people or places. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s story‚ The Namesake‚ the story follows the Ganguli family from their traditional Indian life in Calcutta through their uneasy transformation into America. This family is strewn with opposing fidelities and the underlying concept of the difficulties of cultural belonging‚ for being tradition bound immigrants. The common use of the food motif and repetitive contrasts between the cultures of India and America throughout The Namesake create cultural jarring‚ which demonstrate
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COYOTE has had relative successful public policy achievement however‚ the cultural and political crisis of the 1980’s deeply impact the movement broader social change. The 1980’s presented a tension between realpolitik and cultural politics that impaired the movement progress as second wave and anti-pornography feminists split over issues of sexuality‚ gender‚ and sexual self-governance with the movement. Most damaging was the fact that the women’s movement excluded COYOTE‚ as they did not see deemed
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changing society‚ one’s background is everlasting. As people grow older and make their own decisions‚ they find themselves faced with the perplexity of escaping their past lifestyle and customs‚ but they will ultimately carry them throughout their life. Jhumpa Lahiri’s “My Two Lives‚” the excerpt from Alan Ehrenhalt’s The Lost City‚ and N. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” take different approaches to develop the plot‚ but they are all connected by a universal theme: the eternal presence of ancestry
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Bilingual ≠ Interpreter It’s not uncommon when faced with a monolingual‚ foreign language speaker to find a workplace or social service grabbing the first available bilingual employee available to serve as an interpreter. Surely‚ the main goal is just to get the bigger points across and anyone bilingual can do that‚ right? Wrong. On both counts. The point is rarely to convey only the main points and anyone bilingual can’t necessarily do that. If they can’t do that‚ then they certainly can’t match
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nicknames as the 1920’s has. The ‘20’s were a decade subject to lots of change‚ and therefore lots of social and cultural rebellion. Not only were Women’s Rights addressed‚ but the consumer industry and mass culture was born. Many new attitudes and morals were also adopted. However‚ while I believe this period to be the epitome of social and cultural rebellion‚ others may argue that any changes were only superficial. To begin with‚ Women’s Rights were finally addressed during the ‘20’s. Women also shed
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Japan Essay-Ishan Mann 8.1 The Land of The Rising Sun a.k.a Japan. Japan had a past of isolation and Japan was isolated in geography because they were an island. You might ask how did Japan move through isolation economically‚ socially‚ and Politically ? Why did no one question the Emperor on the choices he made politically ? How did Japan use a currency to trade and keep things organized in their economy? How did they keep everyone social in Japan while being isolated? This essay is about then
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In the second part of Jhumpa Lahiri’s acclaimed collection‚ Unaccustomed Earth‚ the two main characters have little in common‚ although a prevalent fear is in both character’s lives. Both Hema and Kaushik have a fear of attachment‚ a fear of being anchored down‚ whether to a place or a person. Kaushik takes a trip alone after he leaves his father and his new family. He says‚ “I had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it.” His trip takes him to the border of Canada on the East
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Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital in Popular Cinema: Chinese Filmic Spinoffs of Hamlet Lingui Yang Year 2006 saw two made-in-China films based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet—Feng Xiaogang’s Madarin Yeyan (The Banquet) and Sherwood Hu’s Tibetan Ximalaya wangzi (The Prince of the Himalayas). For their Shakespearean components‚ the films join their counterparts elsewhere around the globe that interpret‚ appropriate‚ dissemble‚ and reconstruct Shakespeare’s canonical text. To be sure‚ they have in their own
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Chanelle Whitfield “Othello: The Danger of Isolation” Othello is a Shakespearean tragedy which depicts the incompatibility of military heroism and love; the danger of isolation. I personally think that Othello conveys the balance of human strengths and weaknesses amidst good and evil in society. In my opinion‚ Othello is a cultural and a racial outsider who is a bold‚ strong‚ courageous‚ naive and foolish. Throughout the play Othello represents the strengths and weaknesses in society
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The Trifle Isolation Have you ever felt as though you were alone? Susan Glaspell wrote a play called Trifles. The story tells of the untimely death of Mr. Wright and the subsequent investigation. The investigation is being overseen by the county attorney‚ the sheriff and Mr. Hale who have brought their wives along to retrieve Mrs. Wright’s personal effects from the home. Everyone suspects Mrs. Wright of the death. The story has many themes but the one that stands out to me is isolation. This unfortunate
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