Cosmopolitanism

Albane Valenzuela History 95N Thematic Maps and Maps as Products: A Social Story All maps tell stories that have either shaped or were shaped by history. During the age of exploration and discovery, cartography was primarily a political enterprise that helped the state assert its colonial and imperial endeavors by drawing the boundaries of newly claimed territories. Gradually, these topographic maps evolved into more specific, accessible objects. The numerous social,…

animal models of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 1:191-209. DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2011-111217 Cappeliez, S., Johnston, J. (2013). From meat and potatoes to ‘real-deal’ rotis: Exploring everyday culinary cosmopolitanism.” Poetics 41(5):433–55. Koç, Mustafa, Jennifer Sumner, Anthony Winson. Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press Canada. Koç, M., Sumner, J., Winson A. (2016). Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, 2nd…

Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Leader of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazi Party. Since the defeat of Germany in World War II. Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the results of Nazism have been regarded in most of the world as synonymous with evil. Historic and cultural portrayals of Hitler in the West is almost uniformly negative, sometimes neglecting to mention the adulation the German people…

The postcolonial period incorporates such unsettled issues as formation of cultures and identities and to what extent entire decolonization can be achieved not only in the political area but also in the cultural and psychological aspects of the colonized societies. Since the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century, discussions on whether identities and cultural properties are fixed and stable or protean and unsettled have been in progress ardently without any unanimity. One of the…

His cosmopolitanism and his eagerness to be a master of so far-ranging a cultural sphere is a hallmark of his fiction. His construction of a past upon a foundation both national and foreign was his way of being profoundly Argentine. The basic hypothesis of Borges’s…

His obsession with El Greco started when he went to study in Madrid where he was impressed by El Greco’s magnificent heads. As early as 1899 he had filled page after page of a sketchbook with caricatures of Greco-like portraits, often with flamboyant ruff collars, exaggerating their pointed chins, their schematic quality and their hyper-refined tonality. One of his heads even had the inscription: Yo El Greco, yo Greco! Shortly afterwards Picasso’s Blue Period followed and there his pictures were…

Abstract: The Indian born writer Bharathi Mukherjee is one of the most widely known immigrant writers of America. When she got married with Clark Blaise a Creative Writer in Canada in 1960. There onwards she became a Canadian citizen. Her seven years stay in Canada made feel like an ‘alienated outsider’ and an unwanted ‘visible minority’. The racial discrimination meted out to the expatriates in Canada which made her to leave that country. So she came to the U.S.A in 1980 to become a permanent…