necessary in order for survival and acceptance. The author of “Chicken-Hips”‚ Catherine Pigott‚ experienced acculturation first hand after visiting Africa. Catherine is used to a culture where having a slim body style is ideal. When Catherine arrived in Gambia‚ the other women thought her to be too frail‚ and thin‚ and as a result‚ nicknamed her “chicken-hips”. The women of Africa believe that being curvy and thick is more attractive. Catherine is also used to her own culture where it is considered unattractive
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“Chicken Hips” In the article‚ “Chicken Hips‚” the Canadian narrator‚ Catherine Pigott gives us the different cultural views between Canada and Africa; mainly the societies’ views regarding beauty and image. In the early 1980s Pigott goes to Gambia‚ Africa to experience a new culture. Pigott faced trouble when she first went to Gambia because she had many problems adjusting to a new society and new people. When looking around at everyone‚ she saw that everyone was “big.” Men and women had thick
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In the essay “Chicken Hips” by Catherine Pigott‚ she discussed the pressure of society‚ and how‚ in context‚ they were pressured to think that the only way they could be appreciated was to succumb to society. I disagree that‚ for Catherine‚ joining the gym was a good idea. First of all‚ Catherine claims that while she was in Gambia‚ “it was obvious [she] fell far short of their ideal of beauty”. While being in Gambia‚ Catherine noticed that the skinnier the American people were‚ the more “the
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Every culture has their idea of beauty. In North America‚ our idea of beauty for a woman is that she must be thin‚ with long lean legs and arms‚ medium build‚ flat stomach and a thin face. When Catherine arrived in Gambia‚ she found out quickly that their idea of a beautiful woman is the polar opposite. To them‚ a thin person reminds them of poverty‚ drought and starvation. Catherine’s acculturation process begins the first time she puts on African clothing in preparation for a baptism ceremony
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The essays I picked were‚ “Chicken Hips” by Catherine Pigott and “Distorted Images” by Susan McClelland. In both essays‚ they discuss different sides of the topic and show the negatives surrounding it. In Pigott essay‚ she shares her experience of being skinny and not fitting in the culture. In the other‚ Susan shares her perspective of all the struggles women go through to look skinny and beautiful like the media portrays them to be. This essay will show how Pigott proved her point and how Susan
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When living in a country‚ we are pressured to become accustomed to what is considered common and thus adapt them in our everyday lives. In the shorty story Chicken-Hips‚ by Cathetine Pigott‚ the main character travels to Gambia to learn that its people desire women with curves rather than skin and bones‚ when she is teased and called‚ “Chicken-Hips.” She adopts Africa’s views on‚ “image of the perfect female body‚ by eating a diet of‚ “rice and rich oily stew twice a day‚” and eventually she becomes
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tranquil than Wuthering Heights‚ which is overwhelmed by emotions and tumultuous events. This is proved by Catherine‚ who acts like two different people at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Catherine lives at both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange during her life‚ and when at Wuthering Heights‚ she is bold‚ unmanageable and untamed. Nelly describes the unruly young Catherine saying‚ ". . . I never saw a child take up before; and she put all of us past our patience fifty times and
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History and horror‚ crime and conflict‚ sci-fi and sexual transgression. Thus begins the attempt to define the art of Norman Catherine. The lexicon broadens: comic‚ violent‚ whimsical‚ playful‚ sly‚ satirical‚ brutish‚ anxious‚ at times even idealistic. And so it continues: vivid‚ brilliant‚ psychologically disconcerting‚ emotionally unforgiving‚ visually unforgettable. Yet the words themselves provide an incomplete collage of the thematic variIt is within the moral desolation of a jagged socio-political
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Catherine of Aragon born 1485 died 1536 Catherine was born into a family of royalty‚ of Kings and Queens. She was destined to be a Queen herself but it wasn’t her choice that she got to marry that was up to her father King Ferdinand and her mother Queen Isabel of Aragon‚ Spain. They talked to King Henry VII of England. A treaty was made‚ despite the age being a faithless one and Ferdinand he never kept an oath an hour longer than it suited him; but mutual interests by kinship might hold sovereigns
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Catherine the Great was known as an "Enlightened Despot‚" because she reigned during the Age of the Enlightenment along with other monarchs such as Frederick the Great and Joseph II‚ began to understand the concepts of reason‚ natural law and other ideas being developed at the time by various philosophers. An enlightened despot realized that even though she or he had absolute powers‚ they had an obligation to use those powers for the good of their subjects rather than just for themselves.
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