...The systematic institution of racism constitutes a systematic accumulation of effort that goes unnoticed behind the façade presented to the audience. Hidden agendas surreptitiously make the effort to facilitate subordination of the disenfranchised and powerless amidst the easily perceived promising future of equality. In the following response, I will argue the integration of humanist ethical ideologies that illicitly and surreptitiously generate racist ideologies that subjugate the colonized non-Western “other”. Social Darwinism, eugenics, imperialism, nationalism, cultural relativity, and multiculturalism are the main ideas that support my argument which will be subsequently elaborated on. For centuries, the doctrine of white male hegemonic enslavement has dominated, degraded, and dehumanized the disenfranchised and powerless from the privileged. The beliefs, values, culture, and ideology that all these different number of systems of thinking would create the knowledge of humanitarian effort to intervene in trying to justify and clarify racism without question. Universalism helped to fuel the binary opposition of the colonizers versus the colonized. The binary system is far from valiantly subverting stereotypes, such manufactured ideologies are deeply invested in upholding stereotypes, which in turn generates the idea of “difference” and this difference plays a role in sustaining racism. In other words, if words like “progressive” and “civilized” are tied to the group “colonizers”...
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...Sybill’s problem is all about the hidden books and for him, the present bible does not depicts all truths about God. Sybill wants Quelle to satisfy and inspire him better. He feels the church is hiding something by taking some books out of the scripture. Sybill states that they are Horus and Isis in the bible, just as there are hidden truths in the Hidden books. If the church’s mission is meant to give her children a sense of direction, then they will look for inspiring documents to enrich her children. In reality, truth cannot be hidden for centuries; therefore, if theologians had discovered something in the hidden books that are extremely necessary to add to the bible, then they would have done something. The first thing is to understand how books were chosen in the bible. The establishment of the canon came at different periods after reflection from century to century. For example, “the formation of Jewish canon”...
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...again at Gettysburg College under the auspices of the Adams County Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews on the 19th of February 1950.] The French writer Léon Bloy, who called himself the Pilgrim of the Absolute, and who was a dear friend of mine, took pleasure in telling the following story: Once, in his youth, he was sitting at the table of a café with another poet, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. A passer-by, who was a practical man, accosted the poet: "Hello, my dear fellow," he said to him with a patronizing smile, "always a poet, a beauty lover, always climbing in the clouds?" "And you." answered Villiers with a malicious smile, "you, my dear fellow, always going your way downwards?" Léon Bloy liked also to comment on the sententious sayings used in the common language. Many people who are good heathens but want to be assisted by religion on their deathbed, are apt to say: "Je ne veux pas mourir comme un chien; I don't want to die like a dog." Léon Bloy commented: "I have never understood why a man who lives like a pig does not want to die like a dog." These stories have no connection with the purpose of our meeting except as concerns the fact that any discussions dealing with religious matters must be tactful, polite and harmless. Before embarking on my subject, I should like to make two preliminary remarks. The first relates to the ways in which Christianity acts on terrestrial history. Christianity is at work in the social life of people according...
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...Hidden Self The role of a women, whether in the nineteenth century or even in the present day, is commonly defined as a wife and a mother. A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen captures Nora Helmer whose husband treats her like a child. The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman represents a woman who undergoes the rest cure for a nervous depression. Similarly, both characters represent their societal expectations based on gender. Eventually, Nora Helmer is freed from the role of a wife and mother after her secret comes out. Unlike Nora Helmer, Gilman’s unnamed narrator loses her mind. In both works the women keep secrets, which represent their hidden identity, from their husbands. A Doll’s House takes place in the late 1800’s. Nora Helmer lives in a beautiful home and her husband provides for her and their three children. Their nanny, Ann Marie, actually takes care of Nora’s children. She is treated like a child by her husband and therefore acts like one because of her lack of responsibility. Keeping secrets from her husband is Nora’s way of having a sense of power and control. Hasn’t miss sweet tooth been breaking the rules in town today? No; what makes you think that? Hasn’t she paid a visit to the confectioners? No, I assure you Torvald. Not been nibbling on sweets. No certainly not. Not even a bite at a macaroon or two? No Torvold, I assure you really. There, there, I was only joking. I should that think of going...
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... The first thing I would like to discuss is what I consider of literary quality and a pleasure to read. Edgar Allan Poe's work is something I find pleasurable and it has great literary quality. I find his work pleasurable because it delves into the psychologically dark recesses of our minds and forces us to think about the dark side of humanity. I find this interesting because we all would like to think we would never do the things the characters in Poe’s work would do, but when you really think about it you may be surprised. Poe has an ability to wind the reader up with his writing and make you feel just as tense as the situation your reading. For example, in the Tell Tale Heart the narrator is attempting to spy on the old man without waking him and he manages to make you feel like you’re there with the narrator moving an inch at a time being completely silent “I...
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...Michelangelo’s David depicts the newly reborn interest in studying human form and true proportion. The sculpture seems to show David after he has decided to fight Goliath, but before he has actually fought him. In the statue, David seems to be thinking or concerned. By this, Michelangelo can present rationality in his sculpture. David isn’t about to fight Goliath in a brutish way, but and intelligent smart way with skill and reason. If you don’t know the story of David and Goliath, David defeats Goliath, a huge man feared by all others except David, by hitting him in the head with a stone and slingshot. This shows humanism in the sculpture due the rationality that is depicted by David’s stance and facial expression. David represents humanist...
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...developing many movies involving this theme. Hidden Figures produced in 2016 and The Right Stuff in 1983 are movies that strongly show how the Space Race affected the American people. Although the two movies encompass much...
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...This picture of three white men and one black man playing cards on a table with the United States Seal embodies values of rightists such as hierarchy and competition. However, due to artistic touches of details, values and contrasts these rightist values appear to have a negative connotation. Therefore, I believe the artist who drew this comic is primarily a leftist depicting his views and persuading his audience to believe false allegations of rightists. Through the perspective of a leftist artist, his goal in the comic is to convince his audience that hierarchy, a rightist value, in the United States is corrupt. This poker game is being played on a table with the United States Seal symbolizing that the artist believes hierarchy is a problem in The United States. In this poker game,...
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...The infinite variety of man, and the infinite variety of social consciousness, it’s tussles and compromise with the agency of human particles that never quite resolve into material aggregates, but remain plural fluid, changing and churning values. That ask awkward questions and give creative answers to which structure provides creative responses. Little girls, tired old men, kings and rebels, women and men all display this varied picture and changing hues, of social existence and ontological negotiation. The Body most material and visible, is its most convenient site and measure. The dark corners of human affairs, the whispers and secrets that capable ears can hear, and understand deep lessons and facets of social...
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...school and was able to further contrast the differences she witnessed between children in poverty, the middle class, and wealth. Some key indictors Payne list, that identify poverty are (2-3): 1. Poverty is relative to the society you live in. 2. Poverty occurs in all races and in all countries. 3. Generational and situational poverty are different. 4. For students to be successful they must understand the hidden rules of class; they must be taught the rules if they are to succeed. 5. Two things help individuals move out of poverty—education and relationships. Hidden Rules Payne describes hidden rules as ”unspoken cues and habits of a group. Distinct cueing systems exist among groups and economic classes. Generally, in America, that notion is recognized for racial and ethnic groups, but not particularly for economic groups. There are many hidden rules to examine. The ones examined are those that have the most impact on achievement in schools and success in the workplace...(41).” Payne’s analysis of poverty is the idea that there are “hidden rules” which...
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...Jasmine Grayson Philosophy 106 Essay Number 1 January 28, 2013 The Value Of Philosophy Limited, Unlimited, Certainly, Uncertainly, Possibility, and Impossible are all words that both Socrates and Bertrand used frequently especially Russell in the passage “The Value of Philosophy”. In this passage Russell reflects on the practical man. The practical man is to be considered, one who is mainly concerned with practical needs. What I mean by practical needs are: what movie to watch, what food to eat, etc. The ones who explore more, unlike the practical man, are not limited like these men. Also, the ones who explore more are the ones who open up more doors for themselves. They find more keys to unlock these doors, and when you unlock your hidden potential is when you truly start to live. I also think that Russell feels that growing and developing are direct visible results of failed attempts and successful attempts as well and most importantly you see this in yourself as well. This relates to Socrates admonition “ the unexamined life is not worth knowing,” because both philosopher are saying the same thing about the practical man. Like I mentioned before they are saying if you live inside the box you are accustomed to, you won’t be as successful as if you lived outside of the box. For example, I showed the passage to my father. He happened to give a perfect example of his life. As a black man spending half of his life on the south side of Chicago, he and others felt...
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...a life, hidden behind the walls of a Men's world. This essay is a revelation of the relations between men as men, as humans and as fighters. These are the three major aspects of the life behind the walls of the Citadel, the manly world. Susan Faludi paints a beautiful picture of this world and the interrelations within its boundaries by putting a woman in the center of her story. Another major aspect of the essay is the tradition as a social value and as a limit. The essay gives an excellent example of how, sometimes, especially in the past centuries, traditions shaped people's life and narrowed the scope of people's dreams. It also shows how difficult it is to change traditions. The Citadel is a public military college established in 1822. It is a high-ranking institution with well-established traditions. All of the cadets are men, because army is, or used to be only men's universe, and not just men's universe, but the strongest and most brave men's universe. The academy is an institution in which men looking to serve their country and be given a top rate education seek interest. It is a place where young man are taught how to act and communicate like man, how to be prepared to the real world and face difficulties-"To bravely face difficulties, not to complain, and not to give up are some of the rules in Citadel's code. In the Citadel a boy is remolded "into the whole man with his identity "stripped . A place where young men go to grow and develop into a man while not...
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...For this art assignment, I have chosen the famous painting American Gothic by Grant Wood. The subject matter of this painting is a middle aged couple standing in front of a farm, the man is holding a pitchfork. While the woman is looking off in the distance of the man the facial expressions of the couple looks serous as if they are unhappy with their marriage. In the background of the of the painting is a house with a gothic style window hinting the name American Gothic for the painting. Grant Wood painted this painting in 1930 for an exhibition in Chicago. The panting give me a type of mysterious feeling due to the facial expressions of the man and woman. The colors used in the painting are mostly dark giving the feeling of depression towards the viewers. Wood may have done this because of the time period it was painted, which was during the being of the depression. Also this could be the reason of the unhappiness that is expressed in the faces of the man and woman....
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...interests played a role in this divide (Kramnick 6). Locke was against this divide, he quotes “justice gives every Man a Title to the product of his honest Industry” (Kramnick 6). Locke Madison and the Federalist believed in a liberal society where everyone should be treated fairly, and be respective of their “private rights” and “property rights” (Kramnick 6). Kramnick refers to CIvic humanism as the government should provide a place for this equality. The government should represent equal rights. As Hamilton states, “The idea of an actual...
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...The serpent in the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis and of Prometheus in the Theogony share similar roles in the condemnation of man. Although they have different motivations in their myths, both of them get punished for their deeds. However, one could say that the base for their motivation is what determined how long their punishment would last. Also, both characters are considerably cunning which moves the story along and show people that there are good and evil forces in the world. In addition, both disobeyed a higher power which resulted in mankind gaining something. Prometheus and the serpent are similar to each other despite being a part of different mythologies. Both the serpent and Prometheus have different intention for their actions. Prometheus wanted to help mankind recover fire after Zeus had hidden it. While the serpent seems to just want to cause mishap in the Garden of Eden. While both succeed, they are still punished by the higher power in the story. Prometheus gets chained to a rock and gets his regenerative liver eaten out of him by an eagle daily until Heracles frees him (Trzaskoma 146). And the serpent becomes the most accursed animal and is forced to move by crawling on its belly among other things (Genesis 3). Clearly, although both deeds end...
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