The League of Corinth was quintessentially represented a tool of Macedonian control over the known Greek world. Yet to fully understand how the League of Corinth can be interpreted as an instrument of Macedonian control‚ one must recognise the unstable relationship between the Macedonians and the Greek city states‚ particularly the Athenians‚ prior to the formation of the League in 337 BC. Indeed‚ Philip’s reign as Macedonian king‚ one of initial instability and uncertainty‚ eventually became a rule
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Female ideologies within Dove’s ‘Campaign for Real Beauty.’ Dove’s ‘Campaign for Real Beauty’ attempts to challenge the customary‚ dominant conventions and ideologies of women’s beauty in today’s culture and society. Throughout this campaign‚ Dove aimed to celebrate ‘natural physical variation’ amongst women‚ and intended to help women become more confident in their own bodies. Stuart Hall (1981) defines ideology as the ‘images‚ concepts‚ and premises’ that supply the basis from which we ‘represent
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first experiencing repression. According to Mikhail Bakhtin‚ in order for the carnival to take place‚ the hegemony‚ or those in power‚ must first label a group as grotesque. Those labeled as grotesque become the marginalized members of society (Chan‚ 9). The Inferno and Kiss of the Spider Woman‚ both considered carnivalesque texts‚ show how Dante and Molina were labeled grotesque by the hegemony of their own societies‚ which then allows for the process of carnivalization to occur. As Bakhtin stated
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2. Inherited Army Alexander is renowned as both a warrior and a military commander‚ and the early actions of his campaign demonstrated Macedonian military superiority over the Persians. At the battles of Granicus (334) and Issus (333) Alexander faced sequentially larger Persian armies before eventually routing them at the battle of Gaugamela (330)‚ forcing Darius to flee his empire‚ abdicating the throne by default. At Gaugamela‚ Alexander was greatly outnumbered‚ with Arrian—who provides the most
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Doing More with Less: A Philosophical View of Dr. Michael Apple La Vonda D. Loney Texas A&M University-Commerce Doing More with Less: A Philosophical View of Dr. Michael Apple “Money does not cure school problems” (Fowler‚ 2009‚ p.71). This sentiment was shared during a speech in 1988 by William Bennett whom served the country as the Secretary of Education under the Reagan Administration. After studying the state of education in the United States‚ he believed that there was no link between
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Furthermore‚ considering the instability of culture and the historical events that reinforce this idea‚ the seemingly inevitable act of cultural appropriation can be constructive to society. What many do not realize is that appropriation allows people to learn more about another culture: “When we attack people for stepping outside their own cultural experiences‚ we hinder our ability to develop empathy and cross-cultural understanding” (Cathy‚ 2015). Cultural adoption brings new changes and possibilities
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Taylor Rafferty Professor Kaufman Mass Comm 8 November 2015 Television for many years has been looked at as a source for entertainment for many. Hard workers‚ mothers‚ children and teenagers can all find enjoyment in watching TV and its become widely used form of media in large parts of the world. When thinking of TV its usually happy thoughts that would come to mind‚ but if TV were to be looked at through the the eye of someone analyzing it‚ there would be a lot more to basic TV viewing than meets
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| Analysis on Whether the Realism School Still Works Today with the Iraq War as the Example | Word count : 4056 MB240672 Zhao Tiantian (Daisy) | | ProfileAdmin [Pick the date] | 1. Introduction After the collapse of the Soviet Union‚ it seems that the Realism school of international relations has been at an embarrassing position. The scholars of realism had not predicted the result of the confrontation of the United States and Russia. At the same
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reinforce and construct racial discrimination. Law‚ as an ideology‚ is the “capacity to shape and constrain how people think about race” (Lopez‚ 86). It also allows the ability to provide proxy language about race and participates in establishing hegemony. Sociohistorical contextualization: In order
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of the global political economy? “The dominant ideology or political mind-set of the last 30 years” Neoliberalism is an economic ideology that is spreading throughout the world via international financial institutions and transnational corporate hegemony. During the past twenty years or so‚ the concept of neoliberalism has become widespread in some political and academic debates. It is known to be ‘The dominant ideology or political mind-set of the last 30 years.’1 Some authors have even suggested
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