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their superstitions and folkways and, when they were unhurried (which was quite often), they looked around and saw that, thought they felt unchanged, they were in fact changed” (42). Yap’s tendency to portray a spatial liminality was in fact a self-reflexive attention to the politics of space. Arguably, it can be said that The Story of a Mask focused on the lives of newly settled immigrants, while Wong Loo’s narrative in A Silly Little Story was that of a citizen having already established…

Poverty in the African American community has always been a problematic. Most African American woman that live in poverty are single mothers. The family resources correlates to the child cognitive and behavioral development in early school years. For instance the mother’s employment, education attainment, depression symptoms and the environment the family lives in. The children that are being raised in poverty are at a disadvantage because they don’t have the proper support from their family.…

which challenges typical classifications of a literature genre, since the text doesn’t involve a linear-chronological plot (Weiser). Besides, Alvarez enables the hidden archivist narrator to take the responsibility of reconstructing by “the self-reflexive process”. Here, a strong connection can be made between Weiser’s thought and that of Steve Criniti in his essay “Collecting Butterflies: Julia Alvarez's Revision of North American Collective Memory”, in which Crinti asserts that Alvarez…

Analysis of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” “The Trial” by Franz Kafka is a novel of total meaningless living, wandering through court labyrinths and meaningless death. It was written in 1912 and published posthumously in 1925 by his friend Max Brod. Its manuscript was left unfinished and the author left his covenant to his friend to destroy it after his death, therefore, the novel was not intended for printing. However, despite the author's last wish, his friend decided not to obey him and not…

materialized ticket being purchased and the rides, but envision the behavioural context in the relation the child had with the amusement park. The amusement park brought joy to the child in both physical and mental form. The idea of the material took on a “reflexive transformation” (Wilford, 2008, p. 412), establishing a dialect in which the material became a mental object (Wilford, 2008, p. 415). Thus the new establishment of the material encompassed itself into the individual changing the…

The world when the modern poetry was born was deeply touched by the discoveries of that time, be it Einstein’s theory, or Freud, or the development of a new art – photography. Everything come together and left its mark on modern literature, and implicit, on poetry. On this period, a great influence over the poetry of the world had the American poets. According to Cary Nelson, the modern American poetry is “unexcelled in its richness, inventiveness, and diversity”, and those characteristic are…

There are two types of learning—explicit and implicit learning. Explicit learning is the “what and “where” (semantics & episodic) and implicit learning is the “how” and “wow” (procedural & reflexive). Some examples of explicit learning are: reading, lecture, work sheets, listening, Q & A, discussions, and facts. Some examples of implicit learning are: movement, role-playing, simulations, games, model creations, life experiences, and field…

1. The two contemporary perspectives I chose for this assignment are Symbolic Interactionism and Functionalism. 2. I plan to dissect the two perspectives and apply them to the modern world with a focus on sexism. In this paper, I will discuss the silent battle between the two genders in modern day. 3. Symbolic interactionism is easy to understand when we compare it to a theatre play. In class, we discussed how “actors” create social norms and abide by them and the “actors” who don’t abide by…

Introduction: Second-generation Irish migrants in post-WWII England took up a variety of noteworthy hybrid-identities. This particular study of displacement is significant in the context of WWII, which produced twenty-seven million displaced persons and furthermore, is relevant in a present day context because of the continually increasing number of refugees worldwide. This essay compares the way that the two popular music bands made up of second-generation Irish migrants, The Pogues and The…

Picture a sponge. A common household item that is very simple yet useful. Now compare that sponge to the human brain. It’s porousness allows outside substances to seep in and be collected. The sponge grows and holds more than expected of it. Much like the sponge, our brain can absorb and retain valuable resources. Without the brain, humans would not be able to function. The brain, a highly complex part of the human anatomy, is in charge of one’s intelligence, the senses, producer of all body…