East and West: orientalism, war and the colonial present

East is East and west is west.

This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

blitzkrieg war: past and present

wars begin to supply some goals. they have many predictable and unpredictable costs. state leaders and military commanders try to find way to decries war damages and to choose suitable strategies to reach their objectives spending fewer costs. one of these strategies can be blitzkrieg. this essay tries to explain the way of using this strategy in 20th century wars describing its theoretical bas...

Orientalism in Euro-American and Indian psychology: historical representations of "natives" in Colonial and postcolonial contexts.

The author examines the historical role of Euro-American psychology in constructing Orientalist representations of the natives who were colonized by the European colonial powers. In particular, the author demonstrates how the power to represent the non-Western "Other" has always resided, and still continues to reside, primarily with psychologists working in Europe and America. It is argued that...

Heredity, East and West

Hypertension; East and West

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular diseases consistently contribute to most morbid and mortal events in most parts of the world. Many of these cardiovascular events are premature in nature, especially in the developing world [2]. These premature deaths of individuals who should be productive to society will in turn confer additional burden to...