Xenophobia

fiction is so relevant throughout the production, we can look to popular films released around the 1930’s and 1950’s. The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide, both mentioned in Science Fiction/ Double Feature, alludes to a time where xenophobia was very much alive in post-World War II American society (the aliens, being the communist “other”). With the advent of drive-in movie theaters, where these shows would frequently be played, young adults would be given the freedom to sexual…

another “superhero movie” feels disingenuous because the film provides so much more than fighting scenes, action shots, and an obnoxious villain. Black Panther is a movie riddled with social issues, from women empowerment and feminism, to racism and xenophobia. However, the…

Vietnam War films explore a wide range of aspects. Films such as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket focus primarily on the military and warfare aspects of the Vietnam conflict. The Deer Hunter, directed by Michael Cimino, concerns conventional domestic life in the United States during the war, and the impact serving in the war had on men who returned to conventional life after enduring extraordinary horrors. The film has become a critical and commercial success, celebrated for its, “tender –…

The end of the Cold War marked a new beginning of time for international relations. The triumph of liberal democracy meant the expansion of capitalism and globalization. Economically and socially, states were more interconnected. However, states also started to experience new forms of threats. For a long time, it was assumed that states were the primary actors in the international relations. Based on this, it was assumed that the threat of a state was another state. The focus of security…

today 's current event. There was the refugee crisis of 1939 and the deportation of the Hungarian Jews, both occurring during the holocaust. In the United States, the Depression’s economic hardships in the 1930 's intensified anti semitism and xenophobia. The US State Department enforced restrictive immigration laws limiting the issuance of visas, making it difficult for Jews to enter the United States. So in June of 1939, the US turned away what 's believed to have been over nine hundred…

Case Study Two Quiz Question Carlos Rivera has a daunting task ahead of him in his first year of teaching. The Midwest community that he is teaching fifth grade at is divided over the influx of Mexican immigrant families that have recently moved into the area. Almost 30% of his students are from Mexican immigrant families and many of them have one or both parents that are undocumented citizens. While Mr. Rivera is of Latino decent and fluent in Spanish; he comes from a wealthy family that…

Both Dr. Jonathan Swift in “A Modest Proposal” and Elizabeth Warren in “The Vanishing Middle Class” argue about the flawed economic system of their respective countries one being the United States and the other Ireland. Swift argues how the poverty of the poor is dragging down the middle class and is ruining the beautiful country of Ireland as well. On the contrary Warren argues on how a strong middle class is needed in order to help out a lower class that is struggling. Because Swift notices…

Written shortly after the Second World War and a global rise in fascism, 1984 is an embodiment of various warnings and historical themes. However, these notions merely represent the very surface of George Orwell’s social and political messages. For, he does not simply demonstrate the injustice of absolute tyranny, - which is pretty much granted - but also demonstrates reasons as to how such a system can exist, and thus, how it may be defeated. Moreover, Orwell’s multiple messages must be…

The Civil War, also known as the First Modern War, went down as the bloodiest war in U.S. history. Prior to the start of the Civil War, United States was split into two sections, the North(Union) and the South(Confederacy). The Union, had a population of “22 million in 1860, while only 9 million people lived in the Confederacy, 3.5 million of them slaves”(511). Each side had their own advantages. The Union had very strong financial resources, an abundance of manufacturing companies and the best…

January 30, 1933, the year Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. It is also the start of a period of time that would be later known as the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was a very strong-minded individual, he liked when things went his way. Germany during this time was a very racial country, people judged others strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The National Socialist Party, also known as the Nazis, planned to eradicate the Jewish community. This plan…