Believer

Some things that I was not expecting to learn about coming into this course were other mass movements and minority groups. Reading Hoffer’s “The True Believer” really expanded my knowledge on the complexities of mass movements. At first I did not see how topics like LGBT rights and religion related to feminism, but after reading “The True Believer” I realized that that many mass movements are related to each other and have a great number of similarities. A quote by Eric Hoffer that I do not think

Nowadays, mass movement is defined as an assimilation process, where people throw away their own personal identities and follow submissively the orders of their leaders. The idea of people being obedient to some of the cruelest orders, such as killing millions of people in the Holocaust, surprises many people. Thus, many authors decide to find out the answer by bringing up many opinions about the creation of the mass movement in their own books or plays for discussion. One of those authors is Eric

not be in existence if they were not enslaved. From the article, The Sacrifice of Daniel, on the Believer, author Josh Kun disputes, “there is no Jewish identity if the Jew is loved.” (Kun p. 369). The Jewish identity is rooted in a passive identity with a need to be detested by superior identities. This shows the Jewish sexual identity has a lack of masculinity. From Henry Bean’s film The Believer, the protagonist, Danny Balint, a Jewish neo-Nazi. Danny’s hatred and criticism of Jews and himself

Believer The song “Believer”, by Imagine Dragons, they sing about how the pain and depression, they were going through, has made him stronger than before. This song tells us that your greatest strengths come from your weaknesses. Imagine Dragons are trying too say that “Pain” and depression and sadness are only stepping stones to your strength, in this song. “Believer” is about that you don’t have to dwell on your troubles and can look on the bright side of things. This song also explains that you

I needed to amplify the sound waves of the song "I am a Believer" using a two liter bottle. In order to achieve my goal of playing this song clear with, no fuzziness, and no echo I had to look at my materials. I chose water because the sound waves will resonate off and not absorb into the water, and then the sound waves will exit through holes that I cut into the bottle. The materials we used to make this sound amplify is a two liter bottle, an iPod, and water from the sink. One lesson in particular

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer is a book about human nature. When Hoffer start his life as a young age he was blinded until later in his teen’s year before he could see. He did not attend high school, neither college, but read many books and got inspired by reading from Montaigne to Hitler’s Mein Kampf. As life goes on, Hoffer worked as a longshoreman in San Francisco for over a decade and made living by writing books. “The True Believer” which drives

Orthodox is a religion that is talked less among strong Christian believers. Many of the population don’t even know that it exists, youth, and old adults are more likely to discuss the religion Catholicism. Directly following the social protocol, many think that orthodox is a religion that died out long time ago and few never learns the history behind of its being in this world. Unlike the other denominations, Orthodox churches have followed strict rules and scriptures that have been passed down

During the first three centuries after the martyrdom of Jesus, many of the Christian believers have suffered persecution to a great extent. Back in the days, these persecutions were meant to torment and prevent the spread of the faith but instead, it only gave rise to the wider spread of Christianity. Martyrdom strengthened Christianity through showing their people they willingly die for their belief. One of the events that greatly influenced Christianity would be the martyrdom of apostle Peter

speaker cabinets sound. We had to make it louder than the console speaker cabinet, which was the bottle that was untouched and not changed. The constraints we had to go by were that it had to be a 2 liter bottle, we had to play the song, " I'm A Believer" by Smashmouth, the bottle had to be attached to a 8 millimeter wire. We could use any material we wanted and do anything to the bottle we wanted, except for cutting the top of the bottle, or the bottom of the bottle off. This would be an unfair

I was always such a believer, I have always been myself- All clear and transparent; I reflected upon everyone equally and gave them the sight to look through my eyes; Then why was I deceived? Why was I made to believe that they admired my frame. While I was beautiful to none. None of them looked 'at' me... they all looked 'through' me. Like I was invisible! I have always been an introvert. I opened up only when someone really wanted me to and 'they' tried. Some even shut me down and then looked