Aboriginal Studies is something challenging to provide a perfect introduction of. It encompasses knowledge from fields as diverse as anthropology, sociology, history, and religious studies. It is contentious academic field that raises both difficult political and academic questions: can non-Aboriginal researchers properly engage its study? Can Western methods of observation, analysis, and teaching be applied to artifacts, knowledge and societies inherently different from Western conceptions…
miles of northern France. It is on the Seine River at the center point of the Ile-de France, which is the region that is home to ten million people, around one-fifth of the French population. Like almost all major cities, Paris was built upon a river. The Seine is on a much more human scale than, for example, the Thames…
In a fairly short duration Bharati Mukherjee has received a respectable attention from the critics around the world. She is described as a ‘voice’ of expatriate- immigrant sensibility. She has stayed in different places, and lived through various cultures. In her journey as a writer her creative sensibility has undergone many changes, a continuous quest from ‘expatriation to immigration’. As a writer her concern can be seen in the lives of South- Asian immigrants in the USA and Canada and the…
The Central Valley has played an important role in California being the strongest economic state in the country. The Central Valley, which population centers comprise of Fresno, Clovis, Modesto, and Visalia, have contributed substantially to California’s economy by being one of its leading agricultural producers. In contrast to its city-orientated “brother” in south California, or the “Bay area,” the Central Valley does not typically have busy streets, tall buildings, sandy beaches, and…
Introduction: Chaco Canyon is home a diverse collection of the most fascinating archeological sites from ancient North America, and among these sites is the well-known Pueblo Bonito. This great house is undoubtedly the most famous of all Chaco Canyon great houses, with well over 350 ground rooms, 32 kivas, and thousands of significant artefacts relating to Anasazi culture. The buildings of Pueblo Bonito were occupied over a variety of years, spanning from ca. 850 until the early portion of the…
Ulrich. Both of them can shoot the other without warning. Two men met and stared each other for a moment. Fortunately, both of them did not kill each other and they make the peace. The natural disaster, such as storm made to let them reconcile At this point, this warm mood makes readers relax, but this is a device to maximize the fear will come. At the end, they both bitten by the wolves in the forest. It is then inferred that each man was to be…
America where Alfie becomes involved in guerrilla warfare. Alfie confesses that his weakness is woman. As a young boy back in old Baghdad, he used to stroll up to the diplomatic enclaves just to look at women and visited whores. Now he works for Clovis. T. Ransome and has a sexual affair with Ransome’s wife Maria. Maria, the dark, sensuous, liberated Latin woman is yet another character in the story who deserves attention. She has a number of affairs with men. She is also involved in guerrilla…
and grape products for grain. Since they were located on the coast, Greece had a strategic point for trade and cultural diffusion. Athens became a rich commercial center and Greeks had a money system. They had city-states with identities and cultures. They were considerably independent and were always competing with each other. Sparta was militaristic and agricultural while Athens was cultural, political, and commercial. In Sparta, women had more rights than in other areas. They had adult male…