Essays on Politics Page 39

Born from suffering and living without freedom it is fascinating that enslaved black men and women “transformed that negative equality which emanated from the equal oppression they suffered as slaves into a positive quality: the egalitarianism characterizing their social relations” (Davis 16). Angela Davis in Women, Race, and Class takes a radical re-visioning of the…

The propaganda poster that shows no matter where communist people live, they will unite and still are proud of losing the space race and returning with a victory of the Nuclear war. The image tries to persuade the viewer in believing Kim Jong UN is a great leader as the statue was built in recognition…

The book “How we Survived Communism and Even Laughed” is written by Slavenkia Drakulic. Based in 1990, Drakulic shares her journey about traveling to various Eastern European countries to converse with women about their lives in their communist countries. This essay will be discussing and exploring the hardships men and women had to face under…

Socialism and communism are political structures dating way back to 200 years ago. Biography.com says it all started on May 5th 1818 in Prussia, the birth of a man who indirectly killed millions of people with his ideas and a book. This man’s name was Karl Marx. He was a very intelligent and independent man,…

Slam is an independent movie that was directed by Marc Levin in 1998. The movie is about a young African American man passion for poetry is interfered with his social background. The motion picture stars Saul Williams, a viable performing artist, as Raymond Joshua, a youthful dark man who is halted by police who discover…

The film Amelie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a story about a French girl who’s been suppressed by her parents all her life. Her mother faces death after the beginning of the film leaving her with her dad. Amelie grew up with the lack of love and comfort, her character is portrayed as a unique…

In the movie The Iron Lady, it analyzes the journey Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady is a biopic film which goes into the depth of Margaret Thatcher as woman politician who has had a strong influence in the world, in addition to her personal life. (The Iron Lady, 2011) She left her mark as the…

Can money or status buy happiness or love? Does money really attract females? Is it easy to lose a long-term best friend? What is worse, losing your best friend or losing the one you love? The film “The Social Network” produced by Columbia Pictures, directed by David Fincher, and written by Aaron Sorkin, came out…

In the film, Modern Times, Charlie Chapman plays a goofy factory worker trying to survive in an industrialize world during the Great Depression. In reality, the Great Depression resulted in many people becoming unemployed and in a financial rut (even to the point of poverty). Even though during this time, under Roosevelt’s democratic presidency, the…

Among the LGBT community, there are many different subcultures that have sprung up. Some of them stayed and even reached mainstream media, like drag performance and ballroom culture, while others fade into obscurity. Amongst the lesbian scene, there have been many different subcultures. One of the ones most often seen and associated with them has…