good‚ we are told that he still takes the tube and even though he works over twelve hours almost every day‚ they are in staggering debt‚ a debt so massive it cumulates to two years’ salary. This is something the short story uses to criticize the western capitalistic way of life in a very subtle way. The author does so by expressing how the capitalistic way of life have made Mikes family appreciate new materialistic things‚ but not appreciate each other‚ because of their love to new materialistic
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relations. The Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States had created a wide gap between them and the West‚ leaving the two Asian nations behind technologically and military. In that period‚ neither of them had the power to stand up to the Western nations‚ and eventually both had to sign unequal treaties that forced them to open their ports and cities to foreign merchants. However‚ the way this process happened in each country and their reaction to it were very different‚ attracting the
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migrated to America. For the first time‚ it was Edward Said who challenged the established theory of the western orientalists. He brought together overwhelming material evidence to expose the dominant European imperialistic point of view‚ in his path - breaking book ‘Orientalism’. In that book‚ Said exposes the hidden agenda of imperialism to cultivate and keep orientalism to sustain Western hegemony over the orient. Crisis. ‘Crisis’ is one of the remarkable essays of Said’s classic work ‘Orientalism
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M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang exemplifies the beliefs the Western world has over the East. Politically‚ the West believes they can be a dominating force by intervening in all Eastern affairs through the use of weapons. Socially‚ Western cultures and traditions have entered the Eastern world‚ impacting the daily lives of the Chinese people. The white man has displayed inappropriate behavior over the traditional oriental woman by controlling every aspect of her life. In Hwang’s M. Butterfly‚ there
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HISTORY OF MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES 1948-2008 FORMAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE UNIVERSITY‚ LAHORE SUBMITTED BY SUBMITTED TO Muhammad Umer Toor 12-10662 Mr. Khizer Jawad INTRODUCTION “The Muslims of the world are passing through the most critical period in their history. The western civilization called modernism has dominated over all other civilizations with the forceful hammerings of scientific advancement ... Although the Muslims of all countries are trying hard to ward off the mighty blow
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the effect of globalization taking place‚ the influence of movies had been brought to even a greater level. This so-called phenomenon of globalization has been utilized by Asian women to alter their previously negative‚ stereotypical potrayals in Western movies that shaped the image in their audiences’ eyes. Women were often being portrayed in medias as submissive‚ eager for sex‚ obedient and passive with their body features being the focus of their existence (Hagedorn‚ 1994; Uchida‚ 1998; Klein
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recently independent African and Asian nations whose aim was to support economic and cultural collaboration and to combat colonialism for their large and destitute populations. Race‚ religion‚ colonialism‚ national sovereignty‚ and the promotion of world peace were issues addressed at this conference. This meeting was also an important step towards the shaping of the Non-Aligned Movement. The Asian nationalist leadership of Indonesia‚ Ceylon‚ Burma‚ and the Philippines sponsored the Bandung
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gradually evolved into works fundamentally appreciated for their beauty and emotional significance. In Morocco‚ a rich tradition of arts and crafts has been established and amplified through the many years of immigration from various parts of the world. Between the prehistoric fabrications of the “Venus of Tan-Tan” - an alleged artifact found in the depth of
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the Western and Arab/Muslim worlds respectively. Combined with the inherent fear resulting from each world’s history of aggression with the other‚ this creates an inevitable conflict between the two civilizations. Orientalism plagues the Western world’s consciousness through the portrayal of Arab/Muslim society as one filled with violent‚ misogynistic men and a female population that exists solely to serve the men’s every need. Imperialism likewise fuels the fear in the Arab/Muslim world that
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and Technology Information Monthly Issue 121‚ 5th Issue of 1998 The advent of the Internet has been one of the most exciting major events in the second half of the 20thtcentury. The ancient dream of “a scholar knows all things happening in the world without venturing outdoors” has finally become a reality. Since 1993‚ the Internet started to take off. At present‚ the Internet has spread to more than 180 countries and regions‚ connecting more than 600‚000 domestic networks of various types‚ hooking
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