Reflection of America’s Cultures America is a country with exceptional cultural diversity. Ji-Yeon Yuh’s article contains the perspective that America is made of not one‚ not two‚ but many cultures. Her article suggests that white Americans were taught to believe that they are superior to the black or Asian Americans. I agree with Yuh‚ who believes that racial and ethnical disparity in America can be eliminated by educating our children about other cultures. As one of the greatest Asian American
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Chinese vs. Japanese Culture Zedric Perona History 113 Professor Tuyay November 1‚ 2014 China‚ the world’s longest continuous civilization‚ with some historians marking 6000 B.C. as the dawn of Chinese civilization. Japan‚ a long history with the first humans arriving around 35‚000 B.C. Their histories have crossed paths during several periods of time since both civilizations have existed for centuries; however‚ their histories have also caused them to diverge into two very distinct modern
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Gary Nash author of Red‚ White‚ and Black purpose to their readers is describing the early colonists‚ but also the relationships toward Europeans‚ the Indians‚ and the Africans. Nash successfully analyzes the impact of the colliding three cultures and interprets them to give an overall theme about the relationships between those who made America what it is today. He has shown another point of view to his reader that we grew up and was raise in a white people land; learning only the White people point
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Comparison of the two speeches ” I have a dream” and ”Yes we can”. The two speeches by Martin Luther King and Barrack Obama are similar in the way that they both talks about human rights‚ and they both have a dream that people in America can be free and equal treated. Both of them managed people who were important for them in the speech‚ like their family. Both of them want to see a change in the American society. They have a proverb they use. The two speeches are different in the way that
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Close Reading of a Poem Maria Clinton ENG 125 May 31‚ 2011 Tiffany Griffin-Minor Close Reading of a Poem ON THE AMTRAK FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK CITY: BY SHERMAN ALEXIE On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City is an emotionally provocative poem by the Native American Indian writer‚ Sherman Alexie. It describes a train journey from Boston to New York City in which an elderly white woman excitedly points out historical sites to her fellow passenger‚ a younger Native American Indian. The poem
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Acculturation v. Tradition in Chinese-American Families Abstract This paper will face the numerous generations of Chinese-American families in order to distinguish whether traditional values‚ rather than acculturation of the family to American culture‚ benefit the individual’s emotional health‚ self esteem‚ and overall success. It will study the insight of paternal and maternal parents‚ along with children in daughter and son point of view. Hopefully‚ this paper will be able to discuss and determine
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While the United States was trying to negotiate terms of peace with Japan‚ no one knew or had an idea that the Japanese had made a decision to make war on the United States and Britain. This resulted in the bombing of Pearl Harbor since this was the only barrier to a Japanese victory. At around eight in the morning‚ on December 7th 1941‚ the Japanese launched a massive attack on the United States Naval Base‚ Pearl Harbour. This massive bombing attack was a key factor contributing to the internment
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AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE- 2 For my paper I have selected six Australian poems and shown the different aspects of the Australian way of life. ‘THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS’ By Troy Hopkins: The First Australians is a poem expressing Troy Hopkins ’ hatred towards white settlers because of how they claimed Australia and labeled the natives ’Aboriginal ’. He called it an invasion‚ not a settlement and he says that the natives were the first ones there so they shouldn ’t call them "aboriginal"
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Every country in the world probably has had a period in it’s history that it wishes they could just erase. They want it to disappear from the history books‚ the timeline‚ and people’s minds. Unfortunately that’s not how history works. No matter how despicable or problematic something was it was meant to happen. Germany has WWII and Hitler’s reign of terror. Japan their attack on Pearl Harbor. North and South Korea the Korean war that led to their split into two countries. The United States‚ well
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On the Amtrak from Boston To New York City The situation of the poem is described in the title "On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City‚" was about a white woman and a person with a Native American background who were on a train together. What was being taken place when the speaker is meditating about the "white" woman they were having a conversations with other passengers‚ including an older white woman about the brief history of the city as they pass landmarks of the Native American Culture
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