The Influence of Enlightenment Ideas in The Declaration of Independence The Enlightenment era, of all of the eras in America, perhaps has been the very first era where the people of America actually started to change their way of thinking. I mean let's face the truth, the Pilgrims and Puritans didn't have some revolutionary thought, their act and way of thinking were heavily determined based on the Bible they read (though they already defied the customary law simply by reading the Bible). Of course
Why English now is a global lingua franca? Because English has developed over more than 1,400 years. Also the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom and the United States. After that by British colonial aggression, let English language to spread around the world faster. British colonial history make English become the lingua franca. In the 16th century, Britain launched a colonial expansion. Britain is a maritime power, also colonial power. Colony success addition to the powerful force
Company made use of political diplomacy between the various Indian Nawaab’s (Governor’s of the Mogul empire) and Maharajas (Hindu kings) to expand there trading power/influence over India, which eventually resulted in political power. The following essay shall look into the French colonial rule in India and their cultural significance in the area of Pondicherry. The French East India Company was another of several companies that were formed with the purpose of promoting Western European commercial
Poem In this essay I will be discussing the poems “Search for my tongue” and “Hurricane in England”. Theses two poems illustrate a similar setting that both main characters are from different cultures living in England, experiencing cultural differences. I have chosen this poem because myself and many others in today’s mobile and diverse society belong to completely different cultures and we are able relate to the positive and negative aspects of living in a place where our native culture is not
Migration, with the shifting of cultural borders that it engenders, is a defining feature of the contemporary world. It has therefore appropriately become, in the words of Edward Said “a potent, even enriching, motif of modern culture” as the exile, conscious that homes are ephemeral, “cross borders, break barriers of thought and experience” (qtd. in Chambers 2). Salman Rushdie is also certain that migrancy is a dominant trope of our time. According to him, migrants are new categories of individuals: