comparing and contrasting the legacies of cultural syncretism in Africa and the Americas with the resistance to cultural change Westerners encountered in China and India. The group had to answer what cultural factors caused the differences in outcomes. They had to answer what legacies have the differences in types of encounters and degrees of cultural change left today. They had to answer if syncretism had not occurred in the Americas‚ how might modern culture be different. They had to answer if
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expresses how happy she was to be brought to America and be placed in the family she was. Phillis also shows that she was happy to have learned Christianity and that she found God. Those are only a few similarities I noticed‚ but I’m sure there are plenty more. On Being Brought from Africa to America and An Hymn to the Evening have differences that are shown in many places. Such as in the first poem she is describing how happy she was to be brought to America and to be a Christian. When in the second
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Milena week 8 Where Is the Voice Coming From? – Rudy Wiebe Themes: - Relationship with the past; - dying of the nation – loss of community - the problem of history – objective‚ impartial? - Fact/fiction - The first Nation’s/the white - The journalist - Almighty voice – visionary This is a short story by Rudy Wiebe in which we have as the main theme the relationship btw the FNP‚ or the indigenous
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heritage makes him able to identify the post colonial situation more effectively and successfully. He was awarded for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. In the poem A Far Cry from Africa the poet ironically describes how he rejects the British culture and the colonial ideology. The poem A Far Cry from Africa belongs to post colonial poetry. Mainly the poem discusses the events of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the early 1950s. It was a bloody battle during the 1950 between the European
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Instead of our average class on September 12th‚ we got to interview immigrants from different places around the world. Two of these people were from Brazil‚ one was from Mexico‚ and the other was all the way from China. All of them were very polite‚ and I could understand them quite well to my surprise. I figured since they were immigrants they would have trouble speaking English. However‚ I was wrong‚ and one of the ladies I interviewed has a degree in Bio Linguistics. During the meeting‚ I learned
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New York Times January 17th‚ 1915 The Jewish Are Coming To America!!! Well folks‚ we all saw it coming. Jews are coming to America in large groups everyday! Because of the poverty in Eastern Europe‚ many families are traveling to America looking for a better future. They are settling in the poorer neighborhoods of New York‚ Philly‚ Baltimore‚ Boston‚ and Chicago. Many families are crowded together sharing
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Background Story In the case study provided by Professor Gnuse‚ "Moto: Coming to America" is about two unique cultures endeavoring to take part in an important partnership. Moto‚ the project director of KKD (a Japanese car part provider)‚ is a fruitful man from Japan who is coming to America with hopes of gaining knowledge about which U.S. contracting organization will be most reasonable for KKD. Moto came to America knowing English however still had the characteristics of a Japanese representative
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Cry from Africa By Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was a black poet writing from within both the English tradition and the history of his people. The speaker is conflicted‚ on the one hand he loves his native homeland in Kenya and he does not want to see his people being slaughtered and treated the way they are now. He also loves his English home‚ but if he stays in Britain‚ He feels that he is letting down his people by not going back to his native homeland to help with defending Kenya from the
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Migrants Arriving in the "Land of Promise‚" 1901 Immigrants journeying to America by boat take in fresh air above deck. The vast majority of immigrants had to travel in the steerage class—dark‚ cramped below-deck quarters. The shipping companies that sold passengers steerage listed them as cargo on ship manifests. Many steerage passengers tried to escape the stifling conditions below deck by staying above deck Images http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ImagesDetailsPage/ImagesDetailsWindow?tota
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During (c)1750-1914 both Africa and Latin America Europeans invaded but in Africa they had a mix of peaceful Europeans as well as non-peaceful Europeans and In Latin America they had only non-peaceful Europeans. In Latin America they were constantly fighting with the Europeans for their independence‚ while in Africa they both fought and helped the Europeans. also in both Africa and Latin America some used to hate abolitionists then decided it better to free slaves. In Africa they supplied napoleon
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