South Asia‚ which consists of the nations of Bangladesh‚ Bhutan‚ India‚ Maldives‚ Nepal‚ Pakistan‚ and Sri Lanka‚ is ethnically diverse‚ with more than 2‚000 ethnic entities with populations ranging from hundreds of millions to small tribal groups. South Asia has been invaded and settled by many ethnic groups over the centuries - including various Dravidian‚ Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups - and amalgamation of Dravidian‚ Indo-Aryan and native societies has produced composite cultures with many common
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No Exit is a satirical play written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1947. The play is about three characters‚ all who have died‚ and arrived in Hell. They expect torture mechanisms and are instead placed into a room empty except for three couches‚ a small paper knife‚ a mantle‚ and a bronze contraption on top of it. A man named Garcin is the first to be in the room‚ a women named Inez is brought in shortly after‚ then finally a woman named Estelle. Garcin begins to shed his civilized manner and blossom into
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The symbolic significance of Inez‚ Estelle‚ and Cradeau in Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit In his book Being and Nothingness‚ the 20th century french philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre classifies the world into three modes of being: being-for-others‚ being-in-itself‚ and being-for-itself. The first‚ being-for-others‚ is when the self exists as an object for others. They avoid becoming their own subject to avoid self-criticism because they prefer the false reality that others give them. The second‚ being-in-itself
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To my fellow South Africans and citizens of this beautiful rainbow nation. This phrase is one you may have heard lately: “South Africa is no longer a safe and desirable destination for us to live in”. I ask why? What motivates our people of South Africa to say this? Is the crime‚ is it the economy‚ is it politics‚ is it our power shortages? If so I ask that you would please take a step back and realise that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Yes we do have our problems‚ but
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Famine In North Korea During World War II‚ two resistance groups fought the Japanese in Korea. One is communist group which is the North and the other is the nationalist group which is the South. After World War II‚ the Korean peninsula did not have a functional government because of the Japanese colonization therefore the allied groups came to an agreement that until an election is held‚ the North will continue to run as a communist and the South as a nationalist. However the North elected a
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The Rationale of this task was to create a dramedy of three stereotypes created in society to bump heads in one another‚ as based off of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit. Three characters‚ President Bill Clinton‚ Marilyn Monroe‚ and Dana were selected to all fit into one enclosed space‚ an Art-Deco themed elevator‚ as a different representation for Hell. For this instance‚ the characters were all representations of stereotypes the 20th and 21st century had developed‚ in hopes that each opposite would create
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focus of Banksy’s documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. Banksy has two main points in the film‚ which is to give the audience a brief history of street art along with displaying the growth of an artist‚ that being Mr. Brainwash or Thierry Guetta‚ a main protagonist in the film.
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This weeks reading on chapter eight Marginalization and Exit in Africa was very interesting it talked about the economic‚ population growth. It had three reasons why African republics was constrained by corrupt practices of government officials in one party. First one was the dictators and elites looted treasuries and deposited money in Swiss and European‚ Second low level demanded bribes to provide services or issue building permits along with business licenses‚ Third was because of “informal” basis
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Korea under Japanese Rule The Korea’s colonial period spans a time frame of 35 years from 1910 to 1945 until Japan was defeated in World War II. It started with the Eulsa Treaty also known as Japan-Korea Protectorate treaty which is signed between Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire on 17 November 1905 by the influence of Russo-Japanese War. This treaty effectively made Korea a protectorate of Japan. Immediately after that‚ on 22 August 1910 the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty was signed‚ which
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The modern period was a turbulent time for all East Asian nations. China‚ Japan‚ and Korea were all faced great challenges in the modern era and responded to them in different ways. China and Korea turned inwards initially and opened up (except for North Korea) more recently‚ while Japan was the first to modernize and has been open for decades. The first and possibly most tragic country in the modern period was China which stuck firmly to traditionalism into the 20th century and would later on
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