Pakistani activist for equal female education, Malala Yousafzai, in her biography, I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World, actively articulates how she has strived, yet struggled through much resistance in order to advocate that girls should have the right to an equal education anywhere despite the cultural difference. Yousafzai’s purpose is to illuminate the world by elucidating her culture and journey as a whole in order to portray to world that female students deserve
A PLACE WHICH NEEDS ATTENTION: THE EAST The term Orientalism, was used by the West, to define the East. Orientalism is the perspective of the West, the way they see the East. The West here, is the Western Europe and the East is rest of it. Also Said divided Orientalism into two groups which are “latent and manifest Orientalism.” Nineteenth century scholars were mostly interested in Manifest Orientalism which is things we can observe about the Orient like language, literature, art, history. Most
Orientalism is a book written by Edward Said, the ‘father' of post-colonialism. He is also called as ‘A man of controversy', where his writings influenced many theories, activists, and also changed most of post-colonial studies of the Middle East in the United State and Europe drastically, especially in literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, and comparative religion studies. His writings have been translated into 26 languages, receives lots of review including critics and enthusiasts
The term orientalist or orientalism is defined as the way in which Eastern cultures, such as Middle Eastern and Asian cultures, are described or portrayed by Westerners. Typically these descriptions are offensive and stereotypical. For example, the way in which Aruj Barbarossa is portrayed in the work of Laugier de Tassy reinforces the violent, pleasure-addicted and cruel stereotype of the Middle East. It is because of de Tassy's Christian values and the Christian values of other writers and artist
The East has been a source of obsession for the West ever since the early seventeenth century, with Chinese artistic influences occurring in European art styles. Viewed as exotic creatures, the East was orientalised into a ‘sweeping generalization and an essentialized image [that] carried with it the taint of inferiority’. (Said, 1993) Asian women were feminized and seen as docile and shy, with this notion carried over into books, films and advertisements still seen today. This in turn desensitized
Orientalism and Asian Americans The United States of America was founded and occupies by a group of immigrants from other countries and has rich and variety of people who migrate and move to and from the United States from all over the country. Among those types of people are the people from the East land known as the “orient”. Some of the biggest issues that the United States has had in the past is a sense of racism to the Asian American community. What seems to be clear in society today is that
Introduction By inseparable, I understand it as the self and the other are mutually influencing and are constructed upon each other. The construction of the self and the symbolic others are interdependent. In Edward Said’s Orientalism, he demonstrated that the generalized conception of the non-European societies such as the Middle East and Asia that are unfamiliar and termed “East” are based on the terms of the “West”, thereby justifying their colonialization of these countries with inaccurate representations
In sociology, the East–West dichotomy is the perceived differences between the Eastern world and Western cultures. This division is cultural rather than geographical. The West is comprised of countries and continents such as Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Latin America and the United States. Historically, the East is comprised of Asian and Islamic nations. In the play M.Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, the character Song emphases the clear contrasts between East and West. Within this play
1. What are organophosphates? Using at least one example of a pesticide, describe its attributed health effects, exposure risks and situations and how you will prevent the occurrence of, and manage an exposure or incident, if one occurs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organophosphates are a group of human-made chemicals that poison insects and mammals. Organophosphates are the most widely used insecticides today. Organophosphate insecticide can produce both acute
type of citation analysis and tools. The citations features of three popular citation analysis tools i.e. Scopus, Google Scholar andWeb of Science are discussed in detail.Ranking of information is a key aspects of information management in academic and research institutions. By examining changing needs and products, and to encourage the user, Library and Information professionals to understand and manage these resources and respond to the user needs. Keywords: Citation analysis, Web of Science, Google