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The readings, “Understanding Other Cultures” and “Anthropology and Intercultural Relations” are based around understanding other cultures and how we can benefit from studying outside of our “norm.” By learning what shapes human behavior in different cultures, we can increase our cultural understanding. Our willingness to cross cultural thresholds can give us the opportunity to view a variety ways and styles of living. Understanding what sets each culture apart from each other can help government…

not to say that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a bad book, I think one person can't make such a broad statement, but in my opinion, it is a book that is inconsequential and does not translate to our world today. I find the “back county” accents in the way the book is written to be annoying. I find the subject…

When I was 16 I moved to from California to Texas. During this time, I assume everyone in Texas wears a cowboy hat, boots, talks in a southern accent such as saying y’all and other such stereotypes. I assume the general understanding of Texas from what I was taught as a kid in movies, music, and shows. Once I moved to Texas that that type of thought was used against me, my classmates assume I probably l go to the beach and surf and have met plenty of celebrities when I lived in California. This…

The movie Split is a thriller/psychological horror film that has shocked millions of people around the world, earning up to 40.2 million dollars in just the opening weekend (Nolfi, 2017). This movie is full of great detail and important points, some of which I will and will not touch base on. The plot begins with three girls, Claire, Casey, and Marcia being kidnapped and knocked-out by a man named Kevin Crumb. Crumb is later determined as having dissociative identity disorder and has…

and look at me differently because of my skin color they would automatically assume I wasn’t from Canada or not Canadian because I wasn’t “white”. They wouldn’t consider me as a “Canadian” as well as a “Newfie” because I didn’t have the “Canadian” accent. Another reason was because I wasn’t big on hockey or watched the games they would be so confused and offended because I didn’t have much knowledge on the hockey teams. Remembering all of this again the reason being for many of them not…

Oh How I miss those days. I moved up north when I was eighteen and those people spent most of their time correcting my English. They said I mispronounced my vowels. I’d say take it up with my grade school teachers who spoke with thick southern accents and who taught me my vowels. The bottom line - they…

brothers provide logical explanations for every action, despite the complexity of the story. Coen brothers also took cultural background into consideration when they are creating characters. This consideration shows through the Spanish landlady’s accent in her dialogues. Unlike other…

Participant 1 Participant number one is called Mike ( a pseudonym). He is working as a professor in a one of community colleges in the city of Chicago. In the informed consent form, Mike did not reveal his age, academic background or real name. However, the man seems to be in his fifties. Mike was selected to participate in the study because he met the research interview requirements in the sense that he has been a teacher for multicultural classrooms on post secondary schools in the city of…

After walking into the restaurant tucked in the back corner of the complex, all one could hear is the roars of conversation and the aroma of pizza in the air. Starting their roots in Chicago, Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria started as the typical family-owned business as of the 1940s. They kept their grounds local while they kept their pizza’s large, filling, and loaded with harmonized tastes. The amount of toppings were astonishing and the cheese melted in the mouth. Tastes exceptional to the tongue…

I have chosen the project option Speech Styles of the comedian Kristen Wiig. The reason I decided to pick her as my topic was because I thought it would be interesting to see how different and how similar she is in the Californian skit when compared to her everyday life. In this paper, idiolect differences, phonological differences, and non-verbal communications between Kristen Wiig’s Californians Skits from Saturday Night Live, will be discussed when compared to her interview from the show…