Societal collapse

Hola abuelita, I cannot believe it’s almost been a year since I was graced with your presence and I know that you are always with me but sometimes it does not feel that way. I am not doing so well Tete. and I hate to worry you but you are the only person I can turn to when my heart is this heavy and hurting so bad. You always seem to know what’s in my heart and the pathway to guide me in. Ever since you left, I had to learn how to be strong and independent just like you are but Tete this…

Social movements can be identified as protest rallies, they are large, can be informal, groupings of people or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues. In other words, they carry out, resist, or undo a social change. Social movements can also be related to special interest groups, which can be a group of people or organization seeking or receiving special advantages. An analysis of previous social movements in the last three centuries, how a social movement functions ,…

Jorshinelle T. Sonza rightly debunks Dorothy Driver’s claim that Gordimer’s texts are “male centred” and do not give any depth to women (106). Unlike Things Fall Apart, Gordimer does not marginalize women. In fact, by depicting Hannah as a human rights activist, Gordimer is empowering women. At the same time, Gordimer is also valorising Black women over the White. Sonza says, Hannah is “flawed in her activism. It is Aila who undertakes the revolutionary struggle with intensity.” (107) But again…

Although developed most extensively throughout the Age of Enlightenment, social contract theory truly traces back to civilization's roots, when the innate desire to unite into progressively larger groups of individuals followed the longing for order, peace, and progress. Within modern political philosophy, social contracts have been molded into models addressing the origin of the state and the legitimacy of its authority over individuals; their fundaments lie in the analysis of the human…

can help people overcome many obstacles that occur throughout one’s lifetime. There are many different types of sacrifices one makes throughout life, the first one being personal sacrifice, the second one being group sacrifice and the last one as societal sacrifice. In the novel The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, the 1996 movie Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann, and the article Does Love Involve Sacrifice or Compromise? by Aaron Ben-Zeév this is the reoccurring theme. In these…

representative of Roman hatred of Jews. His apparent continual reemergence, and the widespread belief that he would appear again decades after his death, surely contributed to an existing sense of perpetual threat. It could not have helped this societal paranoia to see masses of gentiles in the Near East vigorously supporting the man who represented oppression. Thus, Nero Redivivus decoupled from Nero and became part of the larger, millennia-long pattern of Jewish…

for the survival of democracy. Clark, Golder, & Golder describe Civic culture as, “On the whole, a civic culture conceptualized as a shared cluster of attitudes that includes things like a high level of interpersonal trust, a preference for gradual societal change, a high level of support for the existing political system, and high levels of life satisfaction” (Clark, Golder, & Golder, 2012, pg. 220). Civic culture has been found to be a necessary contributor for democratic stability. It may…

Brandon Colon America, the land built on capitalism and a land driven by consumerism: a belief that it is good for people to spend a lot of money on goods and services. This is a belief the American people have fully bought into, an idea that having more stuff will make you happier. This belief has been bought into now, more than its ever been, we today as Americans consume more than any generation of Americans before us. In fact this idea of mass consumption is exactly what our whole economy…

picture of a family would collapse. (Kimmel, 2012) Due to this imagery of women staying home, he also mentioned that “men were so dedicated to their work they were becoming absentee landlords at home”. (Kimmel, 2012, p.142) This helped me connect why my dad wouldn’t spend much time with his family. In a broader perspective, it explains why men believe they should be the one in the workforce and not their wives because if both parents were to work, then the ideal family would collapse. So in…

Emecheta’s novel “The Joys of Motherhood” is seen to confront sexual politics through the different lenses of women’s issues and cultural norms. Under the cite of motherhood, sexual politics, being a sexually cored and power-structured relationship, proposes that difference ultimately creates hierarchy. This is seen through the ideas of relation, freedom, domination and use/abuse conveyed in and throughout sexual politics as well as in Emecheta’s novel. Relation under sexual poltics, considering…