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    Albert. “The Guest”. Exile and the Kingdom. Trans. Carol Cosman. United States: Vintage‚ 2007. 67- 86. Print. Cosman‚ Carol. Introduction. Exile and the Kingdom. By Albert Camus. United States: Vintage‚ 2007. XV- XXIV. Print. Said‚ Edward. “From Orientalism”. Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory. Ed. Patrick Williams‚ and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia UP‚ 1994. 132- 149. Print.

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    jeer at Europeans” (313) as a result of being part of the European minority‚ Orwell admits that sometimes he felt that “the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest’s guts.” ( 314). In the essay “Edward Said’s Orientalism And The 2 Study Of The Self And The Other In Orwell’s Burmese Days” written by Moosavinia‚ et al criticizes Orwell’s total disregard for the Burmese way of life and Orwell’s blatant racism. This critical essay dissects Owells’s novel “Burmese

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    1. Sirena J. Riley‚ “The Black Beauty Myth” 2. Nomy Lamm‚ “It’s a Big Fat Revolution” * Is ‘health’ an objective‚ neutral‚ or stable concept? How do we measure it? * No it is not neutral or stable. Health is measured on certain medical statistics‚ but the type of questions asked or the type of people analyzed vary based on sex‚ . Health standards vary according to climate‚ age‚ height‚ class‚ diet‚ gender‚ race‚ and bodily configurations. All of these influence health as a concept.

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    How society tames our desire to know? With fast development of media technology‚ this is never the time of panel scarcity‚ and we have stepped into an era of overloaded information. Therefore it seems to be accepted as reality that audiences are acquiring more freedom to choose/decide what they need/want even make media products themselves. That is superficially right while the hidden agenda set by others never disappear. That is to say‚ what people interest in is not always out of self willingness

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    narrative 8. Ganesh 9. garbhagriha 10. gopura 11. Indo-Saracenic 12. jataka 13. Jina 14. karma 15. Krishna 16. lakshanas 17. Lakshmi 18. linga 19. mandala 20. mandapa 21. mandorla 22. mihrab 23. minaret 24. mithuna 25. mudra 26. Orientalism 27. qibla 28. samsara 29. saptamatrika 30. Shiva 31. sutras 32. torana 33. urna 34. ushnisha 35. vihara 36. Vishnu 37. bodhisattva 38. dharma On the day of the exam‚ you will be asked to select three topics from the list below to compose

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    look at how they survive and carve out a new way of creating and understanding the world. Edward Said was instrumental in the transfer of colonial discourse into the first world academy and into literary and cultural theory. He coined the term Orientalism to describe the binary between the Orient and the Occident. When Said published his path-breaking book

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    A film titled‚ Life in Sacramento-1950’s‚ used propaganda to persuade people to move to Sacramento after World World War II. The film imagined Sacramento as metropolis for jobs‚ housing‚ life‚ and work. Sacramento was also promoted as a progressive and community oriented town with a great night and day life. This was targeted a white audience because of the characters depicted in the show were predominately white living in the suburbs. This propaganda promoted an imaginary of a great place for specific

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    Introduction to Postcolonial Theory By Dr. Dawn Duncan Having worked with Postcolonial Theory for well over a decade now‚ I recognize that not all postcolonialists are on the same page when it comes to the theoretical definition or practice. However‚ as a teacher it is important to me both to teach my students the history of Postcolonial Theory with all its permutations and to articulate my own approach as clearly as possible. To that end‚ over the past few years I have proposed a flexible

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    Blackboard. Key Terms (50 pts): You will be asked to identify 5 of 8 terms which will be chosen from among the following‚ providing appropriate historical context and explaining why each is important to the broader themes of our course. Orientalism “Scramble for Africa” Opium War Usman dan Fodio Mfecane Wahhabism Simon Bolívar Sino-Japanese War Muhammad Ali Toussaint L’Ouverture Social Darwinism “The Wealth of Nations” Tabula Rasa Karl Marx Taiping Rebellion Miguel Hidalgo

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