the English version of Norbert Elias's landmark study Uber den Prozess der zivilisation (1939) [The Civilizing Process (1978)]. Civilization Studies with America as the focus received a fillip with Elias's book and this collection is a contribution to this valuable kind of cultural criticism....
We have taken the bold step to honor the enlightenment and the development of the individual as the key building block to a new global civilization. 当清教徒住在英国却是为他们的宗教信仰受到迫害。英国教会禁止他们自己的方式崇拜他们。没有关于清教徒的学说是否正确的辩论。他们被视为异端的绝对权力和...
Free Essay: What we call America today was once a land whose name was only known its natives. A land that was in essence untouched and pure. A land where...
This essay offers a critical analysis of the metaphysical and methodological presuppositions ofEve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor”. While Tuck and Yang position settler colonial spatiality as structured by a settler-native-slave triad, we argue that their critique ...
andracialconflictsinmanycultureshasgivenKapuscinskiabroaderperspectiveonthesocialpressuresfacingtheUnitedStatesinthefuture.Inthisessay,commissioned(被委任)byTheNewPerspectivesQuarterly(季刊),KapuscinskifindsthechangingcompositionoftheAmericanmeltingpotnotasourceofsocialproblemsbutasignofpositivefutureandofthecontinuing...
Free Essay: It is evident that, in society, not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Yet, many people do not understand that many American...
can be exclusive; one family is ostracized because the mother is a prostitute and envied for her automobile and fancy clothes. Racial prejudices dictate the nature of interactions between the Japanese community and other groups of people on the island, such as the Fillipinos. Social politics among...
Keith Wilson told a gathering at the community center where he had played as a child: My life and career evolved alongside our city. We are rich in our diversity and are shaped by the many paths we took to get here today. From those who have been here since time immemorial, to those...
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No European before him did what he did in leading that voyage and finding land as he did, although it was not the land he believed it to be. It can be argued from that perspective that he was a brave leader and hero who brought European culture, civilization, religion and values to ...