Political cinema

Do you take the rights and things you have for granted? What if you lived in Iran where people did not have very many expressive rights. How would you feel if everything you wanted was being held back from you because of where you live. Persepolis is a short animated film by Marjane Satrapi. It tells the true story about her own life as a girl growing up in Iran and how she was held back from enjoying the things she wanted to enjoy. Being Iranian changed Marjane Satrapi’s Personality in many…

1 In Parmenides’ poem, there is a clear relationship between truth and justice. The “man who knows” and is just can see the paths of “is” and “is not.” The “is” path, known as the “path of Persuasion, accompanies Objective Truth.” According to the poem, one can not even see the objective truth without first seeking enlightenment and being just. This just man will try to understand the truth of justice. The relationship is represented by the interaction between the “man who knows,” and the…

Describe Machiavelli’s life and the political climate in Italy while this book was being written. Machiavelli was a bureaucrat under the Republican government before he lost his job to the supporters of Medici during 1512. At the end of 1513 or even the early 1514, the time period when Nicolo Machiavelli, wrote The Prince. During that time period, Machiavelli was seeking to regain his status in the Florentine government. Meanwhile, the Medici family had been driven from power in Florentine.…

1984 by George Orwell makes several statements about control, security, and how governments should treat their citizens. However, a reader can also look at chapters 1-7 of the book as a statement on social classes and how the government keeps everyone in a certain social class. What values does the work reinforce? The book is mainly about control of the government. One form of control is keeping people in the poor and working classes. The book reinforces how all the citizens are in the same…

We experience psychological manipulation on a weekly, maybe even daily basis. Often times it comes from the people that claim to have our well-being at heart and in mind. If you have ever been in this situation, you can understand how Napoleons’ tyrannical tactics and Squealers’ crafty verbiage take a toll on the animals’ emotions and minds. The first sign of Napoleons’ deviousness is in the beginning of the book when the milk goes missing. Someone brings up the point that there is a lot of…

The Enlightenment and Romanticism were time periods in European history that marked great change in European society. Enlightenment thinkers and Romantics were dissimilar in their ideas of what the human mind should seek, where people should turn their thoughts, and religion but similar in their ability to liberate the minds of citizens and focus on themselves. The Enlightenment and Romantic era were different in several ways. Firstly, the Enlightenment focused on logic, reason, and…

The Enlightenment was a time period when certain people began to question absolute monarchy and where reason and scientific methods were applied to all aspects of life during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Enlightenment thinkers called philosophes were intellectuals who popularized the ideas of the Enlightenment. The American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1815) were direct causes of the Enlightenment. The ideas of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Montesquieu all…

The government also controls its subjects by means of doublethink. ‘Doublethink’ is a method of political indoctrination used by the Party to create in its citizens the mental capacity to hold two or more contrary beliefs at the same time (Orwell, 35). Orwell considered this to be especially evident in politics, since people’s wishes and fears usually determined their political opinions, and, in particular, Orwell conceived nationalism to be the “identification of self with some entity…

To be human people need to feel like they are unlike other people, they need to be able to describe themselves clearly through a language and people need to be able to know about their past to ensure they are correctly informed. In the book 1984 by George Orwell we slowly learned that the government was dehumanizing their citizens by taking away their rights. This is proven when the government took away their citizens name. When the government took away the original language and caused it to be…

Rousseau was considered by many to be the most gifted and original of all the Enlightenment thinkers, but most would argue that his legacy was limited to Revolutionary France and France's anti-authoritarian culture. However, I argue that it was in fact Rousseau who had the greatest influence on American culture. Thomas Jefferson echoed John Locke when he wrote that "all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights," so it would be easy to argue that Locke's beliefs created…