‘The Orkney imagination is haunted by time,’ a film clip in the Skara Brae Visitor’s Centre reads. Contemporary Orcadian identity is undeniably grounded in a distant past, it does not fit into the traditional narrative of Scottish identity and thus the islanders consciously attempt to construct an identity that is truly unique. Orkney is a group of 70 islands off the coast of Northern Scotland, around 15 of which are inhabited today with a population of around 20,000. The Vikings first came to Orkney
One specific narrative helps to enlighten the issue of feminine correctness and injustice in America during the seventeenth century and that was Mary Rowlandson’s account. Rowlandson was taken captive and during her captivity experienced violence, physical strains and
INTRODUCTION AMERICAN LITERATURE American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. During its early history America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present day United States. Therefore it is literary tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition. The New England colonies
comparing its value and impact to the culture and fashion. The essay explores how the fatal side of femininity is depicted in media, how and why fashion exploits the femme fatale image and the term definition. The essay concentrates at femme fatale image in the 20th century as the necessary part of the feminism evolution. The work is based on the bodies of work by Mulvey, Elizabeth Wilson Adorned in Dreams (1985). The aim of the essay is to explore the phenomenon of the femme fatale image idolization
the First World War for Australians there are two main narratives, there are the soldiers who fought overseas, then there was the Australians who remained in Australia during the First World War. It was a brutal battle against relentless forces, with many not returning back to Australia. Lasting from 1914-1918 the First World War was known by many as the ‘war to end all wars’, this remained, of course, until the Second World War. This essay will explore the experience of the war for the soldiers
“exemplary” position as a “case study,” as Lauren Berlant notes in her essay “On the Case,” to ask the question of what makes something a case, and not a merely gestural instance, illustration, or example, is to query the adequacy of an object to bear the weight of an explanation worthy of attending to and taking a lesson from; the case is actuarial. It raises questions of precedent and futurity, of canons and contextualization, of narrative elucidation. This is what’s disciplinary about the normativity
Essay Title History has revealed to us that throughout time people have valued their cultural identities. While people do venture out into the world to discover new lands, new people, and new ways of life, they do so with an already defined background and personality. Hence, every person fits within a demographic, and even if they adopt new and foreign beliefs, practices, and or behaviors, they are merely wearing new cultures like they are new clothes, because each body, mind and soul is grounded
since has such an extravagant memorial been built by a man for a woman. It is the silent and majestic beauty of the mausoleum itself that seems to furnish irrefutable proof of the nobility and intensity of Shah Jahan's affection for his wife. The narrative of the origins of Taj Mahal is as we all know the compassion of Shah Jahan for his beloved wife. There are other theories about the origin of the Taj. A work of Wayne Begley put me in a difficult situation to
Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener presents the reader with a strange, heavily detailed, and undeniably thought-provoking story of a relationship between two men that hold their values in very different places. The narrator of the story, an unnamed lawyer, is “a rather elderly man” who manages a legal copywriting office on Wall Street. The lawyer’s treatment of his employees, his long-standing mantra that, “the easiest way of life is best,” (3) and his demand and respect for good work are
The narrative of violence in South African communities with regard to social action as it applies to the case study of the violent strike and killing of mine workers at Marikana in August 2012. On the 16th August 2012, there was a massacre of 34 workers by the South African state police at Lonmim Marikana. This essay aims to explain how the Social Identity Theory accounts for the violence in South African communities, with particular reference to the Marikana massacre. I am going to explain the