From its humble beginnings in 1776‚ the United States has been a bright beacon of equality‚ whose light has attracted millions of immigrants from all parts of the world. Yet‚ this heavily sought equality is still a fleeting ideal‚ an ideal not enjoyed by a portion of our population. These people‚ whose numbers have been displaced‚ oppressed‚ and dominated‚ represent the margins of our society. Though part of American’s collective whole‚ they live and work outside society’s center‚ and take up space
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In the essay How to Tame a Wild Tongue from Borderlands/La Frontera‚ Gloria Anzaldua paints a moving portrait of the search for identity in a world that refuses to allow one. The physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico helps create‚ but is also secondary to‚ the psychological "fence" that a person is put on when they are denied a culture and a place in society. Anzaldua talks about the dilemma she faced about her own language and how she represents herself through her chosen language‚ the
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Throughout Michael Dibdin’s piece “The Last Sherlock Holmes Story”‚ the author frequently portrays the concept of borderlands to elucidate important themes and events in the story. The importance of this concept is crucial in defining what makes the story so complex and yet almost explicit at the same time. Essentially the concept of borderlands conveys the idea of dualism‚ metaphorically‚ symbolically‚ and intrinsically. Sherlock Holmes in himself is already a complex entity which symbolically
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Breaking Down Constructs: The Path from Resistance to Reconciliation What is the purpose of a border? Is it more than a line that separates two things? In an interview‚ American-Canadian author Thomas King explains how “borders are these very artificial and subjective barriers that we throw up around our lives in all sort of ways. National borders are just indicative of the kinds of borders we build around ourselves” (qtd. In Andrews‚ 172). His short story Borders documents the journey of a Blackfoot
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Consciousness‚ begins with the description of her mixed culture‚ a mestiza‚ and the conflicts she faces in being torn between being Mexican and Native American. Anzaldua expresses her struggle of her torn heritages by describing herself as being caught between two cultures and their values. Instead of being able to love and respect both cultures‚ Anzaldua feels as if we people feel the need to take up one side of our heritage and end up hating the other part. She paints an image as standing on an opposite
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I see a lot of similarities between the language and concepts that Anzaldúa uses and those that our earlier thinkers‚ like James‚ Dewey‚ and Bergson use. She homes in on universally inclusive ideas like a “collective consciousness” (p. 20) and her belief that “each person’s actions affect the rest of the world” (p. 15). This has been a pretty controversial/contested idea in our class as well; many of us seem to be apprehensive when approaching that concept‚ as if doing so is imposing the belief that
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frontier in an uncertain‚ intermediate district‚ space‚ or condition is called a Borderland. Borderlands are the geographical space or zone around a territorial border. A borderland is both a place and a historic graphic methodology‚ although historians often combine the two uses. A borderland‚ in its loosest definition‚ is a place where two entities (usually nations or societies) border each other. As a methodology‚ borderlands studies question what happens when distinct societies rub against each other
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the stage for learning when teachers respond to students who speak borderland languages by allowing them to write‚ speak‚ and express themselves in their native tongue and by the teacher’s ability to know and understand their language. The teacher knowing and understanding a child’s borderland language will make them comfortable‚ and let them know that it’s okay to speak that borderland language. These children who speak borderland languages should not have to feel ashamed of their native tongue
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Transplantations & Borderlands I The Early Chesapeake A) The Founding of Jamestown 1) In 1607‚ three ships from the London Company reached the American coast and founded a town called Jamestown (i) However‚ the town was located horribly (geographically & Indian territory) (ii) They were extremely susceptible to malaria‚ lacked proper food & housing‚ and no women were sent with them 2) Jamestown was almost extinct until 1608‚ when John Smith came to lead the country out of its collapse B) Reorganization
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The Nuclear Borderlands Abstract Masco’s The Nuclear Borderlands offers an anthropological perspective on the psychosocial effects of the atomic bomb‚ the most influential techno-scientific project of the twentieth century. New forms of social consciousness‚ ideas of international order‚ mutant ecologies‚ and schemes of the psychosocial imaginary were created‚ transforming everyday life within a fresh articulation of the global and the local. Masco investigates the consequences of nuclear weapons
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