Western United States

The Western Cultural Escalation Life articulates with culture. Culture is the result of an influx of ideas which creates norms and ideologies of certain regions. Modern day culture, tends to be a hybrid of a myriad of aspects of many cultures around the world. An alpha of all of the included cultures tend to be “western culture.” Although Western culture, with its rigid bond with modernization, plays a dominant role in shaping world culture, such as creating necessity for freedom, nationalism,…

In the Poisonwood Bible, western arrogance is emphasized throughout both the Price family and the Western countries through the actions they show toward the Congo. At the start of the novel, all of the Prices hide their belongings in their clothes in order to have the necessities in the new country. These belongings have no real place in the Congo, where Betty Crocker cake mixes, a hand mirror, scissors, a thimble, pencils, and first aid supplies represent former world and stand out. These are…

Roots: ISIS and Where It Came From The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has seemed to generate itself overnight and is in the headlines more often than not. Their brutality and violence has attracted many to the cause and has inspired fear in the hearts of the international community, especially in areas where democracy and freedom are the cornerstones of society. They have shaken the very core of the world’s stance on human rights and have perplexed many world leaders on how they…

This is an entirely different style of painting compared with the traditional Western paintings. In the history of Western art, sexuality is usually defined precisely by the portrayal of bodies. For instance, women are often portrayed in various passive positions, in order to cater to male viewer’s satisfaction. The composition of a picture, selection…

Huntington’s popular book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of world order, “Western, Latin America, Islamic, Sinic or Chinese, Japanese, Hindu, Orthodox and Africa” (25) are the eight main Civilizations that make up the world. With technology improving, globalization is spreading rapidly throughout the world, and as a result, Society and social media are labeling these civilizations in a negative way. Western civilization is too modern, Islamics are too conservative, Latin Nations…

x“Survival of the Fittest” that has always been my ideology, I had never questioned before why some countries were rich and others were poor. I did question the state of poverty in my country; I had learned in many history classes in high school that when my country became independent we were leading the Caribbean in industry and economy, however by the time I was in high school we were second to last just above Haiti. I always thought that our financial ruin was caused by poor leadership, and…

assimilation within the society. In the Western society, the way of communication is very different than South Asian countries. In the eastern culture, people still have a traditional way of communication, which refers to so much respect for older people, women, and strangers. But, in the U.S., we really do not care about those kind of practices. In my own background, I do not call name for someone older than me; however, people prefer to call by name in the United States. I think, these kind of…

twentieth century resulting in the change of national values, primarily within the Western World, one must examine the importance of representation. Analysing the usage of myths and its influence on cultures, shaping values within societies to studying…

masculinity in films, advertising and magazines I will present a discussion on how the media usually conforms to and thus uphold the hegemonic view of masculinity, but also how it can challenge it. The majority of studies tend to focus on the United States or Europe, with a few other case studies on less prominent countries which examine the national hegemonic masculinity in particular. However, there are a limited number of sources which discuss the hegemonic masculinity found in the New…

policy has resulted in an economic and social dependency on the Western world as Egyptians pride themselves in using American and European commodities and global ideals they believe will enrich and improve their lives and country; however, in reality these are detrimental to their society. Through the diversification of Western commodities into Egypt, Egyptians lose their self-sufficiency and nationalist values, allowing the Western world to exploit Egyptian resources and profit through…