Populism

By 1955, year of the opening of the internationally famous park of Disneyland, Walt Disney was widely recognized as one of the most prominent figures and symbols of America. The man who started his career as a simple cartoonist quickly became an astoundingly creative and prolific entrepreneur in the entertainment business. Walt Disney was in fact behind the first animated film to use sound, the national sensation Steamboat Willie (1928), starring himself as the voice for Mickey Mouse. His…

of the Progressive Era that aided in ameliorating and shaping the way the United States presently functions, to an extent that made the era one of the most active periods for constitutional amendments. In comparison to the overall effectiveness of Populism and unionization, Progressivism easily suppressed both in relation…

In the novel, Warren portrays the state of Louisiana as poor, deprived, hopeless, and susceptible to the charms of populism and demagoguery. Set during the Great Depression and centered around political figures from the rural South, it was bound to deal with rampant poverty, but this deprivation serves a special purpose for the novel; it helps provide a context for both Stark’s popularity and Stark’s authoritarianism. The poor in this Louisiana need a savior, and Willie Stark fits the mold. From…

1) The event I would like to analyze is a Second 2016 GOP (Republican National Committee) President Debate, which happened on 09-16-2015. The point of the event was for eleven candidates from Republican Party to debate and answer questions. The event was aimed at candidates to promote themselves and tell about their plans and views to all people of America to try and persuade them to give their votes for them. Showing their beliefs, candidates tried to persuade the viewers in their…

themselves to be anything but their ethnicity (Harris); Europe’s situation is so dire that as a result of attempting to knit all the nations together under one tent - like one sees with mainstream political parties such as the Liberal Party of Canada - populism and its extreme national ideals have taken hold of power in many nations. France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are the more notorious countries wherein right-wing nationalism has become popular with the disenchanted rural…

In Race Matter’s Cornel West examines the liberal and conservative approach of racism in America and how it has altered the way democracy is ran. Conservatives, ignore political and economic structures causing various sects of races to face poverty and paranoia. Liberals ignore cultural factors, in where liberalism consciously and purposefully urges upon citizens a certain kind of character that outlines at least minimally the kind of person we are to be, which in turn justifies certain…

Born and raised in a tiny Minnesota prairie town, few would have guessed that young and down-to-earth Sinclair Lewis would become one of America’s most celebrated authors and outspoken liberal thinkers. Lewis didn’t discover this exact destiny until his 20s, but from his early teens, Lewis could tell that the prairie village of his birth would be far too limiting for his future. In 1902, he travelled east to attend Oberlin Academy (Oberlin College’s preparatory high school), but it was on the…

The Britain leaving the European Union after 43 years’ membership, there are a lot of reasons that let Britain took this decision. One of them is refugees, further fixing internal problems which are jobs, health care, Education and that opening the door to other countries to think about leaving the E.U like Sweden, France, and Greece even though they have a crisis in their economy for the same reason (refuges) (First of all, Greece won 't go down. We 're talking about a country that is capable…

Despite the conflicting views of populism also gaining traction during this time, progressivism provided the idealized philosophy that the elites of the country would lead the United States into great prosperity through becoming active members of society. The book also mentioned the rise…

Thomas Cole was one among many pioneers of the Hudson River School of art, an aesthetic movement that took place alongside the American Romantic period. This movement sought to highlight the beauty of natural landscapes through paintings and to accentuate the beauty of nature over industrial and societal progress. However, ancient ruins were of interest to Cole, and many of his European counterparts viewed America’s lack of ruins as a fault. As a result, Cole created the series of paintings, The…