In Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao we get a greater glimpse into the politics of phenotypes and authenticity in Dominican culture. More specifically in its relationship to blackness. In Irene Lopez, a Puerto Rican clinical psychologist’s essay, Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations, she posits that, “Puerto Ricans who consider being “Indian” more beautiful, or more authentic, than being Black and, thus, often prefer to…
How culture and ethnicity may affect a person's physical and psychological health? Nurses often work with diverse populations with complexity in health and psychosocial problems, assisting them to promote wellness, whether regarding their mental or physical states, their environments, or their social habits, lifestyles, and choices. Nurses need to examine ways their cultural background may influence nursing care when working with patients from different cultural and ethnic groups. The article of…
An examination of how best to improve reading comprehension in Year 3 students identified as being below standard national benchmarks in NAPLAN results by means of a specific pedagogical framework, using language touted as best practice in classroom education reveals, that such language is a persuasive tool that can empower or silence a teacher as a researcher. How best to teach reading comprehension has been debated without resolution for generations. The rise and fall in popularity of…
Metrixing the Matrix: A Linguistic Analysis of Intertextuality on the Basis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours Gašper Ilc To all those Mmes Richard Dalloway who have not even been Clarissas 1. Introduction Intertextuality has played a central and controversial role in the development of the postmodernist thought ever since the publication of Kristeva’s seminal works on literary theory. Strongly influenced by structuralist semiotics, Kristeva (1980) extends…