Northeast Caucasian languages

1. What is the demography of the language? The Chechen language, or Tsjetsjeens, is a branch of Vainakh of the Northeast Caucasian language family (Nakh-Daghestanian) and has an approximate number of 1.2 – 1.5 million speakers. According to Thompson (2013), the language can be found in the Republic of Chechnya (Russia), Dagestan, Georgia, and can also be found in Central Asian countries like Turkey and Jordan as a result of the Chechen diaspora. 2. What historical events led to the physical threats that the language faces? Many events that lead to majority of the physical threats that the language faced were from Russia. In the 18th century, Russia put forth effort to conquer many indigenous people and their land areas. When it came to the Chechens, much of the Chechen’s resistance to the Russians was led by charismatic Muslim leaders. Conversion to Islam resulted in participation in this resistance movement and solidified Chechen national consciousness of their language and culture through the religion. However during Soviet occupation in the early 20th century, approximately half of…

Jackson, Mississippi was full of injustices in the 1960s. Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young, white, and inspiring writer that wants to write a book exposing the maltreatment of the help by using their experiences. She receives assistance from Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson along with a few others to generate enough stories for the book. The Help was written by Kathryn Stockett and published in 2008. It was set in Jackson, Mississippi during the early civil rights movement. Slavery was…

Different but the Same Racism is present in every continent, country, state, province, city, town, and village in the world. It is a part of everyday life, including actions and opinions. There is racism toward every single race, including: Caucasians, Mexicans, African Americans, and Middle Easterns. The world we all live in is filled with stereotypes, discrimination, racism, and hate. Racism is one of the many hate motivated things that is all over the world, especially in the United States…

Furthermore, my second year placement was at Jane and Finch Ontario Early Year Centre (OEYC). Before starting my placement, I was worried about the community that my centre was located. I searched, “Jane Finch Mall” in the Google and I found few articles about shooting and murders. I was very hesitant to go there for the first time. However, when I actually got there and met the people at Jane-Finch OEYC, I found out it was a very pleasant place to be at. In fact, these people were one of the…

daily basis form her parents. Pecola did not know what love was because she had no one to learn it from. Pecola is looking for someone to love her, and she thinks if she has blue eyes people would see her as beautiful, and choose to love her. One day Pecola is home washing dishes and this reminds her father of his wife. This is when Pecola’s father decides to rape her. Her mother does not believe the story Pecola tells her. As punishment for what her mother believes is a lie she decides to…

beliefs that can unconsciously shapes people’s assumptions about how competent women are in the situation are compared to men,” (Ridgeway 2001). My opinions and ideas are denounced on the fact I am stupid or am not educated enough on the topic. That my little brain does not have the capacity to have rational or capable thought. Sociologists have addressed gender inequalities, “sociological research tends to ignore biological differences and focus solely on social and economic factors,”…

Peggy McIntosh describes different advantages based solely on the color of her skin and this is exactly what white privilege revers to. However, a large amount of Caucasian people, including myself, are oblivious of the privilege, but have no problem taking full advantage of the perks. For example, if I scroll down my Facebook Newsfeed I have friends of all different races and two distinct messages being conveyed. Half of the people are saying “black lives matter, we need to be equal,” and the…

Values are defined by Johnson as “general guidelines for how to weigh one alternative against another”(Johnson 6). In this way, values allow for a group to have a set of points or guidelines to follow in terms of behavior and action. Many values correlate to guiding principals that can be extremely important for a culture to use as a guide. Some of the values that my family finds most important are honesty, trustworthiness, and teamwork. These values help us to set up expectations and…

In her essay “Feel Good Reel Food: A Taste of the Cultural Kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking?”, Debnita Chakravarti claims that “food is employed as an eloquent indicator for attitudes and constituents of characters, a perfect conveyor of subtexts that often lie too deep for the spoken word” (18). The novel Digging to America by Anne Tyler models this concept by using food to help construct the identities and behaviours of its characters, revealing the complex tensions that exist in…

is on the outside to what they can only see. Since 1896, segregation has been one of the world’s biggest issues between culture identities. Two culture identities such as white and African American people have been impacted heavily upon each other in many ways, due to the history and communication that caused enormous amount of unnecessary tension between the two groups. The culture identity of white, Caucasian person could be made up of many different parts, but the general idea of the culture…