Borderlands

these categories, they become liminal. Valeria Sobol defines the liminal personae as ambiguous, paradoxical, and resistant to categorization. In Katya Hokanson’s assessment of Russian identity, she observes this issue of liminality in the Russian borderlands (as in the frontier of A Hero of Our Time), noting previous literary attempts to separate Russian identity from the Oriental other. For instance, Peter Scotto explains the justification of Russian imperial identity predicated on the…

At the end of the day in it appears that in this bloody game of International Politics both sides across the Durand Line are using militants as proxies to extend their interests at the cost of Pastuns living in the borderlands. Socio Economic effects of War on Terror on the borderlands. Pashtuns Live on either side of the Border. As President Hamid Karzai said the line has divided two brothers. Pashtuns strictly follow their rituals called Pashtunwali which (reference Laary P. Goodson,…

Karl Jacoby’s account of the 1871 Camp Grant massacre fits within the broad sweep of the “New Western history” a movement that arose in the 1980s, headed by scholars such as William Cronon, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and Richard White. In their reexaminations of Western history the West became a darker place, where and the violence of conquest and the ignominious glory that accompanied it defined the expanding American nation. Jacoby’s history is a narrative, though he has task in retelling the…

China in the later half of the first millennium during the 8th and 9th centuries experienced a tremendous growth in land during the Tang dynasty. This came with a great cost of supplies, money and people, almost all the burden of which fell onto the poor. Many poets during this time wrote on the duality of China's expansion from both positive and negative viewpoints. While China's constant wars hardly, if at all, affected nobles, they drained the poor almost to the point of bringing China's…

Charles Martel was born on August 23, 686 AD, Herstal, Belgium. He was a merciless warlike ruler who went by as Charles the Hammer. He got his nickname from his victory at Poitiers in 732. Charles was Mayor of the Palace of the kingdom of the Franks. Some facts about him: He rewarded his followers, but crushed his opponents. He gifted his followers by providing land from defeated opponents and from the church. He was considered a generous donator to monasteries, but he greatly doubted bishops…

With innovation even in its early stages, the original DOOM video game is one of the most renowned video games of all times for being the first to implement one of if not the most popular video game styles, the first person shooter. This style has become a staple, but not a requirement, in the genre of dystopian science fiction in video games many gamers know and love today.(DOOM, 1993) Franchises that followed in DOOM’s footsteps include the Half Life series, which follows a scientist named…

However far removed someone is from that ideal is a measure of their abnormality and of their inferiority. This is supported by the treatment of non-normal people by those in power, an example being institutionalized racism. In Gloria Anzaldúa’s The Borderlands / La Frontera, she recounts of a time when she was berated for speaking Spanish in school. She was told to “speak American...if [she] want[ed] to be American,” (76). Phrases like these perpetuate the idea that it is not normal for…

for many games. These two consoles have great exclusives, great multiplayer experiences, and many new, state of the art hardware additions. Some argue in favor of PlayStation, but I prefer Xbox. For example, Xbox Live Gold features triple A like Borderlands and Sunset Overdrive for free monthly. This shows that Xbox cares for their customers because they are willing to give their customers great games for discounted prices or even for free. Another example is Microsoft Studio exclusives. This…

In The Death of Josseline, there are many conflicting world views. The author interviews and visits people with many different cultural backgrounds and views on immigration. These include border patrol agents, human rights activists, environmentalists, and the ranchers who live near the border. This conflict can be felt between these viewpoints all throughout the book. It gives the reader a clear perspective of what’s going on at the border. It is a constant struggle over immigration not only in…

In Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, the question of home is always close at hand. Questions such as what does it mean to be home and what is a home are constantly circulating throughout the text and tend to haunt the Mestiza body as a raced, foreign, and oriental body. She writes that “…in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano [emphasis original] is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry ‘home’ on my back.” This is a crucial interjection…