Societal collapse

town to sell them because he no longer had a need or want for material possessions. He then took all of the money that he gathered and gave it to the first needy person he saw, who happened to be a poor priest in a dilapidated church on the verge of collapse. He took the money that his past self would have gladly spent on extravagant clothing or some other unnecessarily pricey items and donated it all to the priest for the rebuilding of the church. He went against the immoral rule in his society…

Marxism in Brave New World In a capitalist society, power is not distributed evenly. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, cloning replaces natural conception and the amount of power they will have will be predestined for them within their own caste. This type of utopian society reflects Karl Marx’s theories of capitalism, where class struggle is the basis of one’s identity and their access to resources and power. In Brave New World, everyone is placed into a caste system, where Alphas,…

populated reaching record-breaking statistics regarding pollution, car companies have begun finding solutions for such dire circumstances. The automobile industry has created its own pop culture with many different subcultures influenced by different societal groups. This creates a vast difference between how countries create their cars. As a whole, Asia has developed a completely different car culture than we see in the United States. Asian cars break down into two main countries that dominate…

Social Class Issues in the Roman Empire Before the second century BCE, Roman society consisted of a Patricians class, an aristocratic class which hereditary relationship determined entrance to class. The second class stood as the Plebeians, also known as the common people. A member of one class could not move up or down in between the classes because marriage of different classes was illegal. The Plebeians began to fight this injustice in 494 BCE and this event was called the Conflict of Orders…

As proved by history, the collapses of kingdoms were inevitably related to the revolts of their citizens due to exorbitant taxation and suppression. As explained by physics, a common automobile tire can easily burst under high pressure when it is overinflated. This idea is also presented in the literature. Particularly, three dramas--Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen--address the theme that excessive suppression of…

borders are usually not a space that is reinforced by those on either side. More times than not, the stronger faction is the one who is fortifying and continuing to increase their authority over these borders. This is evident both in physical and societal borders that are encountered everyday. In the world of borders, when the stronger side becomes evident, they have essentially free reign to control this space. Control like this are projected in different situations such as national borders…

“… in Detroit, one of the bloodiest race riots of the century” (587). On June 20th, 1943 fights between black and white teenagers broke out at Belle Isle Park, an integrated amusement park on an island in the Detroit River. The conflict quickly spread off the island with the help of rumors and began to plague the rest of the city. After two days of violence, 6,000 federal troops were sent into Detroit to deescalate the situation. Overall, the riots resulted in amplified racial tensions in…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is often herald as an insightful early look into mental illness as it plagued middle and upper class women of the 19th century. In undertaking such a topic, one that Gilman herself suffered from, she discusses the medical treatments available and it’s unique consideration of women. As much as “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a case study of a woman’s decent into madness, it is also a feminist critique of the century’s role of women, the dominance…

The Scarlet Letter - Embroidering Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism Thread for an Early American World Riding the wave of heightened nationalism after the second independence war against Great Britain in 1812, Americans began to write their own school textbooks, celebrate the birth of American literature using American scenes and themes, and even establish their own American intellectual, philosophical, and social movements. One of these movements is the American transcendentalism…

individual. The “best interest” of an institution, including The Brotherhood, means to sacrifice the individual and their interests, sometimes non-consensually, for the benefit of the greater plan. Disoriented, the narrator wanders the streets and almost collapses causing a woman called Mary to take him in. One night, as an elderly black couple face eviction, the narrator gives a speech that moves the crowd watching. Jack, one of the leaders of a socialist left-wing organization, The…