The Ruling Passion

The oppression of smaller communities and individuals by the larger states leads to an inherent support of nationalism in the narrative of history; as a result, the assumption of the viewpoint of smaller communities allows for an unexplored historical perspective. By attempting to understand the perspective of smaller communities during the efforts to colonize and explore the Americas, Zinn introduces the importance of historical interpretation to his approach to narrating history. Despite his…

imaginings of the natural life; it was rife with social and political issues. The Romantic Era was a particularly turbulent time for these problems and the writers of this time reflected day-to-day struggles with poverty, the crushing power of the ruling classes and the previous fall of the French nobles at the hands of those beneath them in various ways. Shelley’s “Ozymandias” was one such politically driven poem. The idea that a civilization will be unable to outlast a work of art, in this…

There is a divide amongst the American people and this divide is financial. The top one percent of the financial division is known as the wealthy, the elite, the ruling class, the powerful and are held at the top of society’s chain. These elites are educated and are tasked with great responsibilities like identifying social needs. Some of these social needs may include, increasing people livability, focusing on society growth, employment, education, and welfare of the American people. One would…

The film Attack the Gas Station opens directly without giving any breathing time to the audience. A gas station was occupied by four punks. They smashed everything in the gas station and scared the owner and staffs. The brutal overbearing group of punks was most vividly demonstrated. The main storyline of the whole movie is all happened in this gas station. The reason that four punks attack the gas station is given by the movie subtitle which is boring. While they are in the gas station, the…

Yuan Cai’s, The Problems of Women, is a passage from a book written by Yuan Cai. The chinese elite and literate males are the sources’ audience. The book gives advice for other men that are like him and the head of a household. This passage is interesting to me because it pertains to gender and sex roles in the twelfth century. This passage tells me that the culture the author lived in had certain marital and sex standards for males and females. This document is an excerpt from a book written by…

Sub-argument 1: Marquis St. Evremonde In the novel, the Evremonde family is a representation of a corrupt ruling class. They use their wealth to become powerful and abuse their power to stay rich. Because they have power, they make the rules and corrupt the government to make themselves unstoppable. They conduct crimes with zero morality and without consequence.…

representatives of their race as a whole, and the French ruling class is often depicted as categorizing these character’s acceptability in their country by previous notions of Bihn and Man Ya’s…

A lot of men think there is a ‘magical’ solution to fulfill the needs and wants of the women in their life and that is exactly what Old Spice claims to be. In the commercial the viewers see fictional and fairytale like things happening such as tickets to a show turning into diamonds. After the shower scene where the man in the commercial had used Old Spice the viewers saw him wearing white pants on a boat. The white pants is an emphasis on transition to a higher role in life. The commercial…

elaborated upon in this picture. In this post-apocalyptic film, the dystopian society that has be created to differ from our own, but shows potential risks or warnings to the society overall. In terms of Hegemony, it can be defined as “the control of the ruling class over a society’s belief system… it has embedded in it the notion that the dominant class maintains its power through a combination of coercion and persuasion” (Naiman 2012, 317). Meaning the more powerful class overpowers the…

Extraordinarily Ordinary Magical Realism uses the extraordinary to show a person a different view on the world they live in. It allows one to be taken away from a very boring and mundane way of life, and afterwards one sees things previously taken for granted. Magical Realism was created by two South American authors, Marquez and Borges. Marquez is also the author of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, so it makes sense that he wrote about a literary classification he helped create. A Very Old…