Cross Cultural Interview Who you met with and why you consider the person different? I met with Sofia Mitre. Sofia is a Mexican expatriate. She has lived in the U.S. for the vast majority of her life; however‚ she constantly travels to and from Mexico to visit family and to accompany her father on business trips. Although we both grew up in Austin‚ Sofia considers herself a visitor to the U.S. as a citizen of Mexico. She grew up in a household rooted in Mexican heritage while I grew up in a home
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The Power of Women Every country on earth is affected by a common issue – discrimination. Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things‚ especially in regards to race‚ age‚ or sex. Such an issue began to affect the world in the seventeenth century‚ and has continued till this day. African Americans were first targeted by the Caucasian race due to the significant difference within their skin tone. In the Colour Purple by Alice Walker‚ people are faced with
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living in this black community got mentally‚ physically‚ and sexually abused by their fathers‚ husbands‚ and other men. While this behavior remains very inappropriate and wrong‚ the women felt nothing could stop the men from their horrible actions. Sofia and Celie‚ two main characters in The Color Purple‚ had experienced pain and harm‚ especially by their husbands. Having a father who sexually and physically beat her‚ Celie had never had an easy life. Celie explains her incidents with her father in
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decision or thought against her rules she takes the decision to marry Imran whom she does not want to do. Sofia is a polite and soft-hearted lady. She started dreaming of Naim‚ thinking of him on every special occasion and she supposed to share this feeling with him. At that very moment she could realize that Naim still had the relation behind her and even he never thought to marry Sofea. Sofia controlled herself doing any odd reaction rather she blessed them from her heart and told: “May you both
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told the counselor after she got home from work she found her little girl crying and upset because the boy touched her. Naomi asked Sofia what happen‚ Sofia said that Nathan touched her private parts and told her not to tell anyone because they will get into major trouble. The counselor asked Naomi how old is Sofia and Nathan? Naomi told the counselor that Sofia is seven and Nathan is ten. Naomi tells the counselor that she does not know what to do about the problem. She thought about calling
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a very controversial novel‚ which many people found to be very offensive. It is basically the struggle for one woman’s independence. The main character in The Color Purple is Celie a coloured woman with little or no education at all. She is one who has been used and abused by all the men in her life‚ and because of these men‚ she has very little courage or ambition in her life. She has so little courage‚ that all she wants to do is just survive. Through the various
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husband‚ is slightly different from others such as Celie’s and Mr. ___‘s. In Sofia’s relationship with Harpo‚ Sofia is the dominant partner‚ Sofia doesn’t let Harpo push her around‚ and when Harpo can’t even control Sofia and demand her to do what he commands‚ he goes to Celie for advice. Celie tells Harpo to beat Sofia into listening to him. Celie gives him this advice‚ not because she hates Sofia and wants to hurt her‚ but because that’s what Albert (Mr. ___) would do‚ and since Harpo is his oldest
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the mother now which was to cook‚ clean‚ and take care of her siblings/ children. “Especially important for the formulation of Walker’s political themes are the novel’s portrayals of the dyadic female bonds that Celie forms with Nettie‚ Shug‚ and Sofia. They lead not only to Celies personal growth but also to the formation of a female solidarity network. It is this network of female friends that wages a strong challenge to racist patriarchal domination. It offers the sexually and racially oppressed
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The Color Purple I choose to read the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. The book talks about the life of an African-American lady by the name of Celie that lived in the southern United States in the late 1930s. It addresses the numerous issues that included the low ranking of American social culture. In the book it talks about how she wrote books to God because the father she had would beat her and rape her. He also got her pregnant and then she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Her father
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In The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker illustrates the lives of a female African American before the Civil Rights Movement. A novel that describes female empowerment‚ The Color Purple demonstrates the domestic violence women faced in the South. Walker tells the story through Celie‚ a young African American girl who faces constant hardships until she stands up for herself with the help of her closest friends – other women undergoing the same difficulties. Even though men controlled females in the South
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