Edward the Confessor

very popular within the literary world especially with orientalists. Many believe that in books such as A Thousand and One Night, women are portrayed as manipulative creatures who use their beauty to gain what they want. This is an example of what Edward Said describes in Orientalism…

organizations. Their current leadership including the CEO is under investigation on whether Sears and/or its officers and directors violated state or federal securities laws. This was due to the $400 million loan from ESL Investments, which is owned by CEO Edward Lampert (Kahn, 2015). The CEO is also an area of concern. Sears has a multitude of assets, since he has taken the office of CEO many of those assets have been liquidated and very little have been invested into the recovery of Sears. …

In my opinion I choose Eddie Lampert, Chairman and CEO of Sears Holdings is the worst CEO in the recent history Eddie Lampert is one of those CEO about whom none of us even bother to talk about anymore. For three consecutive years he has been on the worst CEO list. He is the man who engineered the disastrous merger between Sears and Kmart that continues to unravel two formerly great American brands. The company is still shrinking, accumalating record losses and disappointing investors. There…

Among numerous diseases that has changed the course of human history smallpox is considered to be an undeniable standout. As noted by Belongia and Naleway (2003), this disease has been “…scourge against humanity for at least the past 1500 years”. Since it has been decimating communities across the globe for more than one and a half of millennium, the virus’ footprint may be called significant. From today’s point of observation, the highlight in the history of smallpox is the period around the…

Bending the Culture: Hybridization of Punjabi Ethos in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckham “Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” - Salman Rushdie ‘Diaspora is the term used to describe any population which is considered deterritorialized, dislocated and disintegrated fostering feels of ‘unbelongingness’ and ‘dispossession’. The…

The term Mimicry underlines the gap between the norm of civility presented by European Enlightenment and its colonial imitation in distorted form. .This notion is based on Foucault‘s term that was based on Kant‘s notion. Bhabha‘s term mimicry is a part of a larger concept of visualizing the postcolonial situation as a kind of binary opposition between authority and oppression, authorization and de-authorization. He states ahead that all modes of imposition including the demand on the colonized…

3.2. The Second Paradigm: The Dialogic The second interrelated principle of Postcolonial eco-poetics is the dialogic paradigm developed and introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin. The dialogic paradigm seeks to unmask and unsettle dominant discourses in colonial and anthropocentric discourses. Bakhtin’s affiliation and appropriation to both postcolonialism and eco-poetics has been recently acknowledged by scholars and critics. Bakhtin is cited to lend prestige and weight to the theoretical sphere of…

person who started out as a kid fascinated by other famous directors and then became one himself. What did he do to become such a famous director? He is known for his disturbing and yet child-like movies, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. Everyone of all ages can be able to enjoy his movie. Tim Burton’s style is kid-friendly at first, but then it takes a disturbing and twisted turn. One of Burton's cinematic technique he uses is music. Music…

new realities” (Suvin, 15). The story fails to reimagine a narrative about European colonialism of Native Americans as defined in modern society. Instead of focusing on a true native, the story completely flips this notion and focuses on a man named Edward Danton…

is because of how Edward Cullen is with Bella. Bella explains how she feels “safe” with Edward. Not only is Edward romantically inclined; he dedicates his life in protecting Bella from various harm, whether it be from other vampires, or even humans. In fact, Meyer makes it hard to call Edward a villain or monster because he’s constantly doing good. Backstein mentions the scene in Twilight where the “humans are the men who try to rape Bella one evening in town” (215) and Edward saves Bella after…