The rich get richer and the poor stay poorer is a known phrase that is thrown around in the media…
In today’s society there have been claims where some say that we have reached a point where we live in a time frame…
W.E.B. Du Bois on “The Souls of Black Folks”
Success is something that every person want to achieve in life because everyone love the taste of winning…
Social Media and Double Consciousness
W.E.B DuBois has the idea of double consciousness, the “sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of the world that looks on in amused…
Truth and lies are not opposites, but rather the same thing. So what really is truth? It is “A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and…
Ying and Yang
Black and White
Light and Dark
Good and Evil
The Defeat of the “Veil of Ignorance”
In previous decades, African Americans were the mere representation of slaves that initiated the isolation and discrimination towards them. African Americans did not have the privilege of leading a normal life as Americans because they were imposed through misery due to the enslavement…
Today, gendered names have become a very a sensitive topic for many parents. Many parents would argue that their children should be able to choose their names once they are old enough to decide their gender. Lev Vygotsky argues in his book “For-Giving”, that humans have made the biggest…
How did we go from the idea that we need to satisfy our needs, to the ideas about capitalism and currency that Karl Marx so eloquently described in the exchange? we’ve moved away from our roots and have somehow arbitrarily assigned value to certain “commodities” that can be deemed…
Not so long ago there was a big commotion on the media about Bruce Jenner’s sex change, and that it did not make no sense for a men to have won that award. This award was completely wrong for a men to receive it because it was meant for a woman not a man to win it. I believe…
No end to skepticism. Are we what we are?
Can we ever understand Nietzsche? By his own logic, how can we ever see what he saw through his own eyes? How can…
“Perhaps the greatest (and smallest) mistake humanity has made is to give our babies opposite gender names — such an innocent but terrible mistake, heavy as a second feather on the scale of Maat” — Genevieve Vaughan
