William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner believe to get the best out of people would be competition. To get better people in your society one will have to rid itself of the people that cannot care for themselves. Thomas Malthus term the phrase “Survivor of the fittest” where the people that can care for themselves do that and the ones that cannot end up not making it. Sumner disdain the poor because they were not able to participate in the competition of life. Without competition nothing is aspire to get better or force people to improve themselves. People would argue with a competitive society like this at some point the strong would become the weak and replaced by something else but no one can stop progress. If people do not inspire to do better for themselves or their family, they will just put themselves at the bottom of the society and it is no one's fault but their…

freedom without state intervention. As corporations grow, they get more efficient, and any form of government control handicaps them. It took the idea of natural selection and applied it not only to individuals but to the marketplace as well (Foner 1998, 121). Those who worked hard with an entrepreneurial spirit would succeed, those who were lazy would fail. William Graham Sumner is perhaps the most outspoken proponent of this individualist mentality toward society. He argues for a…

Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century America Around the turn of the twentieth century, both William Graham Sumner and Jane Addams shared their views on contemporary democracy and society in America. William Graham Sumner shared his view in “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, and Jane Addams shared her views in “Democracy and Social Ethics.” Although each had very different perspectives on society through social reform in general as well as how it should move forward, there also is much…

Social Darwinism is a theory that individuals, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals. The weak individuals would decrease and the strong individuals would grow in power. Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and William Graham Sumner, and more philosophers are all associated with social Darwinism. They all have different views on it. Charles Darwin developed Darwinism. He focused more on the development of plants and animals. He developed the idea…

by his choices of words. Boorstin writes, “Under the hot glare of psychology and sociology the heroes’ heroic qualities have been dissolved into a blur of environmental influences and internal maladjustments” (52). His phrasing of “under the hot glare” dramatizes the decline of the hero and suggests this phenomenon happened with ease. Next, words such as “dissolve” and “blur” prone us to assume that heroes can be broken down and destroyed quickly. And so, it’s a logical transition to then…

According to Cornell Clayton, author of “Understanding the ‘Civility Crisis’” includes a historical incident in 1865 where Charles Sumner was physically attacked by Preston Brooks “for giving a speech against the fugitive slave act” (para. 3). This example shows that Preston Brooks represented incivility and minority because he was acting against the majority, who were Charles Sumner and those that wanted to keep their slaves. Because of the incivility that Preston Brooks caused, this was able…

Compromise was supposed to limit the spread of slavery into Kansas, but the Kansas-Nebraska act stated that the decision of whether or not Kansas and Nebraska would be slave territories would be solved by popular sovereignty. This encouraged as many anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers as possible to move to the new territories to sway the decision. The violence started off as small quarrels between the two groups, but then militias were formed on both sides of the debate. The militias would…

Even though Lincoln died, many new political leaders who had their own plans came to fill the void left by the death of the president. These new politicians were called Radical Republicans and had two main goals in mind, first, they blamed the south for the war and believed that they should be punished and secondly they wanted to help all of the over 4 million now free black people. They believed that it was their duty to defend and protect the now free African American population. During this…

The Quiet American by Graham Greene Graham Greene’s fascinating novel The Quiet American is about two men who fall in love with the same women in Vietnam during the French and Indochina War. The protagonist, Thomas Fowler, and another English journalist, Alden Pyle, both shared a love for Phuong. The author of this novel, Graham Greene, wrote many stories that dealt with American and English involvement in foreign wars. Being born in Berkhamsted Hertfordshire, England, Graham suffered from…

The Art of Healing was performed by the Ailey Ⅱ company in the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, which started at 7:30pm on October 28th, 2016. The show started at 7;30 pm and lasted for about one an hour and a half. And it included three dances and two intermissions. The dances were Circular, Sketches of Flames, and Revelations. Circular and Sketches of flames are newly choreographed dances by Jae Man Joo and Bridget L. Moore respectively. While Revelations is was originally choreographed by…