Mardi Gras

Questioning Identity: Examining the Historiography of South Asian Immigrants The historiography on South Asian immigration to the United States needs to be further developed because it is extremely under-developed. While the story of their immigration to America does not follow the popular narrative of other American-bound immigrants, in which most came to straight to the United States and settled, there is no excuse for their historiography and all its unique facets remaining unexplored. The…

Eudora Welty, author of famous novel The Optimist’s Daughter, is know for her exquisite literary works. Welty is a Mississippi native, having attended Jackson High School where she first engaged with her literary strengths. The Optimist’s Daughter is renown novel, arguably Welty’s best work— winning a Pulitzer Prize. The J.D William’s library at the University of Mississippi obtains several copies of the novel in English, French, Chinese, and Tybaniese which provides evidence of the popularity…

Home is an intimate place in which one’s domestic affections are centered. That is not the case for most of my life. Throughout my life, I have considered various locations as home. I was born in a small city in southeastern China, and lived in my grandparents’ house until I was eight. That was when I immigrated to the United States with my Dad. Although it was a fascinating experience, it was also my first time leaving my home country and integrating into a new culture. It was also the first…

American culture and the popular norm view New Orleans as a wild, uncultured, vivacious, and eccentric; a city without rules, and where you can party and drink till the sun rises. A city where the lines are blurred, and you can find people and characters like no other. In many respects, media and popular culture portray New Orleans accurately, capturing some unique events and people on film or bringing the culture to life in movies. “The Princess and the Frog” showed a lot of the bayou, which…

soccer players, but they are also known for baseball and American football. Honduras was in the first Olympics that was held in Latin America in 1968. There are many holidays and celebrations in Honduras where people have parades and eat food, like mardi gras here in the United States. There is one holiday called Lluve de Peces which translates to "rain of fish" where fish actually rains from the sky. There are many ways to travel in Honduras like to walk, bus, car, canoe, boat or ferry.…

Consequently, the experiences of those who are more marginalized within the marginalized group are largely unnoticed, understudied, and detrimental to the mental health of those within this extra layer of oppression. Transgender women of color not only have to experience the discriminatory effects of their sexual minority identity but they also have their racial minority identity, both of which may be visible and which may indicate their existence in public spaces. Balsam, Molina, Beadnell,…

I had a very interesting time creating the doing history timeline. The hardest part of this assignment was developing ideas to research. I decided to take up the challenge of researching black women in education. This topic is very important to me because I am a young black women and education has always been important to me. I wanted to learn about the people who have made it possible for me to achieve all my dreams. Also, I have always felt like history books have been white-washed and/or male…

My grandmother, Joan Favors, was born Joan Frietas, in Oakland, California on August 16, 1929. Her father worked in the lumber industry, and her mother stayed at home and took care of the family. My great-grandmother was Italian, and her father had come on a ship from Italy to avoid being put into the army. She married my great-grandpa who’s father came to American on a whaling ship from the Portuguese islands, the Azores. My great-grandmother decided that she liked my great-grandfather because…

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Basic Information of the Company A.1 Name of the Company Tanduay Distillers, Inc. (TDI) was incorporated in the Philippines as Twin Ace Holdings, Inc. (Twin Ace) on May 10, 1988. The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the change in the corporate name of Twin Ace to Tanduay Distillers Inc. (TDI) A.2 Nature of the Business: Tanduay Distillers Inc. is primarily engaged in, operates, conducts and maintains the business of manufacturing,…

The Great Gatsby is one of those films that you must really pay attention to understand the moral and concept of the story and movie plot line. This is by far one of my favorite movies that I have watched. I am pretty sure everyone wishes they could live like Jay Gatsby. The 1974 version of The Great Gatsby starring Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan and other stars from that era of movies really made this movie what it is and will always be in many movie lovers eyes.…