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emptiness and jump at the opportunity to spend time detoxing my mind. The only reasonable thing to do from here is stumble around in hopes of finding some sort of wall to orient oneself. After crawling around on one’s hands and knees for a while, one will eventually bump into a wall. After scaling the wall carefully, one will begin to orient oneself to this wall. Deciding the best option is to search for a light switch, one makes their way around the room, feeling around for any sort of…

2. In “Remaing Yamato, Remaking Japan: Space Battleship Yamato and SF Anime” by Baryon Tensor Posadas, I am going to focus on the fetishization of anime and Techno-Orientalism characterized in the article. The transition from non-national to national qualities of anime in the age of globalization generated significant tension. Initially, when Japanese anime was imported into foreign markets from 1970s to 1980s, the ethnic quality was perceived as “too Japanese” to the subject – the Western or…

From the beginning of civilization, leaders and their leadership structures have been utilized to organize groups of people. But what makes an effective leader? In Joseph Nye, “The Powers to Lead,” a leader is one who mobilizes their followers to action to achieve shared goals. Therefore, leadership is a relationship between the leader and its followers. Reaching a collective goal is difficult, so leaders use soft and hard power to do so. Soft power is working alongside others in an equal side…

The reading passage discusses an interesting topic about humpback whales migration using the starts to cover long distances, and provides three main reasons for supporting. However, the lecture casts doubts on the claims exposed by the article. He thinks that the reason whales can migrate long distance has nothing to do with the starts. First, the reading passage relates the high level of intelligent and ability to develop abstract cognitive thoughts in humpback whales with the capability of…

Kirtan Patel AAST200- 0101 The Reality of M. Butterfly In David Henry Hwang’s theatre play, M. Butterfly manifests three keywords that have a greater and deeper meaning: race, gender, and Orientalism. “Race is a social construction…” (Hwang) Junaid Rana starts her definition of race by calling it a social construction. Where race was never truly a thing, it is something created to separate cultural and biological differences in a corporate class. Race was not an issue when it came down to…

Some critics have been fairly harsh with their views on Orientalism, even going so far as to “[accuse] Said of perpetuating the same Eastern stereotypes for which he has faulted the Western imperialist” (“Edward W. Said” 336). Others simply focused on the imperfections in his arguments, stating that they were weak or could have had more impact (336). In his review of Orientalism in 1980, Malcolm H. Kerr states that “Edward Said, a literary critic loaded with talent, has certainly made a splash…

according to Smith, “involves simultaneously a feeling of humanity toward others and respect for oneself, an indivisible sense of dignity of human life wherever it appears.” Jen describes that we should show unselfishness and courtesy to others. It also orients people how to live public and private life. For example, diligence is important in public life while, courtesy and empathy are imperative. Chun tzu describes the model terms in relationships. It explains that we should not ask what…

was not the top royalty, with the big exception being the Third Crusade, but mainly second-class nobility, baronial and knightly classes. Their decisive motivation was the golden opportunity strengthened by the tales and legends of richness of the Orient, for the conquest of land, trade routes and markets and subsequently, of higher titles of nobility and royalty. And if not, what did they do with the lands and cities conquered during the First Crusade? With the sole exception of Nicaea, and…

Orientalist construction of Islam, Muslims are presented as generally backward and irrational by using a combination of adjectives (good/bad, us/them, attractive/disgusting, civilized/uncivilized). The social structures, traditions, and a way of life of the Orient were subject to wrong interpretations (as underdeveloped or absent), although they were and are highly elaborated and function quite well. The reason was that they were not European and just different. The essence of Orientalism is…

the public, making them closer to their potential customer. Besides, recent research has shown that repeated information will gradually build up points of view in people spontaneously. This is the answer to why people taking over press are able to orient trends.…