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    family member. Not an aunt nor uncle. My parents liked the name so they gave it to me. It is just an ordinary name. My middle name is different. It was chosen because it is the name of my uncle. He was an athlete and my mom liked his name so it became my middle name. My last name comes from my parents home country. It means yellow in their countries language. I mom had a different last name but she took my dad’s and now it’s mine. I like my name and i’m not planning to change it anytime soon.…

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    Names In Sula

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    A name is a designation of importance, whether that is positive or negative. When a discovery of new land is made a new name typically goes along with it. When a child is born they receive a name as a symbol of their parents commitment and love. Like a contract, a name seals the connection between the person who gives it and the person or place that is the recipient of it. Names can also be classifications which can elevate a person's status or take that status away. In Toni Morrison's novels…

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    “The Lasting Impact of Mispronouncing Students’ Names” Teacher must understand the long term effects of mispronouncing a child’s name, this can alter his or her outlook on nationality, character, and religion. Names hold significance and substance, being uneducated on the given background/ history will hinder educator’s worldwide. Educators have the biggest impact in a child’s life. With that capability every educator should make it their mission to make sure each student is safe and well…

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    “Star Children.” “Yes.” “Why?” “I don’t know.” We are not children. We are women, seniors, everything. But we look like children. Teens, even. But we are hundreds of thousands of years old. That is our secret. Star Children! Such a corny name. However, we became this for a reason; we are sprites. Shapeshifters. Some of us are angels. Others are just supernaturals. Nevertheless, we are all members of the magical community. -------------------- We’re trying to track them down. The Enemy.…

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    High Context Culture

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    Asian culture is more to hierarchy based by following age, education or in workplace, they will look at the position. Asian kids have to get parents permission for everything they wanted to do, studies or go out with friends. In a traditional Chinese culture, Men or boys always be the most important and pampered in the family as they can earn money for the family while girls or women are just to take care of the family and be a housewife. In educational way, Asian culture are more to academic…

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    For this paper, I will analyze the essay ‘No Name Woman’ written by Maxine Hong Kingston. This was a roller-coaster of a story with high emotions and dark secrets reveled throughout the essay. Kingston’s culture is known as family oriented and strict, through her essay she shares her family story and how this culture affected her family personally. Being Chinese decent, she was raised in a very strict, superstitious, tradition holding household. She goes on to explain to us, how her mother…

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    In the Disney movie Mulan, Mulan was a young beautiful young woman and waited for a man to marry, according to the Chinese culture. Later on her life her father died in war and Mulan was so divested and had so much anger she wanted to avenge him and decided to disguise her self into a man to enter the Chinese army. In Chinese culture woman wasn’t suppose to be in war nor work only be a housewife and have kids. Instead all she wanted was to become a warrior, but as we all know the army general…

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    Names comes in all shapes and sizes. Just by taking a gander at our names, we can view into a window to the past. Last names are the utmost important part of anyone’s name, since it is past done from generation to generation. The meaning and the way names are spelled changes over time and across the world. Our names, meanings, nicknames, and why we were named what we were, are just a few ways that shape are uniqueness. Originating from the Greek name Alexandros, Alexander signified "shielding…

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    The name Kelsey comes from an old English name given name Ceolsige which means “ships victory” or it could be a place name meaning “Cenels island” is a combination of the old English word cenel. Meaning “ fierce “ and “eg” meaning island. I wokld wo different stories about how my name was picked. My dad thinks my mom picked it from a person named Kelsey Grammer of the TV show Fraser. My mom said that's now how I got my name. She says I got my name from a list of names that they liked. My…

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    get excited when people ask me what my full name is. Even though my middle name is popular (and apparently my first name, too), it feels like everything falls into place when I say, “Emma Elizabeth Eichenberger” because my initials spell out “EEE”, which perfectly describes the squealing noise I make whenever I’m excited about something. Ask my friends, and they’ll tell you I’m just about pumped for anything. My parents always told me that they had a name picked out for me well before I was…

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