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Rousseau And The Ideal Society
Has the progress of the arts and sciences contributed more to the corruption or purification of morals? Rousseau criticized social institutions for having corrupted the essential goodness of nature and the human heart. Rousseaue believed that by becoming “civilized”, society has actually become worse because good people are made unhappy and are corrupted by their…
Philosophy,
Society
Cavalry
Throughout time horses have played an important role in society. Since their first introduction, they have continued to prove that they are a valuable asset. The horse fulfilled this role durning the middle ages to almost a key, in both personal and state affiars. It was in state affairs during the middle ages that the…
Psychology,
Society,
Stereotypes
Dead Poets Society
Scene where Knox Overstreet is on the telephone to Kris. Knox Overstreet played a fair part in the film Dead Poets Society. One particular scene that Knox was in was the phone conversation with the girl he loves, Kris. The scene starts with Knox at the telephone. The camera closes in on his face and…
Society
Is our society becoming post-l
Is our society becoming post-literate? Thousands of years have passed since our culture invented an alphabet to allow spoken words to be permanently recorded. This ‘great leap’ from orality to literacy had many consequences that will be discussed here. However, many other technologies have come into existence since the alphabet was invented and it has…
Society
New Religion Scientology
Ron Hubbard. He began his studies long ago and wrote a book in 1950 called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. He claimed that this book was one of the first tools used to solve the problems of the mind. This book focused on irrational mind, war, crime, and insanity. Mr. Hubbard designed this…
Belief Systems,
Culture,
Psychology,
Religion,
Society,
Study
Brave New World: The Advancement Of Science
One scientific advance of which Huxley warns readers of is that in biology. In the setting of Brave New World, henceforth referred to as the reservation, the mass production of humans is accomplished with the Bokanovsky process. In this process, human beings are genetically engineered in laboratories. “… a bokanovskified egg will bud, will…
Brave New World,
Society,
Technology
Sad Outlook of Society
Lately I have noticed that society thinks the people should act and look like something that most people arent. Appearance is a main issue of society today. People look more at looks of one person more than their personality or abilities. Growing old is frowned upon and more people try to make them themselves look…
Society
Jules Verne
Going to moon, a balloon trip around the world, adventure under the sea, all this in the late 1800s? All this was possible in the writings of Jules Verne. Jules Verne was born in Nantes on February 8, 1828. He had a vivid imagination and as a child, he often sailed down the Loire River…
Books,
Culture,
Fiction,
Literature,
Napoleon,
Novel,
Sociological Imagination
Walking Across Egypt
Mattie Rigsbee is the main character in Clyde Edgerton’s southern style novel, Walking Across Egypt. Mattie is a seventy-eight year old widow with two middle-aged children. Living alone in a small house, she makes sure that everything is taken care of. She cooks, cleans, mows the lawn, and takes up numerous responsibilities with the church. She…
Fiction,
Happiness,
Literature,
Night,
Stereotypes
Review of D Nakanos Movie White Mans Burden
The film “White Man’s Burden is a deliberate attempt by the director, Desmond Nakano, to show what the effects of race and social status are on a person’s beliefs, attitudes and behavior. The setting for the film is modern day America with a twist. In the film, blacks dominate economically, politically, and culturally, while whites…
New York City,
Psychology,
Stereotypes