Moros in America

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-167
Author(s):  
Oliver Charbonneau
Keyword(s):  
Motion Pictures ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Dime Novel ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Adventure Stories

This chapter talks about Moros and Americans negotiating an increasingly globalized world beyond colony and metropole. It mentions a vernacular dime novel about the St. Louis World's Fair published in 1904 titled Uncle Bob and Aunt Becky's Strange Adventures at the World's Great Exposition. It also describes how overseas colonies appeared to a skeptical metropolitan public and how cultural producers appropriately portrayed the America's foreign subjects. The chapter mentions the U.S. newspapers that followed the Moros closely as they met with presidents, performed for midwestern crowds, took in the Manhattan skyline, and embraced collegiate life. It cites the Moros' appearance in assorted fictions, such as comic operas, children's adventure stories, radio serials, and motion pictures that manufactured Muslim colonial subjects and presented them in varied ways to a curious public.

The Fourth Reverse Wave?

2022 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Community ◽  
Reverse Wave ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the work of Samuel Huntington and his theory regarding waves of democratization. The chapter notes that the international community is witnessing a move away from the globalized world order that the era has facilitated (or de-globalization) and that de-democratization is seemingly occurring simultaneously. The chapter pays particular attention to the United States and actions that have been viewed as anti-democratic by the previous presidential administration, which has accelerated the global community's leeriness when it comes to international cooperation led by the U.S.

scholarly journals The Function of Luxury: Visual and Material Abundance in Minoru Yamasaki’s U.S. Consulate in Kobe and Federal Science Pavilion in Seattle (1954–62)

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Joss Kiely
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
World War ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
World Power ◽  
Global Exchange ◽  
The U.S

This article explores the visual abundance found in a number of early projects by Leinweber, Yamasaki and Hellmuth (LYH) and Minoru Yamasaki and Associates (MYA), which stands in stark contrast to the austere character of architectural form during the interwar period. Although Yamasaki received his architectural training in the 1930s, he was neither a true modernist, nor a fully postmodern architect. His aesthetic, and his firm’s work, lies in the interstices between these two distinct architectural moments, in company with contemporaries Edward Durell Stone and Paul Rudolph, among others. The work of these architects embraced a kind of visual and formal excess but stopped short of approaching the playful linguistic games of postmodern architecture. With themes of visual and material excess in mind, I examine two early commissions from the U.S. federal government that put into play ideas of global exchange, power, and extravagance in architecture as the United States emerged as a major world power in the aftermath of World War II, including the U.S. Consulate in Kobe, Japan (1954–1955) and the Federal Science Pavilion at the Seattle World’s Fair (1962).

scholarly journals Islamic banking

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Christian Castro
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Banking And Finance ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
The World ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

In recent years the rise of Islamic banking has been one of the most important trends in the economic sphere, with an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, this arena has plenty of room for expansion. Conforming to Shariah (Islamic Law) puts a huge demand among Muslims looking for financial products and services that adhere to their beliefs. If it weren’t for the creation of such alter-natives to conventional banking and finance, Muslims would find it hard to participate in our globalized world without violating their religious principles. There are currently over 300 financial Institutions across the global sphere providing some type of Islamic financial product. According to some experts, the assets that are currently being managed under Shariah law, which range from investment to commercial banks and investment funds, are estimated to be no less than 300 billion. Other experts in the industry estimate the assets under mana-gement to be much larger. The FSA (Financial Services Authority), a regulator for financial services based out of London, estimates the total amount associated with Shariah banking to be as much as 500 billion. Even the U.S rating agency, S & P, estimates the sukuk (deed) market has reached over 75 billion and will likely be over 150 billion by the end of the decade. It used to be that Islamic fi-nancial products were more of a niche market but over time they are now considered mainstream, with many well-known interna-tional financial institutions battling to get a little piece of the pie.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW Book Author: Kathleen Stein-Smith. Book title: The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World. Year of Publication: (2016). Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. Book pages: 123 pp. Book ISBN 978-3-319-34158-3

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Forough Rahimi ◽  
Gholam Shahisavandi
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Book Title ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Language Deficit ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

Kathleen Stein-Smith’s The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World is an attempt to outline a comprehensive and organized model for one of the recent trends in the field of teaching language and the importance of language.

Villa-Lobos ‘ben trovato’

Tempo ◽  
1991 ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Peppercorn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Original Form ◽  
New Work ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
New York Philharmonic ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Brazilian Composer

Heitor Villa-Lobos's musical output is very comprehensive. Nevertheless, he thought it useful or necessary, at some later stage, to incorporate certain pieces – in their original form or in transcription – into other compositions, apparently for lack of time to write a completely new work, or sheer laziness. Or, he found delight in teasing his listeners, friends and admirers, unless they discovered his hoax. The Brazilian composer-conductor Walter Burle-Marx (b. 1902), in a letter to me of 31 May 1981 from Caracas, Venezuela (and reproduced here by his kind permission), commented on this characteristic of Villa-LobosA typical example of Villa-Lobos's temperament and way of thinking concerns the Bachianas Brasileiras # 5.1 did the U.S premiere in New York at the World's Fair on May 4th, 1939 with the New York Philharmonic and Bidú Sayão, using the manuscript of Villa-Lobos. Later on, when I saw the manuscript again, there was a repeat sign on the first introductory measure in 5/4. I asked him why he did that and he replied that he felt that the introduction was too short. I asked why he didn't compose two different measures – he who had so much imagination – and he smiled and said: ‘To tell the truth, I felt lazy’. This was one of his faults; once a work was finished, he very rarely went back to polish it much less to change it.

The U.S.: A Globalizing Economy in a Globalized World

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (003) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
V. Suppyan
Keyword(s):  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

Transnational habitus: Educational, bilingual and biliteracy practices of Chinese sojourner families in the U.S.

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Chao ◽  
Xiufang Ma
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
English Only ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
One Year ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

Grounded in the perspectives of language socialization and transnational habitus, this one-year ethnographic case study explores two middle-class Chinese sojourner families’ educational, bilingual and biliterate practices after their arrival in the U.S. It addresses the process that their middle childhood children experienced, from the excitement of the new English-speaking environment to linguistic and social isolation, to their adaptation to the environment and, finally, to transnational uplift. The families’ transnational practices throughout the four phases are shaped by their economic, educational and sociocultural dispositions that link together their country of origin and the U.S. They tend to cross national borders in language, literacy and education as well as to circulate glocalized English–Chinese biliteracy. This study reveals the disjunction between the families’ “imagined world” of the U.S. and the reality of a language barrier and ideological conflicts underpinned in an English-only society. The families’ transnational migration is an educational practice with access to their children’s “imagined world”. This study suggests that ESL learning should be considered as a socialization practice, which is tied to and structured by transnational fields in today’s globalized world.

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