Orient

Anna’s goal for the creation of the film appears to raise awareness by bringing familiarity to the practice of honor crimes; however the directors use constant imagery of the orient in a barbaric manner to reconfirm the stereotypes by constantly undermining the Jordanian society. Norma relies on the craving of fantasy from the occident to show the gap between America, western culture and Jordan eastern culture. By the documentary…

books are written to describe the orient world, it is usually seen opposed to the western world and the kind of discourse used is mostly colonial in depicting the non-European other. Because discourse itself can be a form of colonization, we shall consider to what extent the use of language by travel writers adheres to this type of colonialism. European travel writing emphasizes the notion of otherness which creates boundaries between the western and the orient, and reconsiders the notion of…

term was defined as someone who identifies themselves as the other sex but they haven’t gotten the surgery to physically change their anatomy. The article has several different athletes talk about their personal experiences in regards to how they orient themselves. In a normal society it is a difficult enough to have to cope with family and school. However with the added stress of being an athlete it bring up a large amount of added situations that create conflict. Some of the circumstances talk…

phrases. Culture is an effective entity that plays an important role in carving one’s identity. The identity can be a fixed identity or a hybrid identity. The objective of this dissertation is to examine the way colonialism impacted the psyche of orients which resulted in the hybrid identity of the colonized people and their culture. Derek Walcott, Amitav Ghosh, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Tayeb Salih, Chinua Achebe etc, these all are the important personages in the dominion of Postcolonialism.…

Culturally, Orientalism is slightly less concrete, but is still clearly evidenced in the media. Satrapi’s experience with Orientalism is complex and shapes how she interacts with her own culture as she develops. Said asserts that “[t]he Orient was almost a European invention”, this rings undeniably true in regards to the Iranian government, particularly before and during the Islamic Revolution (1 Said). Orientalism is essentially just another form of western imperialism. Said stresses this…

many points of similarity and one particular difference. The point of similarity with the most common threads is that of the ever-changing and dynamic nature of war. This includes Clausewitz’s ‘Trinity’ and Boyds ‘OODA loop’ cycle, particularly the ‘Orient’ phase. The main point on which they differ is Clausewitz perceiving defense as the main focus as opposed to Boyd’s inherent bias toward the offense. The central point of both Clausewitz and Boyd’s teachings is the thread in which they share…

she talks about how Hawthorne’s description of Hester Prynne “as ‘Oriental’ is provocative in its ethnic reference” (949). The “Orient,” in Hawthorne’s time era, would have referred to the cultural, commercial, and geographical areas of Asia. The people in these areas would have been called “Oriental” or “Easterns” due to the people of that time terming the area as “Orient” and “the East.” Since “Hawthorne, in keeping with his time, did not make any regional or cultural distinctions among East…

6). A Passage to India deals with many complex issues surrounding colonialism and the Orient. In accordance with Edward Said's ideas concerning what he calls "Orientalism", the concept of the Orient is something that, on one hand, was created by the West and represents a Euro-centric ideal of Eastern culture, and on the other hand is an actual place that existed long before it was given that name. The Orient moved from being merely a projected European ideal of the East to being something that…

side in favor of Columbus’ findings and some that side against them. Named after Saint Christopher, Christopher Columbus(1446-1506) in hopes of soon setting sail to find the Orient traveled to Portugal in 1476 to learn about the Portuguese way of shipbuilding and sailing. Columbus had believed that he could reach the Orient by…

“Why Do We Overeat?” written by Margaret Mead is about Americans’ attitude of choosing food and eating habits. The author is trying to debunk the normal phenomenon in the United States --- obesity. At first, she questions the reason why not a few number of Americans is obese from their occasions of eating, such as having festival fever in Christmas. But then she realised that daily abundance of food is the main factor contributing to the problem of obesity in the United States. In the rest of…