Otherness

Topoi of revealed secrets occur in over twenty-five ANE sources, ranging from Sumer, Babylon, and Persia in the east to Egypt and Greece in the west. In the following subsection is three positive-revelation sources possibly holding a parent-child relationship with Second Temple writings. The second subsection contains two for negative revelation. The three most likely sources for parent-child relationships are (1) the Ascent of Enmeduranki, (2) the Assyrian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and…

Bharati Mukherjee explores many facets of feminine consciousness and immigrant experience in her fictions. She has dealt with the ambivalence of their psychic and spatial identity and the trauma of dislocations at multiple levels. The impact of patriarchy on the Indian society varies from the one in the West and therefore Mukherjee has tried to evolve her own stream of feminism grounded in the truth of compulsory displacement that they recurrently undergo. Indian expatriate writers do not write…

Through this essay, we will examine Winnie-the-Pooh and A Bear Called Paddington, two of the most classical toy stories, to analyze the attitudes about children and family. Where I will first determine and establish the historical background about the texts. Next, I will seek to analyze the main and significant characters and how each contribute to identifying their importance and significance to the text. Soon after, using Erik Erikson’s eight stage of psychosocial development I will analyze…

Philosopher. She campaigned for social change and women’s equal rights justice with the influence of Immanuel Kant—a German philosopher. I will be looking closely at Piper’s influences throughout this essay (McCormick, n.d.). Her work addresses ostracism, otherness, racial ‘passing’ and racism. She began…

Film & Character Garden State is coming-of-age comedic drama that attempts to capture the multifaceted transitions often experienced by young adults. This film, released in 2004, was directed by Zach Braff, who also stars in the movie as the main character and focus of this paper, Andrew Largeman. This paper will attempt to more deeply explore Andrew’s development using the postulates of Object Relations and Psychosocial theories (Braff, Sher, Shamberg, & DeVito, 2004). This film portrays…

The Ethics of Translation Douglas Robinson criticizes the traditional definition of professional ethics, which is restricted to preserving the meaning and avoiding distortion: it is unethical for the translator to distort the meaning of the source text (Becoming a Translator 25-26). For Robinson, this definition “is far too narrow even from the user’s point of view” (26). Robinson differentiates between professional and personal ethics (i.e., internal point of view) in which the latter is more…

This essay will focus on the numerous ways in which femininity is represented in contemporary advertising. It is important to question, why is advertising so preoccupied with gender? Present day advertising messages have the ability to shape thoughts, values, and beliefs of how we, as a society associate women with femininity. Modern advertisements accomplish this by reflecting the set of expectations that society associates with gender roles. This enables advertisements to hold meaning beyond…

Female Documentary Directors in Israeli Women documentary filmmakers in Israeli may be different than others directors however they tell us a story with her camera in her views. The readings of Like Windows in the Wall: Four Documentaries by Israeli Women by Janet Burstein, Women, Border, and Camera: Israeli feminine Framing of War by Anat Zanger, and lastly, Ethics and Responsibility: The Feminization of the New Israeli Documentary by Yael Munk, has different types of telling story of women…

“The patriarchal world view sees man as the measure of all value, with no space for diversity, only for hierarchy. Woman, being different, is treated as unequal and inferior.” (Shiva 164) Random and reckless industrialization and commercialization in recent years have resulted in thoughtless exploitation of nature and its precious resources. In the great name of development and progression, nature with all its benevolent resources has been subjected to merciless plundering with the consequence…

Hughes’ work has drawn up the old battle lines of poetic engagement between those who trust fictions of the everyday world and those who have been visited by truths unavailable to ordinary, jaded senses. It is important to analyze the poet’s own subjective relationship to his writing and the problems this presents to the reader. The dramatic relationship between two narrative voices1 – self and senses, body and spirit- which is typical of Hughes’ work, rests upon existential questions. The…