Foreigner

to trace out the impact of speech acts in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner’. The study of discourse analysis of The Foreigner in the light of speech act theory opens more dimensions for readers. Though this novel is a brilliant example of human psychology and its dilemma, the…

After immediately stepping into office, newly elected President Trump announced his plans for an immigration ban. Just like most actions, there is a reaction. The immigration ban could potentially hurt the United States and globalization. The new ban entailed blocking the entry of travelers into the United States from six predominately Muslim countries, known as Yemen, Iran, Libya, Syria, Sudan, and Somalia. What many fail to realize, is the impact that barring these individuals from entering…

Being foreigner and with a little different approach to the 1st Amendment. In my country (France) even if we don't have the 1st Amm stated in out Constitution, we have almost equal rights of freedom of the press and speech, including online rights. Almost unfiltered rights of online content, however with strict interdiction for the child pornography. In the US, what I 've just found there is a protection for the “artistic expression,” by the First Amendment, which also include internet…

families, concerned neighbors and fellow students, and even informative books to extend a cultural helping hand so we all have a win-win situation. An award-winning worldwide book/ebook that reaches out to help anyone coming to the US is "What Foreigners Need To Know About America From A To Z: How to Understand Crazy American Culture, People, Government, Business, Language and…

Mahele was to halt the foreigners from procuring control over Hawaii. Nevertheless, the foreigners ended up with the preponderance of the land (Cachola). The Mahele benefitted the foreigners because foreigners modified the land system into the one they preferred, abandoning the indigenous system of Hawaii, and foreigners earned an abundant amount of land for new companies (Menton and Tamura 116). A way in which the Mahele was favorable to the foreigners was because the foreigners were enabled…

Kamehameha III. The foreigners came to Hawaii to gain land and to take over Hawaii. Land was very important to the foreigners because the land they got was used to start companies, sugar plantations, and to take over Hawaii. The foreigners also underwent a rule that states that land equalled to power (Potter, Kasdon, and Rayson). The Great Mahele benefited the foreigners because they easily got land and they obtained resources without using much money. One reason why the foreigners benefited…

When Pericles points out that Athens constantly opens its doors to immigrants and foreigners when it comes to “any opportunity of learning or observing,” he purposefully avoids mentioning the point that immigrants and foreigners were not granted citizenship status in his speech. To explain, within Athens, not all people qualified for citizenship, which entailed the rights and responsibilities of participating in government and becoming an active member of Athenian community. In Athenian society,…

could be purchased by the foreigners who lived in Hawaii, and land worked on by the commoners or maka'ainana. The Mahele occurred because the chiefs were concerned that they would lose everything without a plan against the foreigners because they were powerful and had a lot of money that would be more effective than the rank of the chiefs. The Mahele also occurred because the natives owned land that the foreigners were very interested in, which meant that the foreigners were going to do…

Sugar was beginning to take up root in Hawaii. It would inevitably change the face and fate of the Sandwich Isles, causing foreigners to invest in the industry exponentially. But it is not sugar that is as essential in holding Hawaii for now. It would be land. Land, in foreign eyes, was a pivotal element of maintaining influence there, and they needed more of it. More land to cultivate crops, more land to seemingly make the native populus more productive, more; because it was a right (Cachola).…

refugee who is welcomed into the country. That is, a certain category of (im)migrant is positioned to give and receive the necessary form of mutual recognition whilst remaining readily visible as a foreigner. Indeed the white Australian onto-pathology and consequent dependence on a perpetual-foreigner-with - in provide the key to understanding how the institutions of dominant white Australia ambiguously position certain migrant and ethnic groups who fall within the control of the white…