Tag: hierarchy

  • Coriolanus

    Coriolanus

    William Shakespeare went to high schools where the latin classics were taught. Shakespeare’s interest in Roman history typified the more general Renaissance fascination with the classical world. Set in the earliest days of the Roman Republic, William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is a dramatic exploration of the tensions inherent in a society transitioning from monarchy to republic, where…

  • License on the Red Planet – A science fiction story

    License on the Red Planet – A science fiction story

    Clementine woke up suddenly. She had dreamt that she was on the Red planet again, the planet where she was born. She was still considered a citizen of this planet, not of the Planet Brown for which she had left everything. As she couldn’t pay for extra luggage, she had arrived five years ago now…

  • The Help

    The Help

    The NYT on The Help:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/movies/the-help-spans-two-worlds-white-and-black-review.html?pagewanted=all https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000000992277/maid-in-the-usa.html?smid=tw-share Wikipedia on The Help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson: https://youtu.be/U3NJC18Oi04?si=dyoUfoP8mShqx26y “The 2016 election was a result of anxiety about dominant groups’ future status rather than a result of being overlooked in the past.” “Those who felt that the hierarchy was being upended (…) were most likely…