Master-slave dialectic

In the short story, “The Use of Force,” there is an ongoing conflict between the doctor and Mathilda the young girl with a sore throat. The doctor is called in by Mathilda’s parents to see if she has a potentially deadly disease known as diphtheria. The young girl Mathilda refuses to let the doctor take a throat culture and the doctor refuses to be manipulated by the young girl. “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish,” (Bradstreet). I feel…

I work my slaves from sun up to sun down to get my money’s worth. Same as being an avarice slave owner con men have the same values. Try being a non educated overseer who takes vengeance on one of his slaves. In the mornings he would wake up take a big swig of whiskey and wake up his slaves so they can start a twelve-hour day. In the book Stolen Into Slavery”, greed is shown through: Brown and Hamilton, Tibaut and Epps. Cruisin’ down the street looking for a black prey. “Brown and Hamilton…

The show Doctor Who is and has become an iconic part of British culture. It has been running for over fifty years (although there was not constant broadcast), and many people world-wide know much about it, even if they’ve never seen it or don’t actually like it. A lot of people can instantly recognize its villains and characters, even without faces. More than that, a lot of people can recognize the space machine that appears throughout every episode to-date. This show, albeit for entertainment,…

shown through the young master Tom slashing his whip at the feet of the horses startling them until George tells him not to and in response he whips George for telling him to stop (Beecher, 1852).The cruelty of human behavior when they have power is sickening. Mr. Haley and his son show the cruel aspect of people with power. They think they are superior to George and this lead up to the idea of them being able to do what they want to George. Although Mr. Haley own slaves and own a plantation,…

The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams is a short story that shows how humans can justify using force, even when the use of it is immoral. The story about a doctor visiting a poor, helpless family, worried about their daughter who might have diphtheria, turns from noble to evil. The drives, actions, and words used in the story tell us the aspects of humans in certain situations, through point of view, diction, and imagery, the reader can see the personality of the doctor that keeps the…

Using Genderlect Styles and Relational Dialectics to Examine Communication Problems in Marriages Scholar C. Kenemore Winona State University Examining Communication Problems in Marriages using Genderlect Styles and Relational Dialectics. Introduction “Till death do us part” isn’t really the case anymore. In the United States alone, researchers predict that 40-50% of couples getting married will get divorced, and 60% of 2nd marriages will get divorced (Gottman). The average marriage…

The relational dialectics theory (RDT) can be best understood as all the ups and downs people face in relationships and how they are resolved. RDT consist of three major parts, autonomy vs. connectedness, novelty vs. predictability, and openness and closedness. RDT is commonly handled by four methods, selection, separation, neutralization, and reframing. The relational dialectics theory generally, "involve experiencing tensions based on contradictory needs" (Wahl, A. Edwards, Myers & C.…

In 2001, Michael Haneke directed a film called, The Piano Teacher. Haneke’s view, as conveyed to the viewer, is not to rail against pornography, per se, but to rail against its impact as generated by a capitalist-patriarchal society. This stems from a similar modality of thinking introduced by Linda Williams in 1989, in which she “...moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does…” (Slade 656). Haneke’s method is…

The cultural industry is described by Adorno and Horkheimer (1977) as the standardisation of culture and cultural goods, attained through the manipulation of consumers, pseudo-individualism and commercial marketing in order to accomplish an economic and social status. Within Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory, there are three major concepts that have increased the development of the cultural industry and the behaviour of consumers, this involves discussing the transformation of use value to…

Huge department stores such as Macy’s stand for almost everything that Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer despise. Arguably, department stores minimize a person’s capability to act and think in a logical and self-governing manner. Adorno argues that “standardization develops due to the ability of the ‘people in power’ to regulate the manufacturing of cultural goods in order to try and gage and control what people like and want to buy to increase how much profit they make. Furthermore, he states…