Western world

only did my parents enjoy listening to Michael Jackson’s music, they also supported the humanitarian work that Jackson did. Jackson donated several million dollars to charities worldwide and also was a global ambassador, as he traveled around the world attending events that honored his humanitarian efforts. During the late 1990s, Michael Jackson had already become a major figure in the music industry for several decades. Due to the over-the-top dance moves and exuberant costumes, my parents did…

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 the increased occurrence of globalization. Appiah constructed an argument that religion can be utilized as a safeguard for culture during times of…

Possession is a challenging topic to dissect. From one end of the world to the other, from one point in the past to the present almost every culture/civilization has recorded accounts of possession. The perception of these various possession accounts, however, can be described as polar opposites of each other. Some cultures view possession as a positive experience to connect humans with the divine, no matter what divine matter they call their God. While others believe all types and forms of…

society because he has baptized himself. It also states that he no longer hears and has forgotten “the cry of gulls, and the deep-sea swell/ and the profit and the loss” (IV, 313-314, Eliot). This is because he is no longer a part of the corrupted world. In addition, the protagonist then tells the reader that we all require the “Living Water”. This shows is showing the reader that in order to be free from a degrading society, one must go through spiritual cleaning which is only available through…

specifically Makkah town. In the contemporary society, Islam is practiced in each continent and region including Africa, Europe, Nothern India and Southwest Asia. The spread of Islam has been motivated by the migration of Muslims to other regions of the world and the conversion of individuals from other religions to Islam. Military campaigns after the Hijrah era led to a rapid expansion of the territory under the Muslims. However, the territory did not become Islamic immediately; the spread of…

have never been lax in their encouragement of my activities and personal growth, but they also have a reasonable expectation that I also respect their rules and decisions. While some find it easier to push away from their roots and venture into the world on their own, it is only right for me to give my parents the same love and respect they have given me. Similarly, Native Americans have also had to show resolve and determination…

first world country status of Western countries is an attribute to their likability. Therefore, he realizes that Western culture is extremely likable. From my personal experience and interactions with people from Ethiopia, people believe that in order to achieve militaristic, economic, and societal greatness, they need to model themselves after the actions of Western nations. The mimicry of Western culture by developing nations can be as simple as having the same product as the people in Western…

identity is taken away with and it 's causing more harm than good. Since many of the methods to lighten skin or put the user at risk since many of these skin-whitening brands use ingredients such as steroids or mercury are being sold all over the world to women of color (Saint-Louis). Even risking their health to change their appearance, women of darker skin are permanently damaging their skin to be a part of a society that doesn’t think they 're beautiful. This society blatantly ignores Black…

Globalization can let the world ‘smaller’. Nevertheless, most of the interests are brought in by the developed countries. They cannot take care developing countries. As a result of these companies only want to bring in the profits, thus that arises a lot of issues because of globalization. The positive things just on the surface of globalization. The globalization can promote different…

The fluidity of calligraphy symbolizes the "intertwining" of stability and change that exists in the mortal world (Nasr 28). Islamic calligraphy has the appearance of a never ending line; the letters are all connected to one another and the writing seems to be constantly moving (Piostrovsky 29). The continual movement of the line "is one of the ways of manifesting [Allah] to this world" (27) and "projects the concept of continuity, of endlessness, of pluriformity" (29). The symbolism of…