She will do what has to be done in order to preserve the endangered species that are unique to the Channel Islands. But through all that dedication Alma has a lot of self-doubt because she has so much power over these animals but even with all that power she doesn’t know what to do with it. We see her dedication when Alicia, Alma’s assistant questions her ways, “I don’t know why we have to kill everything” Alma loses hope that she hasn’t explained herself, “But that’s exactly wrong, don’t you see? Because we’re the ones who put the animals there, the sheep and cattle and pigs on Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, the rats on Anacapa and cats and rabbits on Santa Barbara, and it’s our obligation, our duty [to return these places to their original state by killing off the interlopers]”(103-104). But even with all the power she holds she still questions her motives and that is very ironic.
- This criticism focuses on class oppression and looking at how different levels of society interact - It looks at what each text has to say about class relations - The class that owns the means of production is the most powerful  Venetian Senate owns everything - Each ruling class has a system of ideas that the other classes accept as the dominant outlook UNTIL THE OTHER CLASSES BECOME REVOLOUTIONARY  Emilia’ conversation with Desdemona is revolutionary - Marx himself was fascinated by the late 16th C in England because of the change in social class. Eg. The rise in the working class (proletariat) and the rise of the middle class (bourgeoisie) - Marxism has always been concerned with development of different classes in history - Marx wrote ‘Shakespeare portrays the essence of money excellently… if money is the bond that binds me to human life, that binds society to me and me to nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds?... is it not therefore the universal means of separation? It is the universal whore, the pander between men and peoples.’ Karl Marx, ‘the economic and philosophical manuscripts’ (1844).
The production of federal agencies to control every aspect of the political and economic life of citizens and individual states was seen as an aggressive step to control the state and citizen under the might of the Federal Government. The public was very concerned of the socialistic steps taken by the Federal Government to regulate business and state government (Document B). Besides regulation, the government was given power to negotiate the issues between the labor and management in businesses. This first step towards a nationalized economy is expressed shows that the Federal government had overstepped its constitutional boundaries (Document F and G). The public were very weary of these actions by the Roosevelt Administration as the advancing of socialism in America.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to “Explorations of Powerplay”, an exhibition sponsored by Paramount and Bandai, that represents the complex interplay between people and power in various works. Our first and main part of the exhibition is William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. The tragedy explores how relationships between people can affect their relationships with power. Antony and Cleopatra is a perfect piece to explore powerplay, as it represents sexual powerplay, military powerplay and political powerplay. The sexual powerplay is between Antony and Cleopatra.
The World State and the United States In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the government of the World State ensures that the society remains loyal through the formation of a caste system. Alphas and Betas are in the topmost position of the system and function like politicians, scientists, and other elite. Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons are at the base, and stand for the World State’s industrial class. The United State’s social system is somewhat different and consisted of three parts: The upper class, middle class, and lower class. It is how citizens within these societies function that the reader can deduce the differences and similarities.
(pg. 226-227) Winston is able to keep his sanity only for a short moment until O’Brien claims to have written part of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism and that the book is just another tool the Party uses to keep Oceania under control. Winston never finds out if Emmanuel Goldstein is an actual person but he still held onto to the idea that there is a brotherhood somewhere in Oceania. If The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism was written by the Party it is among the many tactics the government uses to control its citizens. The Party manipulates language and creates newspeak, doublethink, uses technology to make citizens fearful of having thoughts opposite of the Party, and completely destroys any literature documenting the past.
Section 1.1 Beloved Morrison portrays Sethe as a character whom widely faces physical and mental oppression throughout Beloved. Sethe’s recollection of the nephews attacking her can be viewed as a form of physical and mental oppression. “One sucking at my breast, the other holding me down”, the use of the cacophonic verb “sucking” accompanied by the repressive verb “holding” emphasises the brutality and aggressive nature of the act, physically oppressing Sethe; while the personal pronoun “my” highlights the perversion of it. “Their book reading teacher watching and writing it up”, Morrison’s use of the verbs “reading” and “watching and writing” creates a lexical set of learning, this could infer that School-teacher is using the attack as an experiment. However the verb “watching” could allude to the Male Gaze, a term coined by Laura Mulvey in 1975.
In all three sources, the males use violence as a tactic to enforce traditional roles among women and prolong control. In the article, Pakistani women are a witness of violence on a daily basis, and this violence is mainly constructed towards them. Several husbands and fathers abuse or threaten their wives and daughters regularly, and emplace fear within them. This fear is especially shown in the article by a woman named, “Savida, who declined to give her family name [to the community center] because she feared violence from her husband” (Mekhennet). This signifies that violence is the root of fear that results in women to conform to their traditional roles, as they fear the consequences of disobedience.
Good and evil are hidden deep within the pages of history, and are the results of the behavior and leadership of single or multiple actors. These actors play a key role in the decision making process in the life of governments-- in other words they had the power and ruling authority over societies. The rise and the fall of civil societies and government is a direct result of the players who control the fate of so-called “civilized societies.” The ultimate truth lies on the core of functioning of the legitimate governments and on the ongoing fight of the people for justice, peace, and happiness. The 18th century enlightenment, an era that celebrated free inquiry, political liberty, and progress, saw the development of the theory of the social contract. 1This theory postulated a new political and social principle, which held that relations among individuals in a society, and between individuals and government, are governed by a social contract.
Political Power My thesis is, governments, politicians, corporations, unions, advocacy groups, as well as citizens all yield forms of political power, such as hard, soft and derivative power, for many different objectives. To understand political power, you must first understand power, and politics. Power, as defined on page 3 of the text book, states that it is a way to control persons, or institutions behavior, by persuasion of coercion. Politics is a process in which a community selects a leader, empowers them, with decision making, action taking ability for common goals, and reconciles conflicts within the community. Through political participation, we empower leaders we hope will have policies for the general good, betterment of society, the public interest in mind.