The Descent

Lisa Bullock Humanities 314 Dr. Pittman 23 November 2014 Exhibiting Mestizaje In the words of Karen Mary Davalos, “Diaspora communities experience an ‘ongoing history of dis-placement, suffering, adaptation, or resistance’ that requires them to create alternative sources for establishing culture, memory, and solidarity” (Exhibiting Mestizaje, 23). In America people have to fight for their citizenship in order to be accepted by society. People of Latin cultures have it hard because they are not…

Lineage Melissa was born to Diane and Ray Martos, in San Diego California. Melissa’s parents were first generation American citizens who moved to the United States from Guam during high school. Both of Melissa’s parents are Chamorro, of Pacific Island descent. Melissa grew up and spent all of her adolescence in San Diego surrounded by her mother and father’s extended family. Heritages, Traditions & Customs Some of the main cultural heritages Melissa received from her family were to remember…

3). This extended metaphor helps the reader relate to the descent of the traveller. Tranströmer proceeds by describing the descent using diction such as “dazzling” (p. 3) and “flare” (p. 3). The extended metaphor combined with this vivid imagery helps to immerse the reader. In order to emphasis this imagery, Tranströmer also incorporates enjambment into the first stanza. The enjambment reflects the traveller’s supposedly smooth descent towards “a tropical flood” (p. 3) of “greenery” (p. 3). In…

There, I will visit the Black Cultural Archives Institution and explore the histories of members of African and Caribbean descent in Britain. The collections available will allow me to gain a deeper understanding on what it meant to be Black in Great Britain. There, I will also request a tour and if given the opportunity, interview the tour guide with the hopes of obtaining…

culture, specifically people of Arabic descent. When I think about the Arabic group of people the stereotypes I think of are muslim culture and they all wear Hijabs; or they all are terrorist or villains. I think that typically Americans think all arabs practice muslim culture when most of them actually practice christianity.…

In the book farewell to manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family faced adversity after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. All japanese descent or even japanese americans was cast from their homes and put into this camp (Concentration) called Manzanar. Jeanne alongside her father mother and other siblings evacuated the west coast home after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Jeanne father was sent to war but not to the battlefield he read to his companions and almost lost his leg. Meanwhile in the camp Jeanne…

watched, Joseph Backholm goes up to college students and asks them if they have a problem with him being a woman. The students shown have no problem with him being a woman, but when Joseph asks them if he could be a 7-year-old child or from a Chinese descent the students are unsure how to answer. People have a hard time telling someone they are wrong because they do not want to receive the backlash or maybe be considered “politically incorrect”. It would almost be like a teacher accepting the…

Analyzing the Ending. One critic has stated that Goldings ends Lord of the Flies on a positive note, since the naval officer and his cruiser arrive in tie to save at least some of the boys from their descent into savagery. Explain why you agree or disagree that the ending is…

In 1954, seventeen states and Washington D.C. still had schools that were racially segregated; another four states allowed segregation on the grounds that it was up to the local school districts to decide (Benjamin Jr. & Crouse, 2004). The last major attempt to desegregate schools took place in 1896; however, this attempt was unsuccessful (Bergner, 2009). This decision did not stop people from fighting for equality. The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) began…

The protein Alpha-Synuclein is found in the healthy part of the brain. Scientists also say that Alpha-Synuclein plays a big role with getting Parkinson’s disease. Alpha -Synuclein has a symbol of SNCA gene, which provides instructions to make the small protein. The SNCA gene belongs to a family of genes called PARK (Parkinson disease) (Does the SNCA gene share characteristics with other genes ?). A gene is a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to…