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political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. Post-colonial literature should be clearly separated from colonial literature. Colonial writing is a production of the authors who belong to the colonizing power. The label ‘post colonial’ asks for a shift in focus, away from British literature to world literatures in English. Once it would have seemed impossible to distinguish Britain and British attitudes from great writing in English, post-colonial…

might not even have problems with people being racist to people who aren’t the same…

serious and on-going thing. Throughout my childhood, my peers always assumed that I was good at mathematics and terrible at English. Granted, it is true that English is not my first language so I had a fairly late start and heavy Vietnamese accent compared to the other students. Along with the fact that my mother, who cared about my education a lot and knew little about English, pushed me very hard in mathematics since that was all she knew. So math was beaten into me at a very young age to the…

Yorkers know, many of the residents in Washington Heights are immigrants (i.e. first, second, or third generation immigrants) from the Dominican Republic. Thus, the vast majority of my students are from the Dominican Republic, and they can speak both English and Spanish. Each day, I learn something new about the Dominican culture, and how this culture is similar and different from the other Caribbean islands like the one I come from, Jamaica. However, as I am becoming more diverse with my…

poem, “My Blue Piano”, which is the title poem of her last collection of poems. “My Blue Piano” demonstrates many modernist characteristics and helps to understand the difficult life of Else Lasker-Schuler. Also, comparing the original poem to the English translation provides details essential to better understanding the poem. Lasker-Schuler was indeed an artist that wanted to break away from the norms of society in both her…

Sometimes power and privilege of a particular class of people in the organization are not easily recognizable They remain in a subtle form and are not expressed in clear terms. When the privilege is with ourselves, we may not feel anything but while it is with the others, We feel infuriated. For example, as a White American person if I go to a restaurant with one of by African American friend, it is most likely that the waiter, at the end of the meal being taken, furnishes the bill to me and not…

Jan Matzeliger felt anything but welcome in Philadelphia in 1873. As well as being a foreigner, Jan was half African American, which meant that most doors were closed to him. Although the Civil War had been over for nearly ten years, inequality for African Americans still persisted in its aftermath. Jan Ernst Matzeliger, inventor of the shoe lasting machine, made shoes more affordable for everyone. Connecting the top of the shoe to the sole of the shoe, a process called shoe lasting. However,…

Before the English came to America, the Portuguese and Spanish had established slave trading with Africa. Whenever settlers came to America, the practice was in effect. The American’s got involved in the trade and raced-base slavery became very prominent. Our book says that some of the first blacks that came to America were indentured servants. They worked their time and became “free blacks.” They cost less than slaves, but after their time was completed they were…

saying them in Spanish because it sounds and them give the meaning in English because it sounds pretty, then, I will give the meaning in English. “Dios aprieta pero no ahoga.” Meaning God squeezes but does not choke. “A buen entendedor, pocas palabras” meaning Intelligent people understand with fewer word.” “Dime con quien anda y te dire quien eres.” Meaning the company you keep says a lot about you. This saying is like the English phrase “Birds of a feather flock…

populous county in Florida, Orange County has a Vietnamese population of 10,709; reported as the 24th largest county in the United States (2010 U.S. Census; EDR 2014). Roughly 67.8% of Vietnamese are foreign-born and 87.5% speak a language other than English at home (EDR 2014).…