Illusory superiority

The Cold War started in 1941 was fought on geopolitical tension after world war 2. There was two powers the Eastern Bloc which was the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the Western Bloc which was the United States and its NATO allies. The Eastern Bloc was supporting communism. The western bloc would be supporting capitalism. The Eastern Bloc would contain the countries such as Vietnam, Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lao, and China. The Eastern Bloc was more communism this…

“We must have done with this idea of masterpieces reserved for a self-styled elite and not understood by the general public; the mind has no such restricted districts as those so often used for clandestine sexual encounters” (74). Artaud claims that the works of Sophocles and Shakespeare are no longer relevant to modern society – a society of mechanization and industrialization. “If the public does not frequent our literary masterpieces, it is because those masterpieces are literary, that is…

experienced a devastating crash, leading to years of turmoil and unemployment to wreak havoc on the world. Following the United States’ participation in World War I, a definitive shift in foreign policy was made that drew the country to a renewed period of illusory security through isolationism. The succeeding economic depression of the 1930s initially encouraged Americans to focus on domestic issues,…