Essays on Ordinary People

Mother Teresa belongs to the most outstanding personalities of the twentieth century, and her attitude could serve as an example for people all over the world. This great woman once said: “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone. Person to person”. In this simple and short quote, every human being could see a direction for improvement – in different realms, by various means and using an enormous number of resources available nowadays. Indeed, it is an implicit and undeniable part of human nature to long for affiliation, social interaction and being a part of a group. However, in the ...

Knowing International Politics as Moving Images

According to Carver, the three life worlds that determine international relations include the knower, the state-actors and the ordinary people. In international relations, objects and materials of political nature which are already known to the knower (those with knowledge on the issues at hand) and the state actors (those involved actively in matters concerning state politics) are spread to the ordinary people who are the common people without much knowledge of such matters and who go by what the knowers and the state actors say. The kinds of sources are valued traditionally owing to their higher level of validity. ...

Art has always been the reflection of any society, its core values and tendencies, developed and moved forward by it and sometimes transforming the society itself. In any case, it has always felt even slight changes in the world views of separate personalities and the whole world in general. From the numerous artworks of different historical periods the world has a chance to see and discover the way people lived centuries ago, how they perceived and viewed the world, all its elements and how their mind changed and evolved throughout the years. The same concerns the art space of ...

Introduction

Anna Funder’s Stasiland is a text that narrates about a group of people who struggled against the East German government, and those that become members of the Stasi, the regime’s secret police. The story revealed how the citizens who were against the Stasi system were automatically regarded as state enemies. They become the subject of scrutiny and pressure as their moves is watched for the even a minor suspicion of disobedience. In Stasiland, the author presented the different experiences of East German citizens, all of whom shared their first-hand stories that depicted how they suffered from the ...

In this article, I would like to talk about the historian Howard Zinn, without going into the details of his biography. Because you can easy found this information on the Internet. I would consider his views on history in general, why and under what circumstances its occurred. Howard found himself in history and political science since his youth. A first rally Zinn visited when he was a seventeen-year-old young man, the friends who were breathing unevenly to the communist ideology invited him. After the meeting, young Howard changed his mind about the rule government and human rights in general. ...

Introduction

Democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The essence of the American Revolution was to create such a government that would allow Americans to gain liberty, equality and freedom. This was to be based on fair representation of the people and the Separation of Powers between three arms of government. For practical purposes though, it is necessary for governance to be exercised by a group of people in the arms of government. This has been abused over the years and the people of America supposed to collectively determine affairs of government in ...

1. The Financial Crisis: Avoidable but Inevitable Theoretically, the financial crisis could have been avoided as investigation findings revealed . Under the circumstances however, the crisis was an inevitable consequence of everything that was going. The Federal inquiry concluded that the 2008 financial crisis could have been avoided. The crisis was the result of “widespread failures in government regulation, corporate mismanagement and heedless risk-taking by Wall Street”. It was the result of “greed, ineptitude or both” on the part of government and the private sector. Among the persons found responsible for the crisis included Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and, ...

Dreams and Reality

Hamilton Holt published the book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves in 1906, but first they were published in his newspaper The New York Independent in 1900, which newspaper was well-known with its reformism. He strived for showing what was common between all people in the world and in how different ways they pursued their dreams. In the introduction to the book, written by Edwin E. Slosson, the author describes the efforts to the books to be written in a new way for the new audience and he writes that it is time for “the ...

"Starship Troopers" is a military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven produced in 1997. This film does not only focus on life in the future and new civilizations and realities of the 23rd century, but it is also centered around the darker side of the role of government and authority, disturbing social spaces, and total absence of choice for ordinary people. The film depicts life of people in the distant future, particularly in the 23rd century. "Earth, three hundred years into the future, is under the rule of the Federation world government. Multi- nationalism has finally become ...

While the English language is constantly evolving, the overuse of words in the wrong context diminishes their meaning and value. The word “hero” is constantly being used, especially in the media, to apply to anything from sporting personalities to sporting shoes (Nike, 2016) to sandwiches. The book by Christopher and Smith (2007), entitled Greatest Sports Heroes of All Time, uses the word “hero” in the wrong context. In this context, the word “hero”” has been widely used to describe any person of prominence in the sporting world who has ever achieved something noteworthy, when in fact these people, while ...

Sound and Fury Six Years Later is a motivating documentary film, that was directed by Josh Aronson and opens up a crucial issue, how it is important to be able to communicate not only for ordinary people but also to those who have limited abilities and are not able to produce any kind of understandable speech because they are deaf. Heather Artinian is a twelve years old girl, whose parents has decided to give a girl a chance to hear and to explore the amazing possibilities of this ability. Nevertheless the fact that they were against to opt the ...

Introduction

Ever since the infamous attack on the World Trade Center which occurred last September 2001, terrorism is a real, pertinent, and primary cause of concern as of late. Many establishments, particularly airports, are very tantamount on upholding security so as to avoid any more terrorist attacks occurring on a wide scale such as what happened at the World Trade Center. In spite of these countermeasures, terrorist attacks are still a genuine threat at large. Despite best efforts, many countries are still experiencing terrorist attacks every now and then, thereby putting the safety of many people in danger. On a ...

The twenty first century has already seen a rapid technoligization of practically every aspect of life. Indeed, it could not but affect the labor force. The question is: in what way has it done so? Firstly and foremostly, apart from obvious computerization, we can speak of robots being introduced in the labor force environment. There are two facets of this process – the positive one and the negative one. As for the first, robots have taken on the most difficult and in certain cases most dangerous work. As for the second, it may be justly maintained that robots have endangered ...

Is really homelessness a problem and who can be homeless nowadays? I would like to discuss the following issues: the reasons of being homeless, all pluses and minuses of life of the homeless and the result of such a life. As far as I understand people can’t become homeless by their own desire, but they do, so this way of life suit them. First of all, there are different reasons of being homeless. One of them is money troubles. If you don’t pay any rent for your flat you can be forced to go to live anywhere ...

There is no denying the fact that in the modern world business has a huge influence on many aspects of human life. For instance, it creates workplaces for lots of people around the world, invents new products, and provides needed services for our society. In fact, corporations are the most powerful there due to the fact that they can afford expensive technologies and methods in order to achieve great profit and valuable position in the market. Many of them are well-known for most people nowadays because of huge advertising campaign and media. In addition, they developed special programs for ...

Aladdin is a classic Arabian fairy tale that was used as a basis for many movies and cartoons. The main character of the story is a poor young man who achieves the princess and other rewards with the aid of magical powers and own personality. Writers from many countries used similar plots. For example, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen used such characters and situations in his tales The Tinder-box and The Flying Trunk. Stories have many differences, like author, length or plot, but there is always one similarity – focus on main characters. The screen adaptation of the fairy tale ...

There are numerous works that can be reviewed for this paper. In the same manner, there are a lot of people who can be considered as the topic. In this case, however, the one chosen was John Hume, particularly the speech that he gave when he was awarded as one of the recipients of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize together with David Trimble. This speech is remarkable mainly because not everyone gets entitled to receive this prize. It is more than just an honor; it is a product and recognition of one’s life work, a feedback that tells ...

Introduction

Born in India, on the territory of present-day Nepal, Buddha not only influenced Indian culture and spiritually, but has also become one of the world’s most appreciated systems of belief. Buddhism emerged at a very specific moment in the history of India, when the changes in the political and philosophical realm coincided with the different problems in the society (Begum 2013). Buddhism, which emerged as a new and surprising religion, contradicted many of the Brahmanical beliefs which people in India shared in the 6th century B.C. The Buddha’s concerns and the vision on the society, which is ...

In his 2009 publication dubbed Life as Politics, Asef Bayat presents his readers with an impression based on ten years of research and reflections. Apparently, the author’s text depicts the lives of the working poor in the Middle East, and as per his assertions, the female gender makes up a considerable percentage of the group. With his target population in mind, Bayat’s observations revolved around the determination of how the mentioned group has been significant to not only the social but also the political changes of the Middle East. To that end, central to Bayat’s analysis ...

Objective of civic engagement: manifestation of democracy through the ballot

As a primary step towards my Project, I started with the topic of maximizing civic engagement related to the involvement of education and direct interaction with the electorate. The importance of the topic came from the fact that there has to be mass voting to ensure a clearer picture of the democratic choice. The electorate is a significant factor for not only deciding their governing representatives but also in shaping the public stand towards the formation of the right government. Hence, there has to be a vigilance or awareness drive for the voters of the region so that they ...

Different social theories claim that every behavior can be modified to a better one. Panopticism is one of these theories, which has its origins in the book “Discipline and Punish” by Michel Foucault. The french philosopher spent a lot of years examining human behaviors and trying to find ways how to improve it, make it better and easier for others to understand. He collected his knowledge in the book and presented it to society, which should change after got acquainted with the message of the book. He used the panopticon to illustrate the tendency of subjugating citizens by disciplinary ...

Shomei Tomatsu’s black and white untitled photograph attempts to tell the audience the horrific repercussions of the Second World War II especially on the human life. On this picture, the photographer depicted a man emerging from the shadows, his face covered with wrinkled skin the rest of his face was hidden from plain sight but from the looks of his face, the audience can tell how great the damage brought by the atomic bomb blast on his face. The nuclear attack which destroyed nearly half of his face managed to create a large keloid scar on the right ...

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The book The life you’ve always wanted: The spiritual disciplines for ordinary people was written by John Ortberg and published by Zondervan in 2002. The main topic is the personal transformation in the spiritual terms which only a person willing to make a spiritual progress is capable of. The book opens with the description of personal failure and a willingness to improve oneself by becoming a better person. Ortberg discusses the term morphoo and explains that it is “the inward and real formation of the essential nature of a person” (Ortberg, 2002, p. 23). Morphing means becoming a ...

Little things in life – these are not a coffee in the morning, not silk skirts, not funny posts on live journal and new pictures on the mirror, not a fast, unlimited Internet, not a fashionable cafe, not new books or old silent films. It's not that, no. Little things in life are small, simple, unicellular, kind actions marked nearly touch. One man committed, did, asked, said something important for another, when it is not needed and is not asked to do. That are - those fractional pebbles and pearls that make up the picture, mosaic, fresco of our life. ...

The work of George Orwell “Nineteen Eighty-Four” represents a totalitarian universe Oceania with its own world, rules, and even language. The author believed in close interconnection between the regime in the country and the official language used by ordinary people. Thus, the writer thought that with the corruption of thought, language suffers, too. To explain his ideas, the novelist created a special language “Newspeak” for his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” a language designed by the totalitarian state Oceania used to deprive people of the freedom of thought and crush in the bud the concepts of freedom, individuality, self-expression, peace, etc. ...

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Communication is a substantial aspect in the human life which plays a great role in the psychological and intellectual development of personality. Socializing with people, a person can represent himself or herself in the society and personal surroundings. It`s an undeniable fact that communication means interaction and cooperation between people which help to gain social status and become socially valuable. There are different ways of communication between people, which include visual, physical, close or distant contacts and the most popular way of communication today is social networks. Certainly, this type of socializing doesn`t suppose eye-to-eye contacts or ...

The relevance of this work is expressed by the fact that the interest to Japan is increasing today. Many people, who are interested in modern Japan, are also interested in its history and culture. Consequently, the interest to theaters is also increasing, including the theater of Kabuki, which captivates the audience with its colorfulness and accessibility. The aim of this work is to fully consider the birth of Kabuki theater and study its origins, the specificity and role in Japanese culture. On the basis of the work’s purpose I have set the following objectives: - Consider the occurrence ...

Leadership Reflective Plan

Leadership is all about extrapolating one's vision of the future upon others and taking responsibility for the possible mistakes. People usually start following leaders when they have no other option. That is to say, people need a leader when they either have no vision of their own future or they are afraid of taking responsibility for their own mistakes. To this end, leadership studies imply a development of two major aspects such as endless passion that motivates surrounding people and some sort of fatalism that helps to take risky steps in the course of time. As for the theoretical ...

1.0 Introduction Panda is one of the most famous and successful restaurants in the US preparing and selling Chinese food. Indeed, the ultimate success of this company is an indication that there are several aspects that gears its breakthrough. A close and critical analysis conducted in regard to the business shows that some of the components studied in class have been applied in the company as discussed in section 2.0 and 3.0. 2.0 Components in Class Readings Used by Panda Express 2.1 Social Media Use During the class readings, the essence of social media and how it affects customer ...

Central Part of Mexican National Identity

Mexican identity was shaped during the 19th century not by the elite in the society but the ordinary people who were limited in both social and economic resources. Even after independence in 1821, there were persistent issues of political instability, military uprising and foreign invasions that led to social problems among the citizens. As Gillingham puts it, the village benefitted from Cuauhtémoc bones through economic progression that led to major development programs and achievement of political prominence. Cuauhtémoc was a symbol for the elites before it decided to embrace the lives of the ordinary people, thereby, leading ...

It is life’s obvious fact that each of us has our own way facing our emotions, particularly those that are deemed better off forgotten and erased. Perhaps this is because of the human need to always be at a safety zone, where nothing can be harmful for the person, regardless if these are physical dangers, psychological and mental, or even emotional in nature. As such, this human tendency to escape from emotional and psychological burden is very apparent in the 1980 film, Ordinary People, which was directed by Robert Redford and starred Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, and ...

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Mass communication in the 21st century is no longer one way. Everyone takes part in the communication channel because everybody seems to be involved in the production and transmission of information. Modern technology has made communication more interactive, and collective organization of activism has become a lot easier. Digital communication has also made it possible to pass political messages to larger audiences, thus making political activism easier than it was in the past (Reitan, 2007). Therefore, this article presents how dynamics have changed and how that is impacting global activism. Besides, present day technology has helped promote social justice ...