The book‚ Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture‚ is a compilation of articles written by anthropologists‚ sociologists and professors. It was edited by Phillip R. DeVita and James D. Armstrong. This is the third edition of the Distant Mirrors books. In the introduction to the book it is said that Americans like things bigger and better and that is why they feel the need to keep making new editions. The main focus of this book is looking at the American culture from a different prospective
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A Distant Mirror: The “Calamitous” 14th Century Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror is about as entertaining as a history book can get or should be. Tuchman is a captivating storyteller and the quality of her history of France in the 14th century speaks for itself as the book has remained in print after 25 years. Famous for her engaging‚ narrative style that makes history flow like a thrilling novel‚ Tuchman presents a comprehensive review of 14th century Europe (via France‚ the dominant European
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Foreign cultures The problem of the students who have to learn foreign cultures or not had concerned a number of people. Some individuals advocate that the students are just need to know their own country culture.However‚ their are a large group of opponents have an opposite perspective. As far as I concerned‚The students in college are necessary to know the foreign cultures. Most of the student will go to other countries in the future for their jobs or visit their
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“A Distant Episode” written by Paul Bowles recalls the story of a professor who is captured by the Reguibats‚ a nomad tribe. As the story began‚ it focused on the professor and his journey to find an old friend; however it took a turn when the professor was turned over to the tribe. This short story has similar aspects when comparing it to The Heart of Darkness‚ by Joseph Conrad. The ideas of cultural imperialism‚ the climax and the idea of people going insane are resembled in both pieces of literature
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Analysis of ’Mark Twain--Mirror of America 2010级商务英语班 姚嘉琦 201003071128 Mark Twain who is well known for his master-pieces like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn‚ in which he used his extraordinary writing techniques thus combining rich humor‚ sturdy narrative and social criticism‚ plays a vital role in the history of American Literature. The reason why the author regarded him as a mirror of America was not only because of the true and vivid description and representation in his pieces‚ but for
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myself in the long mirror behind it. I was convinced that within the mirror there was another world‚ another dimension in which another me lived. Mirror Me was perfect in my eyes for even then I knew the real me wasn’t. I found solace in knowing that somewhere there was version of myself that was perfect and I suppose this is where my deep fascination with my reflection was born. But things are so different now. Gone are the days when I could converse with my reflection in the mirror‚ to do that now
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MIRROR MIRROR The idea of not looking in a mirror for three consecutive days seems quite obnoxious‚ not to mention a challenge‚ but then again the feeling was what kick started my experience for the same. At first I inverted my mirror to help me get started on my assignment but that was purely for the sake of the assignment and didn’t mean any more than that. But‚ a few hours into the experiment‚ I found myself making silly excuses to look at my reflection for reasons that I thought were valid
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president had their own way of dealing with foreign policy. America was entering into a time when it was desirable to participate in and influence world affairs. President Theodore Roosevelt believed that America should‚ “Speak softly and carry a big stick: you will go far.” That was Roosevelt’s way of executing foreign policy. Roosevelt used his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to advocate American diplomacy as the "big brother" in Latin America and the United States’ military might was key
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Mirror‚ Mirror “Mirror‚ Mirror on the wall‚ who is the fairest of us all”. We all know the famous quote from the Fairy tale‚ but do we know that the answer should be “ME”. Although that might sound conceited‚ the fact is that every person should have the ability of looking in the mirror and saying‚ “that’s me and I love me!” Mark Twain once said “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” Loving yourself is not an easy thing to do but it is worth the effort. Loving yourself
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the new technology that is constantly being developed in society today in this new blogger democracy‚ Lakshmi Chaudhry published an article titled “Mirror‚ Mirror On the Web” to argue how the medias have rapidly evolved into tools for one to become famous. She is worried that self-expression has fallen effortlessly into self-promotion. The media culture made people; especially the young people’s appetite for being seen and getting renowned become stronger than ever before. Many individuals these days
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