The partitions within India of the various parties made coming to an agreement on independence even more difficult as the Indians, (consisting of predominately the Indian national congress and the Muslim League) could not come to an agreement within the country as to who would be in charge. British Imperialism held no strength next to the “fight” going on amongst the various Indian divisions. However the British did see this as a point where they could strengthen their hold on India by arguing that if they could not settle things amongst themselves how could they possibly think to run the country without difficulties. Sources 15 and 17 support the statement, both arguing that the Muslim community would have to be taken into account for true Independence to be achieved. However source 16 states that the British themselves were reluctant to grant India independence.
The Great Gatsby’s failure to answer the questions of whether or not Tom knew of Daisy’s involvement in Myrtle’s death and what the exact meaning of Nick’s assertion at the end of the book meant reflect the ongoing themes that are based upon the harsh reality that the American dream brings, the confused disillusionment of the time, and the synthetic moral and societal values of the United Sates during the nineteen twenties. In the final chapter of The Great Gatsby, Nick claims that the American dream was originally based on pure and optimistic desires, such as individuality and the idea of producing one’s own gladness, but it was then clouded by the growing greed of man and the progressively weak ethical standards created during this period. Nick’s visions of the West as having a more honest and moral based culture indirectly imitate Gatsby’s romanticized feelings towards the future he hoped for with Daisy. The “real snow” (Fitzgerald, 175) that he refers to helps to drive this idea into a more directly formed opinion. All in all, his romanticized feelings towards the west compared to the growing phoniness of the east help to create the image of the dream of America moving from a state of bright development to a point of tainted existence.
‘HHMM’, Hollywood, Harvard, McDonald’s, and Microsoft, were selling not only their products but also America's culture and values, the secrets of its success, to the rest of the world.' However, employing only hard power or only soft power in a given situation will usually prove inadequate. Nye utilizes the example of terrorism, arguing simply utilizing soft power resources to change the hearts and minds of the Taliban government would be ineffective and requires a hard power component. Nevertheless, in the Middle East, in the eyes of Islamic fundamentalists, the openness of Western culture is repulsive, which we have a term for it ‘anti-Americanism’. As a result, Joseph Nye, suggests that the most effective strategies in foreign policy today require a mix of hard and soft power resources, the ‘smart power’.
Salman Rushdie left India for England because of the war that was going on between Pakistan and India being a Muslim he did not want to pick side in which he migrated to England. People have move to experience something different. Sanders states that when moving there is a “ transformation that comes of new and unexpected combinations of human beings” ( Sanders 28-29). When moving people change their way of life because in a place
In a CBS special, Cronkite concluded, "To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past, to say we are mired in a bloody stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory conclusion" ( Hallin, 1986, p.170) This did not help increase the support for our troops in Vietnam. The overall support for the war was diminished by Cronkite's report. The negative coverage of the war influenced politicians, the public, and the American soldier. Concerned with losing support, politicians started to really get involved. The TeT offensive was a last ditch effort for the communists.
a)"The idea of America" is referred to as the fleeing to America. Baba wants to go to America because Afghanistan now is in trouble and Baba does not want Amir to see thing that should not be seen by a small boy. b) Yes, there is a huge difference between the way immigrants view America and the 'real' America. Baba thought that America will be safe for him and Amir and it would be really easy to adjust there, but actually Baba dint want to go to America as he missed his old Kabul life which made him proud of what he was in Kabul. Baba just came to America for the sake of Amir for he thought he gave a gift to Amir when they were in America and for Baba it would be something that he would have to suffer for Amir.
“I was released from the illusion that I hated America.” Through his experiences, he has found a new basis for his life in America. He learnt that his hatred for America was from his lack of knowledge of self worth, which he found in Europe. The most important thing that he gained was the knowledge that his own development was and will always be in his own hands. Most statesmen will unlikely have the time to adventure into Europe and truly understand the old world policies that they are laying down as the law of the land. Without experiencing the full effect of both societies, a statesman is greatly at a disadvantage.
That one could love America yet dissent from the policies of the particular government of the moment, that one could be against a war on Vietnam without being pro-Communist or pro-North Vietnamese, was lost to many in the political passions of the time. Similarly in the McCarthyism witch-hunts of the Fifties, people who dissented from McCarthy's excesses were accused by him, and many others, of being anti-American and pro-Communist, as if McCarthy and America were identical. So with Socrates. His attacks on the current democratic regime were mistaken for attacks on democracy as such and confused with disloyalty. His friendships with traitors and anti-democrats made this mistake almost impossible to
It makes you wonder why someone would do this. The answer is simple, “Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so” ( The Philippine-American War). So again America did not care for anyone but
In many ways my reflections here spring from a dissatisfaction with the inadequacies (both epistemological and world historical) of the ways in which some critics of orientalism have located modernity. First, some background. The independence movements of the Middle East and North Africa--especially the Algerian revolution--provoked a debate about orientalist knowledge in which the interventions of Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon were crucial. For Fanon, the anti-colonial struggle was also a cultural struggle with liberation as its goal. The publication of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) recast the terms of the debate.