Third World Cultures: Lutz Vs. Collins

While his coworkers constructed his designs, what hobby did Bernini pursue? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Writing plays and designing stage sets Writing plays and designing stage sets

“Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, or creed.

The play focuses on three prominent stereotypical ideas that Western males hold concerning Eastern women: the submission of Asian women to Western males, knowledge in handling the female body, and their desires for masculine Western counterparts. Ultimately, M. Butterfly addresses culturally constructed stereotypes as powerful and limiting.

Geographers are known to research both the human and physical geography of foreign lands. They make connections of the information gathered between human and physical geography through their experiences. Geographers must interact with people and be aware of their own views of the world and should aspire to communicate unbiased opinions and understanding of the people’s cultures. In their writing authors ability to understand and work across cultural boundaries is the framework for an individual to attain knowledge while engaging in the culture and develop cross-cultural competence.

For this essay the works of Robert Draper, author of “Why Photos Matter,” and Fred Ritchen, author of “Photography Changes the Way News is Reported,” will be analyzed. Though both deal with the topic of photography, their take on the matter is very different. While Ritchen is a photographer who writes on “what professional photographers will be doing in the future,” Draper is a writer for the National Geographic writing on how the photographers of the magazine share “a hunger for the unknown.” Both writers, however, write on the topic of photographers having a deeper understanding of their subjects, Ritchen due to research and practice, and Draper because the photographers “sit [with] their subjects, just listening to them.” In both essays the need for a deeper understanding of the

Komninos Zervos is a Greek- Australian poet who struggled to fit in a time where Australia did not celebrate multiculturalism. But did that make him voiceless? John Lee Hancock, the director of the film The Blind Side, portrays the difficult journey of a young adolescent living through a racial and cultural movement. Did he not present the voice of the oppressed of that time? Thus, Komninos and Hancock utilise language to evoke voices which broaden our understanding and thus allow us responders to challenge our perceptions of self and the world.

Disney’s Aladdin is a fit example of misrepresentation of diverse cultures from a Westernized perspective. Disney is famous for lending representations of world from a Western viewpoint. According to Edward Said, orientalism is a way of expressing Arab peoples and Islamic cultures as compared to Western or European society (Palestine Diary). Said’s explains orientalism is the framework that we use to

In this photo a Middle Eastern woman is pointing a gun directly towards the camera, symbolizing the way she, like many others, are stereotyped in America. The picture is clear and concise, with front view and level angles that let the viewers see the struggles she has gone faced. Her face and arms display Arabic writings that symbolize the stereotypes given to them in America: terrorists, muslims, extremists, and fanatics. The picture is limited to the colors black and white to represent the seriousness of this issue. Her eyes staring directly towards the viewer causes them to feel sympathy, leading them to wonder why there is such hate towards Middle Easterners. The concepts of this picture go back to the main idea of the research question

The media’s representation on ethical/racial and colonial illustration is not always accurate; there are many stereotypes and critics always find something to be false. Realism also plays a big role in representing in what critics believe. (Shothat 178)

Before starting this project, I knew very little about photography, photographers, or exactly how much impact photographical images have had on our society. I have never taken a photography class, or researched too in depth about specific pictures or photographers. This project has allowed me to delve deeper into the world of photography in order to understand just how much influence pictures can have over society’s beliefs, emotions, and understandings’. I have have chosen two highly influential photographers, Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange, who I have found to both resonate with me and perfectly capture human emotions in way that moves others.

This essay will highlight the key issues arising from the media representation of race. In the essay the concepts of stereotyping, othering and appropriation will be discussed with the hope of showing that there are many issues in regards race. Race is not easily defined, however simply put the Concise Oxford Dictionary describes race as “A group of people or things with a common feature.” To think of race is to think of racism as John storey says

In order to maximize clarity, she chose to dissect these articles one at a time, and in order of how she presented her thesis points. For instance, she discusses a photo essay entitled “Revolution on the Prairies,” and argues the first point in her thesis: that the Still Photography Division’s portrayal of Canadian landscapes as economically prospective effects national identity . She again mentions that camera angles make the land feel vast and plentiful, but also create a powerful gaze of ownership over the land. She likewise furthers a previous point made about how this possessive gaze on the landscape is Euro-centric by using the portrait of a Euro-centric farmer, the photo-essays narrative subject, as evidence. He “gazes” over the farmland from a powerful angle, and implies that his gaze is specific to his position as a colonial-settler farmer . The author continues to present evidence for the second part of her thesis, in which the NFB representation of landscape is racialized, and the landscape’s meaning transforms depending on who the subject of the photo-series is. To illustrate this, she discusses a different article published by the NFB that is specific to an Aboriginal narrative. The photo-essay, entitled, “Age-Old Hunt For Fabled Fish of Canada’s North: SAPOTIT – Where the Char Run Big,” helps illustrate the author’s issue that in contrast to the open, plentiful relationship that Euro-centric people had with Canada’s landscapes in the Still Photography Division’s work, Aboriginal people did not have any power. Instead, Payne argues that photo-essays on Aboriginal subjects changed the way the Still Photography Division shot and displayed the landscape. With respect to the Aboriginal subjects, the Aboriginals were displayed with friendliness and child-like interaction with land that made the groups appear primitive and like “Others” or “outsiders” to a

This essay suggests that we can enthusiastically approach whiteness over the lens of phenomenology or intentionality. Whiteness according to Sara Ahmed could be described as an continuing and unfinished history, which orientates human being and bodies in particular directions, affecting how they ` commence space, and what they `able to do'. The essay considers how whiteness behaviors and acts as a habit, even a harmful habit, which becomes as a background to social actions and activities. Ahmed 's essay draws on experiences of inhabiting and possessing a white world as a non-white body, and recognizes how whiteness becomes more material through the definitely of the arrival of a few bodies more than others.

In brief, this study discusses about the representation of orientalism idea which is portrayed in the film Avatar. The film tells about the conflict between human and native people in Planet Pandora, where human exploits the land and oppresses the native. This study explores in what way the idea of orientalism is represented and how both narrative and non-narrative aspects of the film helped in delivering that representation.

I want to research whether portrayals of Orientalism in the media are used to retroactively justify decisions such as imperialism or the Vietnam War. I chose this topic because I found Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism very thought-provoking and wondered if it can apply to contemporary society. In addition to that, I have not seen a lot of contemporary analysis on Orientalism of Southeast Asia. My initial inspiration was when I watched the film No Escape, which seemed blatantly racist and problematic. I narrowed and refined my topic by further researching the concepts of Orientalism and otherness, and considered how they could be applied to this film. Sources that have been key in defining my research topic include scholar articles on Orientalism