Essays on 20Th Century

The Gaze by Elif Shafak chronicles the experience of the narrator in late 20th century Istanbul as an obese woman navigating her existence as a spectacle for the gaze those around her. Throughout the text, Shafak asserts to the reader that the narrator’s tribulations are…

Women and feminism has been a topical issue from the late 20th Century and more prominent in the latter part of the 21st Century. The dominance of women by the “superior being” of men has been listed in the literature since the realization of the…

María Luisa Bombal, author of The Tree, was one of the “Most Important Latin American Novelists of the twentieth century” (Rosenberg). Contrary to the strong masculine influences of Latin America during her lifetime, Bombal wrote from a female perspective and highlighted the feminist issues of…

Paul Nash was born on May 11, 1889 in Kensington, London, United Kingdom. He first studied at southwestern polytechnic and went Slade School of fine arts. After attending fine arts course he realized that he was bad at figure drawing so, he developed the passion…

According to scholars, a financial crisis is an expansive variety of situations in that some if not all of the available financial assets abruptly drop a large part of their original value(Martin and Milas, pp.443-459). Notably, in the 19th and 20th centuries, a lot of…

The 20th Century Wars Iván Berend proposed the idea of a “short 20th century” with the idea that the World War I, World War II, and the Cold War were all connected. It refers to the events surround 1914 to 1991 and the fact that…

Basil Davidson Episode 7 The seventh episode of the series “Voyage to Africa” focused on the nationalistic uprisings that occurred all throughout Africa in the 20th Century. Following decades of oppressive colonial rule the African people finally said “enough” and took their independence back from…