Year: 2025

The First United Front (FUF) in China, from 1923 through 1927, combined Communists and Nationalists into a singular Guomindang (KMT) organization. Its initial intent was to eliminate Imperialist and Warlord influences residing in the country that had persisted since the 1911 Nationalist Revolution that rejected Imperial rule. The alliance served as an incubator for the […]

Zhang Yimou’s film To Live (1994) portrays what typical life in China during the ChineseRevolutionary years may have been like as folks adapted to sweeping policy changes. Yimou’s primary audience are English-speaking intellectuals who are looking for a larger exposure to modern Chinese culture. In adapting his film from the book, Yimou emphasized relatable aspects […]

Mao’s policies appealed to the peasant class because from WW1 to the end of WW2, the Chinese people were subjected to severe economic oppression by an ex-imperial class, a nascent nationalist government and usurious warlords. Mao was able to channel a relatable narrative that focused around giving the peasants land and access to education in […]

Mosley’s argument is that sports are harmful to black Americans due to exploitative effects on black people, and also that there is a racial issue in that it highlights issues with genetics being a basis for racial ideology. The argument is very agreeable, but Mosley’s process of coming to these conclusions is more what I […]

I think the shift to game reasoning is not problematic, so long as the society that the game reasoning is abstracted from is inherently an impositional society where individual nature is inhibited in favor of causing them to display exhibitional behaviors that are advantageous to a perceived higher moral authority that people share subservience to. […]

Randolph Feezell writes, “Celebrated athletes are role models, not moral exemplars.” (Feezell 32). He justifies them as being role models by indicating that they become lusory objects when playing sports, under his own criteria. Feezell defines a lusory object as, “…an object whose meaning or significance cannot be understood independent of the way in which […]

I think that performance enhancing drugs are compatible with the ideal conception of sports. Simon’s idea of sports being a, “mutual quest for excellence through challenge,” implies that if all athletes had some sort of relative class where they could compete, then PED’s would still fit within the ideal concept of sports (Simon 179). Evaluating […]

Fraleigh defines a good sports contest as, “meeting, together, standards supplied by the nature of the sports contest itself and the two cited standards”, where the first of those two standards is that a sports contest is a, “voluntary, agreed upon, human event … [with] socially approved tactics and strategy,” with the purpose to, “provide […]

I think that externalism best describes the role that sports fills in Western ideology because it seems to be the prevailing way they are conceptualized in most discussions. My understanding of externalism as it pertains to sports is that there are values held by a culture such that one could determine whether or not a […]

Why is there a rejection of peptide usage among the general population? People are offered to be cut up or are told to follow incredibly ineffective routines that all too often don’t really solve their issues. The things are often able to be eaten or injected. There are fewer objections to eating animals that have […]