Postmodernity

entertainments that are available to him. Here he starts listing a series of sports such as tennis football running, and many others, point in which the monologue starts showing a lot of contradiction, this is a characteristic of modernity and postmodernity, since it states that there is no absolute truth, that everything is opinions, and even though the ideas given are making more sense, the presence of contradiction in the statements made generate confusion anyways, keeping in the audience…

this way—it is more powerful than I would ever imagine. I think this video in general is a great example of postmodernism. Postmodernism is the response to modernism, which expressed that reality was a very scientific, objective entity. Instead, postmodernity recognizes that reality is not purely based upon how the human brain understands it, but rather that reality is constructed on the basis of how we all attempt to understand our personal realities. In “Born This Way”, Gaga depicts not how…

The world is an integrated whole, but throughout history, society has divided itself. The modern geopolitical imagination is the latest in a line of the ever-changing ways we organise the world. While it has its benefits, it also has limitations. It seems like an efficient structure of independent states but these divisions are essentially imagined by the dominant society. In some cases, the modern geopolitical imagination was thrust upon a region and is not a perfect system; international…

Since the very beginnings humans have been a social species. We have always looked for companionship, for having peers with whom to interact, share our ideas and emotions. Loneliness has inspired us fear. Not in vain in most of the heroic, epic tales of the past most of the tragic moments of mythology occurred while the heroes were forced to face all the dangers and extreme challenges alone. It was often only that they had accomplished the most difficult duties such as defeating monsters and…

The main goal of the ecocentric Deep Ecology ecological movement is to end the dominantion and power relationships modern humans have over nonhuman Nature, and to set up realistic biological conditions under which the wild species and biodiversity of the earth can exist and flourish. The deep ecological approach to contesting Earth’s future is to distinguish between the vital and the nonvital needs of humans. The vital needs of nonhumans get priority before the non vital needs of humans. Deep…

1. What are commonsense knowledge and myths, and how are they different from sociological knowledge? Common sense knowledge is usually generalizations. Common sense observations are not subjected to the strict forms of testing that is necessary for valid sociological explanations. Myths are stories of people explaining natural or social phenomenon involving supernatural events or beings. Myths are also widely held false beliefs or ideas. Sociological knowledge usually start with a theory that…

While not subtle with its themes, the movie Cloud Atlas was a wonderful watch, rich in its motifs and message, without coming off as pretentious. The film presented six different stories. One of a young businessman named Adam Ewing in 1849 who, on a ship journeying through the Pacific Islands home, is being poisoned by a doctor who is stealing his valuables. Ewing also manages to save a stowaway slave after convincing the captain of the ship to let the former slave join the ship’s crew. Robert…

Time’, ‘space’, ‘place’ are some of the frequently used (sometimes misused) terms in literature, and they have been defined in different ways and from various theoretical perspectives. In the colonial discourse, in particular, the concept ‘place’ was closely related to knowledge and power in so far as the process of mapping the ‘other spaces ‘ was deployed to reproduce dominant world view. While the tenants of imperialism are teleological, its practices have always been geographic. As Edward…

Christianity is referred to as a belief and reverence of God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit lined to a set of dogmas, sacraments and moral principles as captured in the stories of the Bible. Within Biblical gospels, one find descriptions of the many miracles Jesus Christ bestowed upon mankind, stories of which have become foundational to Christian belief, where the faithful profess their genuine nature and factual truths. For Christian’s miracles, expressions of divine intervention and the…

Christian religious tradition (or Christianity) has long been thought of as a set of dogmas, sacraments and moral attitudes linked with a belief and reverence in God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit as captured in the stores of the Bible. Within Biblical gospels one find descriptions of the many miracles Jesus Christ bestowed upon mankind, stories that became fundamental to Christian belief, where the faithful profess to the genuine nature of these stories as factual truths. Given the…