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The Beginning and the End by Mahfouz

In three pages this novel that celebrates Islam is examined with modernity and tradition among the topics discussed. There are no...

Paul Heelas' The New Age Movement The Celebration of the Self and the Secularization of Modernity

The New Age religious movement is the focus of this review of Paul Heelas' The New Age Movement The Celebration of the Self and t...

Opposite Characters Zorba and the Narrator in Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis The Antithetical Characters, the Narrator and Zorba in ' “Zorba the Greek”

as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot from a Modernist Analytical Perspective

glimpses into an embittered world in transition, in which survivors of the war hoped of finding amid the debris and dead bodies a ...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Grotesque and Body Dissatisfaction

In 8 pages this paper examines how the 'grotesque' fascination is represented in literature in Carl Jung's theories, Reviving Ophe...

Modernity in The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor

what circumstances are values authentic or correct within the scope of modernity? Taylor asserts that humanitys moral judgments a...

Sociolinguistic Ethnography

In twenty pages sociolinguistic ethnography or the relationship between language and society are examined within the context of Cr...

Modernity and What it Means

In five pages this paper examines how urbanism is defined by modernity in an overview of its meaning that includes social perspect...

Modernity in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Realism issues and the modernity concept are examined in this analysis of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf consisting of five p...

Kenyan Statesman Jomo Kenyatta

In 6 pages the architect of Kenya, the man who transformed it from colonialism to modernity, Jomo Kenyatta, is examined. There ar...

'New Modernity' and High Tech Architecture

architecture, as well as the visual arts were rejecting the emotionless nature of the International Style. In succeeding at separ...

Analysis of Enlightement's Role on the Definition of Modernity

In four pages this research paper examines how modernity was defined by the natural, social, and scientific developments of the En...

Analysis of Modernity

easier to spend money than it was sell off pieces of land. Also, money became a tangible measure for success. Money could be see...

All That is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman

In five pages this paper considers modernity within the context of this book by Marshall Berman. There are no other sources liste...

Changes in the Economy of Japan from the Seventeenth Century Until the Modern Era

In five pages this research paper discusses economic structural changes begun in the Tokugawa Period upon which modernity was ceme...

Korea and Modernity

In five pages this paper examines modernity and how it has resulted in major changes in Korea with economics a primary emphasis. ...

Thailand and Modernity

In five pages this paper examines the evolution of modernity in Thailand from the early modern era until today. Five sources are ...

Enlightenment Modernity and Black Politics

efficacy of that groups interactions in the political framework then served as an additional aspect of efficacy for the individual...

Enlightenment and Black Politics

In seven pages this report examines modernity during the Enlightenment and its connection to Black politics and its subsequent evo...

Countries of the Third World and Modernity

This paper consists of nine pages and focuses upon the Third World and the issues pertaining to modernity in the past and future. ...

Modernism And Religion

new, more modernistic approach. During this period, there was a particular emphasis placed upon rationalism, which was a theory a...

A Comparison Between Faust and the Communist Manifesto

his world? Is he in control of others? Another thematic element is that of modernity. Ziolkowski writes: "Oswald Spengler feature...

Modernity and History

the modernist viewpoint, it is this worldview that spawned the Scientific Revolution and its energetic offspring, the Industrial R...

Modernity and Fashion's Role

consumerism bred upon itself (Finkelstein, 2004). It attracted mainly young men who were educated by the state "into believing in...

Angst of Modernity and Prufrock

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's "The Long Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the theme of modernity and its affect on the human p...

Nineteenth Century Art and Modernity

During the nineteenth century, all aspects of European culture were affected by the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the ad...

Sustaining the Planet

to greater carelessness in the use of resources. One of the central problems is that individuals perceive the need for more mater...

The Super Bowl and Consumerism

States better if one seeks out those rituals which are widespread but entirely socially constructed rather than traditionally inhe...

McDonald's in Moscow: Global Capitalism and the Homogenization of Culture

once wrote that a "McDonalds in Moscow and Coke in China will do more to create a global culture than military colonization could ...