Colonialism
Essays

The image of the "Other": Edward Said and bell hooks on the White West's propaganda of political control through cultural dominance and superiority

Post-Colonialism Reflected through Jewelry and Other Cultural Symbols

Lenin begins Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by describing World War I as an imperialist war, which he defines as a predatory war to plunder and annex, a war for the benefit of capitalistic moneyed…

¶ … 20th century, political philosophers in the Western hemisphere had become firmly entrenched in the principles of the Enlightenment. With feudal oligarchies outmoded and with the burgeoning success with new republics…

Muhammad Ali in Egypt and the Influence of Napoleon

This is a six page paper about Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House," using 4 external references in a literary criticism format. The paper is about gender, of course, and about how the issues related to gender are still important now using one article related to the importance of marriage and how marriage has changed. The society still has a long way to go, but Ibsen wrote this long before he could have known how important his commentary could be.

This essay reviews Nancy Bisaha's book Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and Ottoman Turks, and looks at how the book suffers from a lack of discussion regarding contemporary issues. In particular, while the book succeeds in its stated goals, the self-evident relation to contemporary issues makes the reader look for something in the book that can connect its historical discussion to issues of more immediate importance. Sadly, aside from a few cursory mentions of 9/11, the book lacks such a discussion.

Why is it that Africa, despite the aid and help and support that she gets from different sources all over the world, is still very much impoverished and in a state of poverty even now?

Richard Allen: A Biography and Historical Context

This paper deals with three articles and their respective reviews in regards to the current education climate in America. Each one is reflected upon and criticized. Differing levels of analysis along with use of present day circumstances in American education help to illustrate which parts of the articles were informative and which were merely fluffed up opinion.