“Take up the White Man’s burden, send forth the best ye breed, (Kipling 1-2).” “Then, in the name of freedom, don’t hesitate to shoot [the natives], (LaBouchere 23-24).” Kipling's,”The White Man’s Burden,” and LaBouchere’s,”The Brown Man’s Burden,” describe viewpoints on imperialism as seen by those experiencing its economic benefits and those experiencing its’ destruction firsthand. Imperialism has been a widespread ideology since the nineteenth century and as such, has had many criticisms such
Mma Ramotswe discusses the “Go Go Handsome man’s bar” (2003. P.139) which is a place in Botswana, men go to escape the burdens of their home lives. Settings like these cause disarray on the women in their lives as there seems to be a lack of women’s associations. This could be because women’s clubs are their own homes. Comparably, the
2. On Historiography a. How did Zeus Salazar differentiate the Western definition and our “indigenous” perception of what history or kasaysayan is? ANSWER: “Magkaiba ang kasaysayan, na binigyang-diin ng saysay, at historya, na nakatuon naman sa pagsisisyasat.” Salazar defined “history” in Tagalog as different from the Western definition, which referred to knowledge, to the search of information or to what happened in the past. He defined ‘kasaysayan’ in our “indigenous” perception. It came from
After overcoming great challenges, including escaping the cyclopes, resisting the sweet calls of the sirens, surviving an encounter with the monsters Scylla and Charybdis, and Journeying through Hell, Odysseus finally returns to his family. Odysseus’s epic journey home creates the main storyline in Homer’s epic, yet there is an underlying story of his son, Telemachos, accomplishing the journey into manhood. Telemachos is introduces as merely a boy, yet throughout the epic he is forced to overcome
Creating a mind, which gives the consent (accepts the hegemony), is never a simple act. It indeed results from the social structures and the cultural designs. The code of conduct, moral value and education standards are the designed by the ruling classes and followed by the rest, both in social and global scenario. This social and cultural scenario dictates each group or its subordinate societies to what should be its behavior. Each and every institutions (social, cultural, political and economic)
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and