Orient

“Herodotus merely notes particular traits; he is not concerned with the functional, structural, or stylistic coherence of the cultures he describes” (97, Redfield). In regarding the metaphysical, if not imaginary space which fuels the idealized Orient, created through and by the Greek, or Western philosophy, geographically speaking, the division is prevalent in Herodotus’ text, however IV noble savage: does this legitimately apply to the eastern barbarians in Hdt? Are there other, more…

aspects of the Orient that set it off from the West in this pair of plays will remain essential motifs of European imaginative geography. A line is drawn between two continents. Europe is powerful and articulate; Asia is defeated and distant,” and, “[s]econdly, there is the motif of the Orient as insinuating danger. Rationality is undermined by Eastern excesses, those mysteriously attractive opposites to what seem to be normal values” (57). In signaling the solidification of the Orient, Said…

major elements: 1) the subject matter, and 2) the technique. (Stevens, 15). In this case, the subject matter presents the inner happenings of a Sultan’s harem. The image of the forbidden harem allows this European painter to visually manifest the Orient. The man on the elevated seat/throne, the emasculated Eunich in his white robe, is one of the two men present in this painting, and near of his hookah. He is seated at a higher level to ensure that he is able to gaze over the multiple women…

perhaps she was such a popular author because of the real life experiences she put into her writing. Agatha Christie’s writing of The Murder on the Orient Express was tremendously influenced by her family life as a child, her reaction to her failed marriage, and her international travels. Throughout Christie’s…

stay alive is built into all of us. Therefore, the healthcare debate is such a hot topic. It is such a complex, expensive and consequential debate that we will never have an answer that satisfies all the current flaws in our health care system. Jane Orient offers some insight to the current issue of tax-exempt foundations influencing public policy through grantmaking in her article named “Testimony on the influence of private foundations on public policy” published during 2010 in the Journal of…

Orientalism as “a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient’s special place in European Western experience” (1866). The Orient, or the individual of Eastern descent, has their own place in the European experience as the Western…

"controlled derivations,"a term which was employed by Foucault to mean the work which was full of inspirations which were motivated by discernment and “imagination” to generate a counterfactual, ‘magical’ Orient: imagination was an appropriate residence for the sensibility of the European to the actual Orient (101). According to Said (17), his discussion on the British and French domination does no justice to Russia, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, but offers an important contribution to…

it is not strictly within the disciple. In the midst of the statistics about cotton imports and exports, Beckert shows the necessity of “othering” people groups, especially people groups in the “Orient” for war capitalisms success. This is especially true in the case of India, the prime example of the Orient. When the American cotton market was severed from English manufacturing during the American Civil War, the British turned to India’s traditional cotton economy. The English believed they…

stressed and working overtime. Section 3 - Alternative Solutions Carol Burgess could just stay out of everything because it’s the supervisors not doing their jobs and not her. Carol Burgess could a program to train supervisors on how to properly orient new letter…

Define the OODA Loop steps and describe in your own words why it’s important to business. OODA Loop is a workflow composed of certain processes, which are Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. It is often used to describe commercial operations and learning processes. 1) Observe Observe means to compile and arrange the raw data from various sources such as previous experiences and real world occurrences on any formats…