Said's Essay 'States' By T. Said

In the article “On Growing Up In Ferguson and Palestine” by Naomi Shihab Nye, the author uses rhetorical devices in many places to make the reader think about things. These Rhetorical questions consist of “What could we do?”, “Why didn't the news examine those back stories more?”, “If the U.S. can’t see that Palestinians have been mighty oppressed since 1948, they really are not interested in looking, are they?”, “Why is that harder for people to see about Gaza?”, “What if they could all march together?”, “Will things change for Gaza?”, “And what gets better? Will the United States ever speak out in solidarity with scores of exhausted people burying their dead, staring up with stunned eyes mystified?”.

In State v. Fischer, the majority emphasized that the “knowingly” element of possession must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but their holding essentially changes what that threshold is. Due to the need for uniformity among the states and federal government to effectively combat drug abuse at all levels of government, it is important to inquire into how much evidence other states require to infer the knowledge requirement of possession. Under nearly identical circumstances, other states require more evidence to meet the reasonable doubt standard in order to protect innocent people in third-party vehicles which contain drugs. The ruling in Fischer creates a strict liability standard for those who have no knowledge of drugs while riding in a vehicle and essentially eliminates the need for more evidence to create the inference. The circumstantial evidence was insufficient to link Fischer to the drugs and the court was left to speculated Fischer’s mens rea. Thus, Fischer goes against the legislative intent for uniformity and allows convictions based on mere conjecture.

James Madison sees factions as inescapable due to men having differences in opinion and he feels that they need to be controlled to an extent. Madison notes in Federalist Papers No. 10 that factions are people “who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest”. If Madison were alive today he would be able to see a great deal of interest groups and communities, the most apparent ones being the Democratic and Republican parties. Madison mentions two methods for curing the mischief of factions one of those methods being remove the causes for the factions to protest towards and the other is restrict their efforts being made. These methods would not be possible today. The methods for removing the causes of protest is

Divided States of America, is a film that largely focuses on the history of our nation's political, social, and economic events. The film was named Divided States of America for a specific reason. Throughout the movie, it reveals the disagreements that have occured between the two parties: republican and democratic. There is a constant divide between the two political sides. There are evident occurrences of polarization, a division between two completely contrasting groups or sets of beliefs, within The United States of America government (Klein). Early on, Barack Obama makes it clear, he is striving to make our nation one, “We are not just red and blue states we are one” (Obama). Obama constantly speaks about how the only way America will be successful is to work together and put our differences aside. As mentioned in the

Throughout history, the states and the national government have dynamic and constantly changing powers in the Constitution. The switch from dual federalism in which the national government and the states have their own distinct powers and responsibilities to cooperative federalism in which the national government and the states share power and responsibilities amongst each other, have taken play during the Great Depressions in the United States. The Constitution defines the roles that the national government and the states have, but interpretations of the responsibilities and relationships between them have changed over time. In addition, the Tenth Amendment stated the limited powers of the federal government and whatever power not

Joe Sacco’s graphic novel, Palestine, deals with the repercussions of the first intifada in Israel/Palestine/the Holy Land. The story follows the author through the many refugee camps and towns around Palestine as he tries to gather information, stories, and pictures to construct his graphic novel. While the book is enjoyable at a face level, there are many underlying themes conveyed throughout its illustrated pages and written text.

Edward Said's States is an excerpt from his book After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives. It's a story about Palestine, once a country, but now spread out into a million pieces of the people that once called it home. The pieces being more of memories of a time when Palestinians could be who they are, not a scattered and forgotten people. They all face a new struggle, a struggle to find their identity. "Identity- who we are, where we come from, what we are- is difficult to maintain in exile. Most other people take their identity for granted. Not the Palestinian, who is required to show proofs of identity more or less constantly." (Page 546) Said, being Palestinian himself, tells us this story in what was called a

Despite my experience at St Christopher's, I still dreamed of being allowed to implement just one music program based on apostolic principles in just one Anglican parish in the Diocese. Somehow I knew God would reward my persistence with yet another chance. The call came sooner than I had expected; this time from the Reverend Fran Willis, rector of St. Timothy’s Anglican Church.

Furthermore, the Israeli occupation of Palestine that the film depicts is a part of the 2000-2005 second intifada between the two nations (Manekin, 2013). Nablus, in Palestine is where Said and Khaled are based, and the mission is to take place in Tel Aviv across the border. A noticeable feature of the movie is the concept of deadness, the two main characters are not suicidal but the life they are trapped in has created a sense of them being dead already (Nashef, 2016) this is represented by the oppression and the lack of opportunity that is present. This theme can be further seen in their town – Nablus. Due to the conflict, the landscape and infrastructure is bleak, destroyed and very much discarded. The depiction of the lifestyle experienced during that period of conflict, highlighted to me potential motivations.

The First State. What comes to mind when you hear about the first State. Some think of agriculture other think of the beaches, but only a few think of the history. Most people don't really know about the history of the first state they don’t really know how it got there.Delaware is known as the First State because of Caesar Rodney’s contributions to Delaware, the articles of Confederation, and the signing of the Declaration of independence.

Edward Said “States” refutes the view Western journalists, writers, and scholars have created in order to represent Eastern cultures as mysterious, dangerous, unchanging, and inferior. According to Said, who was born in Jerusalem at that time Palestine, the way westerners represent eastern people impacts the way they interact with the global community. All of this adds to, Palestinians having to endure unfair challenges such as eviction, misrepresentation, and marginalization that have forced them to spread allover the world. By narrating the story of his country Palestine, and his fellow countrymen from their own perspective Said is able to humanize Palestinians to the reader. “States” makes the reader feel the importance of having a

If Pratt had a say in what was happening to the Palestine's in Edward Said's essay, I believe Pratt would encourage the Palestinians to find safe houses. Superb connection! This part of the quote doesn't quite fit, I would start the quote here, and set it up by saying that Pratt uses the concept of safe houses as "social and intellectual spaces where groups can constitute themselves as horizontal, homogeneous, sovereign communities with high degrees of trust, shared understandings, temporary protection from legacies of oppression". (Pratt) A safe house is somewhere you (avoid you)can go to feel safe, where you will be surrounded by people just like yourself.

The graphic novel Palestine, published by Maltan journalist Joe Sacco in the early ‘90s, is a journalistic piece that represents his recollections of two months spent talking to and living with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. The casual narrative style, which some might say is too shallow for such heavy subject matter, in fact allows Sacco to avoid many of the pit falls that have made Western reporting on non-Western conflicts unhelpful at the very least and more often incredibly damaging.

This essay will describe the characteristics of the modern nation-state, explain how the United States fits the criteria of and functions as a modern nation-state, discuss the European Union as a transnational entity, analyze how nation-states and transnational entities engage on foreign policy to achieve their interests, and the consequences of this interaction for international politics.

A nation is said to exist when it could traced its origins through the state, in which it associate itself with, histories. Additionally, the cultural elites must be established and well-versed in writing and speaking the national language. There must also be a valid reason for its claim on a certain territory. It is only when these three requirements are fulfilled will the international community consider their claim for a nation (Hobsbawm, 1990: 37). Disagreements, however, tend to arise in the political community over the definition of a nation. This essay will try to list out the different approaches employed in defining a nation starting from a nation being a natural cultural entity to it being politically and