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    battles against what her family traditions ask of her‚ like cooking and learning how to become the idea Indian wife‚ and the opposition that Jess has to overcome in the form of her disapproving parents Jess: "anyone can cook Aloo Gobi‚ but who can bend a ball like Beckham?" Mrs Bhamra: "What family would want a daughter-in-law who can run around kicking football all day but can’t make round chapatis?" quotes show contrast between Jess and her mothers opinion Jules’ parents offer an interesting

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    Ram Manohar Lohia and his tackling of Caste issue This paper will study how and why caste became so crucial to Ram Manohar Lohia’s politics. This would be understood by tracing the different dimensions of some of his theoretical and political activities‚ specifically on caste and even otherwise. So‚ for example‚ how Lohia drew his own grand historical narrative through Wheel of History‚ that contextualised caste in a certain way‚ or how this understanding of caste also allowed him to incorporate

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    This essay is about the 2002 film ‘Bend it Like Beckham.’ The film is about a teenage girl of Indian decent‚ living in modern-day London. She is passionate about soccer‚ but her immigrant parents who follow the Sikh religion and culture‚ ban her from playing it. The major themes that will be discussed in my essay are the issues of gender. My major theme includes such topics as sexism‚ sexuality and the expectations put upon a certain gender according to religion or culture. Examples of sexism

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    ourselves for. We wish we could do it over and over again. In the book The Alchemist and in the film Bend it like Beckham both protagonists never give up on following their dreams when people try to stop them from looking forward‚ and pursuing their personal legends. In the novel The Alchemist‚ Paulo Coelho writes about the journey that Santiago takes to conquer his personal legend. The film Bend it like Beckham bases off the storyline of Jess’ ambition to become a soccer player despite the fact

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    "Bend it like Beckham" Essay The movie‚ "Bend it like Beckham"‚ is not only about a girl wanting to be a soccer player‚ it is also about cultural geography. In this movie‚ cultural geography plays a big role. Everything about it has to do with where they are from and what there culture is like. All aspects of these things play a part in this movie. This movie takes place in the country of England. The main girl in the story though is Indian. Her family migrated from India‚ along with others in

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    What you want in comparison to what your family expects form you is a common disagreement through most family households. In the movie ‘Bend it like Beckham’ we saw the conflict between jess and her parents on how they feel and what they want for her‚ how jess sees the situation and how it is resolved. Throughout Jess’s journey she is constantly pulled in what she truly wants and what here family/culture expects (internal conflict). To start off‚ Jess’s dreams are more important than here culture

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    The dual definition of citizenship from May Joseph’s article Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship‚ can be used to analyze the different forms of citizenship that are presented in the film‚ Bend it Like Beckham‚ directed by Gurinder Chadha. Citizenship is typically referred to as someone being considered a member of a country under specific laws. This general idea of citizenship is further analyzed in Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship. The article presents the idea that

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    The movie “Bend it like Beckham” is about a young Indian girl trying to break stereotypes and adventure out to be a great soccer player just like her hero David Beckham. The main character Jesminder Bhamra‚ nicknamed Jess‚ wants to play soccer but her parents have a different plan for her. The parents want their daughter to leave sports and focus on finding a husband just like her sister Pinky did‚ by marrying a nice Indian man and learning how to cook. Jess is trying to fulfill her dreams without

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    order to adjust and fit in the new world. This adjustment can have either positive or negative consequence on the self and others around. The film bend it like Beckham (BILB) effectively explores this concept as the audience can easily relate to the characters and with apparent themes that define a person going into the world. (P1) In the film bend it like Beckham Jess-minder is not comfortable‚ but dissatisfied with her life because she’s restricted by her parents that want her to be a typical

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    interest‚ language‚ clothing‚ and skin color. At the same time people are also being labeled because of their culture for the same thing. Some may believe that culture barely informs the way a person others and the world. In Gurinder Chadha’s film‚ Bend It Like Beckham‚ Jess‚ a Sikh Female‚ decides to play soccer instead of preparing herself for marriage. According to Jess she says “I’m sick of this wedding and it hasn’t even started!” Jess is sic of the wedding even tho is has not started yet because

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