English culture

No Parole Today: Through the Looking Glass To imagine with the lifestyle of the individuals of the Navajo culture, one must empathize with them through their experiences. An ethnological approach to understanding identity would be to reflect upon the culture itself. Some may view the Navajo culture differently than others creating confrontation involving the values, tradition, and how they communicate. Laura Tohe’s, No Parole Today, finely illustrates part of a world that not many witnessed or…

life than I did. I am only allowed to live once so learning about the perspectives of others intrigue me. Learning about how others think has influenced on how I think and gave me the desire to someday travel the world to be immersed in multiple cultures. A Guatemalan mother once said to me, “Guatemalan doctors are better than American doctors. American doctors need to use MRI scans and X-Rays to diagnose a patient but Guatemalan doctors do not need to use such technology because neither the…

p.1), I have experienced first-hand, the struggles of being 1.5 generation immigrant. In particular, my identity. Immigrating to The United States has shaped many aspects of my life, including my struggle to assimilate both American and Chinese culture and the formation of my identity. How hegemony and Bandwagon effect that humans want to follow the mainstream torn my identity apart. Based on my observation, I am sure that I am not the only one who has experienced this problem. I believe that…

In “Crucifixion” from A Nostalgist’s Map of America Ali embraces tribal American descendants and makes mention of ‘Navajos’ a tribe of the South Western United States. In another poem “Leaving Sonora” Ali unites another culture known as ‘Hohokam’. ‘Hohokam’ is a civilization of North-American Indians who belongs to Southern Arizona. It figures as a prominent pre-historic cultural way of living which could be now known in American Southwest. The poems by Shahid Ali in his…

Cohen Final Paper As a second-generation Korean-American, I have lived most of my life immersed in two different cultures. Both of my parents and my family are first-generation Koreans yet I was born in America. Through balancing my dual identity, as being both Korean and American, I am able to blend the two cultures together, through the incorporation of aspects of both cultures, in order to gain a sense of a true authentic self. Although my identity as a Korean-American has been questioned…

Currently in schools across Canada students are mainly studying literature from American and British based cultures. So far, through out my 3 years of high school english courses, a majority of a course was spent reading and studying Shakespeare. These pieces of literature were written over 400 hundred years ago and take places in settings and cultures that todays students don't connect with. While I do agree that many of Shakespeare's work had messages and situations that transcend, many of…

cultural imperialism involves the universalization of the dominant group’s experience and culture, and its established as the norm”(59). This means that a person is judged by his/her roots in other different perspective of their self. Also in Young’s article…

over this past year. I have gained a new perspective about the Hispanic culture and the language. I learned a lot through the assignments and some of the assessments. The DT challenges and the Culture, Connect and Compare assessment are just a few of how I have gained that new perspective. My favorite thing we did to learn about culture is the Culture, Connect, and Compare assessments because there was a separate part for culture. On the DT challenges translating helped understand the language.…

Several years ago, as an undergraduate double major student in English education and Literature in English, I wondered why women writings seem to be an overlooked subject. Out of curiosity, a long term research into women’s experience, culture, and society explored through the lens of postcolonial, feminist, social and cultural theories was born. Through this research I have learned that oppressive cultural aspect of gender relationships, especially between women is something that is being…

multicultralism, and its profound impacts helping to validate his previous quote. Throughout his paper Theodore highlights both how imigreation has inriched britians culture as well as the obvious issues with intaragting mutipal cultures into one sociaty. Theodores main arguement being that you cannot expect an already deeply devote culture set in their ways to be able to coincide with a sociaty having different cultural beliefs without substantial repercussions. Furthermore, Theodore claims…