Modernity

Marcia Ochoa explores citizenship for “GLBT” people in the “civil society” and those marginalized by it, specifically, transformistas. The metropolitan police find ways to penalize these “transformistas” in any way they could; whether an adopted civil code or an imagined one. Transformista refers to a person who was assigned the male label at birth, but identified as a woman her entire life – does not necessarily imply transgender or transsexual. Though Ochoa considers herself part of the civil…

Amy Lowell “St. Louis” Amy Lowell describes two places that are of significance to her. The poem sets up a contrast between two places: St. Louis (first stanza) and the speaker’s home. The striking difference, our attention turn to, is in the landscape. She sets up the contrast between flat and a hilly terrain. St. Louis is not her home, and she says so in the second stanza, “But it is not mine”. St. Louis is flat. By repeating flat and calling it a long sight we can tell that it was a…

the social problem in each era on the topic of race. The Winant begins with accounting the origins of the race concept and he considers and examines how the theme of race in the earlier ages through the present range of meanings with the rise of modernity. Therefore, the author justifies the early idea of race as a concept that signifies and symbolizes sociopolitical conflicts and interests in reference to different types…

developing and changing, some things can never be changed, whether it’s a person, place, religion, or even society itself. Sticking to tradition is always humble beginnings, but when would one start to question tradition, or even alter it in some way? Modernity is always based off of tradition no matter what is being modernized. In William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, the main character Emily Grierson lives her entire life and style the exact same way from the beginning of it to the end. The…

The Adaptation of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa to the Divided World of the Cold War From 1945 to 1962 the number of nations on Earth quadrupled to around 200. These agrarian nations, emerging from colonialism, were forced to adapt to a world influenced by the Cold War and dominated economically by the United States and the Soviet Union. In an attempt to adapt to the divided world of the Cold War, the elites in these newly independent countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa came to…

Impacts of Cultural Globalization Causes an Effect on Cultural Diversity in ICT Introduction Cultural globalization is defined as a phenomenon experienced in everyday of peoples’ lives, influenced by the dispersal of ideas and assets (James L. Watson, 2016). This is a process that involves the exchanging of ideologies and views through people. Ideas of culture are spreading faster than ever with new technology as an aid. Impacts of cultural globalization have on cultural diversity includes…

western technology. A perfect example of this process was India and Britain where British goods were being brought into India in various forms ranging from the typewriter to the bicycle. It is no wonder that many Indian activists feared and fought modernity in India since it was seen as an expansion of British rule (Arnold, 32). They saw British goods providing little to no improvement in their standard of living while maintain oppression through destroying their cultures and local industries.…

Religious conversion: The ex-untouchables are ascribed with unclean, impure, polluting and untouchable identity in Hindu fold. Dr. Ambedkar awakens them regarding their derogative identity in the religious discourse. He exposed the Hindu religious system for their exploitations. The Tulsi beads, songs of Rama and pilgrimage to Pandharpur were useless for their material problems . He asked them to imbibe virtue, selfless service and spotless sacrifice. He addressed them as Dalits which is neither…

the frame of memory broadly parallels studies in religious ethics which interweave knowledges of racial terror through morally- and politically-inflected notions of mourning and melancholy, and leverage them to undermine triumphal narratives of modernity and…

The terms ‘Brutalism’ or ‘New Brutalism’ were coined in the mid-1950s by the young British architects Alison and Peter Smithson. Born in the context of the post-World War II, the architectural thinking knew a shift towards a re-evaluation of social concerns with urban responsibility. Brutalism tries to combine new ethical concerns with a certain aesthetic formalism. Indeed, the couple was certain that architecture could address social and cultural problems and solve them with design. However the…