How to bridge East and West

Iran, A Bridge Between the East and West of the World

Dear Editor, Iranian territory has long been a bridge between Eastern and Western parts of the world. Vast oceans located in the southern Iranian Plateau and the northern-southern stretch of the Caspian Sea as well as impracticability of freezing steppes on the north side of this lake have virtually presented Iran as the sole connecting way between the Indian subcontinent, China Plain, Levant,...

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....

How the East and the West Shall Meet*

In this essay I focus on the problems and promises of how the East can make contributions to sociological theories. In the currently pervasive dominance of “received theories” derived mostly from Western experiences, discrepant evidences from other societies are often questioned for their generalizability or treated as contingencies. For paradigmatic theoretical contributions by the East to be ...

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...