Thy Kingdom Come

The renowned pamphlet Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a landmark in the world of persuasive literature. It called upon the American people of all social classes to work and fight towards independence from the British Empire. Paine methodically, yet passionately dismantled the legitimacy of the British monarchy and its actions in the Colonies. With impressive eloquence, he destroyed any basis the British Crown had in Biblical scripture. He used historical examples and simple, yet robust logic…

The 1960 British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan once gave a speech in South Africa known as “The Wind of Change Speech”. Macmillan said, "The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account of it” (Baker 179). Macmillan was reinforcing that decolonization is taking place in Africa. Most of the European powers had African…

streets you see a black guy or two walking on the same side of the street as you so you get nervous and hold your stuff or you cross the street to avoid them. The societies in America view the color of your skin as a type of value. This type of value comes in a form of a pyramid. Where the whites are on top of course due to white supremacy but then as you look down at the pyramid you see blacks and browns at the bottom doing the hard labor jobs. One example, of white privilege would be about the…

side of town. I want to stop that moment from coming – and it came in every white child’s life – when they start to think that coloured folks are not as good as whites.” This quote shows that racism is something that is taught not something that comes naturally. It also shows that they are taught that the African-American people are inferior to white people. Davis shows how the ration system is designed to control and humiliate Indigenous Australians, in the play No Sugar. “I’m afraid that soap…

Throughout history, humans have constantly held the desire to achieve more, to find more, to be more. Greed sparked this desire in humans and as a result humans have achieved amazing feats. Greed contributed heavily to the idea of the caste system; greed began exploration, exchange, and encounters between societies and new land. Along those lines, greed was the catalyst that set off the rule of the British Raj, the fleet from Great Britain sent to colonize India in 1857. The greedy British Raj…

Despite the fact that this is a bunch of Sunday morning cartoon crap, a lot of people, even intellectual come to this conclusion. I refrain from the idea of even a god would exist because, for now, I have little argument to disprove such claim, but the idea of referring to a being, “The Devil,” to blame for our poverty and ignorance is frustrating and insulting…

International Relations Article Essay The two pieces that I will be discussing are Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points speech and the article written by Matthias Matthijs and R. Daniel Kelemen, Europe Reborn: How to Save the European Union From Irrelevance. I will be explaining what points both pieces are trying to make as well as what points of view they are coming from. In Woodrow Wilson’s speech he is approaching it from a liberal view and Matthijs and Kelemen are similarly using the perspective to…

movies in the past year, but they are still being overlooked by the industry, which is prominently ran by older white males. When minority actors do not receive nominations, it puts them at a disadvantage in the industry because of the weight that comes with winning an Oscar. If a new movie is coming out and a main role is cast by someone who had previously won an Oscar, then there is automatically a sense that the film is going to…

Assimilation is when immigrants accept the dominant culture of the host country and start to attempt to integrate into mainstream society both economically and socially. Ethnic pluralism is “sustained ethnic differences and continued heterogeneity” (Martin N Marger, Race and Ethnic Relations). Transnationalism is a reduction in the importance of boarders in terms of social or economic importance according to the lecture. There is a stark difference between assimilation and ethnic pluralism.…

It is inevitable to state that the United States is a nation that is culturally diverse. Even more, along with the component of culture, language stands out to be one of the most important cultural aspect that keeps communication and socialization available. As a result, “Language Assimilation Today: Bilingualism Persists More Than in the Past, But English Still Dominates” by Richard Alba discusses about the trends of assimilation by looking specifically at the 2000 Census data. The summary…