In any part in the world‚ there is no place to be but home. Home is a place where we feel safe and take refuge. But how we will feel if this is taken from us? The essay by Edward Said‚ “States‚” narrates the story of about his country‚ Palestine‚ and the struggle of his countrymen. He also shares the passion of his homeland which we can relate to. “States” exemplify the experiences and perceptions of how important a home is to a common Palestinian. Our country is a big part of who we are. As we
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Edwars Said was born a Palestinian Arab in Jerusalem in 1935‚ and was American through his father‚ Wadie Saïd‚ who was a U.S. Citizen. Wadie Saïd‚ his father moved to Cairo‚ before the birth of his son . He spent much of his childhood travelling back and forth from Cairo to Jerusalem‚ visiting relatives. Saïd said that in his childhood he lived “between worlds” — like Cairo (Egypt) and in Jerusalem (Palestine). Here are some of his words from this period of life: "I was an uncomfortably anomalous
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yeottabyte-computers deep in the Utah Desert? We know about this NSA scheme because of the leaker Edward Snowden who has been recently granted a one-year temporary asylum by the Russian government. Why Russia granted the asylum and why Snowden is even there can be tied to three basic concepts of intercultural communication‚ those of culture & social group‚ perspective‚ and cultural relativism. Edward Snowden was a “security contractor at the NSA for the last four year‚ employed by several private
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and Daedalus and Icarus Comparison EssayKing Midas and Daedalus and Icarus are two Greek myths. In King Midas the king receives a wish from Dionysus after doing him a favour. Midas chooses that everything he touches turns to gold. Daedalus and Icarus focuses on the main characters escape from King Minos captivity. Daedalus invents wings to escape‚ but his son does not follow his advice and flies too high. This causes the sun to melt the wax holding his wings together and Icarus plummets towards his
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The British novelist and egyptologist Amelia Edwards once said‚ “Were I asked to define it‚ I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man’s achievements in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has‚ in time past‚ signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.” To put that in simpler words‚ Amelia means to say that archeology is the study and understandings of our past ancestors‚ who have grown to modern civilizations
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Dear Senators Kerry and Edwards‚ In a recent email‚ your campaign asked‚ “What values matter most to you?” I’d like to let you know what matters most to me is keeping my family close‚ acquiring financial independence and a successful retirement‚ and equality for GLBT people – which includes full marriage rights‚ not just civil unions. But you probably have people reading through these letters for you‚ and they have probably been given a list of criteria to weed through the thousands of
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Edward Hoagland in his essay “On Stuttering‚” describes the difficulties he faced in his life because of a stuttering problem. He shared the different ways he was able to cope with this issue and some of the scariest moments he faced because of his stuttering. As I read this essay I could relate to Hoagland on a personal level because of the stuttering problem my youngest son has. Many of the examples Hoagland shared I have seen my son deal with. Hoagland describes the fact that he has lived
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A comparision of the “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” and Gullivers Travels Gulliver sails across the wide expanse of an ocean on a voyage‚ just as Icarus‚ son of Daedalus did on a pair of wax welded wings. Both met their disasters on the waters of their journeys. Gulliver was ignorant and naïve and Icarus proud and arrogant. Both expressed having weakness as only human nature can have. Bruegel’s painting‚ ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”‚ portrays this artist’s opinion of the Greek legend
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Thesis: In Pieter Bruegel’s painting‚ “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus‚” he uses a Greek myth‚ orientation of objects‚ and an emphasis on peasants to convey that being too ambitious results in negative outcomes‚ which causes the viewer to think that living more simply will lead to a more satisfying life. In the bottom right-hand corner of the painting‚ you can see Icarus upside-down‚ drowning. In a Greek myth‚ Icarus is given a pair of wings made of wax and feathers by his father. As he receives
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