HIS 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mir Jafar, Cornelis De Houtman, Upper Gangetic Plains Moist Deciduous Forests
15 Jan 2017
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American academic, political activist, and literary critic who examine literature in light of social and cultural politics and was an outspoken proponent of the political rights of the palestinian people and the creation of an independent palestinian state. Orientalism: is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of europe and the u. s. It often involves seeing arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized, and at times dangerous. All of these defining of their ppl, it is embedded in the political, economic, factors,& influences how we look at others. Impacts on how we think of the world outside. As western style for dominating, restricting and having authority and how we take in info. Michel foucault: looked at the cognitive way ppl looked at the world(who had mental illness) Taking those of mental illness out was best fitted to make society better
