Cosmopolitan

The film, “Maria Full of Grace”, was directed and written by Joshua Marston. (Wikipedia) And it is talking about a Colombia girl Maria taking risks to smuggle drugs into the United States instead of working in the flower industry for domestic subsidies. The whole process is rise and fall. But fortunately, Maria arrived in New York and end the drug trafficking. The method for smuggling is really dangerous because people need to wrap them up and swallow. If people don’t care, drugs will rupture…

anti-Semitic pamphlets that were freely distributed. Hitler writes about the development of his anti-Semitic views in Mein Kampf: For me, this was a time of the greatest spiritual upheaval I have ever had to go through. I had ceased to be a weak-kneed cosmopolitan and became an anti-Semite." Vienna, he said, had significantly contributed to his becoming anti-Semitic, "At the time of this bitter struggle between spiritual education and cold reason, the visual instruction of the Vienna streets had…

When we think of the greats in literature, we think of Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Jack London. Though these are not the only names that can convey meaning in the written word. Children’s books are essential in this way, on the surface, they may not look to be anything other than simplistic entertainment, though they are truly rich with deeper meaning. These brightly decorated pieces of literature are vital to children learning about how the world works. They can teach…

We are both socialized and trained to have anxiety over masculinity, femininity, and about our body as a gendered construction. It has become an obsessive concentration in an increasingly visual culture, a perpetual quest to meet expectations of self and standards of society. The world in which we live writes a disastrous and oppressive fiction of “woman” which involves an incessant devaluation and dismissal. Femininity is synonymous with weakness and never-endingly associated with things such…

What is Cultural appropriation? It is the stealing of one’s culture as a fashion trend, while at the same time, disregarding the cultural importance of the object that is being plagiarized, and being commended for it. Cultural appropriation is a very impolite act. Not only is the person stealing the culture’s object to identify themselves, but the people of that culture that the person is plagiarizing, is totally ignored. Particularly, as reported by Twitter user @slytherinpunk, cultural…

Success Kid In the age of ever changing technology and media forms, one must be constantly searching for what makes new platforms different from the rest. Long ago, oral traditions dominated the way ideas were spread. Eventually, written records surged to dominate the way individuals communicate, which opened an avenue where people could interact with each other without being face to face. This phenomenon, while extremely beneficial, introduced the notion of the control of text. The author of…

Appiah's article The Case for Contamination concentrates on social change and globalization. He considers globalization to be a positive thing bringing positive changes to conventional lifestyles. Via painstakingly choosing his cases, he exhibits different types of social collaboration because of globalization. Toward the beginning, he portrays a tale about Ghanaians appreciating a customary celebration even as they exhibit acknowledgment of current lifestyle. Appiah contends that Ghanaians have…

wisdom is Philosophy. Philosophy comes from the Greek word of Philosophia which literally translates to the love of wisdom. In the ancient Hellenistic world especially in mainland Greece on the Attica peninsula. Here the city of Athens grew into the cosmopolitan city of the ancient world. It was here that many of the ancient world’s greatest thinkers challenge that ingrained understanding of the world. Two of these thinkers have gone down in history as…

The Depiction of Vitiligo: Public Perception Through the Years For millennia, Vitiligo has been a condition of shame. 2000 years ago, to the untrained eye, the colorless macules of Vitiligo resemble those of leprosy and resulted in many individuals being grouped with lepers. The Bible made no distinction between the two diseases and sufferers of both were cast out. As medicine advanced into the twentieth century, it became known that Vitiligo was a disease caused by the autoimmune destruction…

Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff, Wales. His parents named him Roald after Roald Amundsen, because he was a Norwegian who had been the first man to reach the South Pole. Sofie Magdalene Dahl and Harald Dahl are Roald’s parents. They met in the United Kingdom. Later both, of them emigrated to Sarpsborg in Norway and later got married in 1880. Roald has a total of six siblings. Astri, Alfhild, Asta, Else, Louis, and Asta. Louis Dahl is the oldest out of seven children. Around…