Kwame Kilpatrick

Raunch Culture There is no denying that raunch culture can be seen everywhere in our culture today. Music video vixens, advertisements, social media posts and much more can all be targeted as sexy because like people say sex sells in todays world. In Ariel Levy’s book, “Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture” in one of the main chapters “Female Chauvinist Pigs” she explores various perspectives associating with the differences between “female feminism” vs “female exploitation”

than mother and daughter, “There was something in it like the companionship of equals…” (76 Achebe). This is a special relationship that is very uncommon and creates a unique personality for Ezinma. Moreover, we see this in modern times as well, as Kwame Anthony Appiah describes in his novel, Cosmopolitanism, “Sometimes, familiar values are intertwined with unfamiliar customs and arrangements. People everywhere have ideas about your responsibility to your children” (47 Appiah). As Appiah states, that

In Kwame Anthony Appiah’s essay, The Case for Contamination, he discusses the complications and benefits of globalization, and the impacts it has on smaller cultures. Appiah begins his argument with an apparent negative connotation with the term globalization - how it threatens the ability for a culture to maintain traditions with influences from the western world. As his essay continues on, he proves the contrary, and that members of society have the capability to keep traditions whilst interacting

theory, and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s global citizenship theory explores the issue and works towards better relations. According to Anzaldua, people are not of one culture, but in several cases, several clashing, distinct cultures. Anzaldua argues that language is part of our identity, and it is a barrier between cultures, sometimes even our own. While Locke argues, we are all created equal, we may not be treated equal. Once society can deal with these problems, it can move forward towards Kwame Anthony

So many of the problems we face today as a country and as a world are the result of ignorance and ethnocentrism. The misguided War on Terror, one of the more important examples in our time, is the result of religious and cultural intolerance on both sides. In her essay “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” Martha Nussbaum argues that to remedy such issues, we should forgo our nationalist tendencies and view ourselves first and foremost as citizens of the world, or cosmopolitans. The majority of her suggestions

In some instances, but very few, violent conflict can be considered ethical. Even in these situations, violent conflict is only considered ethical to an extent. Times when violent conflict can be considered ethical are: self-defense and revenge. Self defense is only ethical to an extent because at some point it is no longer self-defense. Revenge is only ethical when it is absolutely necessary, and and at some point it can no longer be considered ethical because it just turns to violence. One instance

The fight for peace and understanding of the common man is an ongoing battle that has gone on throughout the ages. These fights usually happen between different cultures of people, but sometimes it can even happen within cultures. They all have one thing in common, however, they are a result of the misunderstanding of one another as human beings. One of the core principles introduced in Kwane Anthony Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism is the acceptance and understanding of people in different cultures. This

It is unbelievable to think that an action of what a person does in the present, can either lead to nothing or it can become a catastrophe event. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe writes about the Nigerian culture through the events that happen to the main character which is Okonkowo. In Cosmopolitism, Appiah writes about the different values, morals, and cultures people in the world have and how people can live together despite having differences. The event that could have had a different outcome was

replaces Mr. Brown, a white missionary, in the African village of Umuofia. Soon after Mr. Smith arrives, the village because of the white people seize control of the village, causing the main character, Okonkwo, to commit suicide. When one applies Kwame Anthony Appiah’s ideas of cross cultural communication and diversity within a society in Cosmopolitanism to Reverend James Smith in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the character would have a change in his attitude towards the African culture in

Throughout life, one is faced with choices between individualism and communitarianism. Such choices are reflected in many works of literature, including Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism. The current report examines the first reading in the context of the second. Achebe’s story is about the clash between tradition and change in an African village; Appiah’s work advocates a unified perspective from which we are seen to be connected through basic