In this intricate time, Niall Ferguson, the author of Civilization: The West and the Rest, presents a story and what appears as a defense of the ascend of the west to supremacy and its unrivalled influence in restructuring the world of today. The West seems to be on the defensive, confronted economically, politically, and militarily by the rise of China (delete this: as well as politically along with militarily) by a gesture of Islamist abhorrence (what do you mean by “as well as politically and militarily by a gesture of Islamist abhorrence”? It’s not clear. Are you trying to convey the idea that the West’s political and military interventions in the Muslim world are a sign of their defensive posture and abhorrence of the Muslim world? Or do you mean to say that the West is on the defensive due to Islamist hatred of the West?). Perhaps the major interior challenge is the examination of western culture, which subjugated American education following World War II and has been under siege for a long time. Therefore, western culture has been harder to discover in our schools and colleges ([Symbol]consider rephrasing this sentence). "When tackled, the west slandered owing to (by “slandered owing to…” do you mean “attributed”? I don’t think slandered is the right word here. Slandered means “insulted”) its history of oppression and imperialism, a supposed addiction to conflict and its barring of women and non-whites from privileges and rights. Some condemn its study as slender, limiting, haughty, and discriminatory, emphasizing that it has small or no worth for those originating outside Europe (Ferguson 22).
Ferguson considers otherwise (although it is understood what you mean by this sentence, as a topic sentence, it should be a bit ...
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...iable consideration of western domination of the world. The reader obtains a deeper understanding of western civilization and how history ought to be taught. Ferguson also succeeds in warning the reader of the collapse of western civilization. The economic, political, and military rise of other countries such as China seems to cement the argument that the end of western domination is near. As such, the reader realizes that western domination may just be a subject of historical knowledge (Ferguson 29).
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