Change In Susan Faludi's The Last Samurai

Order and stability are the two themes that societies or groups of people desire to achieve. No matter whether people are being hurt or certain types of people are negatively affected, society wants to keeps itself how it is. Change, whether good or bad, is a force that is dreaded by groups of people. Change destroys order and brings about new ideas and practices that a society will have to learn and adapt to. However, bringing about that change is a very difficult task. Masses of similar people, including cultures, will try their best to resist change and eliminate its source. Unconsciously, individual people will also turn away from any initial change or deviance. However, when the source of that change becomes powerful enough, nothing will

In Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”, an example of how an all-male school finally opened all of its door to women is mentioned: “At Norwich University…voluntarily opened its barracks to women” (Faludi 79). This school, once a conservative male school, allows all females join. This school is an example of what the future looks like for the Citadel. Before the Citadel allowed women into its night school, then the school was forced to take in a female into its day program, finally, maybe in the future, the school would finally convert to a modern co-ed school. In Gladwell’s “The Power of Context”, after people finally accepted that their crimes will not be tolerated anymore, both criminals and innocent people were able to accept that their society is a new place: “In New York the decline was anything but gradual” (Gladwell 152). With justice finally enforced, not only did the crime rates drastically dropped, but also people were able to completely change their attitudes on what the society of New York offered them. In Watters’ “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan”, once people understood depression was a harmful disease, the company GlaxoSmithKline was able to make billions of dollars by selling their drug to Japanese people: “In the end, however, the coherence of these various messages [about the science of the drug] took second place to their effectiveness” (Watters 527). GlaxoSmithKline was now able to successfully use the brainwashed minds of the Japanese people and make tons of profit. In all three texts, after a certain idea of change is finally accepted in a society of culture, that change is able to spread like a disease to every single inhabitant of that