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Sojourner Truth, originally known as Isabelle, was a courageous woman who fearlessly expressed her beliefs. Born into slavery around 1797 in Ulster County, New York, Isabella married Thomas and had five children: Diana, Peter, Elizabeth, Sophia, and possibly another child who may have died during infancy. After relocating to New York City in 1843 and…

In the introduction to this section on group communication, I refer to Harvard social psychologist Robert Bales’ work to categorize comments made in smallgroup discussions. On the basis of his research with zero-history problem-solving groups in his lab, Bales discovered that dramatizing was a significant type of communication that often fostered group cohesiveness.1 The late…

Nationalism is a modern political ideology that creates a devotion to one’s culture and is the belief that from acting independent instead of communally will benefit nations which highlight national goals rather than international ones. Nationalism didn’t start till around the 17th, and 18th centuries which is because there was no concept of what a…

The culture, a bond through any item or event in which many people create a relationship from. The African American culture, is a tight knit community with their own personal advancements and social behaviors. I first was introduced to the definition and background of the African American culture through my dance teacher in the ninth…

For anyone that doesn’t, as the saying goes, “live under a rock”, it’s difficult not to hear of twisted acts of corporations. Corporations are powerful entities; in some cases their power seems to rival or even exceed the government’s power. Many corporations are huge amoral beasts that serve the purpose of accumulation of capital. As…

Introduction In the global world of today, with air and other speedy forms of travel, it may be easy to imagine two similar types of structures created in two distinctly different parts of the earth far apart from each other and separated in time by many centuries. However, to students of ancient history and culture,…

We normally associate the concept of death with sadness and despair. For instance, if asked to visualize death, the first mental image that arises would be the tearful passing of a loved one, or perhaps a family pet. However, poet John Donne depicts a different perspective in his holy sonnet “Death, be not proud.” Instead…

Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism, according to Benedict Anderson, has never been deeply discussed. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”, but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in…

Throughout history there have been numerous wars between humanity. Whether these wars were fought for fitting reasons or for inane ones, the fact remains that they were fought. Alexander the Great, one of the greatest strategists and tacticians to ever live, has inspired awe in many military leaders throughout history. His great strategies have left…

The outbreak of WW2 on September 1939 occurred due to numerous factors. These causes include the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler’s foreign policy, the failure of the League of Nations linked to the isolation of the US, and appeasement introduced by the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Hitlers aims consisted of abolishing the…