In his fourth chapter titled "Tyranny is Tyranny," of his book A People's History of the United States, author Howard Zinn presents a ground breaking interpretation of motives for the American Revolutionary War. Zinn asserts that the leaders of our nation found, by creating their own nation, "they could take over land, profits and political power" held by the British Empire. What's more, the founding fathers could subdue rebellions in their own land and create "popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership." In other words, though the history books have always taught that, through the revolution, America overthrew the tyranny of the British privileged ruling class, Zinn is asserting America really only created its own new privileged class.
Zinn’s focus in Tyranny is Tyranny is the plight of the lower class Americans just as the war began and just after. He focuses on the problems they faced and how the government was shaping out to be. In the fourth chapter of a people’s history of the United States, Howard Zinn explains in detail the hardships people were facing. He also explains what he feels was the founding fathers motives behind the war fought with Britain.
He mostly protested about school integration and equality. One of his more popular protests was in front of a school bus. He laid down in front of a school bus on the street telling the driver to run him over. The bus driver wasn’t allowing black kids on the bus. So he stopped the bus from transporting whites.
"History inevitability", "Dred Scott Case" which is the immediate flashpoint of American Civil War, can be avoided? If you bring a case to the court today, you will get a fair trial, because equality has become a social consensus. However, what would happen if an American slave bought a case to the court for freedom-seek in slavery-legal period? In fact, he had no rights to get freedom for he was not regarded as an US citizen or even a human being. "Dred Scott Case" is not an occasional misunderstanding in that case pronounced by the United Supreme Judicial Court.
This method worked because it peacefully angered oppressors, allowed people of all races and ethnicities to participate, and involved leaders persuaded people to make sacrifices for the greater good. One of the reasons peaceful protesting worked so well was that it irritated enemies of the cause without the use of violence. Boycotts and sanctions were one effective method of angering the oppressive governments. Gandhi staged a hartel in India and Martin Luther King Jr. helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott in America (Doc A and B).
In their advertisement for “Delifresh Oven Roasted Turkey Breast”, Oscar Mayer suggests that their Oven Roasted Turkey Meat is not “complicated” or full of additives. By juxtaposing the turkey and the chair’s “ingredient” tables and the satirization of the chair, the creator places emphasis on the distortion of a product containing additives and the lack of additives in Oscar Mayer’s meat. The anaphora of “It’s” in their slogan creates the immediate association of quality to their packaged cold cuts, while aphorism is incorporated by making a statement that life is complicated, but “your sandwich doesn’t have to be”. Portmanteau supports Oscar Mayer’s ad by combining sane and sandwich to make “sanewich”, referring to the ease of making a sandwich
Marx and Arendt are two brilliant political theorists who pose different concerns, beliefs and ideals when it comes to the relationship between economics and freedom. Marx defines freedom as creative self- actualization which contrasts Arendt’s definition of freedom as worldly and eruptive action. Marx’s definition is more focused on the individual, which in turn will better society while Arendt is more focused on action as community. Marx believes in a society free from economic oppression by the elite while Arendt believes in one where poverty and politics do not meet. Economics and freedom, according to Marx, are intertwined in such a way that they cannot be separated.
In “Tyranny of Choice,” Barry Schwartz brings to the table the topic of choice. The common believe is more choices, equals more freedom. Under that assumption we are living in the best times then. Everything in the world has multiple options to choose from. The choices range from what type of gum you want, to the best life insurance policy for your family.
Once it is revealed that Dr. Stockmann’s discovery would plunge the town into economic ruin, his society casts him as an “enemy of the people,” ignoring the Stockmann’s conveyed dangers of the Baths and instead focusing on the drawbacks of accepting his findings as correct. Embodied in the vote to label Stockmann an “enemy of the people” is the irreversible decision by society to prioritize economic prosperity over ethics and the truth, rendering Stockmann’s findings irrelevant. He is now an enemy of society, portrayed especially in the townspeople’s destruction of Stockmann’s personal property following the vote. The resolution to this conflict is each side becoming more polarized, with the townspeople having an actual hatred towards Stockmann,
Throughout the year we’ve learned and looked upon many different social views. The sociological concepts such as social interaction ,sex and gender, religion, race and ethnicity, and deviance are very important to society and have many social effects. My favorite tv show Law and Order(Special Victims Unit) covers and demonstrates these concepts in majority of the episodes. The show Law and Order consists of real life situations and issues which causes many different societal views or opinions throughout the show. Social interaction is one of the biggest sociological concepts.
Throughout history governments have evolved in their laws and ruling tactics. It has also changed the way literature has been portrayed to the readers. This essay is based on Totalitarian government. Totalitarianism is a form of government that whereabouts the fact that the ruler and government is an absolute control over the state. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini are some of the dictators that had total control over the people and state.
V For Vendetta Analysis Through Marxist Lense V for Vendetta is a political dystopian thriller film based on a 1988 novel written by Alan Moore and David Lloyd of the same name. The movie is about an anarchist freedom fighter only known as V, who attempts to spark a revolution through violence, that set in United Kingdom that was led under a totalitarian neo-fascism government. Through a marxist lense, the ideology held by V is a powerful tool and is considered as one of the most greatest factor that contributed to the revolution in the fim. Towards the ending of the film, Peter Creedy, the Head of Britain’s secret police continues to shoot V until his gun ran out of bullets. Creedy, in fear, asked V who seemed to not be affected by the gunshots,
It is no secret that when the US constitution was ratified, the privileges and immunities and basic human rights were intended for a very specific group of people who were considered citizens of the new colony. According to McClain and Stewart’s Can We All Get Along, the committee that drafted the founding document was appointed to devise a new national seal after the advent of the Articles of confederation; the idea proposed by Benjamin Franklin John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was for the seal to represent the countries of the colonists’ origin. The countries included were England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and Holland. This leaves thousands upon thousands of people living in America and not being represented or even recognized by
In the article, “The Indispensable Opposition,” author, Walter Lippmann, argues his claim that we must view the freedom of oppositions as a way to improve our decisions in a democratic society rather than just tolerating that freedom of speech. When freedom of speech is tolerated and only seen as a right to speak, Lippmann believes that the liberty of opinion becomes a luxury. Moving forward, Lippmann then states that we must understand that the freedom of speech for our opponents are a vital necessity since it provides our own opinions to grow in improvement. Through practical experience, we realize we need the freedom of opposition and is no longer just our opponent ’s right.
Community organizing doesn’t seem like an accessible task to undertake, but Saul Alinsky made his movements seem effortless and possible for the common person to initiate. One of his tactics that I truly admired was his ability to blend in with the crowd. Alinsky grew up in the an underprivileged neighborhood and was fortunate to finish his graduate degree in criminal justice. All his graduate research was valuable, but his real education came from his work with the mob in the streets known as “back of the yards”. His tactic was to ingratiate leaders on the streets because they would know more about the habitat than he would.
