them. Culture substantially informs the way one views the world and others. This is proven true by an assortment of short stories and personal essays‚ in which the authors or their characters express how they can relate to the central idea of having a culture that truly distinguishes them and their actions. The attitudes toward particular cultures plays an important role in someone’s view of the
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Assessment #2 How does culture make us who we are? Culture constantly instructs the way one views others in the world. People have many different ways of thinking and doing things‚ therefore everyone will not see eye to eye when it comes to explaining how culture constantly instructs the way one views others in the world. Family life and culture influences the way we see things. Like in “Two Ways to Belong in America” Mira is influenced by her family’s Indian culture. Even though she lives in the U
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Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) Contributing Editor: Roshni Rustomji-Kerns Classroom Issues and Strategies It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her
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Author’s Biography: Arun P. Mukherjee is currently a professor of English at York University in Toronto‚ Canada. She has researched and taught Canadian‚ Indian and South Asian literatures. She did her graduate work in English at the University of Saugar‚ India and earned a Ph. D in Canada at the University of Toronto. She has written many books‚ and she has translated a novel written in Dalit. Rhetorical Precis: In Arun P. Mukherjee’s chapter‚ “Ideology in the Classroom—A Case Study in the Teaching
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Maalouf and Mukherjee: The Path to Self-Identity The two articles "Two Ways to Belong in America” (Bharati Mukherjee‚ 1996) and "Deadly Identities"(Amin Maalouf‚ 1998) are two articles that are different in its own way. Although both the authors discuss about their experience as immigrants; their supporting points vary and Maalouf’s is organized better than Mukherjee’s article. Maalouf’s article is well organized and supports their argument using various justifications. Even though both Mukherjee’s
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The story titled‚ “The Middleman” is written by American author‚ Bharati Mukherjee. The story revolves around a young man named Alfred Judah‚ who is an Americanized jew from baghdad Iraq now living in Central America. He finds himself stuck in the middle of the dealings of illegal weapons in a Latin country. He becomes involved with the the Arm dealer himself‚ Clovis Ransome. While staying at his home‚ Alfred meets Clovis’s wife Maria. Instantly‚ Alfred is attracted to her and experiences conflict
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often unflattering ways.” (Beginning Postcolinalism‚ p.247) 1b. The above quote from our theory text describes the feeling of not belonging somewhere due to an identity crisis. This crisis was described as coming from the fact that one was not from a certain region‚ or may not “belong” to the group of that particular region. For example‚ I may be seen as odd or not belonging in a region full of white Irishmen and they would make it known I don’t belong in these said “unflattering” ways. 1c. In the
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Two ways of shopping As current society has become increasingly commercialized‚ the ways of shopping has been more varied. Among them‚ there are two major ways of shopping include shopping online and shopping at stores. Such is the case with shopping on EBay and shopping at Wal-Mart. Both EBay and Wal-Mart offer after-sale services for goods and excellent quality of their products. Beyond this similarity‚ the prices of goods and the time of delivery in these two companies are different.
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Put simply‚ the Two-Step Flow Theory is about how KEY PEOPLE affect other people. This hypothesis was first introduced by Paul Lazarsfeld‚ Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet in a 1944 study which focused on the process of making decisions around the time of a Presidential election campaign called ‘The People’s Choice’. The expected result was that the mass media’s messages would have a direct influence of people’s votes however the researchers were surprised to find out this was infact not
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Belonging or not belonging is a perception‚ or something that we feel. We are influenced by many factors to feel that we belong or don’t fit in‚ including our knowledge and understanding of the place where we are in the present and how that it is influenced by our prior experiences of other places. Our perception of belonging can also be affected by how much others know and understand of the places we have come from in relation to where we are now. These ideas are explored extensively in Amy Tan’s
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