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Retroactive reasoning Krystof Kieslowski introduced this cinematic technique of "retroactive reasoning," in which images that seem uncertain upon first viewing build up greater depth when revisited later on. In doing this, the director coaxes the viewer's subconscious mind into making the association between the images (Insdorf, 2002).This technique, works well in nonlinear narrative structure, as there the filmic flow is disrupted with narration, dreams, hallucinations, flashbacks, and…

Globalization has changed the face of the world as we know it; not simply technologically or economically, but socially and politically. Contact with people around the world has brought new clothing, languages, and people across the globe. Along with these people come new cultures and norms; one of the most important of these being food. Food plays such a large part in a person’s identity and how other people perceive them. While slurping and burping during a meal shows signs of enjoyment for…

Performance appraisals and the underlying disciplinary power it exercises in the UK education system Epigraph Disciplinary power is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time, it imposes on those it subjects a compulsory visibility. In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen. Their visibility assures the hold of the power that is exercised over them. It is the fact of being constantly seen that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection (Foucault, 1979, p.…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake” (2003) is a cross-cultural, ultigenerational story of a Hindu Bengali family’s journey to self-acceptance in Boston. ‘The Namesake’ explores the theme of transnational identity and trauma of cultural dislocation. The novel is a narrative about the assimilation of an Indian Bengali Family from Calcutta, the Ganguli’s, into America. The cultural dilemmas experience by them and their American born children are quite different. The spatial, cultural and emotional…

The Dome of the Rock is one of the most sacred buildings for Muslims in Jerusalem and around the world. It’s situated in the heart of the old city, on the site of Solomon’s Temple and the second Temple. In early Islamic Jerusalem, the a number of members in the declined Jewish population of the city were once permitted to pray on Temple Mount (Peters 194). After the construction of the Dome of the Rock, however, the atmosphere of the area changed (Peters 194). Jews who were temporarily allowed…

The Indian social system, with just a few exceptions, is dominated by patriarchy, which advocates male governance and female subordination. The better share has always been in the control of men and women have to be contented with the minor role and have to be restricted to the background. In this system, a woman is projected to mould herself in the pattern of the family into which she is married and ultimately fuses her identity with that of her husband. As Sudir Kumar Arora predicts:…

The history behind the construction of the Dome of the Rock at its location is not surprising; not only is it located in a city that is significant to Muslims and Jews alike, but it is also built on top of one of the most sacred sites in both Islam and Judaism. The Dome of the Rock is situated in the heart of the old city on the historical site of both Solomon’s Temple and the second Temple--a location labeled by the Jews as Temple Mount (Grabar 38). In early Islamic Jerusalem, the small Jewish…

Tchaikovsky Hamad Alrashed Fall 2016Tchaikovsky Hamad Alrashed introduction Tchaikovsky an always associated composer with the Moscow school according to his teaching position , as well as using Russian harmonies , and melodies as much as the mighty five do. The turning point of view between Tchaikovsky and the five by his philosophical point of that he is akin more to western ideas. Tchaikovsky bridges the gap between the two schools, for example tonality in his thematic presentation…

It doesn’t help to be oversensitive, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid it. “Literary intellectuals love to sneer at polls and surveys,” writes Dominic Sandbrook in his determinedly informative and frequently entertaining attempt to analyse what makes British culture tick, “but historians cannot afford to do so.” The survey being putatively sneered at reveals the immense popularity of The Lord of the Rings; presumably the implications of that popularity, rather than the fact of it, which must…

Socratic Seminar 1. Human beings as a whole have a seemingly infinite capacity for ego. Our arrogance tends to be our greatest flaw. In what ways is Wroblewski weaving the concept of ego into his novel? Which characters are impacted by their ego, and how does this concept affect the meaning of the story as a whole? What does Wroblewski have to say about the nature of people- and of the Universe? Wroblewski weaves the concept of ego in this novel by portraying the Sawtelles as almost like…