The Cult

Revolutionary pedagogy: “Highest Directives” in textbook The textbooks in the era of Cultural Revolution provide a unique perspective to the establishment of Mao’s cult. Although generally regarded a presentation of academic background and kept at a distant from political turmoil, textbooks didn’t escape from the politicization during the Cultural Revolution; rather it bore witness to the Maoists’ attempt of upraising Mao Thought to an omnipresent, universal and unchallengeable place. Similar…

YouTube. At the age of 13, Shawn began covering music acts such as Adele and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The world loved it, and, using his vocal talents, Mendes grew increasingly popular on social media sites YouTube and Vine. Now 17, the Canadian has grown a true cult following and is one of the world’s most popular up-and-coming pop icons. However, what stands out about Shawn Mendes is not his spectacular singing voice, but how he selflessly uses his newfound fame in a refreshing, magnanimous way: to…

lives and conduct themselves. “Various hypotheses about this teaching identify its adherents as syncretists who incorporate elements of mystery cults, Gnostics, Jews who claim superiority over the church, and non-Christian cynics” (Sumney 10) One of the biggest threats that the church in Colossae faced is believed to be that of the Gnostics. The mystical cult believed in salvation through asceticism, which is not how salvation is found in Christian faith. There was a large amount of different…

The obvious is of Dan Torrance. The second is of a cult of vampires who call themselves ‘the true knot’. The last is of twelve-year-old, amicable Abra Stone. These three stories overlap each other several times. The first encounter was a night Dan was passing a bar, and saw “ a good-looking blonde wearing…

The transition from paganism to Christianity was not an easy one as explained by Rodoifo Lanciani and we know this through the many writings, tombstones, building, and documentations of events occurring at the time. However, there is one group that could document this transition better than any other, the prostitutes. The prostitutes themselves did not write extensive books about their sexuality or their occupations in detail through the transitions of religions. Documentation of their lewd…

however, the reality is that many Neo-Nazis on the internet think Felix’s antics are genuine. They are unmistakably only claiming this because Pewdiepie has over 50 million subscribers, they are just trying to delusion people to consort with their cults. In the past few weeks, the Daily Stormer, the internet’s most prominent racist blog community, rebranded itself as “the world’s #1 PewDiePie Fansite,” complete with a image banner of Adolf Hitler and the YouTube star. The media is not aiding the…

The Five Sociological Institutions: The Effect it has on Society. Haylie M. Galvan Wichita State University Introduction Family: The Dynamic Definition The definition of family is rapidly changing because of how every world culture decides to display their family norms. The vague definition of family are two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption. In most of a modern western world, family has been considered to…

lives11 because he held that religious high-status over them. Linda Molm studied the use of punishing power. She found that power is best used contingently. In Warren Jeffs’ cult, the most ideal use of power would be to reward someone for doing something right and to punish when someone does something wrong. In a cult, the leader is dependent on the followers for support and the followers, in turn, are dependent on the resources allocated by the leader. In this case, Warren Jeffs would use…

1. What is TV’s “most enduring contribution to culture”? (1) Television’s “most enduring contribution to culture is twenty-two-minute solution.” Twenty-two-minute solution gives a false idea to people that your real life problems can be solved within twenty-two-minutes just like in sitcoms on television. People are expected to solve their problems in quicker amounts of time like in sitcoms even in real life situations. 2. List two ways in which the TV serves a “teaching” role in culture. (1)…

It is true to a significant extent that the reign of Egyptian leader, Amenhotep III was one of the most significant tenured of all New Kingdom pharaohs. Although individual aspects of Amenhotep III’s rule vary in their own importance, it is undeniable that his reign was extremely significant, presiding over an almost unbroken 40 year period of relative stability and prosperity from. Of most significance in Amenhotep III’s reign was his peaceful and diplomatic foreign policy. In stark contrast from…