The Masses

In chapter VI, The Educated Negro Leaves the Masses, the question that will be addressed are: What is Woodson’s argument about the relationship between individual’s education and their connection to the “masses,” especially the black church? The author Charter G. Woodson sheds light on how many blacks who tend to seek and obtain higher education tend to separate themselves from other black individuals who lack the same educational background. Also in chapter VII, Dissension and Weakness, Woodson…

Matthew Wolf Meyer’s Book, The Slumbering Masses, strongly demonstrates our society's dependence on capitalism and the need to conform to societal norms by using examples from sleep clinics and pharmaceutical trade shows that take place throughout the United States. Before American industrialization, most Americans were exposed to a variety of sleeping schedules, such as the biphasic sleep and midday naps that promote productivity in the workday. However, due to the strong promotion of…

especially during times of war. For the most part, the freedom of speech has prevailed; however, many cases had to go through the supreme court to create a precedent on how freedom on speech and press should be handled that is still be crafted today. Masses Publishing Co. V. Patten (1917) In 1917, during World War I, the Espionage Act passed, which prohibited citizens from encouraging other citizens to violate the law. As result, the New York post office deemed that it had the right to refuse…

faced astronomical cultural and social changes that eventually led to the rise Fascism in Italy, Germany, and Spain. Throughout the 1920s, Jose Ortega y Gasset gave series of lectures that eventually became his magnum opus entitled The Revolt of the Masses. His work centers on the rise of the mass-man and his disregard for political authority (or the state), culture, and progress. Gasset essentially argues that the perfection of the 19th century gave rise to the barbarism that occurred…

Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1910, (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press), “Part.4 ‘The Progressive and the City’, pp.189-292.” Zwia Lipkin, Useless to the State: Social Problems and Social Enginerring in Nanjing, 1927-1937 (Harvard University Asia Centre, 2006). Useless to the State written by Zwia Lipkin’s investigates the history and urban development of Nanjing between 1927-1937 and recounts in detail how the Nationalist aimed to boost the image of the…

many developed countries identify themselves to be some type of democracy where the masses are permitted to engage in the decision-making process of their governments to some extent. However, not all democracies are the same. Some democracies may have the interests of its citizens truly represented, other democracies may have all the formal mechanics of a democracy only to informally ignore the interests of the masses in the end, and many democracies may be somewhere in-between the two ends of…

Cole Shimek Austin Harris Atm Sci 100 5/11/16 Atmospheric Science 100 – Final Project Topic 1: Explain the difference between climate, weather, and meteorology. The three terms climate, weather, and meteorology are all part of the same subject matter. However, they all have key differences from each other that make it especially important to be able to differentiate between each of them. Meteorology is the main category, while climate and weather are separate entities of it. Learning the…

Hence, the feminine masses might is a group of people who were dejected, weak, and dependent and who “desired” a strong mainstay. Obviously, “a dominating male…as orator” indicated Hitler. Specifically, he put himself at the position of a “dominating male” and accordingly the masses were characterized as “feminine” who followed every words of him. Burke also uses simile to emphasize how strong the gravity…

In An Enemy of the People and Democracy in America, Ibsen and Tocqueville make it clear they believe that the masses hold far more power than most perceive. Tocqueville spends his time dissecting the body and limbs of democracy to try and find what is animating them, pinpointing the masses. The soul of the country, in his eyes and those of Ibsen, is the majority; governing in the name of the people composed of peaceable citizens who wish the welfare of the country. They are, however, surrounded…

information alone. Therefore, a utopian government must target the specific types of people that totalitarianism entices in order to combat it. Here, the definition of masses becomes important in discovering whom totalitarian movements target, and, of course, who joins the movement. To define the masses, Arendt wrote: [t]he term masses applies only where we deal with people who either because of sheer number, or indifference, or a combination of both, cannot be integrated into any…