Today

While writing this paper I learned a lot about classism today. I never realized how much of a problem classism still is today. Hazaras are only one of the many groups of people that suffer from classism. It shocked me that despite everything they have been through, that they still face discrimination and oppression. I always thought of classism as more of an issue of the past. I knew that in some parts of the world it is still a problem, but I never realized how big of a problem it was. I…

“Probably they`re high on drugs.” Why can`t teenagers have fun, without being accused of being high or drunk exactly. I guess that’s how 2015 goes these days, it’s so hard to wrap my mind around all the stereotypes on teenagers today. How could one who grew up in a totally different era, with completely different standards, could judge someone just by the look at them. That gentleman has no idea what I had to go through to make it in today’s society. The negativity that is down casted upon…

In America, we make our choices based off self-interest and working to achieve the American dream. According to lecture, individualism is how an individual’s actions or source of meaning is their responsibility. Today, our lives are filled with individual wants and individualism has become the prominent way of American’s consciousness. American individualism has been created from three main sources; the Puritan origins, new world, and geography. These three sources led to America valuing…

“To be or not to be?” A phrase that has been passed down for nearly 400 years. Hundreds of years have passed since William Shakespeare’s death, but his plays live on. Yet people still argue whether Shakespeare is relevant today or not. Shakespeare is most definitely relevant in today’s classrooms for his substantial work of literature; therefore, his writing deserves to be taught. His work has been profitable and people have been quoting him for years without even knowing it. Hamlet, Romeo and…

Although William Shakespeare's tragic stories were written hundreds of years ago, they are still relevant to today’s society. We tend to overlook the influence these pieces of work can have on us today and refer to more modern text for connections to our lives. Shakespeare’s Hamlet, exemplifies a piece of art that will always pose relevance to any society. The story is composed of characters that connects to either us personally or to somebody that we know. Characters like Hamlet and Claudius…

are times that he was being misunderstood. Second, In behalf of all women who misunderstood the good acts of chivalrous man, I wanna say sorry. Fairytales today (e.g. Brave, Mulan and Frozen) shows women as a catycalist of change and not as damsel in distress anymore. Maybe being labeled as damsel in distress doesn’t sound good to women today. Maybe because of that there are some ladies who reject…

The Great Depression of 1929-1939 might not be anyone’s favorite time period, but there were many aspects from which today’s American youth could learn. This time period caused heartache for many Americans, but today people have forgotten what it is like to live without certain supplies. Some Americans might not have ever even known what it is like to improvise with what they had while the people who endured the depression learned to appreciate and be thankful for the bare necessities. During…

few centuries ago, the whites today would too treat the blacks with brutality not through physical abuse, though it is still present today, but through the jokes and the bullying that the blacks go through today in some western countries such as the U.S. Racism is present today when colleges would ask for ones racial identity. Though it does not apply solely on blacks and whites, since it also affects people belonging in the Asian race. An example of racism today would be the media setting a…

Thwarting Totalitarianism Today After World War 2 and the rise of totalitarian government across Europe, people finally had the opportunity to contemplate exactly how a totalitarian government can come to be, and it was not until Hannah Arendt wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism that the public got a decent answer to how those governments can commit horrendous crimes against humanity. However, what the book does not do is outline how modern governments could help prevent a movement, like…

by people from almost any time period. In other words no, I do not feel that Hamlet is a play that can be exclusively enjoyed by people from the Elizabethan era. This is due to the fact that the play touches on many topics that are still relevant today. For instance, one of the most prevalent themes in this is the idea of mental health and inner turmoil. This idea can be scene in the first Act in which Hamlet states how he wishes “ that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw, and resolve…