Essays on Elitism

A: Profile of CCP Leader

Li Keqiang assumed the position of Premier of the State Council of China during the 18th Congress of the Communist Party (CCP) in 2012. He is expected to feature prominently in the 19th CCP, scheduled for 2017. Many reports indicate that Xi Jinping has consolidated his power over the CCP Politburo and will hold on to power for two more terms totaling 15 years at the top. Due to this, it is apparent that Li Keqiang could either work as the Chinese Premier for a long time to come or he might become the focus of a major power ...

Poetry, though it dominated literary studies for centuries, has declined in recent years for various reasons. From Homer and Virgil to T.S. Eliot and Walt Whitman, poetry was a literary mode held in greater regard by the general public than mediums such as the novel and theater. While one may argue, this decline results from verse being an obsolete mode of expression, the more likely cause for poetry’s growing obscurity takes the form of growing elitism that excludes anyone who has not studied poetry from enjoying verse. The modern era has brought with it a culture that values ...

Health policies entail a set of actions or activities instituted by medical facilities or the government to obtain particular outcomes. The entire health system whether private or public has social and political forces that influence the making of regulations. The forces arise from interest groups that advance their wishes in the law making process to procure certain requirements. The special interest individuals range from entrepreneurs, foreign governments, certain demographic constituents, environmentalists, etc. Several theories have been advanced to explain the ideology of interest groups, but this essay will pay particular attention to elitist and pluralism. Elitism and pluralism focus ...

The United States is thought to be the precursor of the modern education practices and methods employed by the world. The country proposed research and methodologies and provided the world with the modern research university as well. The country was a hub of Ivy League universities which only accepted and promoted students with exceptional grades and had added to the world’s assets of intellectuals and leaders. These institutions have provided immense research in the various fields of life and have added inventions and various discoveries to the world. However, on the one hand, where the American education and ...

Henry is a strong supporter of Egalitarianism, who argues that all human beings are equal and hence deserve equal chances. However from this excerpt, Henry is in support of elitism when it comes to shaping the American education system which he argues to have failed. Of most importance to note is the fact that elitism completely contradicts the main principles of egalitarianism. Henry argues that the American education system should be restructured so that only a few remain to offer degree and diploma programs. The rest (the majority of the community colleges) he thinks should be used to provide ...

POWER

The course this week focused on the concepts of power, politics, and knowledge. The respective entries were analyzed and discussed in length in relation to their subsequent definitions. Power has been defined in numerous different ways in this course. Power has been defined in relation to a character within a given social setting. Personally, I think that the definition tries to capture all concepts within that scope. The definition learnt roots from a collection of definitions regarding power. The definition has to a large extent captured the meanings given in other numerous definitions. Thereby, the definition has integrated other vital school of ...