Imperialism
Causes and strategies; Reactions to expansion:-Increasing tensions among industrial powers.
-Increasing agitation for national independence.-Scrambles for empire: Africa China, Latin America.
--China--the Boxer Rebellion.--Latin America and Free Trade Imperialism
---The scramble brings new players.---The United States.----Internal imperialism.
---Rivalries and alliances-Independence movement leads to revolution (mass movement)--Latin America-middle class join elites or masses.
---The Constitution of 1917.
-Independence deferred: India
--Development of Indian Nationalist-divided nationalism b/w Hindu & Muslim
Industrialization
-Recruitment of science in industrialization
-Premier industries-Transportation, materials, electricity and communication
-Standardizing work and workers.--The automobile and mass production; assembly line production;
--scientific management; Time and motion studies.-communications; telegraph
-Electric light and power systems
The two faces of science in the industrial age.
Science and social uplift; Industrial science and monopoly capitalism.
Modernization: Bourgeois liberalism: rule of law, contracts, rights; Industrial capitalism: free markets, free labor, mechanization, growth of professional classes.-Ottoman Turks indebted to France and Britain brings reforms.
Financial infrastructure, class formation, urbanization.-Lack of industrialization, and trade deficits.
Young Ottomans and demands for constitution & parliament.-Western liberalism, Turkish nationalism, Islamic modernism.
Globalization: Supplying the industrial west; creating an indigenous middle class, encouraging European bourgeois values.-Igniting indigenous nationalism and reform movements.-Usually without mass support.
N. Africa: Egyptian modernization under Muhammad Ali.
The limits of modernization.-The Revolution of 1857-8 and annexation; The emergence of middle-class. Indian nationalists; Formation of the Indian National Congress.
-During the Opium War Chinese military weakness: modern weaponry
-Industrial Revolution "quiet revolution"; Making use of surplus rural labor
-Britain first: Population growth, market and social structure, religious dissent: the "Protestant work ethic."
Agricultural revolution, enclosure movement, rural poverty.
Selective breeding, fertilization, land reclamation
Fuel sources: coal, tapping greater energy supplies.
Capital resources: empire, trade, banks.
Domestic peace (no wars on British soil).
-The transportation & communications revolutions. turnpikes (roads); Canals; railroads; telegraph.
-Urbanization and growth of municipal government.
Monsters are the physical embodiment of fear. Monsters are the physical embodiment due to a wide variety of reasons. The most important being: Monsters’ apparent invulnerability/incredible strength, represent the bad part of society, most often look ugly, represent evil/nightmares itself, are intelligent, and some deviate from the norms are the reasons why monsters are the physical embodiment of fear. Monsters’ incredible characteristics are what strike fear into the hearts of others. In many myths, monsters are a weakness to societies. For instance, the heroes of Rome fight these monsters in order to overcome them which is the symbolic overcoming of weakness by the community. The fear monsters represent is primarily human fear as monsters are generally on good terms with animals and human fear is far deeper than animal fear.
Neoliberalism is an economic approach that promotes a laissez-faire model of trade (Edmonds-Poli & Shirk, 253). This economic model, widely supported by many Western economists, is based on three main principles: stabilization, structural adjustment, and trade liberalization. (Edmonds-Poli & Shirk, 254) Neoliberalism is a method to restructure the economy and the first step is to stabilize the fiscal supply. This happens through decreased government spending, leading to an overall decrease in employment, public services, and access to credit, while simultaneously increasing interest rates and the cost of imports (Edmonds-Poli & Shirk, 254). The next element of neoliberalism is structural adjustment which focuses on the shift from the public to the private sector. This shift is meant to minimize government involvement, which in turn stimulates competition in an open market economy to create a more efficient private sector (Edmonds-Poli & Shirk, 254). Finally, trade liberalization works to increase foreign investment and exports by lowering trade restrictions, such as tarif...
Throughout history we see monsters taking many different shapes and sizes. Whether it be a ghoul in the midst of a cold nightly stroll or a mass genocide, monsters are lurking everywhere and our perception of what monsters truly are, is enhancing their growth as a force with which to be reckoned. Fear of the unknown is seen throughout time, but as humans progress we are finding that things we once were afraid of we are less frightening than they once were. Monsters can evoke fear in their targeted victims rather than physically harm their victims. For instance, every year a new horror film is released with the next scary beast, but why do we call something a monster even if we know it is not real? Even certain people and creatures are classified as monsters, but are they really monsters, or do their actions speak of monstrous doings? In his article and book chapter Monsters and the Moral Imagination and chapter 5 of On Monsters, Stephen Asma suggests that monstrosity, as we know it, is on the rise as humans progress, and how we perceive monsters can often define monstrosities in itself, providing evidence as to why monster cultures are on the rise, and showing how human progress has evolved our perception of how we think on the topic that is monsters.
Monsters have always been depicted as some atrocious beings that were created to inflict fear into whoever it could, in anyway possible. Monsters vary from culture to culture but never do they vary in the havoc they wreak and the fear they inflict in some. Three authors have shown a more advanced definition of what society sees as a monster.Three greatly written novels “Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity” “Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture” “Civilized Vampires versus Savage Werewolves: Race and Ethnicity in the Twilight series” show clearly the theories in novels that depict others as the monster.
Throughout many fairytales, Cinderella more evidently, there is the stigma of male roles and female roles. The man is the prince, the knight in shining armor, the strong protector and able provider, and the woman is the princess. Dainty and innocent, weak and capable only of looking pretty, fostering children and maintaining appearances of house and home. These roles of placement have been around long before fairy tales, and they’ll be around long after fairy tales, but the inclusion of these roles through characters in fairy tales does nothing but enforce the idea that this is the way things are meant to be, and women who do not assume these roles are wrong and unworthy. In her article, Orenstein refers to Cinderella as “the patriarchal oppression of all women”, and she is exactly right (Orenstein “What’s wrong with Cinderella?”). The impression left of these gender stereotypes travels off the pages of the fairy tale and into the real world when studies show that there is a “23% decline in girls’ participation in sports and other rigorous activity … has been linked to their sense that athletics is unfeminine” (Orenstein “What’s wrong with Cinderella?”). The blatant disregard for equality in these stories can be summed up with a term Orenstein coined, “relentless resegregation of childhood”, which ultimately defines what it means to be a boy or a girl in the terms of set behaviors and life duties (Orenstein “What’s wrong with Cinderella?”). Whether it be Cinderella or any other princess, the fairy tale business makes it a point to create a place for women with their stories, and unfortunately that “place” is demeaning and still practiced
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Marxism was revived and Marxists were no longer held responsible for the sins of the new Soviet empire, which allowed the focus of debate to shift to analyzing the failures of global capitalism rather than the shortcomings of socialism. Global capitalization had developed a system of production that involved sweatshops, outsourcing of employment and usage of temporary employment. Financial crises at the time had led to countries bailing out and nationalizing backs, which were not free market principles. With wars being fought over oil and resources and severe economic inequalities, Marxism became the “common sense of our epoch” (Halliday, 1994).
Monsters can come in various physical forms, but all monsters share the same evil mentality. A Monster is a being that harms and puts fear within people. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a prime example of how appearance does not determine whether a creature is a monster or not. In the story, Victor Frankenstein tries to change nature by creating a super human being. The being appears to be a monster. Victor becomes so obsessed with his creation and then rejects it. Victor is the real monster because of his desire for power, lack of respect for nature, and his stubbornness.
Neoliberal capitalism is a form of capitalism that focuses on different policies like deregulation and privatization in the pursuit and promotion of a free market. The major tenets of neoliberal capitalism is economic expansion, raising profits, and preventing the wage of workers from going up by decreasing it as much as possible through exploitation. The focus is to increase product output while increasing the rate of exploitation of proletariats by constantly seeking to replace old expensive labor with cheap new labor. Due to the fact that bosses sought to keep making productive labor as cheap as possible, it made it possible to keep profits high. This system in place makes it so that the rich (bourgeoisie) get richer and the poor (proletariat) get poorer.
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Today, adults reading Charles Perrault’s Cinderella realize similarities and differences between Cinderella and a modern western woman. Adults recognize that Cinderella in Perrault’s fairy tale has undesirable qualities for a modern western woman, today. Cinderella is affectionate, goodwill, forgiving, and loyal. On the other hand, Cinderella is not independent, outspoken, confident, and strong. Cinderella has low self esteem and is incapable of solving problems. Inferiority, dependence and passiveness are characteristics that represent Cinderella do not characterize a modern western woman.
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