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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STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BU STUDENT COUNCIL SUBMITTED BY: BON RONEL L. ALINDOGAN BSIT 4B The University Student Council is the highest student government organization in Bicol University. It is autonomous in undertaking program of actions to the development of Bicol University through student action. The University Student Council shall: 1. Organize and coordinate student activities designed to improve the general welfare of the students as well as to prepare them for constructive citizenship;
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your dedicated and willing to go far. Tell your strengths. "I’d be good as Vice President of Student Council because...(example) I’m a great leader‚ I have really great characteristics for it. I listen to the issues that my peers think should be brought up to the school. I want to make a difference so that I can make school a more enjoyable place." Don’t put ANYTHING down or bad about you in your speech. AT ALL. If you had something like "I’m a good worker but I tend not to listen well" then‚ I’m
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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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Mr. Rowe Junior Honors English 26 January 2014 How funny is that? James Thurber is an American author who has a very unique sense of humor‚ using events and references from his childhood. On December 8‚ 1894‚ self-described “night of the wild portent”‚ Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Mary Thurber gave birth to their second child‚ James Grover Thurber‚ in Columbus Ohio. He came into the world with one older brother named William. He later had a younger brother named Robert. No one knew at that time
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Statement of Intent for Vice Presidency of Student Council My name is Zameena Jaffer and I am currently in IB 2. I have been involved in the Student Council for several years now as both a member and as a leader in office. I have been secretary of student council for three consecutive years and treasurer for one‚ and it is not my time to step up to the plate and take on a larger responsibility. And there are a number of factors that make me a prime candidate for this position. First of which I
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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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RECOGNIZING EMOTIONS FROM STUDENT SPEECH IN TUTORING DIALOGUES Diane Litman Kate Forbes University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Ctr. Pittsburgh PA‚ 15260‚ USA University of Pittsburgh Department of Computer Science Learning Research and Development Ctr. Pittsburgh PA‚ 15260‚ USA ABSTRACT We investigate the automatic classification of student emotional states in a corpus of human-human spoken tutoring dialogues. We first annotated student turns in this corpus for negative
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The Council of Clermont For many years the point has been argued by historians as to whom to give credit for initiating The First Crusade. Some individuals might say that Peter the Hermit is responsible. However‚ historians agree that Pope Urban II ’s speech at the Council of Clermont initiated the First Crusade and influenced the people and events in the battles. In August of the year 1095 Pope Urban arrived in France to help reform the church there. He soon called for a general church council
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