English studies

her hair short and rejects her mother’s conventional life style because she too has been hybridized like her father Shamas who has got inspiration from the Britain and adapted to the western values. Shams and Mahjabin are neither true Muslim nor English due to their diverse cultural background. Mahjabin is born in Pakistan but she is brought up in England therefore she too gives obnoxious remarks on Islam and Pakistan just like her father: in Pakistan everything is divided into ‘his’ and ‘hers’.…

By engaging with the historical knowledge of such disempowered women, Spivak expands the original definition of the subaltern given by Guha and others to include the struggles and experiences of women also. According to her, “Both as object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency, the ideological construction of gender keeps the male dominant. If in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as female is even more deeply in…

One of the most influential studies about incest is found in Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Elementary Structures of Kinship, where the anthropological aspect of incest is discussed. Although this paper’s analysis is focused on Lacan’s psychoanalytical theory of desire, Lévi-Strauss theory of the structures of kinship has been used in almost every discussion about incest; therefore it should be explained before moving farther with this paper. Lévi-Strauss establishes the structures of kinship, which…

The article “Literacy behind bars” written by Malcolm X gives a brief history of the self taught education he received in prison. In the article he informs us on how his education before being sentenced to prison did not exceed the past the eighth grade. Malcolm X would spend every waking moment of his day lost in any books that he could get his hands on absorbing each and every word that he learned. He even spent some of his days going through dictionaries copying and memorizing each and every…

when assigned a topic. I have to find some source of inspiration for the topic or my writing becomes flat and boring. When painting, I create a rough draft of what I plan to paint. This sketch is often a separate page that is full of scribbles and studies of what I plan to draw, similar to creating an organizational diagram of my writing ideas and picking out what I plan to write about. More often than not, when I am making art, it…

Homework has been in school curriculum for generations, but some results show that it does little to boost academic achievement. Many people feel that the amount of homework schools are giving is too much, teachers and assigning more homework than the recommended amount causing side effects. Excessive homework for students is a recent and important issue that needs to be dealt with. Schools all around the world have started moving toward a less fearful, insecure, and unhappy environment by not…

and making inferences. It is said that this genre is, in fact, very old but, however, for the English-speaking world, detective fiction started with Edgar Allan Poe. This could be somehow true since from the stories that Poe built, more writers were captivated by this genre and tried to write something similar. This is the example of Arthur Conan Doyle, who features Poe’s character in his novel A study in Scarlet. On the plot of the classical detective novel, two separate stories are included:…

One of the worst refugee crises since World War II is occurring in Europe now. As the Syrian war continues, refugees leave and try to find somewhere safe. More than 4 million have fled the wars and 1/3 of those are Syrians (Glazer 650). They are trying to escape the terrorists in their own countries. However, one of the biggest issues, that refugees are typically tied to, is the string of terrorist attacks that have been happening lately, such as the bombings in Istanbul and the Paris attack.…

The Significance of Space in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice The settings of the events that take place in Pride and Prejudice establish tone, mood, and an orientation to the social class and conditions of the characters. The settings also serve important symbolic functions, however. Taking into consideration the ways in which indoor and outdoor settings are contrasted in this novel and identify the function that each type of setting plays and meaning it represents. The country house is…

something to earn and may have different interests. More precisely, in international negotiations, players will inevitably have different values, ways of working, understanding and communicating. This is the reason why it appears as so crucial to study the culture of the…