Bend it like Beckham and Educating Rita could relate in these ways • In Bend it like Beckham the Indian tradition of women getting married‚ having children and taking on domestic duties-e.g. cooking etc. relates to Rita how she is expected to live in the same sort of way but wants to break away from that social status and live her own life. • The scene where Jesminder first plays soccer with the team. The coach asks her "where do you play?" and she replies "in the park.” It shows her naivety this
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Report for Cultural Understanding The main aim of this report is to describe‚ analyze and understand Indian culture and integration Indians with British culture in a connection to movie: “Bend it like Beckham”. The aim is also to assign every character to stage of intercultural sensitivity and define what kind of cultural development is possible for each of them. Findings: Jess: In my opinion she is on the fifth level of intercultural learning‚ she adapts to the british culture‚ she knows
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Black Like Me: Reflection #3 "For years it was my embarrassing task to sit in on the meetings of whites and blacks‚ to serve one ridiculous but necessary function: I knew‚ and every black man there knew‚ that I‚ as a man now white once again‚ could say the things that needed saying but would be rejected if black men said them...for the simple reason that white men could not tolerate hearing them from a black person’s mouth" (Griffin 177). John Howard Griffin pivoted in and out of an African American
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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel explores the lifestyle that many woman of Mexico were faced with during the Mexican Revolution around the years of 1910-1920. Published in 1989‚ the book gained so much support that a movie was produced to go along with it. Three years later‚ the book was translated to English and released in America. The film representation of this story also become increasingly popular. As a consequence of this publishing‚ many authors who had written similar stories
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River as a Symbol in “A Bend in the River” Rivers within a well written novel are a representative of a great variety of things. Within the book “A Bend in the River” by V.S. Naipaul‚ as the name implies‚ the river is a very significant symbol throughout the novel that shows representation for many aspects of the plotline‚ ranging from an ever-changing lifestyle to the vitality of the country in which it resides and the people affected by its welfare. The town by the bend in the river is an isolated
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Philip Squire March 29‚ 2011 2nd Hour Literary Essay: Around the River Bend Have you ever heard your mom nagging‚ “Don’t judge a book by its cover”? Well‚ that’s this story’s lesson except this short story does it better. In literature‚ authors frequently write about one character who is looking for someone to hold responsible for all their problems. In the short story‚ Around the River Bend‚ by Sherry Garland‚ the narrator blames all Vietnamese for her brother’s death. Through a chance
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What I like about this novel is that it’s not like a novel that I have read before. I first want to remark that I like the time frame of the novel taking place during the Second World War and in the setting of New Mexico. I enjoy how the novel begins about a young boy who is conflicted with the pressures of parent opposed expectations. Needless to say‚ Antonio the main character has to grow up to be a man on his own without some kind of guidance from brothers who are away at war during the early
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it. Their attempts at small talk are rough and show a lot of tension. When they finally start to delve into their larger issue‚ which seems to be about marriage and abortion‚ it’s brought up by the man abruptly. The man tries to make abortion seem like a simple procedure that is nothing to worry about. Jig doesn’t respond quickly but when she does she has a lot of questions and doubts. Jig seems to want to please the man and will do whatever he decides‚ though she struggles with the idea of an abortion
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adventure that takes from one place to another. Various types of journeys can be seen clearly in the three texts studied this year: The Happiest Refugee extract‚ written by Anh Doh in 2010‚ The Silver Donkey novel by Sonya Hartnett in 2004 and the film Bend It Like Beckham directed by Gurinder Chadha in 2002. The techniques that the composer uses to express the journeys are personification‚ onomatopoeia‚ repetition‚ similes‚ metaphors‚ music and acting skills. In The Happiest Refuge‚ there are both physical
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Big Bend Jacob Nelson Big Bend Jacob Nelson Big Bend national park is a place for geologistes and biologistes. With a great history and diverse ecosystem (desert) it has a lot of wildlife. The canyons and mountains of Texas and Mexico‚ with the Rio Grande that runs on the edge of the park. The park is bigger than Rhode Island. The state of Texas is the second biggest state. It became a state on Dec. 19 1876. The capital of Texas is Austin. Millions of tourists spend a total of $50 billion
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