Punk ideologies

Azar Nafisi and Maggie Nelson both address the issue of the ideology of art in their respective works, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and “Great to Watch.” Nafisi’s work focuses on whether or not one can use art as an escape to an imaginary world of their own ideologies. Nelson tries to show how art can let everyone have their own thoughts and ideas, without the presence of bias from the media. Ideology is best defined as an interconnected system of ideas, and both Nafisi and Nelson’s works…

Have you ever found ten dollars laying on the ground? What did you do with those ten dollars? Majority of society will be dishonest and take the money. They may use it for whatever they please. The minority of society will have the integrity to give the money to authorities or leave it where they found it. This shows that integrity is more than being honest; it is showing moral traits, your response on how you show integrity or if you don’t show none. Integrity is doing something good or morally…

criminalised, by calling attention to the power of political ideologies in defining the importance and depth of an issue. The first section of the essay implicitly displays that a political perspective fails to provide an adequate definition of homelessness whilst illustrating that political perspectives conceptualise the issue according to its own ideological position. For example, neo-conservatives, such as Thatcher, and elements of Blair ideology, blame broken families. Neo-liberals attribute…

Through all the research conducted, the most prevalent political factor found affects both the IDEA and the social problem. This factor encompasses the question of who is in charge and enforcing the availability of the funding. When the IDEA was first established, Congress committed to paying 40 percent of the average cost to educate a disabled child, and entrusted the states and local governments to fulfill the remaining costs (CEC, 2015). The Council of Exceptional Children (2015) report…

Ahimsa, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the belief of nonviolence toward any living being. On August 8th, 1942 Mahatma Gandhi gave his “Quit India” speech, which called on India to exercise his belief in Ahimsa. The speech was also significant because it established Gandhi’s dedication to the concept of non-violence in order to achieve India’s independence from Great Britain. This speech was particularly important compared to Gandhi’s other speeches because the All-India Congress…

Essay I: Ideology, a term that we all know exists, but very few truly understand the essence that lies behind such a word. Many questions arise when one thinks of ideology such as, but not limited to, “What is ideology?” and “Where do individuals come to acquire their ideology, as in is it born into the genetics that make up who they are, or is it created through the experiences of their life?”. Louis Althusser was a 20th century French philosopher that devoted much of his life to the study of…

Social injustice arises when equality treated unequally. Each time when someone cheats of what one deserve, there is injustice. Galsworthy has dealt with the theme of social injustice by portraying society as a sharply divided entity consisting of totally opposed classes. His The Skin Game deals with the theme of social injustice. A class struggle is in progress. But it is not between the rich and poor. The struggle is not based on economic inequality but on social inequality. The Skin Game…

According to Drew Desilver, “You don’t have to look hard to see evidence of political polarization.” Just watch cable news, listen to talk radio, follow social-media debates, or eavesdrop a conversation at a coffee shop - anyone in the Unites States has seen the partisan polarization developing throughout political culture. But what causes the extreme polarization so evident in today’s society? One of the primary causes of polarization is partisan activists. Partisan activists are the…

his ideology that he is born into and therefore, according to Althusser, is always subject to (Althusser 699), is how to be a duke and be in power. Therefore, upon his traveling to this new island, Prospero saw an opportunity in the real condition of an inhabited island and his loss of dukedom in Milan. Prospero establishes a relationship to this real condition before him, creating subject roles in Ariel and Caliban in order to serve the purposes of his real condition. In Althusser’s “Ideology…

In his essay “The Bipartite System of Laws in Paradise Lost" Eric Dunnum argues that in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, man’s fall can be attributed to a system, set by God, that reflects that which is also used by historical kings and governments of the world. This system is a set of laws that is, as the title suggests, bipartite, which means that it is composed of two separate entities that come together to form a whole, and Dunnum’s argument often relies on the works of Louis Althusser to expand…