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Americanism, Boy, Caste, Ethnic Identity, Female, Minority, Modern Society, Nation, Nation Building, Woman, American Dream, Cultural Identity, Discourse Community, Diversity, Friendship, Gender Roles, Man, National Honor Society, Racial Profiling, Stereotypes, American Identity, Animal Cruelty, Citizenship, Communication, Community.
For my second media response, I chose to analyze Donald Trump’s Presidential speeches. Donald Trump is currently campaigning for the American 2016 President election in the United States. His first campaign as President was in the year of 2000, with two victories of Reform Party primaries (Wikipedia). Trump became well-known for his hatred towards illegal … Read more
An Inspector Calls How does Priestly develop the Character of Sheila Birling? In an Inspector Calls, Sheila Birling’s character is seen as a child that has been raised into an upper-class family and has become familiar with the luxuries and social standing lower classes wouldn’t dream of obtaining, her spoilt upbringing and deceiving parents have … Read more
An Inspector Calls is a definitive play written by J. B Priestley. It explores the many themes that wove through society before the first world war, such lack of social responsibility, social disparity between different classes and the gap of understanding and contemplating between the two dissimilar generations – the young and the old. In … Read more
Women of the nineteenth century led very hard lives. If they were well off and married they were considered property, and if they were poor they were condemned to work long hours for barely any pay for most of their lives just so that they or their family could survive. In Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s “The … Read more
Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding fathers and renowned philosopher, envisioned all American citizens with equal rights, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness when he drafted the Declaration of Independence. The unalienable right of Pursuit of Happiness can be defined as the right to prosper and thrive in the time Jefferson had written the … Read more
America is looked at as a melting pot. A country that is to be diverse and filled with numerous opportunities, but who gets to receive these chances? It’s taken America hundreds of years to try and give every individual the same rights and equality. Many Americans believe that the country has successfully achieved these. Dreadfully … Read more
During the time period of the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald the U. S was in the midst of the famous Jazz Age in which the economy was expanding vastly, but also, shifting social attitudes. The lower class dreamed of living the American Dream that their eyes could see, but were oblivious … Read more
Liberty Leading the People presents a scene of July Revolution of 1830 in Paris from Eugene Delacroix’s view. It outlines the time, place and characters in the uprising. We can read Delacroix’s attitude towards the revolution and Parisian society through the painting. Eugene Delacroix is a distinguishable figure in French painting. He was strongly influenced … Read more
The short story “A rose for Emily” published in 1930 by William Faulkner focuses on the life of Emily Grierson, a woman who is from a rich family and, now has to deal with her loneliness after her father’s death. Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a complex and dark story that keeps readers guessing … Read more
The sociological imagination is a complex concept that involves many components to make it whole. One component of the sociological imagination is that it is inspired by a readiness to view the world from the perspective of others. The imagination also includes stepping back from looking at the individual, and instead taking a focus on … Read more
Unfortunately, Voltaire ideas had flaws as well. Freedom of speech was merely intended for those whose voice count, the middle class. Voltaire fought for the political and legislative rights that the aristocrats denied to the rising bourgeoisie. He wanted to change the laws that hinder the development and prosperity of the middle class. He was … Read more
The Dystopian and Utopian texts The Time Machine by HG Wells and Ursula Le Guins’s The Dispossessed subvert and conform to traditional perspectives on humanity and genre conventions as a reflection of their respective contexts. These genres share a common characteristic in that they aim to criticise their respective societies through an ambiguous utopia in … Read more
