Western world

Immediately after the crash, the world was still in shock over the cruelness of the event that had happened. Many different governments and media reacted in varying ways, such as the US blaming the USSR, and the Soviet Union softening up the crash. (Gorman 1659) Throughout the entire world, many countries and organizations were also enraged over the fact that a civilian plane, full of innocent people, was shot…

Vision and Sound: Polyphony in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Vaikom Muhammed Basheer’s Walls The term polyphony, meaning multiple voices, has its origin in Western music. Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian thinker has adopted the term polyphony to explain the nature of Dostoevsky’s novels. In his Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics Bakhtin says that Dostoevsky makes his characters free from his control and allows them to have their own voices. In the same work, Bakhtin later says that…

Christy’s prior self. ‘the walking Playboy Of The Western World’ is commented by Widow Quin sarcastically on Christy’s personality. ‘Playboy’ In The Positive Sense Widow Quin once again uses the phrase ‘The Campion Playboy of the Western World’ but here she uses it in positive sense unlike the previous usage. It is an attribution to the champion athelete. Christy is in a winning spree in the sports he participated in. old Mohan comes…

The Renaissance, the period in Europe roughly from 1350 to 1550, was a very interesting period in the Western world. It was a period in which the people living during this time knew that they were trying to reform western culture, hence why the period was named by the people of the time, which is very rare. The citizens of the Renaissance period were bringing back the various aspects of life that were lost in the eras before them. One of the fundamental objectives of this period was to throw…

Whilst there is no doubt that a system of bandits did exist, what is less clear is how far the Thuggee archive is entirely an orientalist product full of inaccurate reflections of Indian crime especially Thuggee. Notably, the “authentic archive” was created by Sleeman himself indicating accounts on thugs were influenced by preconceived notions of Indian men. Consisting of oriental biases, the archive was perhaps a product of ‘deep-seated European inclination’ to civilise India. Depicted as…

and even simple daily life traditions. This authority that the western have over the “ orient” has a lot of critical aspects to discuss. One major argument is that why do westerns have an authority power over the “orient”? One answer could be because of the European colonization such as Britain and France and recently the United States. But even with…

unable to effectively protect their children against harm and need the aid of Western countries. Russell surprisingly asks, “This has been going on for years?” which demonstrates that this situation has been occurring for a long time in Uganda and the African people have not been able to do anything to help these children, thus implying that the African community is powerless. Africa 's alleged dependence on Western…

Compare & Contrast Essay (Rough Draft) To many people, the word “other” means not this one, but that one; or the alternative one not the same one. It also has a much larger definition that can be more relevant to a person or a place. Different or distinct from the one or ones already mentioned or implied, and a group or a member of a group that is perceived as different, foreign, strange, etc. These last two definitions are more accurate definitions of this study. A compare and a contrast essay…

Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka criticises the racial attitudes of his society to ironically highlight the unjust treatment of black people. The poem features a telephone conversation between an African traveller looking for accommodation and a white landlady, whom, upon hearing that the traveller is black, refuses to lodge him a room. Soyinka constructs three key concepts which include the supposed superiority of the white population, the ignorance of white people and the format of a…

about the re-evaluation of the western history and the Western women. These twenty-one essays were firstly presented at the Women’s West Conference in 1983 and later edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson and turned into a book. It starts with an introduction essay by Armitage which points out the importance of the conference and the revision of the Western history through women’s eyes. Her aim by composing such collection of essays is illustrating how western history includes mythical…