Appropriation

In recent decades, a great deal of scholarship has emerged regarding the topic of mythological and fairy tale appropriation in Eudora Welty’s various works, especially in her short story collection The Golden Apples. Secondary to her utilization of myth and fairy tale is the accompanying gender role reversal evident in her re-structuration and characterization of the traditional tales that she chooses to interpret. However, the fact that scholars like Rebecca Mark, Joseph Millichap, and Lauren…

In William Cronon’s piece “The Trouble with Wilderness”, he documents such an appropriation of nature with by the “elite urban tourists and wealthy sportsmen” who “created wilderness in their own image” (23). This came at the expense of Native Americans who having inhabited these lands for generations, being driven out of their ancestral…

Counting priorities Budgeting involves much more than setting priorities and allocating money. As Albert Einstein claimed, “not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted (Lewis & Hildreth , pp.17).” Immediately, Einstein’s suggestion implies that certain things cannot be immediately counted for by placing a value to them. Accurately enough, this is the case when dealing with a budget. Simply stated, a budget is no longer static bougette limited by its…

Weakening of the territory’s link, but persistence of the territorial identities In order to understand the Kabyle collectives’ dynamics on the Internet, we need to look at the sociology of immigration. The Sayad (1977) showed that the first two generations of Kabyle immigrants in France were strongly connected with their country of origin. The relation with the territory of Algeria, Kabylia and more specifically with the village of origin was mainly characterized by the hope and the project of…

This, links us back to the elite conception. These, through the centuries, with the appropriation of power, have created a circle, an “hereditary caste”, different fields that are always unified within American society that act together to defend their common interests and keep their status quo stable. We are talking about individuals that…

This engraving from Theodore de Bry dates back to 1594, or more than a century after the discovery of Christopher Colombus. It describes the violence of the Western population’s arrival in the Americas, protected by armor and weaponry, in front of the representation of barely dressed Indians - if not naked - totally disarmed. Two distincts time of the New World discovery are depicted in this image. On the background we can observe three sheeps from Columbus’ fleet. Part of the crew deploys the…

Background. Jan 25, 2017, the 45th President of the U.S. signed an executive order to implement border security. It has character of urgency, so he orders to start immediately the building of an impenetrable barrier to impede that “bad hombres” and “very bad hombres” access to America’s territory, mostly from Mexico. In Addition, Mr. Trump expresses Mexico will pay “the great wall” not a fence. He has supporters at all levels of American society. For example, Silvio Canto Jr. states, “very bad…

reinforced the point that the misuse of indigenous ceremonies by non-natives is particularly frustrating when indigenous peoples only recently gained the legal right to practice their indigenous beliefs (Aldred 81). Concerns with current identity and appropriation were at the forefront of the Mashpee Wampanoag’s discussion, especially when non-indigenous people were receiving money for providing an indigenous “experience” to members of a dominant culture that historically oppressed indigenous…

The lawyer discredited the hairstyle as being African-American because a Caucasian actress wore them as if there is not such thing as culture appropriation. This case and many others like Rogers’ put a damper on the fire in the black community’s heart and have been recognized as one of the many factors why the original “Naturalista” movement ended. Today the naturalista movement has influenced all streams of media. In film there is more diversity in roles of black women and the different…

Cost Veteran’s health benefits are not a government entitlement, as they are limited by the amount provided in advance by the appropriations process in Congress. The Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014, was allotted $10 billion to create the “Veterans Choice Fund” to cover the costs of the expected increase in access to non-VA care. However, the Choice program authority will end when funds are exhausted or three years after enactment, whichever occurs first. Furthermore,…