many people think of war they just think of a bunch of soldiers fighting on a battlefield. Many people don’t think about the families who have just lost loved ones in the war. Some people don’t realize the trauma that the soldiers have to go through because of everything they saw and endured in the war. Stephen Crane uses figurative language in both his poem and short story to prove that war is very violent and dangerous. Crane shows his readers different perspectives of the war in order to show his
the ‘American Indian’: A Case Study in the Language of Suppression.” In his essay, which targets mainstream Americans, he attempts to show his readers how language has been used in American history to “justify” the oppression of the American Indians. The use of language
Czechoslovakia. Upon his return to Prague after the war, he found a much changed city that had lost most of its multiculturalism. Not feeling at home, Gellner went back to England to pursue an academic career. From his experience as an ‘outsider’, he develops his first thoughts on identity politics and nationalism. For Gellner, nationalism is the imposition of a high culture on society replacing local, low cultures and
By Manuel Oppel del Rio The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a proposition that has been debated for hundreds or even thousands of years (Ahearn 1962: 65). Often attributed to Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf, this theory postulates that the language one speaks influences or even determines your thoughts, actions, and perception of the world (Ahearn 1962: 65-66). I will attempt to demonstrate that this is at least partially—although not entirely—true, based on my own anecdotal experiences of
The prevailing arguments in the scholarly literature discourage coercive patriotism at NFL games and view it as morally problematic. Tricia Jenkins describes the evolution of the nationalistic spectacle that the NFL orchestrates as a ‘patriotic theatre’. The common language used by the media in these spectacles increasingly includes war metaphors, which “devalue the war experience by trivializing its horrors” while conflating war and football in the minds of the public.
morally acceptable to prevent a greater evil. Ramsay challenges the argument of whether enhanced interrogation should be completely banned. The argument is “that if the stakes are high enough, torture can be justified on consequentialist grounds.” Basic human rights should be overlooked for society's benefit.One human life may not be more important than an entire country. Therefore the circumstances should be taken into account when potentially using enhanced interrogation. Accordingly, Americans
Metaphors We Live By written by Lakoff and Johnson. I had always thought that metaphors, when used to illustrate logical, objective arguments, poetical flourishes, the icing on the cake, the supporting cast but never the star. I'm now convinced otherwise. Lakoff and Johnson propose that the language we use affects the way we think and the way we think affects the language we use. I am
Eric Tang’s Unsettled is an ethnographic account of Cambodian refugees in the Bronx, New York that evokes a nuanced understanding of the refugee experience. Unlike many other ethnographies, Tang’s work centers around one individual named Ra Pronh, a fifty year old woman who survived the Cambodian genocide and has lived as a refugee for most of her life. The bulk of his work draws upon two main sources: Tang’s notes that are gathered from his work as a community organizer in refugee neighborhoods
The Oxford Dictionary defines politics as the activities associated with the governance of a country or area, especially the debate between parties having power. Comparative politics is the interdisciplinary study of how power is organized across time and space. It connects the operation of power across multiple time and spatial scales and identifies the similarities and differences of how power operates across space and time. A key word in these definitions is power and I believe power is a major
Adoption boundaries have steadily extended since the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War, where many children became orphans. As a response to them winners, especially Americans, started to adopt children from the war-torn countries (Wilkinson 1995, 174). Thus, it was a start point for international adoption. Intercountry (international or transnational) adoption is defined as adoption, where child is removed to the adoptees’ country. In recent times motives to adopt internationally are explained