Borderlands

violence that takes place in the film happens on American soil. Due to the numerous immigration policies and regulations that have been executed in the U.S., the amount of violence near the borderlands has decreased, creating the possibility that Hollywood’s violent, war-torn representation of the American borderlands is an…

also to create” (5). In order to both “move away from binarisms of the border by focusing on hybrid space” and to include Kella within the inter-German border, Berdahl uses the term borderland to describe the special, in-between space often associated with ambiguity (6). With this definition, she describes her borderland of study: “It is a site of cultural confrontation, articulation, and, to a large extent, penetration, where struggles over the production of cultural meanings occur in the…

details the reasons for why half of the population in Mexican towns have left to the United States. Furthermore, the film presents how the immigration of family members affects Mexican families and communities left behind. Within Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera, Anzaldua describes the interior problems within Mexico that contribute to the exodus of many Mexicanos. However, her descriptions were published in 1987, whereas the film was distributed in 2010. The same interior problems…

boundaries separating people, culture, and ideologies. In the United States of America, borders act as boundaries between both states and cultures. Additionally, boundaries in America stand between itself, and other countries, specifically Mexico. Borderlands, according to its definition, are districts or land surrounded and separated by boundaries. These boundaries, no matter how physical or literal serve the purpose of distinguishing between groups of people and bodies of land. In the United…

Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana Florida Borderlands 1762-1803 by David Narrett is an interesting take on the Southeastern borderlands from the Seven Years War through the Louisiana Purchase. He attempts to weave a story that includes the competing interests of Spain, France, and England in North America. Narrett considers the Florida Louisiana border as one continuous line: what happens in one state affects the other. The narrative, hence, focuses on the…

“Mr. Z,” Mr. Z degrades eleven-year-old Diego to show his male dominance by labeling his dad a, “ ‘bullshitter’ ” (Casares 17). This male dominance is to demonstrate to Diego that he is to be respected, and not the other way around. Anzaldua, in Borderlands/La Frontera, details how her father’s interpretation of machismo was, “Being…

the effectiveness of her storytelling of portraying these stories of living by these borders. The influence of language and the impact of speaking different dialects have such a weight on those stuck in the in-between of the language barriers. Borderlands/La Frontera showed the struggle of transitioning from the border and the effects of crossing borders has on those that do. Anzaldúa’s writing has amazing imaginary that leaves lasting impacts on readers. When I reading chapter 5, I was…

Then, in 1986, Borderlands compiled a manual called The Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator Handbook - which was updated and revised again in 1988, 1992, and 1994. The Handbook includes the compilation of informative articles by many authoritative MWO researchers, including…

Tiny Tina Psychoanalytic Tiny Tina is a character within a videogame called Borderlands 2. She has no concept of empathy for other people and almost no concept of ego or superego. She demonstrates that she is all id because she likes explosions… and in particular, blowing people up with those explosions (She feels no remorse afterwards). She is introduced by blowing up a bandit. Her go to defense mechanism would be denial. TIny Tina has her own downloadable content called “Tiny Tina’s Assault…

Addressing the complexities articulated within the act of ethnic identity enunciation, the art of writing is granted the power of eliciting a counter discourse. Ethnic identity, be it a heterogeneous construct fashioned by and through the narrative it sustains, unravels the interplay between competing discourses of power .To transcend the boundaries of marginality infused in the supremacy given to certain languages over others, voicing minorities plight of exclusion can only be maintained…