Scapegoating

Paragraph 2 The totalitarianism of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were attempts to hold off and reject the beliefs and values of liberalism, a turning away from the worth of the individual and the principle of a collective, all-powerful state where individuals served the interests of the state. Totalitarian rule seeks the total, unconditional, control of a disenfranchised population and the society is ruled by force, not by consent. It eradicates political freedoms, democratic process and…

When a political leader persuades through the use of appealing to emotions and prejudices rather than reasoning, or speaks critically, and appeals to those who are followers, they have set themselves up a foundation for demagoguery. Throughout history, our country has seen a long list of demagogues, such as Hitler and Joseph McCarthy. It is obvious why such an issue should matter to us. Both were politically leaders who carved themselves a huge hole in history as the villain. The latest…

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” Throughout his career, famed German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche criticized what he saw as the degression of human society through conformity. It is not necessarily a negative trait, but like a virus it remains dormant until a sickness exposes the host. This…

Who doesn’t have a smartphone these days? In today’s modern life, smartphones are undoubtedly used for many aspects in an individual’s daily routine. Such as going on the internet to look up information from the latest weather report, to social media, and simply using the map of the smart phone to find a certain destination. Smartphones are no longer just used for calling or texting. The phones open a wide spread of availability where teachers in schools can ask their students to use their…

John F. Kennedy once stated that, “We are the Nation of Immigrants”. Immigrants referring to; people who move to a foreign country in hopes of finding a better life for themselves. With this, anyone who has moved to America was at one point an immigrant. Some families have been in America for hundreds of years. Some have just been here for days. But nonetheless, we are all immigrants. In 1602 the first immigrants came to America. The protestants wanted religious freedom from the…

Imagery of Dehumanization in Night Over the course of almost two millennia, anti-Semitism has constantly presented itself in European conflicts in the form of blaming, scapegoating, and prejudice against the Jews. During the Holocaust, this incessant hatred led to the identification and deportation of millions of people from their homes, the concentration in the camps, and extermination of entire families and Jewish communities at once. For nearly a decade, Jews, prisoners-of-war, homosexuals,…

As this class has made clear, oppression doesn’t live in isolation. Every form of oppression intersects and melds together in the mainstream, creating subsets and building traits that both make them similar and set them apart from the others. All forms of oppression affect one another, but during the class I saw particular correlation between classism and racism. These forms of oppression have a great deal in common, but also have aspects that make them distinctive. Among many things, I noticed…

was Stimulated a new wave of political activism among the Korean-Americans, but it has also split them into two camps. But the liberals sought to unite with the other minorities in the Los Angeles to fight against the racial oppression and the scapegoating. But the conservatives emphasized law and order and generally flavored the economic and the social policies of the Republican Party. The conservatives tended to emphasize the political differences between Koreans and other minorities,…

The American people have a very clear idea of what terrorism looks like. What we also have a clear idea of is what reactions to terrorism typically look like. Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, and it has repeatedly led to the same end: politicians and policy makers using the public’s fear for its safety to push their own agendas. The recent terror attacks in Paris provide the American people with a chance to spark a new conversation about terrorism, and hopeful presidential candidates with an…

In Stewart O’Nan’s novel Last Night at the Lobster, the evident distinctions between socioeconomic classes correlate to the ability of societal status to either increase or limit individual agency, thus the fulfillment of the glorified American Dream. Middle-to-upper class individuals’ judgements of lower class people, particularly Manny and his employees at the Red Lobster, emphasizes the natural human inclination to make assumptions based on the superficial characteristics of appearance,…