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    Ana Mendieta Analysis

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    nature allows it to integrate well with other movements such as feminism. Ana Mendieta uses Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion, to explore and better understand her role as a displaced woman. Throughout the Silueta series, her most well-known body of work, Mendieta uses Santeria rituals and iconography, formal elements, and natural landscapes to engage in dialogue with her distressed yet empowered identities. To begin, Ana Mendieta incorporates Santeria symbols and rituals into her earth-body works and performances in an effort to connect back to her Cuban roots. Because Mendieta was forced by the Cuban Revolution to migrate to the United States as a child, she became a part of the Cuban diaspora, which subjects Cubans to racism and hardships in a land away from home. Even though Mendieta is forced to live in the United States, as she moves forward in her graduate studies, she begins to find comfort and empowerment in Cuban traditions. By including elements of Santeria into her work, Mendieta is not only able to establish a physical connection between herself and the customs of her ancestors, but she is also able to tap into the power of ritualistic practices. Mendieta incorporates spiritual elements such as blood, flowers, and fire into her Siluetas in an effort to strengthen and nourish her physical and spiritual ties to the land. To Mendieta, working with the land and aspects of Santeria was an empowering way to produce art that is alive. In other words, art that…

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    If nothing is going well, call your grandmother (Italian Proverb). Pilar and Celia’s relationship had such a great bond from being psychic and using that to communicate with each other, how Cuba had such an impact in their lives even though Pilar had been living in New York since the age of 2 and the similar personalities they both had. In Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia focused on the lives of Celia and her family and from her three children and four grandchildren. Especially focused on…

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    Exile In The Seafarer

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    threat of exile was a major source of anxiety in Anglo-Saxon society. Exile is a long stay away from home is if often enforced, but is ocasionally self imposed. The lyrics of “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” all share the common theme of exile in the Anglo- Saxon society. The threat of exile can be an eerie topic, for when exile will occur is completely unfamiliar. The lyrics of “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” infer that the fundamental cause of…

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    Edward Said, literary theorist and cultural critic, described exile as strangely compelling to think about but thrilling to experience. “The Poisonwood Bible,” by Barbara Kingsolver, is a novel that illuminates the alienating and enriching concept of exile. Leah Price, second oldest daughter of Nathan Price and Orleanna Price, from a young age of 14 learned the frustrating, bewitching and nullifying abstraction of exile, and continued to learn in her aging years. Leah Price exiles herself from…

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    The “Babylonian Exile” is one of the most famous exiles in history. The Jewish people of Babylon were exiled to the Kingdom of Judah due to their religion. Just like what happened to two of the main character’s of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel. In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible, the Price family is among the main characters. The family is made up of Nathan Price, the Reverend who led his family on a mission trip. That is all he seemed to care about, seeing how he never had a spark…

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    The Wander Poem Analysis

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    the suffering, exile, and memoirs of an anonymous narrator who refers to himself differently according to what part of his life he is sharing; a "Lone-dweller", an "Earth-stepper", ect. Although it is commonly believed that there is only one narrator, there is still a lot of debate on whether or not there was only one narrator throughout the poem or if there were several. The Wanderer is believed to have been created around the 5th or 6th century, being orally "handed down" from…

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    Anglo-Saxon literature was centered around one common theme, exile. The exile in literature is often about the banning of a person from a place. Most writers in this time period wrote an elegy for the things they miss from their time before their exiled. Some writers were forced into exile by others for political reasons while others fled for their own safety. As seen in “The Seafarer”, “The Wanderer”, and “The Wife’s Lament” exile was a major anxiety in Anglo-Saxon literature as the threat…

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    Yahweh

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    When God is angry at Israel, He allows the temple to suffer. When God is reconciled to Israel, the temple is restored” (Murphy, 110). This is the thought that both those who were exiled and those who stayed behind. However, these two groups had two different interpretations for this tradition. Those who were exiled believed that the cause for the exile, was to punish them for non-Deuternonmistic types of worship (Lecture 3 pt.1 slide 6). By sending the people into exile, this would purify of…

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    Hmong Culture Case Study

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    Language barriers may, also, exist. And when they even don?t, an interpreter or a counselor who speaks a common language, there may still be a problem on a religious or ethnic reason. As a result, culturally relevant care doesn?t necessarily happen. Cuban American Culture (Rojas-Vilches, Negy, & Reig-Ferrer, 2011) Data presented at the 108th annual conference of the American Psychological Association in Boston, MA in August of 2008 showed a difference between the elder and younger generations…

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    families from Mexico, Bangladesh, and Argentina to state the least. As a Cuban- American, I assimilated with the cultures and thrived during my trips to Cuba. Each trip classified my identify to one I wished to not hold, but soon grew to love. I aspired to connect with the ethnicities around the world in order to not be seen as just a Cuban. However, the accommodation since I was a year old to travel to Cuba yearly allowed me to gain the experience and awareness directed towards my heritage.…

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