Kingdom of Judah

“An invisible package of unearned assets”(McIntosh 1). Peggy McIntosh’s article “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”, explains the advantages that come with being white. She explains white privilege as “ a package of unearned assets” that she can “cash in” because usually, white people are not expected to work as hard as colored people to accomplish their goals. The article explains white privilege as an “invisible knapsack” of a wide range of opportunities. It is a very capitalistic mentality…

Furat Fakhreddin Academic Skills Assignment 1 Brexit is the abbreviation of Britain and Exit and it refers to a referendum vote that took place on the 23rd of March 2016 where the public voted that the United Kingdom was to exit the European Union. The leave vote won with 51.9% of the vote . This was first initiated by the UK Independence party. They pushed for the UK to leave the EU and in recent years gained the support of conservative party’s MP’s. They argue that being an EU member…

Invisibility can be defined as “the situation of men whose individual identity is denied” (Lieber, 1972: 86) Invisible Man, written by Ralph Ellison, tells the story of a refined and educated black man straining to endure and prosper in an ethnically and culturally divided society which rejects him as a human being. This essay attempts to examine the invisibility, anonymity and alienation of the modern subject, especially in relation to racism, the essay servers to select several key moments in…

Abstract:’ The Refugee’ a one act play was written by Asif Currimbhoy.The play portrays the miserable condition of the refugees from East Bengal on hand and on the other hand the play throws ample light on the effects of the refugee problems in social life in India during 1971.Asif combines the major issues with other problems like communalism as it is also led by other issues. It suggests that one problem gives way to other problems. The present play focuses all the issues due to the influx of…

Not just only blacks were discriminated, but also everyone else in other ways by sex, skin color, family background, or even their physical appearance. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Mama used some of the insurance money to buy a new home in Clybourne Park. This new neighborhood is a white neighborhood but, they are a black family, so they were not welcomed to move in. This caused everyone in the family to hesitate about whether or not to move in. But, this was Mama’s…

One of the causes of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which falls under external influence, is colonialism. Sri Lanka was under British colonial rule from 1796-1948. The British implemented the divide and rule tactic when governing Sri Lanka, where minority groups, in this case Tamils, are given preferential treatment. This is to aggravate differences between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. This way, the majority group that was being discriminated against would direct their grievances…

An international language refers to a language in widespread use as a foreign language or second language (Richards et al.,1992, p.234). Over the years, the English language has reached a status of the international language, and has played an important role around the world for economic, education, scientific and entertainment exchange between nations and particularly between people, and commonly is characterized as a lingua franca. According to Crystal (1997), today, more people use English…

throughout the world. They attempted to gain control of southeast Asia, and through many wars fought between the years eighteen eighty-seven and nineteen hundred, the French successfully created a colony called Indochina which was created out of the five kingdoms; Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Cambodia, and Laos. This French Colony only lasted a good fifty…

The British caused many deaths and Indians suffered a lot from being under the British government and was hard for them to live a normal life while having British men roaming the streets. While the British want India's goods and want to make profit off of their cash crops. The British first came to India in the 1600s while the British East India Company started setting up trading posts in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The British East India Company quickly took advantage of the growing weakness…

Orientalism is a term which indicates how the West perceives the East as the ‘other’. Edward Said published his controversial book Orientalism in 1978, which talks about how Orientalism forms an inferior Orient, in terms of knowledge and domination. Edward Said opens his introduction by mentioning the Western’s misconception about the East arguing that “The Orient was almost a European invention” (Said 1). The Orient played a significant role in the creation of the European culture and it…