Militarism In The Yumens And The Athshean

One thing that the book misses, however, is the same suffering, perhaps even worse, that was imposed upon the Vietnamese people. This is typical of novels from this time; they all exhibit a bold ethnocentricism (Lomperis 5).

The construction of roads not only exposed the people of Thull to firearms and the market economy, but also to different influences and religions from other regions. One specific religion that influenced the Kohistani of Thull was fundamentalist Islam. The major beliefs of fundamentalist Islam were the protection of women’s purity and one’s honor. A man’s honor was directly related to a woman’s purity. For this reason, men of a family needed to protect the women in the family. A male member of the woman’s family avenged any type of insult or action that was believed to be a

Throughout the process of colonization, the Native people in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, Silas Hagerty’s documentary Dakotah 38, and Phillip Noyce’s film Rabbit-Proof Fence, all cope with the on going struggles of being colonized against their will. All three of these sources tell their own, different stories about their same struggles. In both Things Fall Apart and Dakotah 38, the colonizing people create a sense of doubt in the Natives’ cultures; whereas in Rabbit-Proof Fence, the people fight to hold their beliefs by continuing to practice their own traditions.

Iyer has written the essay in an informal style in a tone that is subjective. It is the author’s personal opinion, written from his point of view and interpretation. The essay is descriptive and written for a broad general audience. He describes persons, places, and things in a way that forms a picture in the readers mind: minute details are used that appeal to the reader to use their five senses. Particular attention was paid to compare the two different lifestyles existing within the country. The author used many comparisons/contrasts to make his point: past and future; silence and frenzy; maiden aunt and bar girl are good examples. His point was that Vietnam is like two countries; Saigon and the rest.

War is woven into the familial aspects of this novel. It not only separated families, but also separated Vietnam itself, dividing the people and therefore compromising the idea of unity and cultural identity. The Vietnam War left a residue of resentment

   Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War is a contrapuntal reading to American literature on the Vietnam War. But rather than stand in stark contrast to Tim O' Brien's The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War is strangely similar, yet different at the same time. From a post-colonialist standpoint, one must take in account both works to get an accurate image of the war. The Sorrow of War is an excellent counterpoint because it is truthful. Tim O' Brien writes: ". . . you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil." (O' Brien, 42) Bao Ninh succeeds in this respect. And it was for this reason that the Vietnamese

The reader gets a rare and exotic understanding of a totally foreign and ancient culture experiencing the growing pains of colonial expansion during the British domination

The peculiarity of the first two paragraphs is a wide usage of such stylistic devices, which author employed in order to create the tense atmosphere of a tragedy. The text under analysis is very emotive and causes the reader a sense of terror.

The history of recent years in the Indochina conflict has been an eventful one. It will exhibit to the eyes of the future student some of the most remarkable instances of a ruthlessness and indifference to common humanity. Moreover, it will, I believe, demonstrate that North Vietnam has, for a long time, steadily pursued a communist regime which was deliberately designed to produce a subjugation of other countries by the threat of communism.

The history of human nature has been bloody, painful, and even destructive. Nonetheless, before understanding their environments humans used to kill each other based on their own mindset on the ideal of violence, and what it actually meant. Pinker describes narratives of violent acts from the past, that today are foreign to us. He gives us a tour of the historical human violence and how the violence in human nature has changed throughout time. The main idea from Pinker’s book,“The Better Angels of Our Nature ', is “for all the dangers we face today, the dangers of yesterday were even worse.” He provides its readers with explicit violent stories beginning from 8000 BCE to now, and describes how violence has evolved from a blood lost to more of a peaceful existence.

BIBLIOGRAPHY“Conflict in Indochina – Contested Spaces” Thomas Cantwell“War without End” - James HarpurHTA Modern History Study GuideExcel HSC Modern History Study Guidehttp://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnamhttp://www.vietnam-war.info/quotes/quotes4.phphttp://hsc.csu.edu.au/modern_history/international_studies/indochina/

Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle” is a classic story of greed, corruption, and misfortune following Jurgis Rudkis and his love interest/eventual wife, Ona Lukosazite, and their two families. The novel shows off the complexity of and fickle nature of life and all that within it that we all take for granted. The characters feel very human and their troubles are very sympathetic as well. One begins to feel delight as well as anguish at the author’s non-existent mercy.

Froude’s imperialistic and ethnocentric point of view manifests the differences between the “inferior race”, the blacks and the minority group, the British. His beliefs of superiority of his own culture are shadowed through a forceful and aggressive tone by using “we” to get the message of white supremacy across to the reader. His views on the superiority of the British rule despite the white majority are expressed through his despiteful tone throughout the excerpt. He describes the Greater Antilles as “weak nations” that are “subject to the rules of others who are at once powerful and just” diminishing the natives

Although a fictionalized Hollywood movie, John Boorman’s film, “The Emerald Forest,” adopts as a dramatization principle of a mystical environmental anthropology. It gives insight to the destructive juxtaposition of indigenous cultures and the effects of a modern mechanized society on these cultures. The film poses questions as to how modern societies affect indigenous cultures and if they can coexist or if sacrifices are needed for one culture to supersede. The modern society detailed in “The Emerald Forest” experiences the effects of ethnocentrism, having a distinct set of cultural norms and customs. Therefore, viewing traditions and practices used by the ‘Invisible People,’ and the other indigenous cultures depicted in the film, as inferior, odd, or abnormal.

The desire to conquer land that was previously unexplored has existed throughout history. This desire forced many indigenous societies, who were usually dominated technologically, to adapt to the teachings and overall system of the ‘superior’ conqueror nation with destruction as the only alternative. This causes a major impact on how a certain society functions, even after seeking independence from the foreigners. The rise and fall of indigenous societies can be analyzed through various media. Chinua Achebe is a novelist specializing in African literature, and this essay deals with the themes regarding colonialism in one of his many novels. In