Essays on Reactionary

According to Verwoert (2005), the debate over whether conceptual art or medium specific art is better still continues to this day. One of the reasons it is frequently debated is that "an increasing interest in painting has begun to emerge, particularly in recent years." This has caused art production critics and the field in general to once again ask the question as to whether there is one type of methodology that should be considered the best to use, and whether another should be deemed unnecessary? It becomes necessary to compare and contrast the two for their aesthetic value and ...

Introduction

This chapter gives an analysis of the results of the study to derive insights on why insider threats remains to be one of the leading and challenging security issues to deal with. The results of the study present a vague picture of what motivates insider threats in private organizations. The questions of why, what and how will be answered with references to the data obtained from the study. This section also demonstrates the actions taken by organizations and tries to link it with theoretical frameworks and pool of knowledge developed by earlier scholars.

Analysis

The belief that insider threats ...

Several issues arise in this article. To begin with, I have a take on the research findings, as well as how accurately it complemented what I had anticipated. Moreover, it fuelled my thoughts to query what other research could be carried out on television programming via-à-is the utility and gratifications technique, and what can be foreseen as pertains to the study (Abelman, 1987). In addition, the article raised the topic of reactionary usage of religious programming, which additionally precipitated the thought of other types of programming that most people will watch since they do not want to watch any ...

Regaining Southern Power: Comparing Whites in the South after the Civil War with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

It is common to hear people talk about the Civil War as a war that was fought to abolish slavery. It is cited as an example of American determination to bring freedom to all regardless of past wrongs. This narrative continues with the northern states-- the Union-- as the victor, and the eventual abolition of slavery. However, the American Civil War, its causes, and its eventual effects are much more complex than this narrative belies. After the American Civil War, there was a power struggle in the South; white Southerners used many tactics to regain power after the war officially ended. ...

Introduction

This research implies that there exists an interrelation of oil in both the concepts of maps and sense of place. The research utilizes the case wherein maps are used as marketing tools for oil industry that greatly affects both the concept of maps and our ‘sense of place’. During the latter years of 1920s, oil companies utilized road maps as their foremost marketing strategy and offer maps freely to customers. They employed cartography widely as a tool for advertisement. An approximated yearly production of roadmaps of around seventy million was reported by a Rand McNally executive in 1934. Moreover, the ...

In spite of the great strides made by the international women’s rights movements over the years, women in Arab countries still face issues related from the economic, cultural to the political. Women are denied the chance to political participation, equal wage, and even access to quality and higher education. Women’s rights are the entitlements and rights claimed for girls and women in the society globally. Women in most Arab countries the UAE and Saudi Arabia included are struggling to preserve their dignity and rights. Women have been subject to restrictions of their rights and freedom, but the ...

I. Introduction The Arab-Israeli conflict may seem to be one of the longest-lasting international feuds of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but in reality the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict is rooted in actions and changes that took place only in the late nineteenth century. The conflict itself only truly came to a head after World War II made significant socio-political changes to the makeup of certain countries in the Middle East, effectively throwing off political and social power balances and provoking chaos and violence in the region. According to Riedel, the violence of the Arab-Israeli conflict has ...

Introduction

The term modernism holds a meaning of radical shift in sensibilities and aesthetics that are cultural and are also evident in literature and art of the post first world war period. According to Eliot, the view of the world that was stable and meaningful could not be in terms futility’s immense panorama as well as anarchy which is modern history (Brennan). Modernism is thus taken to be a mark of emancipation from bourgeois morality; rejecting optimism in the 19th century. They were a presentation of a profound culture that was that was not in array. Modernism can be looked in three perspectives ...

There are many different ways of looking at the world, and philosophical ideas come and go in style just like many other things. Changes in larger philosophical ideas and ideals may happen due to cultural shifts or large incidents; humanity is largely reactionary, and philosophers are no exception to this rule. Today, many thinkers, artists, and writers can be grouped under a humanist classification or a poststructuralist classification when considering their work. Humanism and poststructuralism are not two sides of the same coin, although they are sometimes presented as such; however, when it comes to the meaning of the world ...