After reading this book I realized how difficult it really was to survive in Russia during the fifties and sixties. I now realize how brutal and relentless the Soviet Union became to keep Russia a Communist country. This book also gave me an idea of how freedom is taken for granted here in America. It is easy for us to choose our religion, lifestyle, and career, but in Russia these things were chosen for you. If you wanted to practice a different way of life you were not accepted and were treated as if you had been burdened with
They were leaders and inspirations for others to follow. As much as both of them disliked the “pigs” and corrupt police, both of them where aware of how to act and talk when it came down to it. They both didn’t want trouble from the corrupt people putting them down. They knew there was a right and wrong way to say certain things. “ I say nothing, but inside I’m raging.
The war began due to North Vietnam being a communist country, while the US wanted to prevent a communist country taking over the south part of Vietnam. The media played an important role in the war, as the media brought the war into the American’s homes, showing the Americans all the realities of warfare. Many things were showed to the Americans. The coverage that the media showed to the Americans horrified them in many ways: wounded civilians, children who had lost their parents, many villages destroyed, search and destroy missions etc. The war was pointless in the American’s eyes and they thought that America had no right to impose its views on Vietnam.
3. “This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possible because they failed to produce Rembrandt. I hated and feared the world. And this meant, not only that I thus gave the world an altogether murderous power over me, but also that in such a self-destroying limbo I could never hope to write” (448) James Baldwin had a more elegant taste for things, he wished that his fellow African Americans had created beautiful masterpieces like Rembrandt; He was dissatisfied with the world and the writings that were out there anxious and intimidated he felt he could never put his writing out there.
If children remain uneducated or unfocused, it’s the country which paysthe price of that ignorance and lack of education among the coming generation. The reason that Marjane Satrapi was rebellious was because she thought that the cultural revolution was ruining the education system of her country. There are many incidents in the book which direct us towards this conclusion that Marjane blamed the cultural revolution for the downfall of the education system of her country. The first incident that comes to my mind is from the first chapter “The Veil” (3). The author says, “We didn’t really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to” (3).
This was decision was made due the pressure they felt to conform to societies idyllic perception of what women’s role in the household/home should be. The Second World War was called a total. A total war affects and involves a nation as a whole, the people battling at war and also the citizens on the home front. The Second World War demanded help from countries’ populations like never before. Men were sent by the millions to fight in the terrible total war.
Even though I spent a great span of my life on the west side of Fresno, CA. Where mainly minority groups live. I got a chance to experience and embrace the culture that other races had to offer through an extensive amount of moves throughout the U.S. But never would I have thought embracing other races would cause me to receive backlash from my own race. I remember being in 8th grade at Leroy F. Green middle school and hearing kids making jokes to their friends about me being white washed.
“…And You Shall Teach Your Children”: Holocaust Denial and The Importance of Education The Holocaust illustrates how silence and indifference to the suffering of others, can however unintentionally, serve to perpetuate the problem. It is an unparalleled event in history that brings to life the horrors of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism, as well as the capacity for human evil. The Nazis were the original deniers of the Holocaust. Though, at the beginning they documented every killing and every policy, this was all done in secret and via code words (united states holocaust museum). Once it became clear that they were not going to win the war they made it their very mission to destroy every piece of evidence and documentation that called for the extermination of the Jewish people.
Rahman & Jackson (2010, p161) go over Garfinkel’s (1967) summary of the beliefs of the average adult member of society which define a normally sexed person. These beliefs states that there are strictly two sexes, males and female. It is also stated that every individual is strictly one sex or the other and that they remain this sex for life. Also, it is said that the possession of a penis or vagina is a definitive identifier of a man or a woman and that every person is entitled to the ‘correct genitals which correspond to their sex. This set of assumptions is a very commonly held view in society, they therefore are very powerful and play a large role in the upholding of gender and sex related ideals in society.
Wars have been waged, people have died, and relationships have been destroyed all in the name of freedom from persecution. Even after grotesque amounts of destruction and blood shed just to live a normal life, groups all around the world are still persecuted for their differences by those in society who are ignorant enough to believe that their way of living must be the only correct way to live. Through broadening our mindsets and being open to the possibilities of various styles of proper living, the world’s population can become more unified. Prejudice and racism are a significant part of society, but they can go away in the future through stripping power and meaning from the derogatory words that plague our world and from our parents being more accepting, they can teach us their accepting ways, and through passing acceptance down to future generations, it can be amplified. Prejudice is incurred by the hate we feel towards people whose customs and behaviour differ from our own; the fear of the unknown is the basis of all prejudice.