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The Novels a House of Mr. Biswas and Things Fall Apart, both examine the concept of Individualization in direct conflict to their each respective societies. A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul focuses more on the adaptation to society, whereas Things Fall apart, by Chinua Achebe, focuses on the destruction of oneself door to Society Clash. Both the Novels, have similar themes, though the techniques used to portray it to the readers differ. The Novel, Things Fall Apart published in 1958, by…

Different “Ways of Seeing” In the essay, “Ways of Seeing,” John Berger applies Marxism to art history. Marxism is the social, economic and political theory formed by Karl Marx. It deals with class struggle and the oppression of the lower classes by the upper classes. In the essay, Berger focuses on using Marxist methodology, when he analyzes and explains an artist named Frans Hal. Berger uses Hals paintings to demonstrate the structure of social classes, and their struggles to give an idea of…

Stoicism To counter stoicism, the play presents itself first as a stoic world. Frye indicates in his essay that Albany and Edgar stands for the moralist (111); and Moretti in “Great Eclipse” argues that King Lear is in-between an old feudalist society and a new absolutist society. However, these characters does not stand for a vague, universal ethics; and feudalism, as a political concept, must have a reciprocal relationship with cultural doctrine as to integrate the social and the political. I…

Amusing the Million Question Amusing the Million by John F. Kasson gives the vibrant history of one of America’s most prized and famous amusement parks, Coney Island; Kasson also describes the society and culture during this time of great change. Society in the 1890s and early 1900s experienced many changes, from the use modern technology being incorporated in daily life, to the modernization of cities, and to the merging of different economic classes through social gathering places. After…

In “Rendering Unto Caesar,” Lawrence W. Reed questions whether Jesus was a socialist. Socialism is defined as the want to redistribute the wealth in the country through central planning and government involvement. One of socialism’s main characteristics is that it is involuntary. Different verses are mentioned, such as. The Good Samaritan story is often used as an example to prove that Jesus supported government welfare, yet it seems that this is more of an example of the importance of helping…

When Karl Marx (2003) talks about labour in a political economy, he argues that the workers are “degraded to the most miserable sort of commodity” (p. 6)—in other words, the workers are being exploited by owners of private property. He introduces the concept of alienation, describing how workers become externalized not only from their labour and the product of their labour, but also from their species’ being and other workers. This, as a result reduces the workers’ capabilities of seeking their…

Whenever I learn about communism or communist countries, I always end up asking the teacher or other classmates whether or not communism is bad. To truly come to the decision whether communism is good or bad you have to first understand what communism is. A communist government is an economic structure that promotes the establishment of classless society based on common ownership of products. Communism in its own is political theory derived from Karl Marx in which all property is publicly owned…

Throughout history, there have been multiple ways to govern a nation. Starting as early as the Ancient Greek system of democracy to the fearful monarchs who ruled Britain, different forms of government were set based upon the people who founded their nation. Although there have been a vast majority of harsh and unusual forms of government all over the world, one of the most cold-hearted forms of government was communism. Communism is responsible for causing the deaths of millions of Europeans…

A major change in America’s society during this time period was the second Industrial Revolution, in which Leuchtenburg discusses in his tenth chapter, “The Second Industrial Revolution.” The first and second revolution differ immensely due to the fact the first focused primarily on the establishment of steam powered machines while the second replaced steam with electricity as the power source. This revolution altered the daily lives of every American by changing the way of transportation,…

What is the Industrial Revolution? What kind of changes did it make? When did it happen? Many wonder how it happened all I could say is that it was one of the most topics everyone talked about. These Revolution was transformations combined between social and economics that happen in some places around Europe. The Industrial Revolution made an enormous change in the 17th century. It took place in England Between the 17th and 18th century. The strong and brave Richard J Boyd once claimed “The…