Essays on Western Culture

Most novelists do not kill off half of the characters in their book to prove a point, but this one does. The tragic, bloody deaths in the novel only enforce the fact that the West was wild and could not be conquered by any one...

Michael Pollan sets out to explore the relationship between the Western diet and nutritionism; therefore, he argues that nutritionism, the belief that the nutritional value of a food is the sum of all its components, nutrients, and vitamins that have harmed American’s eating habits. Due...

In the Western world, the Caribbean has long been viewed as an Edenic paradise. As a result, it has attracted legions of tourists from all over the world seeking an escape from the crushing banality of their day-to-day existence. While popular culture would have one...

According to Wikipedia, colonization is a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components. It was linked to the spread of tens of millions from Western European states all over the world. Colonization basically leads to a country...

Without a doubt, Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses stays true to many common tropes within the Western genre. However; what makes this novel so unique is how McCarthy manipulates some of these important tropes. They are still present throughout the book, in fact, some...

Introduction These days it is in the nature of things that if one needs to discuss the challenges presented to Islam by the west and, in fact by modern civilization in general. One must start by using the sword of discrimination and by embarking on...

Within any genre the individual gears and cogs of a film may vary in degrees, but the film still ascribes to a set of rules preordained by the genre’s progenitors. Like a meme, genre films such as the Western will warp and intentionally borrow from...

Theater has been apart of history for many years and has had big influences. It is obvious that American and Japanese culture are very different. Where there are differences there are also some similarities that might be surprising. The one thing about theater that is...

Edward Abbey’s second novel, The Brave Cowboy, is intensely critical of modern life. The book celebrates wide-open spaces and freedom through consistent comparison to an adjacent reality: the hustle and bustle of the city. As the novel continues, we experience the challenges and constraints that...

India is a land of rich cultural heritage. India is a multicultural, multi-lingual from the ancient days since the reign of Aryans and Dravidians. India has adopted all the cultures like from Greek, Persian, Arabians, French, Dutch, Mughals and British without losing its own identity....

In Major Barbara (1907), George Bernard Shaw questions the prevailing ethical assumptions and attitudes of Western culture on social engineering and poverty. Like Nietzsche, he calls for the revaluation of values, as the meaning of concepts like “good,” “evil,” and “truth,” with no eternal, rigid,...

Facing against the adversity, western is different from eastern culture even though both of the cultures has no bargaining power. Western women tend to express their thoughts and fights for their right. On the contrary, Eastern women endure unfairness by themselves. Ada has chopped off...

This essay will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints on the work of Western artists. More specifically, this paper will focus on the influence that ukiyo-e woodblock prints had on 3 artists, Belgian cartoonist Hergé, Canadian aboriginal Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and Dutch...

Reincarnation is the rebirth of a soul in a different body. Across the world reincarnation is a prevalent topic. Even in different cultures, a reoccurring theme that is seen is the idea of reincarnation. However, while it’s true that reincarnation pops up in many different...

Marji’s Versus Western Culture On page 185 of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, the differences between Marji’s fundamentalist background and Western culture becomes quite obvious, as Marji struggles to adjust to the lifestyle of the local Austrians. After Marji moves to Austria, there is a sudden development...

As most people might expect that when it comes to discussing intimate sexuality, the views between the Chinese society and the Western society are very distinct. The Westerners’ view upon sex and intimacy are always considered as much more open-minded than the Chinese people. However,...

How accurate would it be to claim that European voyages of exploration and the establishment of European overseas empires never would have happened without the renaissance and the protestant reformation? It’s accurate to claim that the exploration conducted by the Europeans wouldn’t happen without the...

The Searchers is a western directed by John Ford in the year 1956 and starring John Wayne as the main protagonist of Ethan Edwards, a Civil War veteran who embarks on a long and arduous journey to rescue his kidnapped niece from the Comanche tribe...

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Persons who practice this faith are called Anglicans and the doctrine of the Anglican Church is an...

Firstly, appreciation of western culture and lifestyle is one of the main themes of the book. As we know, this book represents the post-colonialism; it shows the effects of colonialism throughout this book. After the colonialism, many Indians immigrate to western countries simply because they...

Recently K-pop – Korean pop – has been dominating western music charts. It’s only natural that people have started comparing K-pop with western pop. Though these two genres fall under the pop category, they are completely different. I will be discussing the similarities and differences...

Nyaya logic The Nyaya alternatively known as Tarka-vidya (“Science Of Reasoning”), Vada-vidya (“Science Of Argument”), Parman-sastra (“Science Of Logic And Epistemology”), Hetu-vidya (“Science Of Causation”), Anvīks̩kī: (“Science of critical study”).Founder of Nyaya was Gautama (also known as Gotama) who was also referred by names like...

Introduction Power is the most unique part of rationality. The branch manages the ‘main standards’ of presence, looking to characterize fundamental ideas as being presence, causality, substance, time, and space. Inside mysticism, one of the fundamental sub-branches is cosmology, or the investigation of being. Powerful...