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Who is Jasmine? Bharati Mukherjee narrates Jasmine the main character in her novel, a female protagonist, as an outsider that strive to shape her identity to fit in mainstream of American society on her journey. Fortunately, Jasmine encounter confrontation that shifts her identity in different directions of her life. Instead of rejecting these names that are given to her by various individuals, she seeks to create a harmonious relationship with those identities. Thus, Mukerjee makes this novel…

practice that particular religion or do not practice religion at all. The Kountze ISD community includes a variety of religions including: Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims, Baha’is, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Sikhs, Taosits, Unitarian Universalists, Mormons, and Zoroastrians. Not only does the school’s sponsorship of one particular set of religious beliefs act to advance a religion, but it causes a chilling effect on the free speech of the students…

gang crime is higher because of family breakdown. If children are raised by a single parent and under stepparents, then they start feeling neglected and choose a wrong path which does affect their brain. “Wade Michael Page killed 6 and wounded 4 at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin” (Higgins, 2015).The reason for Page’s gun shooing was his mental illness due to family breakdown. His parents got separated when he was very young. His father married with another woman who did not gave him…

Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan highlights the futility of blaming each other for the unfortunate event. Also, the novel is one of the first and most effective works on partition. While writing the novel, the writer has quite objectively treated the event, without blaming a community or religious minority for it. He has tried to stay away from the blame. “Muslims said the Hindus had planned and started the killing. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame”. According to him, “The…

Lately, it seems that every time you turn on the television, there is an incidence of gun violence in the news. School shootings, domestic violences, and other forms of firearm brutality make up most of the content displayed in the media, calling for a possible increase in gun control in the United States. This controversial subject has become a common topic of debate all over the country: should civilian-use of violent firearms be limited or prohibited, or should the decision to possess these…

Argue for or against the normative claim that human rights are universal. The topic of whether human rights are universal, will be critically analysed and debated, in relation to understanding what it means to have rights, cultures and moral perspectives in a multicultural world today. Human rights are necessary and can be divided into political and moral rights, which can allow a more open view towards accepting differing systems and traditions. However, this raises a few concerns, as to…

Determinants of Stable and Peaceful Democracies: A Comparison of India and Pakistan Once part of the same dominion, India and Pakistan saw diverging political trajectories after partition in August 1947. Save for a period of emergency rule under Indira Gandhi between 1975-77, India is largely depicted as having successfully consolidated a stable and peaceful democracy. In contrast, Pakistan has alternated between military dictatorship and weak democracy characterised by violence. Comparing the…

(Gallman). This quote illustrates how people associate Muslims with radical Islamist terrorist groups. In addition, many American Citizens who practice religions involving head covers experienced discrimination as well(Sura). For example, civilians killed sikhs because of the turbans they wore on their heads. Balbir Singh, an innocent man, was…

Portes and Zhou provide evidence for this claim with an ethnographic study of Punjabi Sikhs at Valleyside high school from 1980 to 1982 by M.A. Gibson (28). While Portes and Zhou’s evidence is focused on specific ethnic groups, Waters’ evidence focuses on a current misconception of the public: language assimilation. Waters reasons that “some…

How does an immigrant assimilate? We live in a world with about seven billion people and over 190 countries and this makes it extremely easy for people to leave their native land and migrant somewhere else, in search of a better future. One main destination for these immigrants is the US because it is scene as the land of hope and dreams, but when these foreign people arrive they face scrutiny and are expected to assimilate to the American culture. In Portes and Zhou’s piece, “Should immigrants…