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...GOES HERE! WORLD LITERATURE- Reading Journal The Arabian Nights Anonymously Written TRANSLATOR Husain Haddawy PERIOD 8th Century
CONTINENT / CULTURE
India and Persia
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Deception
The theme of deception is eminent throughout the story. The good characters have to deceive or outwit the evil ones in order to win and live. Shahrazad has to deceive King Shahrayar by telling him tales and postpone their endings in order to prolong her life and save other women from being put to death by the king. In the same way, characters such as the merchant in Shahrazad’s story of the Merchant and the Donkey have to deceive and outwit the demon in order to save his friend, the merchant from the...
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...Reading Journal Eva Hoffman’s “Lost in Translation” presents interesting experiences, especially in the third part of the book. Language and culture experiences are eminent in the New World part of the text. In Canada, Hoffman and her family can fluently converse with each other, but hardly with the rest of the community. The language factor is a critical issue in Canada for this family. However, this aspect changes once Hoffman and her family realizes that Canada is the new world for them.
Language gives many different people their identity. Language also brings sense of belonging and enhances personal and social relations among populations. However, this only happens when the people involved can relate...
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... Reading Journal History has always been a powerful source to teach us about the events thattook place in the past. It tells us about why the event took place, what the mistakes were, what cultural norms were practiced and how stable the economy and family structure was during a certain period of time. The experience has been somewhat similar while reading the chapters in the book by Kagan and Rogers. As I am reading the books, I am getting to know more about Europe and the Western Civilization and how states used to rule each other before the World Wars.
According to the chapters (Chapter 13) in the book it has been told that the early 17th and mid 20th centuries have been very favorable for Europe as it has dominated majority... of the...
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...Reading Journal: “Fear Not Globalization” In the article, “Fear Not Globalization”, which appeared in the Newsday in October 8, 2002, Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. argues that globalization does not homogenize or Americanize different cultures in the world. Nye Jr. argues that globalizations and modernization are closely related and that both have less impact on homogenizing world cultures. Despite the fact that modernization has brought about changes such new structures and improved technology, Nye Jr. argues that indigenous cultures are still intact.
On the other hand, Nye Jr. provides an example of how industrialization in major developed countries does not dictate the pattern of development in other...
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...Your full full July 06, Reading Journal: ‘The French, the Veil, and the Look’ by Elaine Sciolino
Cultural protection, security, and conformance to law are three such things on which French government pays special attention. The main point in this article is that whether there should be some restrictions on the way people dress in public or they should be allowed to wear what they want (Sciolino). The author of the article has consulted Quran and Muslim scholars to come with the viewpoint that hiding the face along with other body parts is not required in the religion of Islam.
The French government supports and protects secularism and equality between men and women. The government sees the covering of...
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... of unit Poverty and Globalization Summary In the article, Poverty and Globalization, Vandana Shiva describes the difficulties that Indian farmers are facing due to globalization of agriculture. Shiva starts with a description of the situation in Punjab. According to her, Punjab was once the most prosperous agricultural areas in India. However, the situation changed completely due to globalization of agriculture in the region. Farmers in Punjab are now desperate and in debts. Vast tracks of land in the regions have turned into a waterlogged desert. Trees, which once produced fruits, do not produce fruits anymore due to the inexistence of pollinators like butterflies and bees killed by pesticides (Shiva, 2000).
The ecological... of unit...
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... + The short story A&P by John Updike tell a story of a young man working as a clerk in a supermarket. His name is Sammy and he is 19 years old. In his encounter at work, he comes across three women who come to shop for snacks. The girls are in their bathing suits and when they enter the grocery shop, they attract the attention of everyone in the supermarket from their dressing. This is seen from the reaction their entrance causes to the people present at the supermarket. To Sammy their manner of dressing is appealing and he is infatuated to one of the women whom he nicknames Quinie, probably the most beautiful of them all.
The story continues when Lengel, who is the manager at the supermarket, comes and confronts the girls... + The short...
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...Reading journal Part Mountaineer Skew Solely Promulgation Beatification Part 2-Summary In chapter the concentrates on the Alaska Interior. A truck carter stops for hitchhiker- Alex- who says that he is from South Dakota. He is given a ride to Denali National Park, and changes the story to indicate that he is Gallien (Krakauer 5-9). The second chapter is on the Stampede Trail that is set in September 1922. This chapter explains the story of five strangers that meet in an abandoned bus near Alaska (Krakauer 9-13). They later learn that in the bus, there is some smell of decaying substance that happens to be the smell of dead bodies. In chapter three on Carthage, the author sets the stage in Carthage in...
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...Reading journal Part words Knapsack Anorectic Balks Confidante Part 2-Summary of chapters Chapter 13 sets the stage for the interview of Carine McCandless who is the younger sister to Chris. Carine is greatly affected by the death of his brother right from the information that McCandless body was discovered in R. Sushana. They even travel home so as to carry Chris’ ashes in Carine’s knapsack. Billie, Chris’ mother is in great shock after the death of his son and even weeps uncontrollably (Krakauer 88-90). She even stops eating and loses a lot of weight. On the contrary, McCandless father put on weight. This explains the different responses to loss and stress. In chapter 15 on The Stikine Ice Cap, the...
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