Foreign Literature Essay

knew something. Words have so much power, especially when people know what you are saying. It makes me curious how schools devise English as a Second Language programs, and if language is truly taught in a productive manner. Watching a movie in a foreign language was a very eye opening experience. It was something I had never done before, and I am glad that I took the time to do so, and not only because it was for a grade. Such a simple task has allowed me to be more understanding and will…

Helena Maria Viramontes ' novel Under the Feet of Jesus present the true realities that a young thirteen-year-old girl, Estrella, and her family encounter as migrant laborers. Working as migrant laborers, Estrella and her family face conflicts with the legal system, the perpetual state of being short on money, and the depiction of their labor. Viramontes’s novel effortlessly demonstrates how the life of migrant workers are both demanding and brutal through exemplifying Estrella and her family 's…

Mainstream Ideology and Literacy Instruction for Spanish-Speaking Children Ideology in the United States is that if a person comes to America to live and work, this person should also change their culture and language to be a “real” American. (Halcon, 2001, p.66) Now the irony is that when this country was founded, colonizers came, invaded, and tried to civilize the Native Americans instead of adapting their culture and language to those who were here first. We were foreigners to them and we…

important educational, labor, and economic reforms that continue to affect American legislature today. But following WWI, President Woodrow Wilson took the concept of positive liberty to an even more influential level by proposing a new approach to foreign policy that essentially advocated for internationalism. In doing so, he was challenging the American tradition of isolationism that had more or less stood unchanged since the presidency of George Washington himself. Because of its perceived…

Nice, D. State Party Ideology and Policy Making, The University of Georgia, 780-796 In this article, David Nice delves into party ideologies and their role in state policy decisions. Nice uses information gathered from a wide variety of research studies to assess whether or not party ideologies are reflected in recent state policy decisions. One of the studies present in this source was a Cross- national research study which found that, “ideologies of those in power were related to unemployment…

political personalities, while states that function as a collective or a group think on a group basis (p.55). Consequently, states that operate as a collective influence group think and this is the common scenario even when the leaders engage in foreign policy decision-making. This means…

Loneliness and isolation are both factors of depression, ironically with this story in The Great Depression. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, set in The Great Depression, George and Lennie get a job at a ranch after previous failed attempts at other jobs due to Lennie’s childlike disorder. They start to get used to their jobs alongside with Crooks, Candy, and Curley and his wife. Lennie’s childlike disorder, however, caused him to accidentally murder Curley’s wife, which ultimately led to…

There are three main schools of thought in International Relations and they are realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Liberalism is the paradigm that in short, holds the belief that emphasizes the importance of the international institutions that would serve to check relations with other international state actors. Realism stems from the notion that in this anarchic international stage, each state is out to better itself and the only way to survive is to gain more power. Constructivism is a…

A totalitarian country has total control over the personal lives of their citizens, labor, education and housing. The government has control over the freedom, thoughts and speech. The citizens are not allowed to leave the country, open bank accounts or even enjoy the adventures of their environment. This centralized government is structured to believe that every citizen will freely sacrifice for the benefits of their country. For instance, North Korea has a totalitarian government because of…

Foreign policy – like all policy making- is about pointing out and prioritising what a government can pay attention to. It is ongoing and changeable. There has been debate for some time among academics and politicians as to what Australia’s position should be in the world. Countries including the UK and USA are known as traditional superpowers and have never had that title challenged. Despite the label ‘middle power’ being a contested title in regards to Australian policy when approach from a…