The Clash of Civilizations

as he does not understand the full situation in which they are in and that his father cannot know where he is. As the end of the novel approaches, Ralph gains an assimilation of the world around him and a rational understanding of humanity and civilization.…

No one will ever be absolutely sure what the first civilization on Earth was. As far as the human race knows, the first civilization was Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was brought to civilization by the Sumerian race around 5000 B.C. Mesopotamians tended to live off the land and their animals, which they had domesticated from the wild. It is the cradle of civilization because of it’s developed writing style, also known as cuneiform. Mesopotamia was known for its knowledgeable people, such as Thales of…

People, nation, and the development of their culture are completely individual and unique. It is always interesting and exciting to travel around the world and experience the life of different cultures, people’s traditions, their customs, and believes. However, as a result of globalization and increased migration of people around the world, our lives have turned to this ceaseless journey where we end up encountering new cultures every day. Unfortunately, different hemisphere of the world share…

The Apocalyptic Themes importance in the Walking Dead’s “Days Gone By” Themes of apocalyptic nature have been rooted in literature for thousands of years, depicting the end of times, the clash between good and evil, and the victory of God and his followers in the direst of times. The following essay will attempt to examine and demonstrate how the utilization of apocalyptic themes in The Walking Dead, particularly season 1 episode 1 Days Gone By, reveals more about the realities of the…

nature, although society has tried to eliminate this element of humans at an early age. In World War II, William Golding viewed this evil side to man. William Golding reflected upon his experiences through his novel, Lord of the Flies, in which a plane clash leaves a group of British schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island resulting in numerous problems to arise. Without an adult figure to look to for guidance, the children are forced to construct shelter, hunt for food, and generate an…

In his book, Honor and Shame: Unlocking the Door, Roland Muller presents three basic worldview systems that effect every part of human life. The three systems that Muller identifies are: guilt/innocence (right/wrong); honor/shame; and fear/power. Almost every culture has a mixture of two to three of these worldview systems, however, there is always one system that primarily dominates a culture (Muller 2000, 67). Muller looks at how these worldviews effect societies, especially pertaining to the…

“India’s cultural pedigree is indeed ancient. One of the world’s earliest civilizations existed in the Indus Valley in what is now Pakistan between approximately 3100 and 1700 BC.” (Luce, 145) This makes it understandable that even today India proudly cherishes its culture and traditions and that it in some aspects opposes the change…

Political theorist Samuel P. Huntington describes this trend for the twenty first century as a “clash of civilizations.” Huntington describes two types of conflicts that will most likely arise: fault line-conflicts and core state conflicts. Fault line-conflicts are labeled as problems between ethnic or religious groups and core state conflicts, which instead…

“Things fall apart when the center cannot longer hold” is a line from Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” written in 1919. It inspired Chinua Achebe for the title of his novel Things Fall Apart, first published in 1959. Surprisingly, we can also link this line to the atmosphere in the other novel that will be quoted in this essay, The Interpreter published in 2003 and written by Suki Kim. These two novels deal with stories and characters that are extremely different – one follows the Igbo tribe and…

recipe counts with an explosion of various spices, herbs and sauces on a escalope meat, which portrays the idea of art and high-class society. The mixture of these shows the artistic side of food that portrays the clash of cultures the empire had. Today’s world shows the same cultural clash and society assimilation. Food is seen as an art, with many new creations of food. The United States today can be compared to the Roman Empire. As the territory grew, the United States became influenced by…