(The Cascades, Washington State, 2019. Joseph Kimsey) Adams, Carol J. Neither Man Nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals. Bloomsbury, 2018. Adams’s work is a study of the interconnection of feminism and animal rights, and how the prevalent attitudes of Western patriarchy have led to the oppression of and violence toward both
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(Mt. St Helens, 2016. Joseph Kimsey) What is clear to me is that a mixed-method approach is best while researching. The quantitative approach is imperative to give weight and breadth to the research – utilizing a very small sample size of any demographic would minimize the worth of the data analyzed, indicating likely skewed results.
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(Mt Rainier, 2019. Joseph Kimsey) The climb up the mountain commences… My portfolio is essentially the work of an interested, somewhat educated person who has a fascination for the social sciences. I am especially interested in the effects of hegemony and racism, as well as media (mis)representations of certain groups and demographics. Although acquiring the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZOTiIv_TQ&t=6s Fascism is definable as an authoritarian, right-wing approach to government, relying upon nationalism, capitalism, and militarism. Fascism may span from relatively “soft” forms such as Franco’s Spain to its most murderous exponents, such as Nazi Germany (Boggs 37-80). As a framework for authoritarian governance, fascism has been discerned in the strong resurgence of rightist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBF2mOz5FwE&t=45s Climate Change is defined by NASA as “. . . a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates” (NASA). Although there is a vast amount of data analyzed by climatologists which detail the effects of Climate Change, as well as its mostly anthropogenic
(Black Swan in Konya, 2017. Joseph Kimsey). Per Karl Popper, the claim that all swans are white is falsifiable, as black swans demonstrably exist. Karl Popper had an overriding desire to distinguish between authentic science and pseudoscience. For Popper, Einstein had developed a theory that was scientifically falsifiable – unlike Marxist economic theory, or Freudian
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(The Sea, 2016. Joseph Kimsey) Part I Mythological epics largely represent the society or community in which they derive. Whether considering the Odyssey and Iliad of the Greeks, the Mahabharata and Ramayana of the Indians, the Shahnameh of the Iranians, the Arthurian romances of the British, or the Icelandic sagas of Northern Europe, mythological epics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWwOi17WHpE&t=7s (Watch James Baldwin’s interview on The Dick Cavett Show) Baldwin’s powerful essay, The Fire Next Time, is a rare instance where intellectualism of a very high order, supreme literary artistry, and righteous anger merge. Baldwin’s critique of the failed promise of America, with
(Sunrise in the Forest, 2018. Joseph Kimsey) “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” – Frederick Douglass. In his autobiographical classic, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass utilizes both his considerable literary technique
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(Sphinx at Giza, Egypt, 2019. Joseph Kimsey). Globalization has proven to have a massive effect on nations such as Egypt. Globalization has been defined by Merriam Webster as “the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets” (Merriam Webster).