Greece after the Peloponnesian War: • Nature and impact of the Spartan hegemony; role and significance of Lysander‚ Agesilaus - Sparta won the Peloponnesian War. The war had ruined many states economically and spiritually. A true leader was needed. Thucydides believed Sparta would unite Greece and lead through goodwill. However‚ during the war Sparta had medised and sold the Ionian states to the Persians. Sparta could hardly claim to be the ‘liberator of the Greeks’. - Sparta had however earned
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soviet/ communist ideology‚ the decline of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)‚ and the disintegration of USSR into the 15 states which occurred on 25 December 1991. The implementation of glasnost and perestroika‚ the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe‚ Reagan’s Arms Race‚ the rise of nationalist movement in USSR all contributed to the collapse of USSR by hastening the speed in swhich the USSR collapsed. However‚ the rivalry between Gorbachev and Yeltsin was the most important
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benefits the group wholly. When a group designs itself in a way that will conform to their specific version of success‚ they flourish. However‚ at this cost individuals may lose their sense of creativity. Karen Ho‚ the author of “Biographies in Hegemony‚” explores how hierarchical systems are ever so present in top Ivy League institutions. The pressures to enter financial job markets are always pressed into the students. While she develops a negative connotation of these hierarchical systems‚ through
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1. PRESENT YOUR ARTEFACT (about 100 words) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=RTsqFxA7EgM This video from The Young Turks News Network discusses Indian Athlete‚ Santhi Soundarajan who failed a gender test following her silver medal in the women’s 800m race at the Asian Games in Doha. The show’s host Cenk Uygur‚ is nonchalant in his mockery of the athlete and candidly jokes about the athletes gender saying‚ “Maybe the executive staff member slipped out of her shorts (laughs)”
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When a sub-culture becomes dominant in society‚ it is said to have attained hegemony. A hegemonic subculture has the power to convince the vast majority of people that its ideas are the best right mainstream ones. It can also brand other subcultures and their ideas as deviant. Hence‚ a hegemonic power has control over ideas in society and shapes the way society thinks. They can come in the form of institutions in society‚ and hegemonic ideas tend to be those of the ruling class in society. Art
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has taken up her role in the Patriarchal Hegemony that surrounds Veronese society and she and all women have not made any effort to change it‚ but instead have absorbed and continued through with the tradition without any question of if it is right or fair to women. Lady Capulet is typical of women of the time as her marriage to Capulet is portrayed to be one of power ‚ money and status rather than of love. Juliet does not feel this Patriarchal Hegemony is how Veronese society should function but
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he could emphasize the rank orders of intelligence or normalcy. In order to give more information towards the distribution of the curve. 4.) Briefly explain Davis’s argument the novels serve to reproduce “the hegemony of normalcy.” Davis argument that novels are reproducing “the hegemony of normalcy” by trying to enforce public venues. Thus making every literary work have some form of reference to the abnormal. Therefore making it rare when a novel doesn’t have some kind of character with a disability
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remarked that the Elitists approach is closely connected to the works and ideas of Gaetano Mosca‚ Roberts Michels and C. Wright Mills and the founder of such an approach to studying political power (W. Pareto)‚ who opposed his ideas to those of Marx and Gramsci. Therefore‚ there is a conflict of ideas‚ which is to be unveiled in this essay. Firstly‚ Marxists approach to political power is to be briefly overviewed. The cornerstone of all Marx’s work is the base-superstructure model-every aspect of his work
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homogenization of cultures. This essay will explore the arguments behind the possible causes‚ specifically‚ the notions of forced acculturation as opposed to the voluntary embrace of Western culture. It will refer to theories of post-colonialism and cultural hegemony. First‚ it’s necessary to try to define the term imperialism. Lenin held that imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism‚ an unavoidable consequence of the financial might and monopolisation by the western world: “Imperialism is a specific
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Post-colonialism "Post-colonialism" designates a set of theoretical approaches which focus on the direct effects and aftermaths of colonization. It also represents an attempt at transcending the historical definition of its primary object of study toward an extension of the historic and political notion of "colonizing" to other forms of human exploitation‚ normalization‚ repression and dependency. Post-colonialism forms a composite but powerful intellectual and critical movement which renews the
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