In the beginning of the quarter‚ we discussed Said Edwards book‚ Orientalism. This book‚ I believe‚ is the foundation of our class. The movies we watched in class displayed the arguments Said Edwards has in his book. The movie The Dictator shows the idea of West vs. the East. The East‚ in Edward’s book‚ is any culture or country that is not part of the Western countries‚ such as countries in the Middle East‚ North Africa‚ and Southeast Asia. The West or‚ as Edward Said calls them‚ the Occident
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Edward Said’s Critique of Orientalism Examining the Pacific Studies discipline in New Zealand as Orientalist Edward Said ’s critique of the set of beliefs known as Orientalism forms an important background for anthropological studies. His work highlights the inaccuracies of a wide variety of assumptions as it questions various models of thought‚ which are accepted on individual‚ academic‚ and political levels. Said’s theoretical framework in his book Orientalism argues how the hegemonic discourse
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Green lantern is a long running comic book series. The early years the story of a prophecy that had been handed to Abin sur‚ an alien‚ who eventually dies from fear of this prophecy and his ring is given to a human the first human from earth to possess a power ring. This prophecy comes to be in the series called blackest night. It is a tale of evil trying to take over the universe. Black Hand is main Black lantern when a person is killed there body basically becomes a zombie possessing a black power
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The Heart of Darkness. Orientalism and its tragedy. It is common to divide the world in the West and the East. This division has been used to differentiate two parts of the world that are inherently not alike either in cultural‚ social‚ political or economical aspects. However‚ historically‚ both regions of the world have been tied in one way or the other. Even though technically speaking Africa is not west of Europe‚ during the 19th century‚ African colonies were highly appreciated for their
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THE MUSLIM GREEN LANTERN I this story by Doug Mahnke‚ Is a story That I really liked. The main character is Simon Baz‚ in the beginning Simon grew up in a muslim home and people beat him up because of that and were mean to him and his sister. That led to the problem in the story because that resulted into a life of crime for him in robbing cars. One time there was a bomb in a car that he stole and he was blamed for that act of terrorism. He was put in jail so he wouldn’t do it again.At there
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Green Lantern Stories in Reading Order 1) Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn 2) Green Lantern: Secret Origin 3) Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II 4) Green Lantern: The Road Back 5) Green Lantern: A New Dawn 6) Green Lantern: Emerald Knights 7) Green Lantern: Ganthet’s Tale 8) Superman: The Return of Superman 9) Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight & A New Dawn 10) Green Lantern: Baptism of Fire 11) Zero Hour: Crisis in Time 12) Green Lantern: Emerald Allies
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Edward Said identifies Orientalism as that what we know about other cultures is like a story or myths. There is a division the East and the West and in this the West is a more superior culture than the East. This superiority also helped the West politically wise. This also leads to how when the West attempts to study the East’s culture they don’t really take the truth into account and they continue to see themselves to be more superior and different. In the movie The Last Emperor there are evidences
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The halloween tradition of carving Jack-o-Lanterns has many examples of how it evolved into the tradition it is today. For example‚ carving Jack-o-Lanterns originated from an Irish folktale of a man known as Stingy Jack. According to History of the Jack o’ Lantern‚ the myth began in Ireland‚ where a mischievous man‚ Stingy Jack‚ tricked the Devil twice into agreeing to not accept Jack into Hell if he died in a ten year span. Although‚ Stingy Jack did die during those ten years‚ but God would not
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Orientalism Stereotypes found in Mulan Orientalism stereotypes have influenced us in believing that it is true. In the movie Mulan that we had watched in class‚ we had found quite a few stereotypes that were exaggerated in the movie. The songs they had played were catchy and memorable but they provided some examples of stereotypes in the film. Also another part of the film mentioned another stereotype where women in China were looked down upon by the men. Another major stereotype was when the movie
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Spring Festival and Lantern Festival By Yolanda The Spring Festival‚ also known as the lunar new year‚ which falls in late January or early February. It is said that the Spring Festival evolved from an activity known as the “Winter Sacrifice”. And the word “Nian”‚ which in modern Chinese solely means year‚ was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a New Year. So people hang“good luck”wishes on red paper on the door and wall‚ use fireworks
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