Acculturation

Describe your journey and experiences at London High School, whether in academics or extracurricular, and how those events and experiences have shaped you as a student. Details should include your future goals and how your high school experience has directed you in your development of those goals. Include any details regarding how you expect to handle any challenges that may arise in future classes and the college lifestyle. - Maximum length: 1500 words London is my home away from home. If…

The Mennonite community of East Village has separated themselves from the outside world to keep their traditions and beliefs strict for its members and keep outsiders from interfering. Miriam Toews presents Nomi Nickel as the narrator to view the community of East Village from the perspective of an insider who recognizes issues and examines them. Toews’s writing, specifically from Nomi’s point of view, allows the audience to examine the culture from the insider’s standpoint. Their views and…

Cultural diversities within Universities. Throughout this paper, I will examine and research about cultural diversities in universities. The aim of this paper is to discover how students adapt to new cultures when they come to a new space which is the university. I will research and explore the challenges they face in coming to a new environment and having to learn new cultures, these challenges may include broad cultures, different languages and ways of teaching. The research will be based…

A Black Theology of Liberation James H. Cone introduced “Black Liberation Theology” to the world five years after the assassination of Malcolm X, two years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, three years before America pulled out of Vietnam and four years before Nixon resigned as President of the United States. “A Black Theology of Liberation,” published in 1970, responded to the racial disparities suffered by Blacks since the inception of slavery. Cone’s premise demanded that in…

There is an ongoing need for the development of culturally meaningful and appropriate mental health services for marginalised populations. Individuals with refugee backgrounds, many of whom have experienced vast exposure to highly traumatic events, constitute such a population. However, working this homogenous population presents mental health services with a unique set of challenges. It is to the development, delivery, and evaluation of mental health services for individuals with refugee…

America is the land of the free and home of the brave. A truly unique country free of the constraints that other nations of the world face. America is special. America is exceptional… at least, that is what its population thinks. Americans, for the most part, love America. They buy into the idea of American exceptionalism, believing that America is different from the rest of the world and that the opportunities available in America are not available anywhere else, however, in all of this…

The Effects of Language on Expression of Emotion In both 1984 by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the societies are depriving themselves of language. Fahrenheit 451 presents us with the horror of a society choosing to discard all that elicits deeper, meaningful thoughts. Combined with the nightmare portrayed in 1984 of a world systematically destroying their own tools to communicate with others, I decided to look into what effects language has on the expression of emotion in…

With the influx of Europeans, thousands of AI were forced from their lands and the process of acculturation was set in place that resulted in disastrous events which unfolded onto the AIs. The effects of these traumatic events are seen clearly through the chronic illnesses (depression, PTSD, hypertension) and disparities faced disproportionately by AI…

The following paper will explore the effects of being undocumented on children. Throughout the paper the children discussed will refer to both children who are undocumented themselves and children born in the United States to undocumented parents. The paper will also review literature relevant to the subject, examine policies and agency roles relevant to child welfare and undocumented families. Finally it will discuss efforts being made on a nation level to aid this population. Effects of…

Australians behave. Despite this possibility, Raenee also described herself with more abstract internal characteristics (“I am happy.”), which is similar more individualistic statements on the Twenty Statements Test. Thus, Raenee demonstrated acculturation, which is the process of adapting the ways of life in one’s new culture. As she moved from Singapore to Australia, her self-concept also changed as she now identifies herself as Australian. This is supported by a study by Rosenthal, Bell,…