Although this chance for a new beginning has vastly beckoned immigrants‚ there are sacrifices immigrants must make along with newfound chances. Succumbing to social alienation is one of the sacrifices that immigrants must make. In the memoir‚ Funny in Farsi‚ by Firoozeh Dumas‚ and the studies of Djuro J. Vrga on Differential Associational Involvement of Successive Ethnic Immigrations: An Indicator of Ethno-Religious Factionalism and Alienation of Immigrants‚ the depths of social alienation
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and Asgedom both tell stories of how they came to America and their experiences. In “Funny in Farsi‚” Dumas presents her experiences and challenges‚ when she came to America. In “Of Beetles & Angels‚” Asgedom constructs a descriptive narrative about him coming to America. While both authors explain what happened when they arrived at America‚ but they use different strategies to convey their experiences. In “Funny in Farsi‚” Dumas focuses on herself and her experiences. Dumas uses humor to introduce
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The memories of my early childhood are like scattered‚ partially lost pieces of a huge mosaic. I am only five‚ and instead of sleeping late like other kids would do‚ I don’t want to stay in bed‚ don’t want to miss the mystery‚ the beauty of the world’s awakening. My older brother and cousins are up already and drag their bare feet on the wooden floor. I still can vividly picture that floor- old‚ caved in‚ coated with brown paint a thousand times‚ the floor in my Grandma’s house. The memories of my
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his memories‚with very descriptive details of the daily summers he had with his family to how his neighbors would love those summer days.In “Hoppers” by Keillor has a way of being aware of his surroundings but also relating those memories with what he used to when he was young. Both writers get to express that moment and see the importance of sharing moments with family or their surroundings. Moreover Bradbury and Keillor share that importance of time and reliving a moment from their memory. Bradbury
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In the book Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas‚ there are five concepts from our textbook‚ Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development by Harry W. Gardiner and Corrine Kosmitzki. Three of the concepts are components of Firoozeh Dumas’ developmental niche such as the psychology of her caretakers‚ the customs of her child care‚ and the social settings of her daily life growing up. The other two concepts are individualism and ethnocentrism. Dumas’ developmental niche is apparent throughout
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There was not a day when someone wasn’t dying. Many of my childhood memories lead me back to the funeral home. Heck‚ I even learned to ride my tricycle in the area where all the caskets were kept! Many of my friends would find it neat that I knew all about the place and would always ask me to take them around for a tour. There is a story that I always tell people that happened at my grandpa’s funeral home one unique day. My earliest memory of my grandpa’s house; which was a funeral home‚ was when
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Funny in Farsi A Memior of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas is all about her life growing up in California after her dad is moved there but is company form Iran. Being born in Iran she had not learned much English so when she moved to the United State she slowly learned and was the translator for her mother a lot of the time. In her younger years she moved around about every two years and eventually she settled in America after her dad retired from the oil refinery in Iran. Since
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Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with
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someone else‚ it is easily forgotten‚ but when asked how the adjectives describe you‚ the words are remembered well. Visual encoding is closely related to mnemonic devices. Mnemonic devices are memory aids that use vivid imagery and organizational devices. This memory strategy is named for the Greek word memory. Even within mnemonic devices there are different types. The “method of loci” is imagining moving through a familiar location and associating each place with a visual representation of the topic
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In the short story “funny boy” Adrian and ___ are discriminated against for different reasons in their culture. Adrian‚ while being homosexual‚ and ___ for being black and taking care of Adrian. In this time period‚ it was still universially accepted and common for people to be against gays and blacks. In many instances‚ they are both discriminated against. In Adrian’s case‚ he was discriminated against for being gay and having AIDS‚which was generally associated with homosexuals. He lived in
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