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principally, to examine the process of decolonisation. Postcolonial criticism’s origins can be traced to Said’s Orientalism according to Milner and Browitt (2002). Said portrays the Eurocentric universalism which admits the superiority of what is Western and the inferiority of what is not, he states that “there are Westerners, and there are non-westerners. The former dominate; the latter must be dominated” (Said 1994: 36). For him, Orientalism was a ‘discourse’ in the Foucauldian sense of the…

Each of these points is crafted largely through what Bloom considers a close reading of the western canon, the classical texts of the ancients which Bloom thinks contemporary universities have abandoned. It would be wrong to critique this book simply on the grounds…

them impede them from doing so. Sabana Mir discusses the alienation of Muslim Americans on college campuses, specifically Muslim women, as a result of the prevailing cultures embedded in American university life existing in opposition to Muslim values. Mir discusses the notion of pluralism as universities’ attempts to foster an atmosphere of laissez faire multiculturalism, in that one group’s way of life is theoretically as good as another, within…

to two colleges and one career. My two colleges are Illinois State University and Western Illinois University. There are reasons why I have chosen those colleges. My career that I am thinking about entering is DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). I have been wanting to do this job ever since my dad has joined the DEA I have more reasons also about joining DEA. There are a wide variety of things to do at Illinois State University. Students like to go out and have lunch at a nearby restaurant…

for which there are so many European countries, this essay will delineate a lesser debated difference. That difference being the working habits and norms of Europeans VS Americans. Now, for economy of wording I will group European countries thusly: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, southern Europe, and Northern Europe. While these countries all identify as European, their differences in societal…

paradigm shift in which Mark Noll describes how he came to believe that Christianity is no longer a Western phenomenon. He wrote a “personal narrative to describe the process by which [he] came to share their belief that full attention to the non-Western world had become essential for any responsible grasp of the history of Christianity” (xi). Noll is a historian who currently works at Notre Dame University in Indiana, and has spent his life wresting with the tough questions of how Christianity…

Women in different societies want and need different things. They also need and want some of the same things. The western society views the Egyptian role of women oppressing because of the Egyptian modest dress and view women are pressured into wearing. For some women this fashion is empowering and being a housewife is a desired occupation. This idea to many modern liberal western women would not be a desired. In the United States, women are given a significant amount of right compared to…

Kwame Anthony Appiah’s article “The Case for Contamination” focuses on the interconnected issues involving cultural diversity, ethical obligations, and increased globalization. Appiah is a compelling advocate for Cosmopolitanism, an ethical principle that aims to institute universality and collective values across individuals to form a single community. Unlike his book “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers,” the article focuses less on the ideology of Cosmopolitanism and more about…

his mother being a teacher and as a teenager he produced eight issues of his own magazine called “The Fireside”. The magazine consisted of gossip, theater, jokes and fiction. When he graduated Smith Academy, he could have gone straight to Harvard University, but since he did not enjoy companionship with people his own age, his parents forced him to spent a year at Milton Academy. In…

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA offers a world class education which is internationally recognized. The courses are very practical and industry related. UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA provides a proper coordinated institution-level approach to academic quality assurance and planning, professional development in teaching and learning and…