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Introduction             During the past couple years, the world has experienced several shooting massacres motivated by different political agenda that left behind hundreds of dead and injured people. Those lucky ones who survived these attacks will live forever with the memory of going through this terrible event, and those who died will forever be missingContinue reading “Final Project – Attackers’ Manifestos Analysis”

In the text, Steven Pinker tries to explain how our moral instinct works, what it actually is and how we use it. According to Pinker, the moral instinct, or moral sense, is considered to be a sixth sense. Thanks to this sense, we are able to rationalize our decisions and judgements. To me, the mostContinue reading “Pinker – “The Moral Instinct””

Introduction General overview Method used to analyze the manifestos Introducing the Roberts Miller’s “Characteristics of Demagoguery” Introducing the Daily Stormer’s Playbook Brief introduction of the manifestos Manifestos Analysis Manifesto of Tarrant General information and background about the attack Analysis of the manifesto, speech and the rhetoric of the attacker Public reactions, consequences, brief analysis ofContinue reading “Final Project Proposal”

My relationship to rap music is pretty conflicted and complicated just as the author’s relationship to this genre. Before reading this article, I have probably never thought of rap music in this deep way, mostly because it is not a genre of music I usually go for. However, I would say that reading the articleContinue reading “My feelings/relationship to rap music”

For my final paper, I will analyze four manifestos. These will be manifestos of Tarrant, Dylann Roof, Patrick W. Crusius, and John Earnest. I will analyze all of these individually according to Roberts Miller’s “Characteristics of Demagoguery” and Daily Stormer’s Playbook. Together with manifestos, I will analyze some reactions of public to these. The mainContinue reading “Brief Final Paper Proposal”

Both sex and gender are terms very well known to all of us. However, do we know what they actually mean and represent? In the documentary Codes of Gender, these terms are discussed in more detail and it is argued that “the two sex/two gender distinction is a socially created one, not natural”. The documentaryContinue reading “Analysis and Comparison of Instagram Model Alahna Ly and Gentleman Quarterly’s “20 hottest male models on Instagram””

In the Open Letter written by John Earnes, a gunman armed with an AR-15 style rifle who fired shots inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway in April 2019, there is a lot of demagogic rhetoric that can be spotted and analyzed. According to Roberts Miller, we characterize demagoguery as a “polarizing propaganda thatContinue reading “Analysis of the Open Letter from Poway Synagogue Shooter John Earnes”

The first article talks about the concept of branding a condition which the author describes as a way to help brand managers and clinical community solve certain problems and find solutions by staying focused on a single story. One of the main author’s claim is that if branding done appropriately, the product can better ownContinue reading “The Art of Branding a Condition & The Order of Things”

Topics for my final paper would probably be one of the followings: (Over)using of Social Media How social media simplify our lives? How much we communicate via social media? How much of our lives we share with others? Is not it too much? The power of written text Gay Marriage Around the World Spreading theContinue reading “Final Paper Topics”

1) What are Diamond’s main claims? Jared Diamond discusses the broad pattern of human history on all continents and asks himself a question of why history took such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents. He compares the evolution of different parts of the world and explains what the main causes were of whyContinue reading “Diamond & Gladwell”