Essays on Culture

Analyze how audience and purpose affect the structure and content of texts. Here we focus on how a text is inseparable from its context. By looking at an array of texts from children’s stories to brochures, we learn not only about various types of texts,...

I chose Yoga. My mom is a devoted practitioner, and she and her best friend often participate in Yoga Retreat events, in which practitioners meet and exercise together. When I was a teenager, my mom took me with her to one of the Yoga meetings....

Luksuhay and Bato – Lata, a term from Eastern Samar, It is commonly known as Luksong tinik (jump over the thorns) and Tumbang preso (knock down prisoner) which started during the Spanish Items somewhere in Tagalog regions and spread out all over the Philippines and...

Since the ancient times being a woman has never been an easy sailing thing smooth flowing task. Women are raised to be wives they are constantly told that they can have ambition but not too much. Traditional values and cultural practices work more for the...

Similarities and differences can be found through the structures, themes or techniques of stories. In this essay, I will be investigating the differences and similarities of four different short stories. These stories are; ‘The Doll’s House’ by Katherine Mansfield, ‘Motu’ by Rowley Habib, ‘Mr Van...

E. P. Thompson and Powell are two historians who prioritize broader anthropological and psychological categories in their historical approaches to explaining riots. Although they utilize similar categories, they have opposing views within those categories. Thompson describes how a small community consensus on morality that is...

Andy Lau is a proficient Chinese entertainer who has exercised great potentials in acting, producing, and music. He is regarded as one of the most-successful Chinese actors. The talented star has set different Guinness World Records and has equally received lots of accolades for his...