In Mystic - Joy Harjo (2015); American Smooth - Rita Dove (2004) - Exploration of Cultural Identity
Book review - 4 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The examination of cultural identity is a regular subject in literature, which usually serves as a reflection through which authors assess their intricacies and their joint involvement. In the poems, American Smooth and In Mystic by Rita Dove and Joy Harjo respectively, the authors dig...
Identity in the Digital Age
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The interplay among identity, privacy, and authenticity has grown progressively more intricate in the current digital environment. Users can generate and exhibit different facets of their personas on social media platforms, complicating the distinction between their offline and online...
Identity And Representation of Islam and Muslims in France in the Media
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
In Japan, following an assault on a woman by a French tourist in the Minato district of Tokyo, several social media users claimed that the perpetrator of the attack was of "Maghrebi" origin. Despite a lack of evidence, several false claims were widely spread before the actual information was...
Corpus about Artist's Identity et Love
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Document 1 is a web article entitled Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship. It was written by Louis Menand and published on December 3, 2018, on the New Yorker. Document 2 is a web article entitled Was Shakespeare the Real Author of His Plays? It was written by Barbara Maranzani on June...
The Notion of Cultural Identity in The Waiter's Wife and Angels in America
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
As Margaret J. Wheatley, who studies organizational behaviour, once noted that "There (was) no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about", we may question, especially since the most prevalent ghettoization suspicions in many places around the world, with all the...
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992) - The complexity of identity
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Michael Ondaatje's thriller novel, The English Patient, tells the stories of various characters after the war that disrupted their lives changed their culture and challenged their identity. Most of the characters have endured traumatic experiences that Ondaatje makes apparent by...
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharto, 1905) and Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929) - Women identity issues in the early twentieth century
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) and Passing (Nella Larsen) are novels presenting female characters struggling to fit into the 20th century society. At the time, women were not very independent and had almost no means to earn a living. In The House of Mirth, Lily Bart's parents died and in...
The truth about identity in "The Apology" and "The Iliad"
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Greek texts often emphasize the relationship between the community and the individual, and often with tragic results for the individual who chooses to fully express his individuality. The characters who are the centerpieces of ancient Greek literature, then, are those who, alone in that...
Quicksand, Identity and Women's Experience
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The thesis explores how issues related to class, race, and gender intersect to help shape Crane's struggle towards attaining autonomy and social stability in the 20th century (French and Allyson 457). It shows how class, race, and gender connect by paralleling the plight of Quicksand as a...
Catholic Identity and Culture of the Australian Catholic Schools
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Catholic identity is centred on the presentation of the person of Jesus Christ with his call to repent and believe. It also espouses crucifixion Christianity which leads to the call to believe that everyone stands under the last fourthings of death and judgement, heaven and hell. As a...
Spatial identity in Veronis, L. (2007) - Strategic spatial essentialism
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
In her literature review, she focuses on anti-essentializing approaches that distinct groups use to define a common space such as diaspora and hybridity, and border crossing notions especially transnationalism. The African Americans chose the margin of the society as a place where they made a...
The economic, territorial, and cultural impact of the European Union on the Danish identity
Case study - 5 pages - European union
Created by the treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Union now has 25 member states. Over the years and decades, it has developed a wide range of policies with an emphasis on economic measures. The member states have had to adapt themselves to this new system of governance and to the presence of...
Apocalyptic rhetoric and its effect on religious identity
Case study - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Apocalypticism offers a unique rhetoric of violence. Israelite people experienced violence and domination for centuries under the control of Persians, Greeks, Selucids, Ptolemies, and Roman rulers. Israelite identity was challenged under these occupying forces because the God of Israel was...
Impact of the Media on National Identity
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The media plays several roles in a country, its key role being to disseminate, compile, record and store information on current and past events in the country. The media is also responsible for the entertainment, enlightenment and education of its people. This role being crucial to the...
Language and Cultural Identity
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Language is the use of symbols (words) to communicate. It is the most-important cultural aspect and every culture in the world communicates with their native language (Senft, 12). Language is also a tool used by archeologist to examine past activates and provide clues about cultural and social...
The Social-Cultural Identity of Greek- Americans
Case study - 10 pages - Political science
According to some, Astoria is the largest “city” of the Greek outside the Athens-Greece. The New York's Queens Neighborhoods of Astoria, New York conjure up the image of a Greek immigrant community that has lived in it for over forty years (Hantzopoulos, 2005). For the Greeks and their...
Ethnic Studies Race, Identity, and Film
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
In the application of the term representation in this scenario reflects on the establishment of positions in media studies in which objects of analysis are not selective to some instances of reality, but reflect more on issues regarding racism. These are signifying objects articulated within...
History as identity: The American past as contested terrain
Book review - 20 pages - Modern history
We look to the past to tell us who we are, where we are, and how we got here from there. History is identity, and thus it is contested terrain. Whose story is going to be told, and who is going to do the telling? The American narrative - the history of who we are, where we've been, and...
Gender Identity
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Every person possesses a gender identity within their self's which nearly everyone match one's anatomic look. A person's gender indentify is either male or female or possibly something in between. This is a significant individual trait that adds to ones self-worth. It is the mode in...
Subversion and Inversion: Kate Mansfield's Colonial Identity and Modernism
Case study - 1 pages - Literature
In a letter to S. S. Koteliansky, Katherine Mansfield wrote: “I am always conscious of this secret disruption in me” (qtd in Smith ix). This statement bears to many of the key concepts of Modernist literature - the repressed self versus the conscious self, disjunction and dissonance,...
The struggle for female identity in a male dominated world
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Throughout history, the female has been, at the best of times underappreciated, and at the worst of times, demonized and persecuted. While many Feminist writers believe that this particular brand of prejudice originally stemmed from the story of Eve tempting Adam to fall from grace in the Garden...
Mesopotamian skull preservation and identity
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
The Mesopotamians were an Ancient Egyptian culture settled on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers around 5000 B.C. Their settlement changed the pace of society as the world knew if from a nomadic hunting and gathering society to a settled agricultural superpower in which towns and city...
Women in Film: African Filmmakers and Female Identity in African Cinema
Case study - 5 pages - Film studies
tradition from generation to generation. This is an essential part of how powerful the medium of film can be in Africa; it is more effective in societal change than books, literature, or anything involving literacy. African film goes beyond its function in western culture; it serves a greater...
An identity reduced to a Burka
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Every culture has defining elements. There are also stereotypes associated with each culture. Sometimes the defining elements of a culture are falsely identified. An Identity Reduced to a Burka by Laila Al-Marayati and Semeen Issa La illustrates a stereotype regarding the Muslim culture....
A war for identity: Vladimir Putin's image as a product of the war in the Northern Caucuses
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
Voloyda Putin stood atop a staircase looking down at the toilet that was fixated against the bottom stair of the communal apartment. He gripped the freezing metal handrail with his left hand and shifted the large wooden stick in his right. He had spotted another one. With his eye on the target...
Temporal and Spatial divides and identity in 'Lucy'
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Jamaica Kincaid's novel 'Lucy' illustrates the story of a girl with desperate desire to manipulate her personal identity. With motives so deeply ingrained in her determinedly expendable past and their manifestations in her present, her quest propels her obsessions divides past from...
Identity Construction in Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' and Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Both Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' and Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' depict the constant conflict between the individual and the society in which they live; and, more specifically, the struggle of the individual to construct his or her own identity in...
Pakistan: what is national identity?
Essay - 12 pages - Political science
With around 140 million people, Pakistan gained the status of a nuclear power in 1998, but also came to be known as a rogue state ('rogue stat') in the eyes of the United States. Under the international spotlight since the Afghan crisis of autumn 2001, and following the attacks of September...
Brain Swapping: Identity, Transformation and what matters in Survival
Book review - 6 pages - Medical studies
So here is your story: you are fairly unhappy with your life and who you are at present. You have always thought yourself to be a bit too tall and lanky, a little lacking on physical endurance, and much too emotionally sensitive. You feel that you have a few intellectual shortcomings as well,...
Gynocriticism and 'Jane Eyre': The conflict of the female identity in language
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
When reading a novel like Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', with both a female author and narrator, a series of implications arise by the structuring of a feminine language within the constructs of a patriarchal society, and thus, a masculine discourse; such an oppression innate to language...
