Essays on Coming Together

According to Benedict Anderson (2007), a community is formed through people coming together and imagining that they are one group. Primarily, societies are created as a result of several factors, which he explains in the first four chapters of his book. Notably, the identification of communities started rising during the industrial revolution due to the increase in the use of local dialects in most functions as opposed to the more general ones, like Latin. The local dialects were used in publications and other print products (Anderson, 2007). The concept resonates well with the theory of imagined communities because when ...

How the world shrinks

The primitive era saw the world coming together in the 15th and 16th century whereby there were a shift and movement of kingdoms all around the world. The example of Angola stands as an important one as it saw a movement of the Europeans into Angola and the surrounding areas. There was a better system of administration, judiciary, and management in the country after the Europeans entered the country, and it led to its betterment. To name the areas as primitive only means, there was a lack of available options for improving the societal conditions, and when the country ...

What was Homo erectus like? What were they like physically, and what do we know of their behaviors, tools, etc.?

Homo erectus, also referred to as the “upright man” was the earliest known early human to possess the characteristics of the modern man. Unlike its predecessors, Homo erectus was bipedal, that is, they were the first humans in the evolution line to walk in two legs with an upright posture (Science & Technology). They had the biggest brains, in proportion to their body sizes, as compared to their predecessors. They also had longer legs and sorter arms. This was because they had reduced their adaptation towards tree climbing. They also had a larger variation in heights as compared to other ...

Introduction

Current problem: Greece’s economy was in the brick of falling and other nations had to look for a way to stabilize their economy. Thesis statement: During an economic meltdown, there is no winner or loser since it affects everyone in one way or another. Coming together to save a failing economy is the only way out of a financial meltdown

Background

Greece was heavy in debt and could not borrow more to settle its creditors. The failing economy spiked major concern to its investors (Mattich, Could Greek Deal Be Bad For Eurozone Growth? par 1). Major Point 1: Despite ...

Introduction

For years, women have always considered men to be their protectors; particularly those they are engaged or married to. As long as there has been delinquency, there have been women who are fearful of criminal acts and certain crimes that turns them into victims. Some people think that if a person grows up in a rough part of town or even live in a bad neighborhood, they are able to stand up to just about anything or anybody; completely immune to any unlawful misconduct that takes place in that neighborhood. Parenthetically, men and women are susceptible to the same ...

Book Review - Making a New Deal

Lizbeth Cohen's book Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 tells the story of those people in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s who labored in factories and manual labor positions. The book starts off with the 1919 wave of strikes that occurred among labor forces and continues through the next two decades, showing the ways in which the Depression and the New Deal affected industrial workers in Chicago. A durable union movement was created from the ashes of these economic hard times, with workers throughout the city coming together to support each other. According to Cohen, "this ...

In the area of Portland, Oregon, there is a sculpture entitled Big Pipe Portal and it is an installation, positioned on the banks of the Willamette River and is a product of conceptual art focused on the idea of the man-made and natural worlds co-existing. It was created by an architecture and design company known as ‘Rhiza A+D’ and its context was its placement amongst Portland’s man-made home of industry, Swan Island, and it represents the coming together of natural and man-made materials. It appears to be emerging from the ground and the bottom section that would make it a ...