Theatre of the Oppressed

The ‘lost chance’ argument for Sino-American accommodation was undermined by the ideology of both parties. There never existed a chance in 1949 whereby the United States could detach the People’s Republic of China from the Soviet sphere of influence. Chinese diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union were too intimate despite the tensions that arose between Mao and Stalin throughout the late 1940s. The cultural and historical context that the Chinese Communists evoked when dealing with the…

Feminist Theory Within The Handmaid’s Tale Feminist criticism is a literary approach that seeks to distinguish the human experience from the male experience. Feminist critics draw attention to the ways in which patriarchal social structures purloined women while male authors have capitalized women in their portrayal of them. This movement did not gain recognition until the late 1960’s and 1970’s. There are many feminist criticism approaches to literature. In the 1970’s, The Second Wave of…

Although African Americans were emancipated by the 20th century, they still faced racism, Jim Crow disfranchisement tactics, and oppression. They had been struggling for equality, freedom, a voice, and a matter of simply being able to live their life just as everyone else (whites to be exact). The most affected area was southern America. Afro-Americans, especially the offspring of those who had lived through enslavement and the failure of the Reconstruction era, were trying to migrate to the…

World War One would be the first time you would see countries around the world declare war on each other and fight for 4 years 3 months and 2 weeks. In the early 1900’s, many of the Europe countries wanted to show the other countries who has the greater strength. Over the years the build of war was on the brink in Europe but the assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 the heir to the Austria-Hungarian would be the leading cause of World War One. Austria-Hungary would declare war…

He was mentored by Anaxagoras, Protagoras, and Prodicus and was also a close friend to Socrates (Lefkowitz 89). In Aristophanes’ later works, the poet provides the character of Euripides with most likely exaggerated religious views. In The Frogs, Euripides’ character is said to pray to different gods than everyone else, and in Thesmophoriazusae, a woman accuses Euripides of “persuading people that the gods do not exist.” (Lefkowitz 93) While Aristophanes and the comic poets did not say anything…

“Modern Times” or How to Support Capitalism This paper investigates the relationship between Marxist theories and Modern Times (1936) by Charles Chaplin, and argues that the main character challenges the Marxist notions of value and commodity and deliberately chooses not to fit into the industrialized world that is portrayed in the film. Modern times is set during the Great Depression Era, which begins in 1929 with the crash of the New York Stock Market and lasts for about ten years until 1939.…

My past wasn’t pretty in the sense of good decisions. I got in fights a lot as a kid as a way to defend my brother or friends, as well as it being my way of showing masculinity. These fights I recall getting stopped all the time really quickly on the school grounds, but times when homophobic slurs would be yelled across to another student in earshot of a teacher wouldn’t be stopped at all. Gerald Walton states in his paper, Bullying and Homophobia in Canadian Schools, “Methods employed to…

He has been a writer who has got tremendous concern for humanity; this is seen in all his works. He has a deep concern for man, especially the weak and oppressed. He believes that the world is not created for man to conquer and abuse it, Rather he believes that all the living and Non-living things should live in harmony Karnad focuses him attention on the downtrodden and less privileged people of the society…

that time an illegal organisation, had been propagating an insurrection of previously subjugated knowledges via the distribution of unofficial posters, leaflets, and most interestingly, postage stamps. Prisoners, who carved imprints out of leather and smuggled them to the outside, produced some of these stamps. The stamps constructed and represented a different history of Poland and located Solidarity within that history, in opposition, as Evans put it, “to the official histories produced by the…

Feminist Theory within The Handmaid’s Tale Feminist criticism is a literary approach that seeks to distinguish the female human experience from the male human experience. Feminist critics draw attention to the ways in which patriarchal social structures purloined women while male authors have capitalized women in their portrayal of them. Feminism and feminist criticism did not gain recognition until the late 1960’s and 1970’s(maybe add citation here of where you found this info). Instead is…