Borderlands

Genres allows the writer to reflect values and investments. Chapter 5 of Anzaldua’s Borderlands La Frontera, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, includes many different genres. An important genre she repeatedly uses is personal experience. If personal experience was excluded from this chapter, her values and opinions would lack credibility and persuasiveness. Anzaldua writes about an issue that is important and personal to her: by removing this important genre, chapter 5 would not be a powerful chapter.…

perceive you? You may feel oppressed, criticized, lonely, or possibly neglected. The only way to defend yourself is your own language. This is Gloria Anzaldúa’s situation in her personal narrative, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” a chapter from her book, Borderland/La Frontera. Anzaldúa realizes American territory creates an environment full of insecurities. She is trying to escape the ideas of oppression through her own language as she uses Chicano Spanish throughout the text. Language allows one…

Although “The Storm” is told from a third person omniscient point of view, “The Adulterous Wife” is told from the first person peripheral point of view. “The Adulterous Wife” is a poem that tells a story of a married woman that cheats on her husband from an overseer’s point of view. The wife is a static character and does not change throughout the poem. McClave depicts a flash back to inform readers she has done this before and does not plan on changing: “She lies and cheats and do the sins that…

They knew that the actions of the families of Harlan in the nineteenth century were a product of patterns laid down in the English borderlands centuries before. Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett purposely mistreated students of the University in order to obtain and record their reactions. The students were categorized by where they were from, primarily people from the North and the South.…

The article Clash of Civilizations begins by speaking on why there will be a clash of civilizations, where he gives a total of six explanations, and then he focuses by acknowledging that these clashes will take place on cultural fault lines whether they be distant countries, neighboring countries, or internal cultural borders within a specific country. This section mostly hits on the clash between the ideologies of the west vs. Islam. The author then goes on to explain how the civilizations of…

Ronald Suny’s book “A History of the Armenian Genocide” attempts to explain the Young Turks reformist ideas to use massacres as a solution to the what they deemed as an Armenian threat. Suny explores the idea that the leaders of the genocide ( the Committee of Union and Progress and later the Young Turks) turned fear, resentment, and the issues of war into mass killings as a way to find a solution to the Armenian problem. I fully agree with Suny’s examination of this genocide because I believe…

Pope over. In an interesting move, the film lets the viewer know the end of the movie before the movie itself has even really started. The film states in the beginning that the events in the movie are true, and that it takes place in 1750 in the borderlands of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Deep in the forest, several Guaraní men carry a man atop a cross. This man has a crown of thorns on his head and is swiftly placed in the river. He floats downstream and his death is assumed by the viewer.…

Ana Castillo, a Mexican-American Chicana writer uses a ‘fragmented epistolary style’ (Walter 1998) to foreground ‘Chicana’s search for identity in the borderlands … [characterized by] psychic restlessness’ (Walter 1998). The choice of this style by many authors allows for fragmented revelations of identity much in the style of monologues and stream-of-consciousness. This style is perfect for postmodern…

create a space reserved for Chicanos that situates the addressee in Mexico. In other words, the reader cannot stop thinking about Mexico, even when the poem is set in US soil. Anzaldúa by including this poem in Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza transgresses the limit of the borderlands and becomes an escapee, a defector and yet a refuge. She creates a contretemps, between the author and her audience. Defying her culture, her tradition and speaking up for those speechless muted by the…

Saloth Sar was Pol Pot’s real name. Pol pot was a terrible person; he struggled with a bad childhood, become power crazy, and started the Cambodian Genocide. The path that he took made him to become a bad leader. he had many many opportunities in life to be successful in life, but he always ruined the opportunity by doing the wrong things. Pol Pot was a terrible child which lead him to the wrong direction in life. Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) was born on “March of 1925, in a little fishing village of…