal connection with Rosa, adding, ‘She stood up by sitting down. I’m only standing here because of her.’ Rosa may have disagreed.” On October 27 the United States Senate…