Zayn El Hajji First Year Writing Professor Bodenrader The Replication of Everything Replication‚ reproduction‚ repetition‚ it is all the same in the end. Postmodernism was defined by its use of replication and reproduction to show the dehumanization of the mass production capitalistic world. David Foster Wallace writes in the book A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll never do again “The apotheosis of the pop in postwar art marked a whole new marriage between high and low culture. For the artistic
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story about setting foot in China. One false claim Marco Polo made was that he assisted Kublai Khan as a military advisor during the siege of Hsyiang-Yang. According to records‚ the Chinese siege ended on January 1273‚ which was two years before Marco Polo actually got to northern China. Another doubtful claim Marco Polo made was that he was the governor of Yangzhou‚ and served as an ambassador under Kublai Khan. Yet despite his high-ranking positions‚ his name does not appear in any of the Chinese
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Gap year to escape from the troubles at home. Marco Polo born in 1254 in Venice‚ Italy started exploring at the young age of seventeen‚ his first destination was China. It is rumored that he became a diplomatic for Kublai Khan because of his storytelling. Marco worked for Kublai for about seventeen years and explored about 20 countries before traveling back to Italy‚ but before he could he was stuck in-between both of Genoa and Venice‚ were he was captured as a prisoner. there he meet a
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Analysis of ‘Kubla Khan’ regarding Colonial Discourse: As a product of the complex discursive web of the 18th century‚ the Orientalist Coleridge could not act out of such historical forces as colonialism that had gone into shaping him and his poetry.He‚ in post colonial discourse‚ was unable to go parallel with the theory of ‘Arts for Arts sake’ and ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’. In Kubla Khan‚Coleridge is trying to establish the heagemony of Abyssinian Christianity which according to him
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civilization he found interesting was located in Cathay (China)‚ which was controlled by Kublai Khan of the Mongols. Even though Marco Polo’s travels may seem skeptical
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Adelma‚ The Afterlife? Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is a surreal novel that leaves the reader unsure if he/she is coming or going. Marco Polo converses in a garden with Kublai Khan on a daily basis and tells him of the travels that he has experienced. We are met with many different descriptions of cities‚ some light and some dark. The novel describes a world of constant uniformity. Although there is a wide sense of travel throughout the novel‚ there is also a sense of stagnation. We are
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The name of Genghis Khan is often associated with destruction‚ although the image of Genghis Khan has been rehabilitated somewhat in the west. The western world‚ saturated in media distortion and a reluctance to accept changes in perceptions of history‚ has been rather averse in accepting Genghis Khan’s activities as pivotal in world history and the shaping of the modern world. Thus‚ the publication of Jack Weatherford’s book‚ Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World‚ is a welcome addition
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Genghis Khan Power was the main thing everyone wanted to have. Obtaining it was another problem. For example‚ leaders gained power through those who followed them and if no one did‚ they could not be a leader. They had to be able to succeed in hardships and be able to go through difficulty in order to gain popularity and power. An example of a leader who earned his power by displaying his ability of making strategies that encouraged people to join him on his conquests and expeditions was Alexander
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After the death of Khubulai Khan‚ the four uluses divided forming their own independent states. These four powers remained autonomous‚ until the territories internally began to divide and ultimately fall apart. The first of the khanates to collapse were the Yuan Dynasty and the Ilkhanid‚ while the Chagatai and the Golden Horde were able to stay in control relatively longer. It is most likely that these two uluses were the first to dissolve because Mongol steppe and traditional life never prospered
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Ocean and Arabian Sea. Although Genghis Khan (more properly known as Chinggis Khan)‚ is mainly thought of in negative terms in the West‚ he is one of history’s more charismatic and dynamic leaders. During his lifetime‚ he conquered more territory than any other conqueror‚ and his successors established the largest contiguous empire in history. Even today his legacy continues in Asia‚ for without Genghis Khan there would not be a Mongolia. Kublai Khan (1215-1294) was a Mongolian leader who made
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