PHI THETA KAPPA International Honor Society of the Two Year College

Gold
1. Why have some forms of currency been preferred to others as symbols of wealth? Consider red dye, sugar, tobacco, the euro, and the peso.
2. Why is private land ownership as a symbol of wealth in the United States so important?             
3. Why are logos valuable as corporate symbols?

Gods 
4. Why is there a pyramid on the dollar bill?  Why is the phrase “In God We Trust” on the dollar bill?
5. In what ways has the cross been used as a symbol of power?
6. Why don’t Muslim artists and artists in some other cultures depict human figures?

Glory
7. How was the swastika transformed from a religious to a political symbol?
8. Does the destruction of symbols effectively diminish the power associated with those symbols?  Why, or why not?  Consider the destruction of religious icons and the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Global 
9. What symbols from the natural world connote power?
10. Globally, why is burning in effigy a symbolic gesture?
11. How have architecture and art served as symbols of the rich and powerful?