Humanities

Final essay (connect intro to question)Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 In the Skin of a Lion is a historic fiction where Patrick Lewis recounts his migrant struggle during 1938 Canada, a period of significant class conflict between migrants and locals, finding solace as a “prism refracting” the stories of the marginalised migrants. His fragmented stories reflect mid-20th century postmodernist influence adopting a critical pose against the capitalist historical representation of Toronto, Canada that…

Throughout my life, I have always been interested in different cultures from my own. I grew up in two worlds—my Colombian life at home and my American life once I stepped outside my house. I always compared the two cultures which I was part of and from those similarities and differences grew my interest in the traditions in the different parts of the world. As I grew older I noticed that one of the countries in south America had one major difference when comparing its culture—Brazil. This…

Often children of immigrants are raised in between two worlds. Partially immersed in the culture of their parents through traditions, food, and etiquette at home they learn how to be a part of one culture. Still, whenever the children are to leave home, they are expected to adapt to the culture of the society that they live in. The food, customs, and standards change between the two cultures and the child is left to feel the resounding differences. The culture in which their parents were raised…

1. What area of journalism or communication studies do you find particularly interesting and think you would enjoy learning more about? (simple statement) The area of communications that I find particularly interesting is mass media, and it’s role in developing opinions on disenfranchised groups of people and their struggles, especially the first nations. 2. Why do you find this topic interesting and important? (500 words) There are many interesting aspects of this, like what kinds of…

Dancing has always been a passion of mine ever since I was little. Whether I was waking up early in the morning to catch a Backstreet Boys’ music video and copy their choreography to showing my family the moves I had learned from those music videos, dancing had always been something that I loved. Dance eventually carried over into my teenage hood and I found myself doing the same thing again. I watched Korean Pop music videos and saw the different dances, only now I wasn’t just copying them but…

Reverse Anthropology is an ethnography that examines the worlds of the Yonggom. Portraying their way of exchange, their initiation rituals and sorcery. As well as focusing on two political struggles that are going on Papua New Guinea. The first problem relates to the Ok Tedi mine on how the mining has affected the environment on where the Yonggom live. Secondly, he discusses the movement of Yonggom from West Papua into Papua New Guinea. Yonggom, also called Muyu, are people that lived in…

My Cultural Halves Have you ever wondered how to explain something, and not be able to muster up the words? Kinda like when someone asks you at the age of fifteen what do you want to do with the rest of your life. Please go away and let me live my life. What persists of my life is my culture, from my parents and my peers. The culture I have from my parents is the types of different food we eat that aren't easy fix-ups. The other part of my culture is the type of clothing I wear that would…

Social criticism is taking over the literature world with its honesty and deep meanings. Society can only expect the true meaning of life from authors. Social criticism is a way of criticism that locates all the malicious and flawed issues in society. This method is used to help the population realize what is wrong in society and how they can possibly deal with it. “Primal Screen” by Ellen Goodman addresses the problems with technology in families including marriage difficulties, laziness, and…

Music reflects culture. It is a central means by which a group asserts its relationship to past generation, distinguishes insiders from outsiders, and addresses the future. Music have been always part of our live, our culture, ourselves. Music have become the symphony and rhythms that motivate us to continue when we have fallen or encountered difficulties. When we are sad, cool, hungry, depressive or even happy, we humans just think of one thing, hear that song, that special song that would make…

Embodied in literature is a myriad of situations and emotions, that illustrate society in contrasting ways, often corresponding to the movements transpiring and genres being popularized . Literature, including those that strive to create the illusion of perpetual happiness, while concealing society’s imperfections in comparison to those demonstrating the grievances of living in a faulted society serve to highlight these conflicting beliefs. Realism is one such literary movement that endeavors to…