Mythology/folklore Tension between the East and the West Bram Stoker’s most interesting theme in Dracula is the conflict between known Western culture and the unknown Eastern world. In the very beginning of the book, Jonathan Harker tells us “the impression I had was of leaving the West and entering the East” (9). It is from this early point that the separation between the East and West is set up and throughout Dracula this theme builds. It is this conflict between East and West that dominates the novel
One of these areas has been the cinema. From the past to modernity African cinema has developed it's own identity by incorporating western film techniques and adapting it to their own culture to reconstruct the image of Africa, thus creating and intercultural
beginning with the Roman empire and its “fall” in the West, the immediate post-Roman polities in Gaul, Spain, Italy, Britain, and Ireland, the history of Byzantium after the seventh century crisis of the Eastern Roman empire, Arab caliphate, and Muslim Spain, and finally, the Carolingian empire, its successor states and principal imitator, England, and at the array of Northern polities.
Having studied such varying accounts of cross cultural encounters happening within the long nineteenth century, spanning from people from all over the East and the West, and all of them coming from different positions of power and backgrounds, with all of their observations being heavily punctuated by different motives and biases, helps one gain a lot of perspective over the entire situation. The impact that the dealings of these people have had on the world as we now know it also becomes clearly
are instances which prove that not the skin colour but what actually what matter is the skill, talent and most importantly the inner “fairness”. Just for the sake of outer beauty, it do not make any sense of building a bridge between neither the fair and the dark ones nor between the dark people and their approaching success. It does not matter which part of the world one person belong from; the ill thoughts among people make the fair skinned person anyway “good”. Practically, a fair woman has more
The main characteristic of Islam and the west in the nineteenth and twentieth century was that both Islam and the west were largely defined by its relationships. Modernism of the west which driven by the experience of technology, military, economy, and political superiority indirectly challenged Islam to define themselves, by Islamism in building civilization. Modernism was the adaptation of religious ideas and practices to take accounts of what west had achieved with democratic life. Meanwhile Islamism
Chapter One of Kitchen’s Modern Germany discusses Germany under the rule of Napoleon. Napoleon was a conqueror and spent most his time trying to conquer new territories. Under Napoleon the German economy was disrupted. The continental blockade banned imports as well as exports to Britain. This affected Germany because German goods could not be exported to French controlled territories while French goods could freely be imported into Germany. Under Napoleons rule nationalism grew in the German states
Hermans and Giancarlo Dimaggio (2007), the confusion in cultural identity can be because the connection between the identity and globalization’s impacts. Some side effect as Schwartz, Luyckx and Vignoles (2011) mentioned, is the number of patients suffering from the so called “diagnosis of multiple personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder [DID]”(p
Her concern is with the human predicament. As a chronicler of human relationships, she is excellent. The clash between tradition and modernity and tensions generated by it has been authentically presented. Deshpande does not provide ready-made solutions, she believes, in literary writing One does not pose a problem and present a solution. It’s not maths, but the vision of humanity
The Holy Land Experience is a theme park located in Orlando, Florida that claims to be a biblical museum in which an authentic recreation of ancient Jerusalem is visited. The park’s numerous exhibitions attempt to illustrate the architecture and landscape that existed in the city of Jerusalem during the life of Jesus, almost 2000 years ago. These exhibits take form as duplicated biblical sites, including The Wilderness Tabernacle, Calvary’s Garden Tomb, The Byzantine Cardo and The Temple of the Great