This is Kate Calle and I am a first year Sociology graduate student at Texas A&M University. For three months this summer, I will be volunteering for Project Hope in Nablus, Palestine. The majority of my time will be spent teaching children refugees English but I will also be teaching students computer skills through Project [...]
From the monthly archives:
November 2009
I’ve known quite a few “emo” kids, but in reality, I believe they characterize more post-emotional traits. “Emo” kids usually listen to music that talks about how life comes at you and you have no ability to stop it. Personally, I find it a bit too much like a child whining. Postemotionalism is a type [...]
Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club describes a Nietzsche influenced reaction to modern materialist culture. In Fight Club, the narrator Joe is trapped by consumerism and all the flaws of materialism and capitalism. While fighting internally with modern day consumption, Joe manages to create a super human personality, Tyler Durden. Tyler recognizes the flaws of society and [...]
Since 1922, Egypt has been struggling with freedom. Hamed Oweis’ painting, Fellah, represents the constant feeling of being contained within certain parameters in Egypt ranging from pre-revolutionary Egypt, Nasser’s socialism, and Qutb’s Islamism. Although each stage tried to free the individual, each failed in a different way. Pre-revolutionary Egypt tried to liberate Egyptians by finding [...]
In recent years, women have come very far in society; they can vote, divorce, get a job, etc. The problem is that society is greedy and wants everything and women have taken it upon themselves to give whatever asked. They take on every role creating an unrealistic definition of what a woman is. Women must [...]
Cairo is a city filled with versatility. The architecture and city planning varies from one part to the next. This change goes hand and hand with the change of politics and culture within the city. Cairo is so old that you can literally see its transformation by walking its streets. The various streets of Old [...]
Islam emerged in a time of change for the Arabic peninsula. A once agrarian society was quickly developing a large trade based economy. The economic change transformed the underlying characteristics of society. I believe that Islam was a productive force in aiding the social and economic transformation. Therefore, the rise of Islam as a religio-political [...]
As a child, I was a part of the Catholic schooling process. Every day since I was four, up until graduation, the Catholic faith has been drilled inside my head. Rather than reaffirming my faith it has caused me to feel an internal pain experienced due to the feeling of never being good enough. I [...]
America has come a long way dealing with race. America built it’s foundations on racism and sexism. Since the Civil Rights Era, difference is being dealt with in a different, underlying way. Difference is acceptable but only in stereotypical forms. The current democratic primary candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barrack, have had to deal with the [...]
Conflict in Postmodern society has become blatantly apparent since the bombings on September 11th. All of the hidden struggles were brought to the forefront. Even though this has occurred, everyone seems to just tag along and do nothing about the obvious corruption. The Postmodern United States had a Postemotional response to the events that occurred [...]
