Otherness

Death Love Story Blearily, Natalie opened her eyes. The blue sky spread out above her and the vivid color confused her. How did she get here? When she tried to look around a blast of white and darkness filled her vision. Pain. She came to the sky again. Sounds came to her and she heard the blasting of a car horn. The sound brought the memory back. They had been driving when another car knocked her off the road. She lost control of the car and remembered screaming her brother’s name when the car…

In Michael Omi’s essay “In living Color: Race and American Culture,” he describes how racism still exists today, but portrayed differently than just a few decades ago. First, Omi discusses how overt racism (openly showing one’s racism) does not seem as popular today as with generations before us. For example, the Ku Klux Klan became highly popular in terrorizing, murdering, and assaulting minorities. Today, the Ku Klux Klan has become less popular, but we still run into overt racism, such as…

Teachers perceptions of themselves and inclusion For the majority of teachers interviewed their reservations regarding inclusion were directed at their own shortcomings. One teacher felt very strongly that where inclusion failed it was her fault I question my knowledge, of the child, of their condition, of how to adapt the work, what can I do to make them more comfortable Yet another teacher commented I feel very much if inclusion fails it fails because I not a good enough teacher This…

Knowledge in Absolutist Epistemology As well as showing through the principle of the many and the principle of incompleteness that there are valid ways of gaining knowledge apart from the dominant sciences, a key strength to the relativist argument is its ability to consider subjugated knowledges. According to the standard view of knowledge, different ways of knowing are part of a continuous and unitary epistemological tradition. However, instead of being equally considered knowledge is…

The word ‘post’ implies, it is also the literature written after the end of formal colonial rule. The post-colonial style of writing is a branch of post-modern literature, the interest of which is political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. Post-colonial literature should be clearly separated from colonial literature. Colonial writing is a production of the authors who belong to the colonizing power. The label ‘post colonial’ asks for a shift in focus,…

Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is widely recognized as one of the greatest epic poems of the Elizabethan age. It may be also commonly assumed that Spenser’s poetry represents an archetypal convention of gender in the era. Though Spenser plays off the feminine conventions linking the figure of power, Queen Elizabeth with specific characters, for example, Una in Book I, traditional patterns of feminine stereotypes are still continually penetrated in Renaissance and Spenser’s portrayal of…

Impact of Chinese Immigrants on Canada Throughout the history of mankind, people have always been moving. Whether it be to new lands recently discovered, or to older established civilizations, mankind has always been mobile. This sometimes creates a problem when too many people move into one place, but for Canada, this is simply not the case. There are several major immigrant groups in Canada, and they all factor into Canada’s multiculturalism. Each group has their own specific contributions to…

The resumes of the Great Socialist and his cabinet colleagues in The White Tiger exemplify Bernard Shaw’s dictum. Politics has indeed become the last resort of the scoundrels. In India, it will remain so until the middle class with its acute sense of political morality starts participating in it more actively. Political thinker Pavan K. Varma observes that “politics is dirty because good people do not enter it, and because good people do not enter, politics is dirty” (154). In the Inheritance of…

Over the course of the last century, a series of laws and practices have contributed to both de jure and de facto segregation. De jure segregation is legal segregation and was prevalent in the Southern United States. De facto segregation, on the other hand, is segregation that exists because of where people live. It is often thought to be a more “natural” segregation or segregation by choice, a wholly untrue statement that made the problem even worse. While it was primarily practiced in the…

A Melodramatic Varnish in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Germany emerging through the 1970s was imbued in polemic discourse concerned with the issues surrounding German identity politics. The issues around American influences within Germany’s social and political spheres proved more convoluted igniting these discourses that would be thoroughly engaged with and explored by the New German Cinema movement. This engagement proved the enigmatic approach encompassing American influences, one that Germüden…