Metanarrative

Hughes, T.S Eliot, and George Watsky all discuss existential conflict in their poetry. In The Weary Blues, Hughes uses the metanarrative of the song within the poem, which adds depth to the narrative and places a great importance on self-worth and finding your ‘place’ in the world. The entirety of the song describes, in a metaphorical and symbolic sense, the plight of the African-American…

Some countries are vastly different. From architecture to greetings, people around the world have built their cultures and societies around the geography, resources available, and themselves. While some powerful nations, such as the United States and China, can differ in nearly every way, in the Western world contrast between the countries becomes minor. This essay will explore the similarities and dissimilarities between Finland and the United Kingdom from interactionist and postmodernist…

Totalizing: Before the 1970s, many social theorists imagined society as an integrated whole. Thus, they attempted that a universal logic accounted for all human experience. However later theorist have criticized, earlier theories as “totalizing attempts” and argue that universal mechanisms and assumptions cannot account for the variations in human development and history. Also, Later theorist assert traditional social science premised on white, patriarchal, male dominated European colonialism…

talks of how we cant ascribe a fixed meaning to what beauty means and this keeps changing with time, in diferent social settings creating different individual meanings of what beauty means. His idea of postmodernism offers an incredulity toward metanarratives that represent a nature of reality and the concept of a…

With regards to the moral stance of monogamy, homicide, theft etc, we are very much divided again. Within the Nuer tribe, who follow the spiritual essence of the totem, polygamy is very much accepted, often identified as natural. Whereas, within more traditional religious cultures, it is thought of as sinful and intrinsically wrong. Additionally, many societies would see the killing of another human being as inherently wrong, something which could be ascribed as an absolute universal truth.…

Soviet youth culture reveals a change in the ‘us/them’ binary. Perhaps one of the more critical errors of the Soviet Union was its persistence in orientalising the USA and the Western World as the undesirable and reviled ‘other.’ This otherness metanarrative increasingly faltered as the issue of juvenile delinquency and rebellion was linked to both cultures. This was a new and changing mode of knowledge production in which US media culture was undercutting the Soviet propaganda…

The Puritans followed the Bible as closely as possible. The magistrates referred to one scripture in the Bible time and time again as to see how to deal with the accused witches, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18). Since the Puritans followed the Bible so strictly, they believed all accused witches that had been proven guilty were to be hanged or burned at the stake. The Puritans also believed North America to be the Devils country. They began to fear anything new and…

Shahjahanabad has been a contested site culturally, historically and geographically. Not surprising, therefore, that the literary expressions engaging with this disputed space have had to work their way through many negotiations and contradictions. ‘Culture’ has figured centrally in all discourses arising in and from this space in all senses of the term as Shahjahanabad (alternatively referred to as ‘Dilli’ and post-independence, ‘Old Delhi’) has boasted of a heady and unique “way of life”,…

Since the beginning of the 20thcentury, it has been deliberated that the works of Marx have shaped and sculpted many aspects of art through to the postmodern era. Barbara Kruger is one of many postmodernists, who’s practice demonstrates the issues of the social and economic powers of the 1980s, by applying her work to all echelons of society. Through the theories of many postmodern critiques, the original Marxist views have been retrospectively accepted however re-worked within the master…

James Lind Christian Worldview 09/15/2015 Jeff Jibben Christian worldview Introduction A worldview is an aspect through which, any individual establishes his or her personal belief system to comprehend the everyday existence and even the entire world. People have their particular viewpoint and even beliefs to be able to understand the world. A worldview is generally recognized as the lenses in a pair of eyeglasses by which we observe the world. Our worldview can easily color our opinions or…