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Zachary Parker - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Seeking to best the bitter and blush the bashful, these articles, reviews and refreshments are meant to reflect the American pathos, ethos and logos, the season-ticket holders of modern culture.
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- Review of the Colonial Heritage of Latin America by Barbara and Stanley Stein
[Book-Reviews:History] "The English had been the major factor in the destruction of Iberian imperialism; on its ruins they erected the informal imperialism of free trade and investment." (155) In this statement, buried late in Barbara and Stanley Stein's micro-tome on the economic dependence of both Spain and its new-world colonies through the last few centuries, sums up what the pair prodigiously expound. Anything but terse, the Steins move with thorough inspection; from pre-colonial economic webs and hierarchical constraints that existed in Europe that framed the manner in which the Spanish and Portuguese would carry out their affairs across the Atlantic.
- Tweety and Tahiti
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Tattoos] Tattooing has been deeply etched into the lives, rites and rituals of many cultures and religions throughout the world. So how do we explain away the Yosemite Sams, Winnie the Poohs and the myriad other ink blotched thigh dressings we see in modern America?
- Uniting Mind, Body and Stretchpants
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Yoga as a fad....American. Yoga as a spiritual and physical means of enlightenment...beyond the ideoscape of Americans.
- Cultural Appropriation in American Pop Culture - Is Nothing Sacred?
[News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] American pop culture has taken advantage of postmodernity to appropriate cultural elements from abroad and living within. In doing so, American pop culture reads into the foreign culture's original intent and meaning, and "derive their own meanings and feelings from...images, activities." This ethno-analysis results in an infusion of indigenized, modified expression that poorly reflects the originator's intent, meaning or use.
- Cultural Appropriation in American Popular Culture - A Musing of Abuse and Amusement
[News-and-Society:International] The globalization process, starting with man's first steps beyond the horizon, is nigh complete. This integration of politics, economics, culture and biology has erupted a volcano of change to many traditional societies as well as shaped American culture.
- Conflict Diamonds and American Policy
[News-and-Society:International] The Clean Diamond Trade Act, as the bill in question is called, concerns rough diamonds being sold in African nations such as Sierra Leone, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This traffic in gems has unforeseen consequences lying beneath the surface of the rough diamonds.
- A Review of the Sandino Affair by Neill Macaulay
[Book-Reviews:History] Written by a former revolutionary, this book captures not only the scene, politics and strategy of the revolution that lead to a US defeat, but also runs as an prophetic allegory to the US policies in the Middle East. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
- Quest For the Gem of the Antilles - Review of War of 1898 by Louis Perez Jr
[Book-Reviews:History] Embedded in his book, Louis Perez asserts through the crafting of popular support, duplicitous diplomacy and military engagement, the US summarily co-opted the war of 1898 in the aim to "weaken the Cuban claim to sovereignty" and inject both moral obligation and patron responsibility into the reasoning of the American forays of imperialism. Perez's book uses a vast amount of excerpts, reports and quotes from US officials, statesmen and first-hand observers to prove the aims he presents...
- Bringing the Fields to the Federals - Review of Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
[Book-Reviews:History] The struggle, strife and myth that bears the name Zapata. John Womack JR. brings a highly detailed work to interested readers.
- Review of Race Mixture in the History of Latin America by Magnus Morner
[Book-Reviews:History] Magnus Mörner introduces his reader to both concepts and details of the centuries long process of miscegenation, the racial mixing and acculturation, that culminated in the national character of Latin America. This blending over time is awash in regional political, religious, and social intrigue.
- Heard in the Echoes of African Drums
[Book-Reviews:History] In the ebb and flow of the trans-cultural tides, the three major hubs; Rio, Havana and Buenos Aires were actively embracing and contradicting the neo-African dance, tradition and merriment that was incubating in the warmth of the Latin American sun and in the heat of the dance-halls, Carnival parades and brothels. Sharing some key aspects of heritage, the dance and rhythms found in these three ports truly explain the queer relationship that the dances have in the ways of transferring culture across both continents, races and social castes, fomenting both reprisals and nationalism at various times.
- Dolphins of Taiji - A Murder Suicide
[News-and-Society:Environmental] Some traditions are a bit different. Some may shock, some may awe. Is carrying tradition into the 21st century always to be congratulated?
- Catch and Release
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fishing] I would estimate that if I had to keep all the fish I caught that I would still have room in the freezer for last year's Thin Mints. That aside, I know that others may not have such spare lodgings if not for the increasing popularity catch and release. Though it does not effect me, it has become an effective movement to ensure the viability of trout, bass and other sport-suitable specimen but has also drew into fishing a lively folklore.
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