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    Eurocentrism: The Metaphysics of Western Hegemony‚ page 63. 7. Sanjay Subhramanyam‚ Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia‚ (Modern Asian Studies 31‚ 1997‚ Cambridge University Press)‚ page748. 3.Edward Said‚ Orientalism (Published in 1978).

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    Predicament of Culture: Twenthieth-century Ethnography‚ Literature‚ and Art. Boston: Harvard College. Keita‚ Kittles. 1997. The persistance of racial thinking and the myth of racial divergence. American Anthropologist 99:534-44. Said‚ Edward. 1978. Orientalism. Michigan: Pantheon Books.

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    Great Chain of Orientalism‚ Jewish Identity‚ Management and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel‚” American Sociological Review Vol. 68‚ No. 4 (August‚ 2003): pp. 481-510 [3] Shlomo Avineri‚ “Introduction‚” in The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (New York: Basic Books)‚ 1981: pp. 3-13 [4] Mohammed Ayoob‚ “Political Islam: Image and Reality‚” World Policy Journal‚ Vol. 21‚ No. 3 (Fall‚ 2004)‚ pp. 1-14 [5] Aziza Khazzoom‚ “The Great Chain of Orientalism‚ Jewish Identity

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    denying themselves. In the essay many texts are mentioned‚ like Ms. Sasagawara in which there are metatextual references. Yamamoto mingles Asian American activism and white modernism. She never indulges in exoticism or orientalism‚ the fascination towards the oriental world. Orientalism is linked to Edward Said. There’s a distinction between victims and guilty party in 17S‚ the father is guilty of rage but he’s his wife’s victim‚ for being excluded. Rosie in the story performs the role of other people

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    Humanitarian Intervention as a World-Wide Controversy The issue of humanitarian intervention has become increasingly prominent in worldwide debates regarding its role in ethics and legitimacy in international relations. Uncertainty arises as to whether there are any moral obligation for humanitarian intervention and the concerning justifications of the violation of state sovereignty. In viewing the matter ethically and applying Immanuel Kant’s principle of cosmopolitan law from his 1795 essay

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    References: : * Legge‚ James. The Analects of Confucius. 2002. Guttenberg Project * Ma‚ Sheng Mei. The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity. The University of Minnesota Press. 2000 * http://religionandmediacourse.blogspot.com/2009/08/disney-and-religion-how-mulan-and.html * http://www.ourorient.com/mulan-in-legends.htm * Dong‚ Lan. “Writing Chinese America

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    Nowadays‚ English is popular and important not only in developed countries but also throughout the world. Therefore‚ some people say that the increasing role of English in the world means that the learning of other languages is being neglected. I do not agree with this statement for the following reasons: The learning of the other languages is not being neglected. First‚ let us think about French. Although French is not as common as English‚ many people want to learn this language. In Vietnam‚ there

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    The role of performance is prevalent in David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly in both the obvious and abstract sense. An example of the obvious sense is found in Song‚ Gallimard’s love in the play‚ who is “a woman created by a man” (Act 3‚ scene 3)‚ to use Gallimard’s words‚ but really Song is a spy for the Communist party under Mao’s rule. Song directly states that he is an artist and that Gallimard was his “greatest acting challenge (Act 2‚ scene 7). Further‚ an example of the abstract sense is found

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    manipulates helps to maintain support for government policies of mandatory detention‚ surveillance‚ and its military actions such as the war in Iraq. The motive for the association of Muslims and violence is explained in Edward Said’s discourse‚ Orientalism. Said argued that through a discursive conception of the Orient‚ the West was able to construct an image of its own identity – that is‚ that the West is the negative of “Oriental”‚ comprising of what the West as central to modern‚ enlightened thought

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    only at ordering facts‚ social events and human activities‚ but also of ordering human beings according to a given center.2 In 1978‚ Edward Said published his Orientalism‚ a work that builds on Foucault ’s insights and that has become the reference work for postcolonial studies.3 In it‚ he argues that Orientalism‚ which is the academic study of‚ and

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