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Book Ameriphobia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert George
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-01-16
  • ISBN : 9781542604802
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book Ameriphobia written by Robert George and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are constantly being told to tolerate people from different cultures. The term Islamophobia is used to stigmatize and "guilt" Americans into believing that their fears about terrorism are a latent hatred of Islamic believers. Many conservative Americans are thought to be bigoted and irrational when it comes to their attitudes about race and religion. Conservatives are thought to be prejudiced against people of other religions because their cause is that of Christ rather than Allah. Yet, many Americans have a deep suspicion of Muslims. Are such fears rational or bigoted? This is a clearly important question. How do we define rational thinking when it is known that Islam has among its members some people openly desirous of destroying America and its values?

Book The American Enemy

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  • Author : Philippe Roger
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2006-11
  • ISBN : 0226723690
  • Pages : 537 pages

Download or read book The American Enemy written by Philippe Roger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient; in America, which he had never visited, dogs don't bark, birds don't sing, and—by extension—humans are weaker, less intelligent, and less potent. Thomas Jefferson, infuriated by these claims, brought a seven-foot-tall carcass of a moose from America to the entry hall of his Parisian hotel, but the five-foot-tall Buffon remained unimpressed and refused to change his views on America's inferiority. Buffon, as Philippe Roger demonstrates here, was just one of the first in a long line of Frenchmen who have built a history of anti-Americanism in that country, a progressive history that is alternately ludicrous and trenchant. The American Enemy is Roger's bestselling and widely acclaimed history of French anti-Americanism, presented here in English translation for the first time. With elegance and good humor, Roger goes back 200 years to unearth the deep roots of this anti-Americanism and trace its changing nature, from the belittling, as Buffon did, of the "savage American" to France's resigned dependency on America for goods and commerce and finally to the fear of America's global domination in light of France's thwarted imperial ambitions. Roger sees French anti-Americanism as barely acquainted with actual fact; rather, anti-Americanism is a cultural pillar for the French, America an idea that the country and its culture have long defined themselves against. Sharon Bowman's fine translation of this magisterial work brings French anti-Americanism into the broad light of day, offering fascinating reading for Americans who care about our image abroad and how it came about. “Mr. Roger almost single-handedly creates a new field of study, tracing the nuances and imagery of anti-Americanism in France over 250 years. He shows that far from being a specific reaction to recent American policies, it has been knit into the very substance of French intellectual and cultural life. . . . His book stuns with its accumulated detail and analysis.”—Edward Rothstein, New York Times “A brilliant and exhaustive guide to the history of French Ameriphobia.”—Simon Schama, New Yorker

Book Weekly World News

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004-02-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.

Book America Right or Wrong   An Anatomy of American Nationalism

Download or read book America Right or Wrong An Anatomy of American Nationalism written by Anatol Lieven Senior Associate for Foreign and Security Policy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America keeps a fine house," Anatol Lieven writes, "but in its cellar there lives a demon, whose name is nationalism." In this controversial critique of America's role in the world, Lieven contends that U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 has been shaped by the special character of our national identity, which embraces two contradictory features. One, "The American Creed," is a civic nationalism which espouses liberty, democracy, and the rule of law. It is our greatest legacy to the world. But our almost religious belief in the "Creed" creates a tendency toward a dangerously "messianic" element in American nationalism, the desire to extend American values and American democracy to the whole world, irrespective of the needs and desires of others. The other feature, populist (or what is sometimes called "Jacksonian") nationalism, has its roots in an aggrieved, embittered, and defensive White America, centered largely in the American South. Where the "Creed" is optimistic and triumphalist, Jacksonian nationalism is fed by a profound pessimism and a sense of personal, social, religious, and sectional defeat. Lieven examines how these two antithetical impulses have played out in recent US policy, especially in the Middle East and in the nature of U.S. support for Israel. He suggests that in this region, the uneasy combination of policies based on two contradictory traditions have gravely undermined U.S. credibility and complicated the war against terrorism. It has never been more vital that Americans understand our national character. This hard-hitting critique directs a spotlight on the American political soul and on the curious mixture of chauvinism and idealism that has driven the Bush administration.

Book The New Yorker

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  • Author : Harold Wallace Ross
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 894 pages

Download or read book The New Yorker written by Harold Wallace Ross and published by . This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book GOD USES THE FLAWED

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  • Author : Karen Kellock
  • Publisher : CHAMPION GUIDES
  • Release : 2021-11-28
  • ISBN : 1794081488
  • Pages : 77 pages

Download or read book GOD USES THE FLAWED written by Karen Kellock and published by CHAMPION GUIDES. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self unforgiveness is a demonic stronghold holding you down/why you feel inferior to all around. You’re stuck in a hog pen when you can't forgive yourself: must shake shame/guilt to get unstuck. When life is cluttered with negative history you never move into destiny. But self-forgiveness blocks that lie and gives you God's superpower, aye. You can't shame a person who has forgiven himself. His history informs him by escaping hell. Cover design by Karen Kellock, inner art by Blaze Goldburst

Book TRUMP VS  GROUP

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Kellock
  • Publisher : CHAMPION GUIDES
  • Release : 2021-12-18
  • ISBN : 1794213953
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book TRUMP VS GROUP written by Karen Kellock and published by CHAMPION GUIDES. This book was released on 2021-12-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The superior man bows to no one but the weak bow down to their every need no matter how ridiculous: that's the people pleasing sickness. It keeps us mentally unstable: entrenched from early development it's hard to get rid of it. How about your mental health, your safety, your boundaries? They’re gone if you people please: something in the future you’ll look back on and will not believe. Cover design by Karen Kellock, inside art by Fox Design and Blaze Goldburst

Book Manual for Superior Men

Download or read book Manual for Superior Men written by Karen Kellock and published by CHAMPION GUIDES. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new theory in social psychology: the tyranny of groups vs. the individual in unique presentation. Collective insanity, the contagion of lunacy. What does it take to be a champion standing out in a sea of sharks? That is the essence of the writings of Karen Kellock. Koestler [1962] has noted the blending of art and science marks all discoveries. “She is a maestro with words, all about the herds.” Mansell Pattison, Postdoctoral Chair, UCI School of Medicine. Cover design by Karen Kellock, inner art by Blaze Goldburst

Book Networked Sociability and Individualism  Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships

Download or read book Networked Sociability and Individualism Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships written by Comunello, Francesca and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent popularity of Social Network Sites (SNS) shows that there is a growing interest in articulating, making visible, and managing personal or professional relationships through technology-enabled environments. Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships provides a multidisciplinary framework for analyzing the new forms of sociability enabled by digital media and networks. This book focuses on a variety of social media and computer-mediated communication environments with the aim of identifying and understanding different types of social behavior and identity expression.

Book The Asiatic Review

Download or read book The Asiatic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Playing in the Shadows

Download or read book Playing in the Shadows written by William H. Bridges and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black characters into postwar Japanese literature. This same influx fostered the creation of organizations such as the Kokujin kenkyū no kai (The Japanese Association for Negro Studies) and literary endeavors such as the Kokujin bungaku zenshū (The Complete Anthology of Black Literature). This rich milieu sparked Japanese authors’—Nakagami Kenji and Ōe Kenzaburō are two notable examples—interest in reading, interpreting, critiquing, and, ultimately, incorporating the tropes and techniques of African American literature and jazz performance into their own literary works. Such incorporation leads to literary works that are “black” not by virtue of their representations of black characters, but due to their investment in the possibility of technically and intertextually black Japanese literature. Will Bridges argues that these “fictions of race” provide visions of the way that postwar Japanese authors reimagine the ascription of race to bodies—be they bodies of literature, the body politic, or the human body itself.

Book Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro Japanese Cultural Production

Download or read book Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro Japanese Cultural Production written by William H. Bridges and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning the generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors are interested primarily in texts in motion—the contradictory motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s) in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts and themselves.

Book Constructing America s War Culture

Download or read book Constructing America s War Culture written by Thomas J. Conroy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1927, political scientist Harold Lasswell wrote about the strategies employed by the American government to sell the benefits of participating in World War I to a reluctant public. In Propaganda Techniques in World War I, Lasswell discussed the "manipulative symbols to manipulate opinions and attitudes." Ever since then, all wars have involved specialists who attempt to control the way the media report about war and the way media contribute to shaping public opinion.

Book So You Think Your English Is OK

Download or read book So You Think Your English Is OK written by James Hibbert and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has comments, criticism, opinion and advice concerning English grammar and usage. It shows where people, experts included, go wrong. It covers topics that people disagree on, and oddities of the language. Written in a conversational tone, it is not a textbook. The aims are to interest, to entertain and to help people write English well.

Book CMJ New Music Report

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-02-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book CMJ New Music Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-02-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.

Book Julia Kristeva  Interviews

Download or read book Julia Kristeva Interviews written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 22 never-before-translated interviews and one personal essay by Julia Kristeva. Kristeva's in-depth discussions with major figures in contemporary arts and letters cover topics as diverse as the American literary academy, fiction writing, and issues in neuroscience.

Book Scribble  Scribble  Scribble

Download or read book Scribble Scribble Scribble written by Simon Schama and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Schama is a masterful stylist and storyteller.” —Boston Globe “A writer of gorgeous prose.” —Washington Post The ever erudite, always delightfully curious Simon Schama returns with Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, a wonderful compendium of thirty provocative, witty, enlightening, and stimulating essays previously published but collected in a single volume for the first time. One of our most distinguished historians and commentators, Schama, the acclaimed author of The American Future: A History, explores an amazing diversity of topics—from the political to the personal, from the earth-shaking to the mundane, from ice cream to Churchill to Hurricane Katrina and everything in-between. In Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, Simon Schama opens up his—and our—wide world to us.