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Westerns: The Final Chapter During my research, I came to the conclusion that I really didn’t enjoy westerns very much. In order to understand why I don’t enjoy westerns much, we must first get a basic idea of what a western is. Westerns are more of an older genre as they are not made much in the modern day and age. To understand westerns, knowing the basic themes and elements would be most helpful. The four main themes of a western include: Man vs. Nature, Good vs. Evil, East meets West and…

Western societies appear to repeatedly place a great deal of importance on the thinness model of human physique, often to the exclusion of other models of healthy, more realistic and attainable models of physique. The appreciation of specific aesthetic qualities seem to surpass and dominate above those of intellect, accomplishment, demeanor and overall health, and if you are someone who is overweight or ‘fat’ certain practices within Western societies can result in feelings of humiliation,…

otherness includes doubleness, both identity and difference, so that every other , every different than and excluded by is dialectically created and includes the values and meaning of the colonizing culture even as it rejects its power to define; the western concept of the oriental is based, as Abdul Jan Mohamed argues, on the Manichean allegory (seeing the world as divided into mutually excluding opposites): if the west is ordered, rational, masculine, good, then the orient is chaotic,…

Everyday life revolves around food. In western cultures the day consists typically of 3 main meals. The morning starts off with breakfast, this meal generally focuses on milk based items e.g. cereal or coffee. Later on during the day, typically around midday, its lunch. Lunch usually consists of some type of sandwich. And finally later that evening is dinner time. Dinner generally consists of a serving of meat and vegetables that is followed by dessert which is a sweet based meal. Food, taste,…

This assignment helped me understand and achieve the educational goals of the university by helping me realize the ignorance that existed towards anyone who was different. Many use texts to degrade others beliefs and to better their beliefs. This is wrong and in reading these articles I now have a greater knowledge of this and will always try to see both sides of a situation equally. This assignment was important for a better understanding of American religious diversity because it demonstrated…

Historical Cultural Survey. Vol. Reading No. 4. New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, INC, 1962. Print. This reading works towards unearthing the origin of the Muslims stigma in Western culture. Following the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Muslim Seljuk and Ottoman Turks seems to be posing a threat to the Western Christians. Despite Europe’s lack of resources to translate the Koran, they still worked towards disproving the validity of the Koran’s teachings, including the mention…

Avon Lady, the Amway Plan, and the Making of Thai Entrepreneurs,” I was able to directly view how American corporations marketed themselves to the Thai entrepreneur. I was also able to view how, in turn, the Thai entrepreneur marketed and sold these Western commodities to their friends and family within the scope of the traditional Thai kinship-based economy. Wilson’s presentation of the market structure in Thailand during the time following the initial introduction of capitalism has led me to…

The western world has a growing problem of assuming Islam, and Muslims in their entirety, are violent. Over the past 13 years, Islam, Muslims, and terrorism have been synonymous in the western mind. Simon Cottee, senior lecturer of Criminology at Kent University, wrote “It Doesn’t Matter That Islam Inspired the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Attacks” for Vice Magazine to illustrate the polar views on Islam in regards to terrorism and religious tolerance. At the end of the article, Cottee asks the audience to…

Asad was able to trick me into a much more pertinent discussion of terrorism than I could have ever imagined. Asad’s analysis of power dynamics within Western liberal discourses of war, terrorism, the civilized, ‘the other,’ and justice is phenomenal, for he places each term in its Western context and analyzes the discrepancies between Western theories and their worldly manifestations. The essence of power is what makes this book so amazing, for as Asad says it best, “My argument, however, is…

was living in, he used a specific type of style by characterizing the use of simple but strong words that were combined collectively to grab the narratives to reflect the concept and meaning meant in his words. He got educated from “University College, Oxford, University of Oxford and Queen's Royal College.” (TheFamousPeople, 2017). By time, his writing career became popular and he gained so much recognition for his narratives which painted an unapologetically candid picture of the life span in…