to see which factors, in particular, influence how a person feels towards interracial relationships and whether or not certain factors influence a person’s decision to enter an interracial relationship. Specifically, I felt that there were certain factors that would be important in a person’s willingness to engage in an interracial relationship. These factors consisted of parent/family input, age, race, gender, religion, political affiliation, personal background and education level, with some…
Dislocation can be of different kinds, physical, psychological, emotional and political. It can be estrangement, self- alienation and social ostracism, an exclusion from familiar environments of family, kinship and culture. It can come through political upheaval, mass migration or natural disaster. It can be individual or collective. But no dislocation is ever absolute, terminal or enduring in itself. In it there is always a kind of holding back, a sort of nostalgia, and the perception of…
“Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against” - John F. Kennedy May 17, 1961 ("Selected Presidential Quotes on Canada"). Canada and America are neighbors, allies, trading partners, and friends. Their histories are intertwined through wars, trade, and shared values. In Canadian and American literature, one finds similar characterization and similar opinions on patriarchy. In fact, Canadian and American…
This project will examine the dynamics of oppression and friendship within female relationships in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter (1981) and Scarlet Song (1986), Buchi Emecheta’s Joys of Motherhood (1979) and Kehinde(1994), also Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come(2008). African literary critics and past analyses of these works focus more on culture and patriarchy as the sole perpetrators of gender oppression. Also, critical African texts are silent on the benefits of friendship among women.…
collectivism, two distinct identity orientations. Individualism motivates an employee to pursue self-aggrandizing goals, while collectivism motivates the employee to behave according to prevailing social norms or with concern for interpersonal relationships (Brewer & Chen, 2007; Brickson, 2000). An “ideally-could-be” standard of…
replacing the morals of Vietnam with the host country’s morals (Deresky, 2014). Cultivating personal and business relationships and connections with government officials and business leaders is crucial for companies operating in Vietnam. Upholding of contracts, speed of the regulatory framework and respect for property rights are based on maintaining personal, business and government relationships (Deresky, 2014 and Gannon & Pillai, 2016). The country is facing a tug of war between old and…
Throughout The Hunger Games many different ideology’s can be examined. All ideologies are centered on the idea of power. As power is a very prominent aspect of The Hunger Games. Panem is the holder of power. But within Panem, who holds the power? Is it Snow or the willingness of the citizens to subject themselves to the capitol? Although each district holds a different relationship with the capitol each district is solely committed to the capitol and making the people of the capitol happy. Which…
mixture of identities including race, minorities, genders, religions, health, wealth, poverty, and even education. All of these factors essentially influence each of us into the becoming of who we are in our individual futures, and, continuously change our thought processes which contain the ideas we have today. In this enlightened era of, for example, lenient gender roles, the culture has vastly shifted. If we think back to when races and genders were predominantly separate…
working class in Paris in the 19th Century, it is necessary to understand how their lives were not simply shaped by larger influences such as the economic forces of capitalism or the regulating role of the state. Instead, it is important to unveil how the city itself spatialized and constructed social and gender difference for the working class, while they, in a mutually constitutive manner shaped modes of sociability in the city. Analysis of the works by Faure, Ferguson, Haine, and Ross, makes…
chapter, the theoretical frameworks guiding the research would be clearly stated and analyzed. Relevant literature will equally be reviewed bordering around the following sub-topics: non-verbal communication, the relationship between non-verbal communication and clinical diagnosis and the roles of non-verbal cues in doctor-patient communication. 2.1 Nonverbal Communication The concept of non-verbal communication is focused on the…