Culture

Professor  Ali Mazrui in his lecture entitled “Pretender to Universalism: Western Culture in the Globalising Age”, delivered in London, England, on June15, 2000 underscores the inevitable duty of world powers,…

Though many readers would likely find few obvious similarities between “The Scarlet Letter,” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the similarities between the two novels’ central characters, although complex and…

Africans and African Americans have always struggled due to their black identity. James Baldwin was one writer who tried to lift the heavy burden of blackness from their blackness and…

Analyzing male-female relationships in African literature enables a better understanding of how African writers view the gender roles including the application of religious aspects, marriage and identity, midwives and slave…

The importance of slave narratives is that such inquiry towards an individual and her experiences, not only explains how the slave system works, but as well as exploring the personal…

What might be good for one person might be bad for others and what might be bad for one might be good for others. This and more were my realizations…

What does man rely on mostly for a social experience, instincts or culture? This is a question which brings out a clear cut difference between animals and human beings. While…

If someone was asked of the things that he thinks about Africa, he will likely say, black people, AIDS, poverty, racism and sexualization. These things are relatively the realities of…

My story starts with my birth as a female on April the third 1986 in Kabul, Afghanistan. I do not remember that day with all its emotional and moving moments,…

Advertising and build up of a social life is one of the aspects that Jhali explores in his “Image Based Culture” article. The image of “good life”, as he describes,…

Culture has played an important part in the history of mankind. With recent changes in organizational environment, it has also become an important facet that is being considered by companies….

(1) In chapter 2, the textbook author uses various terms for “indigenous religions”: traditional, aboriginal, indigenous, tribal, nonliterate, primal, native, oral, and basic. Select four or five of these terms…

Religion and myth are two powerful subjects that Caribbean writers have used to their advantage in many of the works we have read this semester. Many religious qualities that are…

In chapter 2, the textbook author uses various terms for “indigenous religions”: traditional, aboriginal, indigenous, tribal, nonliterate, primal, native, oral, and basic. Select four or five of these terms and…

What is an ‘indigenous’ religion or belief system? When we hear the term ‘indigenous religion’, what comes to our minds? How do we react internally when those words are mentioned?…