One of the key features of Butler’s story is to highlight the broad characteristics that constitute the idea of human-ness, and to question whether our understanding of what it is to be human will change, or whether it can…
Donald L. Niewyk’s fifth and sixth chapters both deal more with outside perspectives and outside reactions than it does with those who were persecuted. The fifth chapter, “Bystander Reactions,” offers four different arguments as to why bystanders acted they way they did during the Holocaust. The sixth chapter, “Possibilities of Rescue,” discusses three different viewpoints on what foreign governments could have done to prevent the Holocaust. These two chapters conclude Niewyk’s book The Holocaust and wrap up the final sequence of events surrounding the Holocaust and the camps.…
Grant is asking four men if he could see Jefferson and speak to him. These four white men who have decided to have complete control over how the rest of Jefferson’s life is going to go. Four white men that have decided that they are better and superior to Grant because of their skin color, despite the fact that Grant is an educated man who teaches, which is respectable. In fact, they think that they’re so much more superior than Grant that they kept him waiting for two and a half hours. Even after the blatant disrespect they showed Grant, he is still debating how to treat this discussion. Grant chose to act like the teacher he is, which was very smart. He showed that he was a teacher through his speech, how he formed sentences, his word choice,…
Elizabeth C. Stanton was born in Johnston, New York. As a lawyer, Stanton’s father did not have a need for slaves thus creating the anti-slavery sentiment. Stanton was informed of the abolitionist, and women’s rights movements through her cousin, Gerrit Smith. Furthermore, her husband Henry Stanton was a lawyer who dedicated his knowledge to reforms present in the mid 19th century. Being surrounded by reformers had a great impact on Elizabeth C. Stanton as she used her knowledge from Willard’s Troy Female Seminary to further become a women’s rights activist.…
The belief that race is merely based on the color of a person’s skin has been the most common used method for defining racial boundaries in the modern world. However, this is not an accurate representation of how human beings should be classifies. According to authors, Omi and Winant, identifying an individual’s race on the basis of physical attributes is the most superficial factor in determining a person’s race (2). These authors, unlike many other scholars in the world do not define race based on an individual’s physical attributes. They define race as being a social concept due to the fact that they recognize that the classification of race varies broadly across the world. As stated by the authors, “In our view it is crucial to break with…
The question of should the United States seek to remain the “indispensable” country? Creates discussions for former U.S. Senator Hilary Clinton and published scholar and fellow member of the Cato Institute, Ted Galen Carpenter. Each orator discusses their position with reasons supporting their stance on the matter.…
Human tendency to categorize others extends to simple instinct. From the moment a baby is born, the first question already categorizes the baby: boy or girl. In Richard Rodriguez’s Brown: The Last Discovery of America, he addresses these ideals of categorizations, untangling arduous inner conflicts in the process. Due to his diversity, Rodriguez feels unwanted and omitted in his day-to-day life. With a lack of a category for himself, Rodriguez journeys to discover new parts of himself and embrace them, as well as question societal norms. This complicated work commences many arguments that lead to a difficult relationship between the reader and Rodriguez. Rodriguez discusses categories which leads to his personal creation for all the misfits.…
While the Constitutional Convention created the constitution, they also had many agreements and compromises along the way. They had made the Great Compromise, the ⅗ Compromise, and the Electoral College. While some did do good, it did not create equality.…
It has always been a topic of much discussion throughout history: race. Nevertheless, Nicholas Kristof brings a new approach and opinion to an old topic. In this article, his tone, perfect integration of assertion and authority, and the acknowledgement of the opposing perspective ultimately led to a convincing argument.…
Josiah Royce explains that people’s fears of different races are what threaten the future of humanity. He questions, “[H]ow are we to deal with…
Imagine a life where your thoughts and beliefs no longer show any sense of desire or feelings, as to where all forms of originality have been lost. All live under the idea of “one in all, all in one”(Rand, 19). Minds of the citizens of the Anthem society are formed to think, feel, speak as one; all equal and no individuality, all are one. One to think as an individual shall be shunned for the greater good. Rebellion of individuality, a form of evil of which none shall bare the pain, except for one.…
In one of the grand theories of Freud vs. Erikson, I am strongly in favor of Erikson’s ideas as opposed to Sigmund Freud, in the fact that I agree that children’s developmental stages are more psychosocial than psychosexual. For example, I have two children of my own which I can correlate a lot of their behavior to Erikson’s stages. Babies cry in signal to their parents that something is wrong, when they feel nurtured and either the mother or father tend to their needs, such as diapering or feeding then they gain a sense of trust in their caregivers. My two year old son is at the stage now of initiative vs. guilt; whereas he has an adventurous spirit that leads him to “undertake many adult like activities” (Berger, 2014, p. 40). He is strong…
Due to the fact that there has been and forever will be a debate concerning the level of importance of man, human identity is rendered impossible to completely understand. The direct result of this debate is that there is no conclusion reached as to who the human beings truly are and what their universal importance may be.…
As we have discussed before, both violence and oppression manifest in various forms, however the idea of language-based violence is still novel to mainstream society. As the readings this week illustrated, language based violence and physical violence occasionally share a common root in gender-based oppression. Both Solnit and Anzaldúa write specifically about how "language is a male discourse" (Anzaldúa: 78) and how this discourse creates a knowledge among women that "this is not their world" (Solnit 2008). hooks states that the oppression created by structured languages and spaces as intertwined. She argues that activist must make the margin a site of resistance instead of a space of disadvantage, just as we must learn to accept the oppressor’s language as a tool for creating internal revolutions (hooks: 2009, 2004). Finally, Wright connects all three, space, language and gender in her analysis of the Nercopolitics and Femicide in Ciudad Juárez. Wright demonstrates how patriarchal language, such as the term "public women" when coupled with…
Were "Factor X" absent from human beings, all would be deprived of the "essential quality underneath that is worthy of a certain minimal level of respect" (Fukuyama 149). "Factor X" is the key factor in human beings that justify our equality. Francis Fukuyama categorizes "accidental characteristics" by skin color, social class and wealth, gender, cultural background, and even one's natural talents as nonessential, yet he states "we make decisions on whom to befriend, whom to marry or do business with, or whom to shun at social events based on these secondary characteristics" (Fukuyama 150).…