...Are outsiders just normal people like me and you that are misunderstood? Many people do not realize, but I’ve come to realize that outsiders are misunderstood. Some people think people are just weird and there isn’t anything to misunderstand. I believe many people are outsiders because people don’t understand them or understand what they are talking about. Some people would say that you are weird because you aren’t up to date with the newest styles. They won’t allow you to be in their group because you’re out of style when all you want to do is belong. Whereas If you actually think about the situation the person might not be able to afford being in style but they are really nice. This is a case where a person is misjudged for something they can’t really help. If you don’t judge people because of their clothes, their income, or even if they are popularity, you could have friends that are nice and great....
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...An outsider is someone who is distinct or different from everyone else, who takes a peculiar approach to life than others, whether it be good or bad. Someone could be an outsider even if they were an outstanding basketball player because they have something different from everyone else. An outsider is like the dog that doesn’t get picked by people because of how it looks, it is misjudged. Outsiders are not misunderstood, they are rather misjudged by society, like the dog. Outsiders are being misjudged in two ways, based on their outer appearance like the way they dress and based on their gender or race like how they identify. Outsiders are being misjudged based on their outer appearance. For example, Gregor in Metamorphosis was misjudged on the way he looks, his family assumes that because he looks like a bug he has changed, but really he is still the same person inside. The family became fearful of him as if he has truthfully become a bug, but what they don’t comprehend is the fact that he really is the same person with a different body. Also, someone could be characterized as an outsider as a result of of the way they are dressed. For example, if somebody came to our school...
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...different” Discuss this attitude in relation to your understanding of the concept of outsiders. “He was different and us kids don’t like anything different” is a view that suggests difference is unfavorable and disliked. Difference is perceived as unfavorable because it is misunderstood and kids don’t think for themselves. This attitude has implications that create insiders and outsiders and inadvertently justifies bullying. It does not recognize that difference is misunderstood, and rather suggests that it is wrong altogether. This ignorant and unsophisticated attitude is exemplified in Archie Waller’s story Herbie, about a young indigenous school boy who is rejected by his community because he is black. His understanding and connection of the land is misunderstood, as well as his culture and identity. Herbie’s character and mistreatment is revealed through a powerful selection of language features employed to convey the racism explicitly. The attitude “He was different and us kids don’t like anything different” creates an insider/outsider relationship. The relationship consists of the outsiders who are different and therefore vulnerable, and the insiders who use this to gain power. Exemplified in Herbie, an particular insider describes Herbie by stating “[Herbie would] flit around the shadows like a crow, he was as black as one too”. This clearly demonstrates Herbie as an outsider to the central group (the insiders), and the term ‘flit’ suggests the actions of a bird...
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...Australia is a continent with a rich history and incredible diversity. It has been home to one of the most ancient populations of people, rather appropriately known as the Aborigines, or “first ones.” These people lived in harmony with the land, resourcefully adapting to and drawing sustenance from the arid landscape. The isolated nature of the continent allowed the Aborigines to thrive, undisturbed, for tens of thousands of years, but the limited contact with outsiders left them unprepared for the arrival of European settlers that first appeared in the 19th century. Unfortunately, the Aboriginal culture and nomadic lifestyle was thoroughly misunderstood by the Europeans. The ensuing European colonization had a profoundly negative effect on the Aboriginal population of Australia, nearly destroying their culture and almost eradicating the entire native population. It is believed that during the last ice age, some 50,000-60,000 years ago, the sea level was much lower with a large portion of the Earth’s water tied up in glacial ice. A land bridge existed between Australia, New Guinea and the continent of Asia that provided a means of ground transportation for ancient travelers. This land bridge was subsequently submerged when the climate warmed, isolating Australia’s inhabitants. This is the one of the leading theories for the means by which Aborigines came to the oceanic continent (Grabowski 27). The Aborigines were a hunter-gatherer population that learned to live in...
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...thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters – all that matters, really – is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever-present consciousness. The rest – women, art, success – is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.” Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. it tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. in many ways A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider, but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels and early relationships. it is...
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...with them for their survival in this new and untamed land. This would not always be the case though. As time progressed hostilities exploded between the Native Americans and the settlers. There were many policies and treaties placed upon the Indians, and when they revolted against these things military actions were what made them accept the fate that they did not want to accept. II Treaties Involving Native Americans Treaties were put in place supposedly to protect the Native Americans. Unfortunately they were mainly used as a way for the white man to take over the Indian’s land and hunting grounds. A lot of the time these treaties were ignored all together by the government that put them in place, and more often than not they were misunderstood by the Indians. The most common misunderstanding was that the Indians thought that they were just selling the rights to their land and not actually selling the land. Native Americans were considered to be citizens of their tribes and the tribes were considered to be a separate nation within the US. There were hundreds of treaties...
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...moment like this can’t be described – they have to be felt, to be understood. Those are the feelings our main character in Joanne Fedler’s short story “A Simple Exchange of Niceties” faces in the end of the story. But before she is ready for those feelings, an important meeting with another woman takes place. When we first meet the narrator, she seems like a woman with low self-esteem. A misunderstood soul in a world she doesn’t fit in to. She is alone in the park, confused and miserable; she has just realized that she is pregnant, and has decided to get an abortion. She doesn’t feel like she is worth loving; neither by the man who got her pregnant, and afterwards referred to her as a trashy whore, or by her mother, who has never cared much for her. She went to prison for three months, when she was caught in shoplifting. She feels like she haven’s achieved much in life: “I’ve never done anything with my life”, she says on page 11, line 37. During the story, she only mentions her friend Barbie as an important person in her life, which makes her seem a bit lonely. She fits in in the box of outsiders which exists in every community. The bench plays an important role for the narrator, she feels like it is the one spot on the earth where she is accepted of the world, left behind without expectations and judgment buzzing over her head. She comes to the bench for peace and to clear her head, and if someone is already sitting on her bench, she gets ignored. The setting of a single bench...
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...Everyone has those they consider family, even though they may not share blood. In literature, family often provides interesting conflicts for protagonists, from internal to external. The authors SE Hinton, Toni Cade Bambara and Walter Dean Myers all explore the central idea of family and identity in their respective works, The Outsiders, “Raymond’s Run” and “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”. Ponyboy Curtis’s internal turmoil over being a Greaser exemplifies this point elegantly: Ponyboy is born to a family of Greasers, lives among Greasers and loves his Greaser gang, though his identity ostracizes him in the Greaser world. Because of this, Ponyboy feels misunderstood and alone, saying, “[N]obody in [his] gang digs movies and books the way [he]...
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...Speech is the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience. The words speech and language are often used interchangeably to describe the interaction of people talking to each other. However, speech is linked with how we say words while language defines what we say. The following are examples of speech: • Jargon • Dialect • Accent • Tone of voice Jargon is the technical language used by professions. Jargon is basically a shortened form of language that encapsulates implied knowledge. It is extremely practical in a community sharing a general interest as it removes much information redundancy. Meanwhile it represents an obstruction to those strange with it and makes it possible to quickly identify the "outsiders". Therefore the "outsiders" will feel excluded as long as they are powerless to gain knowledge of and use effectively the jargon used by specific group concerned. Jargon that has proven its usefulness becomes included into what is best described as typical language. In health, jargons are used multitudes of time, for instance; NHS stands for National health standard. For example, jargon can be used with colleagues because they will understand it. However, using it with the youths would confuse them and make it hard for them to understand as jargon are professional words. Dialect is the form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group. Dialect is the general pronunciation practiced in a particular region. Almost certainly the single...
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...Sheryl Stanton Laura Jones English 102-951 March 6th, 2014 Abstract The following paper discusses and analyzes the work “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. The story uses the irony of life to show that marriage can be full of undisclosed hatred, suppression, and unpleasantness between partners – a point that remains concealed from the outside world. “The Story of an Hour” is a story about a married couple. The story begins with the wife hearing the news of the death of her husband. The news, instead of sending her into a shock, sends her into a state of excitement. Her excitement remains concealed from the people around her, who assume that she is under great shock. However, her excitement does not last too long, and she again faces news. This time, the news arrives with the arrival of her husband in front of her. Unable to control her feelings of sadness, she falls and dies on the spot. The paper takes into account multiple readings of various authors, compares their stance, and studies their views of the story. The paper establishes the point that time is running very quickly, and the story also revolves around the importance of time. It concludes with the outcome that if married couples trust each other, interconnect well, and resolve their problems, instead of thinking evil of each other, their relation is likely to remain flourishing. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin The background of “The Story of an Hour” sets its foundations on the moralities...
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...Tim Monaghan Professor Beth Eck GSOCI 140 Monday April 6th, 2015 Tomboy Alert: Reining in a Rebel without a Cause Daphne didn’t live up to societal expectations, which is why she was described as “inappropriately female.” On the surface, it means that she didn’t act like a typical girl. More specifically, it means that her misbehavior was due to the fact that she didn’t feel comfortable about being born a girl. This is why, starting from a young age, she stole, joined a gang, used illicit drugs and alcohol, played hooky, was suspended and later expelled from school. She also tended to exhibit violent, abusive behavior and rebelled against authority figures. There were consequences for her behavior that was perceived as being too masculine. This led to her parents to become upset with her, who felt that they couldn’t reach her and eventually didn’t have much of a relationship at all with her. Her peers teased her for acting liking a tomboy. It got to the point where her parents thought that putting her in a mental hospital was the best solution. The mental hospitals that Daphne stayed in served as a total institution. One specific way is how after attempting suicide while at Michael Reese hospital, which was her first mental hospital. This led to her first going into seclusion for treatment, while being locked in a room by herself. Later...
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...Colorado Technical University Jerome M. Singleton IT106-1301A-07 13 January 2013 To most people the idea of shrinking heads is something of a science fiction movie or horror flick, I know I did for the majority of my life. Who could actually believe that a human can brutally and savagely cut the head off another human head But as we know there is a culture that is known for taking trophy heads of their defeated enemy and these are our tribal communities throughout the Americas. But there is only one tribal community that went one step further and these mystical and most feared tribal communities in world, the Shuar Warriors. These warriors located deep in the northern Amazon jungles in a region on the Pastaza River between Peru and Ecuador. For thousands of years in pre-Columbian years the jivaro (savage) Indians are the only tribe to take head hunting one step further. Not only did they cut off the head of their enemy, through ritual and celebratory tradition shrunk their victims head. The jivaro Indians as part of the ritual held raids in large numbers against neighboring jivaro communities and individual as part of the celebratory ritual in order to show dominance, and a boy into adulthood. As soon as the Shuar raids was over the Jivaro would take their trophies straight back to their tribe to complete the ritual of the shrinking of the heads. They quickly return not to waste any time in order to prevent the avenging spirit of the tsantsa from ravaging...
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...The two poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes explain our Black History in America. We Wear the Mask poem talk about how Black America is hidden behind America and treated differently. I, too sing America is very similar to We wear the Mask because in that poem he explain how he is treated as an outsider because he is Black. The two poems tell a story about being black in a White Man world and how strong our Black Culture is during The Harlem Renaissance. I, too sing America and We Wear the Mask are two very strong poems that describe our Black face toward White America and how determined the Black Culture was to become a part of America. Our Black Culture was mistreated for many years by White America. White America could not except the fact that Black America is a very strong race that was determined to become a part of America. For many years White America destroyed everything that Black Americans touched like Knowledge, Power, and Freedom. They tried to block the Black Culture out and Discourage our Black Culture but they could not let it go on for that long. The more White America tried to hide our black...
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...America as a Foreign Culture DeVita and Armstrong (2002) point out that it is difficult for an American student to truly appreciate the strangeness of our culture. We grow up with similar assumptions, the same language and follow the same patterns of behavior. Interestingly, outsiders take ass much for granted about American culture as Americans do. Distant Mirrors (2002) articles are written by anthropologists who have had their own experiences with every day American life, and are arranged in categories. It thought the goal of the anthology to better understand ourselves interesting at first when I began reading articles that seemed terribly misunderstood. I quickly realized that the point was that our cultural norms and values are often not noticed or realized by individuals within the culture and that our customs can seem extremely bizarre to individuals from other cultures. I have read approximately half of the book at this point and have found it very interesting. The first article by Ralph Linton, titled One Hundred Percent American, I found interesting. Historically, this country is based on immigrants who have assimilated into a single culture that is now considered American. I wonder what is truly American culture. Linton’s point is that what Americans consider 100% American is most commonly borrowed from other parts of the world. This is common sense to me as each immigrant culture brought along their values, norms and technologies upon assimilation. In my view...
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...and actions. (Macionis, 2010). Conceptualizing suicide to be a social fact, Durkheim explains 4 separate types of suicide; with egoistic and anomic being the most emphasized in his work. ‘In addition to egoistic and anomic types of suicide, Durkheim refers to altruistic and fatalistic suicide. The latter is touched upon only briefly in his work, but the former is of great importance for an understanding of Durkheim's general approach.’(Bolender Initiatives, LLC [B I, LLC], 2008). The University of Chicago helps define the following terms of Durkheim’s theory (http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~ldernbach/msw/xsdurkhm.pdf). • Egoistic suicide is committed by people who are not strongly supported by membership in a cohesive social group. As outsiders, they depend more on themselves than on group goals and rules of conduct to sustain them in their lives. In times of stress, they feel isolated and helpless. • Anomic suicide is committed by people when society is in crisis or rapid change. In such times, customary norms may weaken or break down. With no clear standards of behavior to guide them, many people become confused, their usual goals lose meaning, and life seems aimless. Longitudinal variances show suicide rates remain relatively stable over a long period of time indicating suicide itself to be a social fact. Even though they show fluctuation, (as with the onset of the technological era in the 1990’s); however;...
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