Exoticism

Orient.’ “The display of both subjected peoples and products from foreign possessions made colonialism concrete to those at home and reaffirmed the colonizing society’s racial superiority.” With the expansion of colonial territories in East, the exoticism of Orient increasingly belonged to the West. By the 19th century, Western hegemony and its ability to obtain the Orient allowed a wide spread communication of Orientalism. No longer limited to just written and contemplative methods, the system…

The faintest star in the sky. In Greek Mythology, Merope made up one of the seven Pleiades sisters, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Merope was the runt of the family and was shunned away when marrying a commoner. She hid her face in shame, thus barely visible in the sky. When she came to learn about the origins of her name during a bedtime story at the age of 4, Merope Aquino bombarded her father with countless questions a second. She couldn’t help it, her curiosity killed her.…

It is routine and expected from the students, they are not rebelling but meeting the expectations set for them. The student’s conformity to these expectations only feeds further categorization of the students as a group outside of mainline French culture. Within the walls the students are monolithically believed to be incapable of reading ‘real’ French texts, like Voltaire. Outside of the walls — outside the systemic dictates— one student is capable of reading and digesting Plato’s Republic.…

The book is a amalgamation of contributions of Novel Prize winner renowned economist Amartya Sen’s, glorious papers on public conversation and rational pluralism in Indian society that incorporate Indian history and uniqueness, culture, focusing on the custom public debates and intellectual pluralism. It is the perceptions of Indian culture, history, or individuality which is not inevitably distorted or discerning but also without having a clear scientific interpretation. The book is a coherent…

For this assignment, I visited the Hickory Museum of Art (HMA) in Hickory, North Carolina. Their major exhibition was “Unexpected Beauty,” a collection of photographs by photojournalist Steve McCurry. I observed several ways in which the HMA replicated historic museums practices, especially in regards to the museum effect, princely galleries, and above all, reinforcing an emphasis on the visual. By visiting the HMA I gained a firsthand experience of what these practices look like and the…

Timeline: Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries NEOCLASSICISM – Approximately 1789 TO 1820 The Neoclassical painting style was pioneered by Jacque-Louis David following the French Revolution in 1789. The term refers to the emulation of classical Greek and Roman art of eras past. Much of the subject matter of Neoclassical was Roman-inspired. David rejected the frivolous immorality of the Rococo style and felt the arts should be of greater impact and influence during a time of Governmental…

granted, or at least, to a lesser extent than in Russian. Thus, she prefers to use it for creating sophisticated texts for adults. Her career as an English teacher also contributes to the fact that English is associated with self-control: as a teacher, she has to monitor her speech and make appropriate word choices to ensure that her learners understand her. There is no need to impose such level of control over her use of Russian since this is the language of her nearest and dearest, and she…

The entire Grounder culture takes aspects from real life cultures while also portraying them as savages. For example, tattoos are important to the Grounder culture, many characters have facial tattoos such as Emroi, introduced later but with a clear Maori tattoo. The Grounders are often portrayed with Tribal tattoos, clearly stolen from a variety of native cultures that use specific designs to create symbolic cultural meaning. Historically, Native people, with me concentrating on the Moari…

Yvonne Noble, in describing the early modern ideas of femininity, shows how passion, emotion, and exoticism characterized the east, and by extension, femininity, in the the early modern period and additionally, in Marlowe’s play (852). These attributes, portrayed in Dido as her love for Aeneas begins to overpower her commitment to her duty, extend from…

Marisa Ventura: Perpetuation to the Submissive-Female Stereotype Latino women in Hollywood films are often portrayed as stereotypical passive-submissive characters. A passive-submissive female character is usually the nurturing figure in a household - she can be found doing the interior housework, teaching the children in their homes, and doing as she is told, no matter what the task at hand is because she just wants to please the person that they deem as authority. Jennifer Lopez’s character,…