Orientalism

to the common assumption that economic development and modernization of “Third World” women helps gender equality yet Western donors rarely see the cultural differences and their real needs. This can be explained by Edward Said 's the notion of Orientalism…

Chinese football system (Henry and Ko 2013). In order to avoid usurping it’s powers, national sports must be cognisant must of the complex nature of the “global–local axis, for students of sport, culture and society’’ to help appreciate concepts like orientalism, internationalism and…

On September 11, 2001(9/11) terrorist attacks were the worst acts of terrorism against the United States. At 8:45 am local time in the New York City, on September 11th the United States awareness of protection was altered eternally. On this day, a Boeing 767 of American Airlines Flight 11 transporting around 92 individuals on the board ,impact into the World Trade Center’s North Tower. Nearby, eight minutes overdue one more Airlines Flight 175 as well owned Boeing 767, which the same was…

Mixed Messages: Branding Guidelines Arab Culture Introduction To be able to correctly market to any target demographic one must first have a full understanding of the political correctness that surrounds the culture. Certain stigmas and generalizations about any culture often are over assertion and a broad net cast across the culture giving classification to all even though there is a vast difference in the culture being stereotyped. This is especially true when looking at Arab culture. Arab…

The Oxford dictionary defines identity as “The characteristics of determining who or what a person or thing is”. The Hebrew word “Galut”, “initially referred to the setting of colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile”, when translated into Greek leads us to the etymology of the term “diaspora”, based on “speiro” (to sow) and the preposition “dia (over)” and in Ancient Greece it referred to “colonization” and “migration.” (Shuval, 2003) Thus, diaspora refers to the…

The act contains racial and gender differences between the actors’ personalities, the dimension in which the portrait exemplifies each of the story character demonstrates that Gallimard is a French diplomatic man, in which for his political power he can perform at his own pleasure, having consequently an ethical failure. His personality is not the typical Westermann, he does not feel bigheaded, and aggressive with the opposite sex, however, his political colleagues persuaded him by the…

The subjectivity of what is “good” is substantially overestimated. Countless hours and innumerable pages have been spent quibbling over the boundaries, specifications, and quantifiers of the concept of good. But good has never been all that difficult to pin down. Certainly its trappings, its manifestations over the course of human history, may shift and change somewhat, but the things we as a species identify as “good” remain fundamentally static. What we think of as good, what we as people want…

than economic but instead as aims to create social hegemony throughout a state. He also claims that historiography on the event has changed due to a modern identification of representations as a main form of viewing history. Edward Said, who wrote Orientalism, is given credit as one of the first historians to adopt this perspective. Hevia next addresses how the sociocultural approach to history, that the West…

“Don Juan’s achievement is not to reinterpret or recreate but to destroy the epic form by a comprehensive attach on the whole tradition of epic poetry – its style, its structure, and its values” (Lauber) This shows the idea of selfhood for Lord Byron. He went against the grain and created something nobody before him had. Although going against the grain can barely put it into perspective when destroying the epic form is the chosen way to describe it. Due to the nature of the poem, some readers…

The twentieth century can be considered a highway in which the writers produced or reproduced various ideas not only in science but also in humanities. Some writers gave a birth to new ideas while the others reproduced the old ideas or themes and decorated them in a new mold. The significant theme in the twentieth century, particularly after colonization, which is widespread in literature, history, and politics, is the theme of exile. Nevertheless, the theme of exile is never born in the…